Zeros 2 Heroes - The People's Publisher

Just saw the Wachowski-film, Speed Racer, from the original Japanese cartoon some time ago (60s). The reviewers trashed the film, generally, the film-festished love the gooey graphics and the market didn't know what to do ($6 m on Friday which is low). Now onto moi -- I loved this film. I loved it because it brought back that youthful feeling of enjoying the movies rather than looking at a perfectly executed, perfectly acted and perfectly directed cinematic experience. And I think that because it originated from a cartoon it forced the filmmakers to focus on the fun elements. It forced them to make a visually stunning piece since cartoons aren't written by Pulitzer prize winners, though some graphic novels come close.

I'll admit that Speed is a bit long in the middle, but I was impressed by how they really applied some of the comic book concepts, the real imaginative bits onto the screen. Some parts are like you're high -- Speed's car rips through the track and behind it all the colors merge and mesh together like paint; some characters jump into a cartoon realm as they jack into aggression and attack, then it flips into real life. Past and present flip back and forth, scenes are tight and short at times, simply frames telling a story...I mean this is the closest thing I have seen to a living comic book. I think that the humans were "almost" getting in the way, I mean, I enjoyed the cartoon environ that much!

Hope you all get a chance to see it but you really have to see it as a kid, using the right-brain and to enjoy what it really has to offer. The kids that were there were hyped up afterwards, the adults were mixed. Guess I'll side with the kids -- Ooah!!