go speed racer

Well well - I took my 3 year old son to the movies the other day, just a father and son day. Over the post movie days I kept asking him what he wanted to see thinking for sure it was going to be Kunfu Panda (my choice) which has a child appeal to it with the cute characters and what not but to my horror he wanted to see 'Speed Racer'. My brother who is a few years older then I am was a speedracer nut which meant growing up I often had to watch Speed over Inspector gadget for example (hey I was younger). Now anybody knows when you drag an old nostalgic memory back into peoples lives you better tread carefully or else there will be cries of outrage 'what have they done". When I heard 'Speed Racer' was going to be a movie I instantly thought - "that would be wicked", lots of exciting content, how could they go wrong. THEN.......I saw the trailer - OMG !! WTF was that - it looked like Spy Kids on acid. So for my son Ruben to say he wanted to see that well who was I to deny him some technicolour Spy Kids.

To jump right ahead 2 hours later I walked out of the cinema almost shocked and smiling a lot. Sure there was some shots of the worst green screen I have ever seen and there was a very annoying monkey...oh I mean kid but there was something else, something very cool about that movie. I worked out later what it was - there is absolutely nothing like it out there, it truly is an original, originally what I can't really say eloquently. Hey check this out - I just did a search on Speed Racer and found this blog on a review with a similar vein as mine - cept is wordz is betr. The Wachowski Brothers had a hard task here - on one one hand they wanted to make one of their childhood dreams a reality and on the other they would have had Warner Brothers demanding the film falls into a certain category (i.e one that sells the most merchandise). I think they did to a great job in delivering to all requirements. I enjoyed the movie and I have brought my son all the plastic crap that goes along with it. It's not just toys - he also has PJ's, undies, singlets, shirts - and he wants more.

Back to the movie - it is enjoyable, the driving scenes are exciting and if you can ignore the fluff this movie can really shock some enjoyment into the viewer. Don't take my word for because it could have possibly been that I went to the movie with the lowest of expectations (that would be a fat zero expectation) . Go watch the trailer, I am positive you will be thinking "can it really be any good".

A word on Freelance - Yaris commercial is tracking along nicely. The clients is being difficult signing off on the layout, but that's really out of my hands, I am but a pawn in this game baaahahahaha. I can't show anything just yet - don't want to upset anyone (NDA bollocks) - rest assured I will upload when completed.

Peace