Stephanie Zacharek - This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded a

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.

- Stephanie Zacharek

source: "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.