Whoever Warner Bros has editing their most recent promo material for Speed Racer deserves a big raise. Because since the release of this trailer, and now today this featurette, this movie has gone, in our opinion, from something that made absolutely no sense and made our eyes hurt to potentially one of the best times in the cinema this summer.
The script still sounds hokey in places, but look at that action and those effects. The comparisons of green screen to final film look stunning and the racing scenes are incredible. The clear choice of not going for complete photo-realism has reached a point where it looks really cool, rather than like unfinished CG. Even the retina-melting pallet is no longer causing us to reach for the nausea pills.