{"id":232,"date":"2008-05-18T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T04:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-05-18T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T04:31:35","slug":"go-speed-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/232","title":{"rendered":"Go Speed Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of this weekend’s 8th birthday festivities for my son Brian included a “friend party” on Friday. We took him, and five of his friends (all boys, unsurprisingly) to go see Speed Racer<\/a>\u00a0and then go for pizza afterwards. In short, the movie was a blast and the boys were a handful.<\/p>\n

Disclosure:<\/strong> I am a Speed Racer fan. In fact, one of my earliest memories is seeing part of an episode when I lived in Chicago (about 2.5-3 years old). I have also wanted a Mach 5<\/a>\u00a0since before I could drive.<\/p>\n

Having disclosed that, I think that is why I liked it. I had heard and it is quite obvious that the\u00a0Wachowski brothers also love Speed Racer. They produced a live action movie that has all the styling and impact of the animated series. The story is thin but any more “meat” would have felt strange. Emile Hirsch<\/a> did a nice job as Speed and the rest of the characters were well cast (it doesn’t hurt that I like Christina Ricci<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I may have to go see it again when it hits our budget theater<\/a> and will most\u00a0definitely\u00a0pick it up when it is released on Blu-ray probably around Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of this weekend’s 8th birthday festivities for my son Brian included a “friend party” on Friday. We took him, and five of his friends (all boys, unsurprisingly) to go see Speed Racer\u00a0and then go for pizza afterwards. In short, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t