Impressively directed, superbly designed and eye-poppingly colourful, this is an enjoyable action-adventure flick, providing you like things that go vroom.

This whizzy and outrageously colourful family action romp is a visually breathtaking hybrid of animation and live action. The story may feel about as gripping as a videogame, but the film is pure eye candy.

The directors have been outrageously successful in creating one of the most trippy, visually astonishing mainstream movies ever made, and have even thrown in some good-old-fashioned story-telling and morality into this kaleidoscopic brew for good measure.

Worth it for the eye candy alone.

At 134 minutes, Speed Racer throws so much color on the screen for so long, younger viewers (and even some not-so-young ones) will get worn out and want this ride to stop.

Provides all the hallucinogenic benefits of an LSD trip without any of the nasty side-effects

All its supposed innovative techie efforts did for me was make me dizzy and long instead for a good story.

A catastrophic experiment.

To complain about the excesses of Speed Racer would be like bitching that there are too many rib eyes kept on ice at your local steak house ... But visual wizardry is about all the movie has going for it.