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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this "fast" paced film, the 18-year old Speed Racer is a natural talent, whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car race that claimed the life of his older brother, Rex Racer.

Speed Racer Fasten your seatbelts, start your engines, and get ready for a thrilling adventure.

Directed by: Andy and Larry Wachowski Small children and anyone who feels nostalgia for early Japanese anime will probably enjoy Speed Racer a big-screen version of the '60s TV series and Hollywood's latest effort to insert a cast of human actors in an otherwise totally computer-generated world.

THE live action, highoctane adventure Speed Racer has hurtled into IMAX Cinema, Millennium Point, and is available to view all this month.

Based on the Japanese animated series, Speed Racer signals the return of Andy and Larry Wachowski, the publicity-shy brothers who pioneered 'bullet time' in The Matrix trilogy.

Byline: Mickey McMonagle SPEED RACER (PG) *** The Wachowski brothers don't like to make life easy for their audiences.

Speed Racer (135 mins, PG) Directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski; starring Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Roger Allam The Wachowski brothers have followed up their increasingly depressing Matrix trilogy with the mindless, sentimental Speed Racer, a semi-live action version of a Japanese animated picture about a cheerful American family of independent grand prix car designers (called the Racers) taking on the might of a ruthless conglomerate headed by British villain Roger Allam.

Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) has wanted to be a racecar driver since he was a boy.