Results tagged “Speed Racer” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

I DON'T know. You wait four months and a week for a warm weekend in the New Year and the Wachowski Bros (The Matrix trilogy) only go and release a film that's 135 minutes long.

The talented but over-the-top directors could have been halfway through making another movie by now if they'd kept it to a more sensible 90 minutes.

The hotter the weather, the longer - and slower - Speed Racer will seem.

It will play best to eight to ten-year-old boys. Had the film been kept short, children would have had time to see the film and to enjoy this weekend's sunshine, too.

I can't face seeing it ever again, so my youngsters will only get to see it if my wife volunteers to take 'em.

Since she still hasn't seen 27 Dresses or Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (both of which women everywhere should love), our children will have to form an orderly queue.

And hope it lasts for quite a while at the IMAX which is the best place in town to see it.

THE Wachowski Brothers are back!

The two Chicago-born siblings who got so carried away with The Matrix Trilogy that some of us thought it would never end, have finally directed their first film in five years.

But, since Speed Racer (PG) is aimed at children aged from about eight to ten, why have they let it run to 135 minutes?

And is it any good?

Having literally just put the finishing touches to my review, find out about all this and more in the bumper What's On section of Friday's Birmingham Mail where our big verdict will have pride of place in the centre spread.

I'll be explaining everything, dishing out the all-important star ratings and revealing which of the city's cinemas will be the very best place to go ready to gorge on its extraordinary effects.