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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows actor Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer in a scene from the action adventure "Speed Racer." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Entertainment) ** NO SALES **   ADVERTISEMENT   "Speed Racer" (2 1/2 stars) Colorful: The "Matrix" makers, the Wachowski brothers, take on the Japanese cartoon TV series -- and it is, as expected, a technical marvel, a series of crazy car races and gaudy colors. The movie wears out its welcome and the video-game look doesn't really stick in the mind, but it'll keep kids in their seats. With Emile Hirsch. Rated: PG rating is for violence, language Now showing: Alderwood Mall, Everett, Galaxy Monroe, Marysville, Mountlake, Stanwood, Metro, Oak Tree, Pacific Place, Woodinville, Cascade Mall, Oak Harbor   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Friday, May 9, 2008 'Speed Racer' Emile Hirsch portrays Speed Racer in the movie of the same name that opened late Thursday. In his review in Thursday's newspaper (also on Heraldnet.com), Herald movie critic Robert Horton said the live-action movie "is one of the weirder blockbusters to come along in quite a while. Stretching out to over two hours of gaudily colored computer-generated craziness, the Wachowskis ("Matrix") have cooked up a movie that owes less to Japanese animation than it does to video games."

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