Go Ramon Tikaram go!
Why does Ramon Tikaram, the hatchet-faced, congenitally shirtless sculptor from Kama Sutra, get a lengthy part in Speed Racer as an announcer for a cross-country rally? Why is a chubby brown man resembling Satish Kaushik doing the Indian head wobble on a racetrack Jumbotron? What possessed the Wachowski brother-and-girl-interrupted (not that there’s anything wrong with that) to turn a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon into a candyfloss live action flick?
What does ’80s two-hit wonder Tanita Tikaram think of her brother’s taste in film? Who convinced Susan Sarandon, John Goodman and Emile Hirsch that this would be a good career move?
There are no answers. All one can do is try and swallow Christina Ricci as high-pitched Trixie, an anime fantasy.
The trailer:
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on Sunday, May 25th, 2008, 12:35 pm in Film, Video clips › 
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Just wondering- is there much left to worry about for Sarandon and Goodman? They’re basically in the retirement home, as far as the film industry goes.
(And I’m sure Tanita is glad her brother at least has work.)
Ramon Takaram also starred in _This Life_, a Britdrama from the early nineties.
Why so nasty? Ramon is hot and a good actor, I went to see the movie just because he had a lengthy part as the Casa Christo announcer. I wasn’t much impressed with the movie spec fx but frankly I thought Goodman was a perfect choice to play the Dad…let’s face it, Goodman can pull of just about anything and make it good. Frankly I thought Ricci made a right fine Trixie too. Besides the spec fx, the movie itself was pretty good.
And why put down Tanita? What is the point?
Ramon has done quite a bit, just mostly in the UK. Mischief Night is quite good.
Anyway, can’t we be nice?
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Ramon Tikaram does a great vocally animated Casa Christo announcer on Speed Racer, but I wonder what the makers were thinking with the weird special effects, and frankly, it is tough to turn a great 70’s/80’s cartoon into an equally great movie. They tried but not sure they succeeded.
Susan Sarandon, John Goodman and Emile Hirsch pull off their parts, making lemonade out of lemons.
Not the movie makers most shining contribution to the cinema. Christina Ricci’s Trixie makes the $5+ ticket worth it (now if only we could turn the volume down, she would be even better).
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See? a bit scathing but still mostly nice and it gets the point across.
You seriously sat through Speed Racer just for Ramon?
Wow, that’s… really boring.
Yes, I sat through Speed Racer just for Ramon. I probably would not have been arsed to go otherwise. Like I said Goodman can make anything tolerable, but Speed Racer falls just a bit short (ok, a lot short) of my expectations, since I watched the cheesy cartoon and even THAT was better than the movie as a whole.
If you mean the movie was boring, I agree. If you mean that my critique is boring, oh well…I was trying to be somewhat constructive rather than just mean. To each his/her own, right.
addition: overall. Movie: cheesy. BUT not nearly the worst I have ever seen and I would much rather watch it again than some others.
So, to clarify. The movie was pretty good. Not specatcular. A bit boring and the spec fx put me off some. BUT the cast choices were good and make the movie better than it would have been otherwise.
There…I think I covered it.