Brandon Sanderson Says the Speed Racer Movie is 'Unironically a 10 out of 10'

Brandon Sanderson, writer of the beloved Cosmere universe, has immoderate beardown opinions astir the Speed Racer movie.

During Sanderson's play podcast, helium and cohost Dan Wells often make antithetic tier lists, and this week's taxable focused connected the top overlords of each time. Before the 2 could adjacent get into the ranking of immoderate notorious movie villains, Sanderson made a bold connection astir the 2008 Speed Racer movie.

"The movie Speed Racer is unironically a 10 retired of 10," said Sanderson rather emphatically. "This is the Wachowskis astatine their A game, and it was underappreciated erstwhile it came out."

For reference, the Speed Racer movie is presently sitting astatine 42% connected Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.1 retired of 10 connected IMDB. Despite these little scores, IGN's reappraisal of the movie backmost successful 2008 seems to hold with Sanderson by giving it a near-perfect 9 retired of 10. Here's a speedy snippet of what Todd Gilchrist thought of the movie successful our review:

"Overall, this anime adaptation is not simply the champion movie that it could be, it's beauteous overmuch precisely what it should be: afloat of exciting, brilliantly-conceived races, primary-color characterizations and an irresistible consciousness of fun. Loud, accelerated and ever successful information of veering retired of control, Speed Racer is simply a masterpiece of its kind, and a definitive benchmark for movie not lone arsenic a peculiar effects extravaganza but arsenic the infinitesimal erstwhile the Wachowskis went from wunderkind directors to existent auteurs. In different words, arsenic a summertime distraction, a singular enactment of creation oregon conscionable arsenic sensory overload, Speed Racer is simply a movie you perfectly indispensable see."

Sanderson went connected to code the mediocre archetypal reception of the movie by saying, "The crushed it did truthful poorly, I think, is that it was truthful implicit the apical and its conscionable simple. It's not similar a analyzable morals system, It's a cartoon made unrecorded enactment — but it's fantastic."

While the Speed Racer movie lone grossed a measly $94 cardinal astatine the container bureau backmost successful 2008, it's had the accidental astatine caller beingness precocious acknowledgment to a carnal media release. The movie received a limited-edition 4K and Blu-ray steelbook earlier this twelvemonth alongside further theatrical screenings, and fans supported the caller merchandise successful droves. The steelbook has agelong since sold out, but you tin inactive bargain the movie successful 4K for $24.99 astatine Amazon.