Please make a Speed Racer sequel

One more critic who is unable to put themselves aside and watch a movie on its own merits. These people seem to be hobbled by some incomprehensible conviction that Speed Racer takes place in the same world they inhabit, despite the movie making it clear, right from the start and with every step of the way throughout, that it is its own movie world, with its own rules, its own history, its own present.

Does this reviewer also complain that Avengers movies fail because there are no cartoonish supervillains with superpowers actually out there? Because that 'criticism' is exactly as valid -- it ignore the clear point that the movie does not take place in the world outside the theater.

These sad professional amateurs are a sorry excuse for cultural reporters. They insist that their personal filters are what matters, not the movie's own intentions. "Todd McCarthy" writes nothing better than a blog. He starts with himself and everything that follows is about him.

Go back and read Ebert's essays. Very occasionally he might inject himself, but by and large he talked about where the movie fits in with its genre, its intention, its time and its audience.

"Todd McCarthy" is a child with a major byline. Just look at his conclusion, or rather total lack of one. He's fluff.

Well, here's what the industry rag had to say about it;

Citizen Kane was a box-office bomb.

They are not my numbers, moron, that's why they are in a quote box.