Go Speed Racer, GO!!!

" Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer, he's a demon on wheels.....(can you remember the NEXT lyrics?Hmm? )". I love Speed Racer. I mean, who did not want The Mach 5 when they were a kid? I wanted it badly. I wanted a car with saws on the front and, hyper jacks to jump the car OVER other cars. I was an interesting kid. It played on Boston's Channel 56 on weekday afternoons around 3-3:30 pm. Endlessly. For years.

I saw the new film and LOVED it. They hit it perfectly right on the head as far as getting right the look of things, as they might in real life. Visually it's a knockout and you have to just check at the door any pretentions-just enjoy it.

Anyway he's me in a fanboy moment with Peter Fernandez, from about 7 years ago. Fernandez is a director, writer and actor who supervised the dubbing of the original anime from the late 60's. He, Corrine Orr, Jack Grimes and others all had these trademarked voices with which they could be heard not only on SPEED RACER, but other animations from Japan, and even some of the Godzilla movies(GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER, 1972 notably) and some of the westerns from Italy. Fernandez does a cameo as a race announcer in the start of the new film!