'Speed Racer' Limps Around the Track

Yes, it's a candy-colored Day-Glo world, but there's a liveliness missing from this lead-footed "Speed Racer."

EMILE HIRSCH as Speed Racer driving the Mach 6 in a scene from Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "Speed Racer," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

(Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

(Rated PG for sequences of action, some violence, language and brief smoking. Opens tonight in select theaters and Friday nationwide.)

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