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Speed Racer | 
 enlarge | Creator: Michael Giacchino
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 16292
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 066898
UPC: 030206689822
EAN: 0030206689822
ASIN: B00175G7MC
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | I Am Speed (:37) | | • | World's Best Autopia (1:15) | | • | Thunderhead (3:07) | | • | Tragic Story of Rex Racer (4:49) | | • | Vroom and Board (3:38) | | • | World's Worst Road Rage (2:41) | | • | Racing's In Our Blood (1:52) | | • | True Heart of Racing (4:05) | | • | Casa Cristo (4:02) | | • | End of the First Leg (2:20) | | • | Taejo Turns Trixie (1:37) | | • | Bumper to Bumper, Rail to Rail (3:07) | | • | The Maltese Ice Cave (2:04) | | • | Go Speed, Go! (1:24) | | • | He Ain't Heavy (1:45) | | • | 32 Hours (3:49) | | • | Grand Ol' Prix (6:13) | | • | Reboot (3:08) | | • | Let Us Drink Milk (4:33) | | • | Speed Racer (4:21) |
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Album Description
Speed Racer marks the Wachowski brothers' first writing/directing collaboration since The Matrix movies. The film stars Emile Hirsch (Alpha Dog) as Speed, Christina Ricci (Black Snake Moan) as Trixie, Matthew Fox (Lost) as Racer X, and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) and John Goodman (Evan Almighty) as Mom and Pops Racer. The adrenaline rush of a score was composed by Michael Giacchino and is sure to be one of the most exciting releases of the summer.
Album Description
Go Speed Racer! From writer/directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the groundbreaking The Matrix trilogy, and producer Joel Silver comes the live-action, high-octane family adventure Speed Racer. Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized ' the legendary Rex Racer ' whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Michael Giacchino, my god your awesome! July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit I LOVED the movie, it was just so unique, like nothing before, ever! That being said, I have to say I ADORED the music!!!
But also I have to say 'Michael Giacchino' is NOW probably my favourite composer, especially after doing this and his BRILLIANT work on LOST. The music fits the movie just perfectly and by itself it's just as brilliant and moving! The speed of the tracks are quite something, and yet alone, ther tracks can still hit the emotional notes without the need for visual aides.
SERIOUSLY though I loved it anmd anyone who liked the film... it's a great buy, one for the collection!
 ahh... a good old fashioned seizure... July 9, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
mind you this is not a review of the music, though the music was terrible, i am reviewing the film itself.
first i will start the review off by stating that the movie was nothing like a kids movie for the fact that there was plenty of foul language and even one point the child with the rediculously annoying monkey flips-off the camera. the plot was confusing and remarkably anti-capitalist, and the color scheme that does not even come close to anything in nature nearly burned my retenas. i did not care for any of the characters and many of whom were exceptionally annoying. the scenes changed with an average of possibly 4 camera changes per second. now something that fast paced with colors that bright would definatly cause a seizure to someone prone to them. i am not exaggerating when i say this, i had a headache whithin 10 minutes of the opening credits, and my friend sitting next to me did too, and most likely had some motion sickness. the race sequences were irritating at best and dragged on for what seemed like hours. instead of the 1 hour long movie it is, the race sequences bumped it up to a solid 2 hours! and also because of the incredibly fast paced filming all of the "deep" and dramatic scenes seemed non-existant or supid and ill-concieved.
1 star for the horrible speed racer propaganda film.
a side note to how incredibly bad it was: about an hour into this movie, children began playing in the isles screaming and the parents were talking to each other... loudly... nobody thought to shush them because they didnt care about the movie either!
i saw this at a bargain theatre and i must tell you... that wasted my dollar.
Go, Speed Racer, Go! June 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The best film score I've bought this year was The Rescuers Down Under, which was released in 1991 and re-released in 2002. No, it didn't come out this year, and If you want to play by the rules, then Speed Racer is the best(so far) of 2008.
First of all, It was the best movie I've seen this year(2008), but currently The Dark Knight hasn't come out yet and I'm thinking that it will earn first place.
Second, Giacchino is a briliant composer, and has really set the bar high in Speed Racer. Having created the music for(and these are his best): Mission Impossible 3, Ratatouille, LOST(Seasons 1,2,3), and a few of the Medal of Honor video games, Giacchino has outdone himself and has given birth to a masterpiece!
The music has so much energy, and the only downside is that it might have a bit too much! Plus, you have to see the movie to really appreciate the music. And you might have to give the score a few listens to really get into it. Other than that, the music is fantastic.
If you enjoyed the original theme from the TV show, then you're in for a reall treat, because Giacchino seemed to enjoy it too and has weaved it into the score. The last song on the disc is a great example of this, because that's all it really is, the original theme. However, some of the new music has worked its way into it and it sounds so fun.
Another favorite is the track titled The Maltese Ice Cave, where an epic choir blazes the words "Speed Racer, He can race!" over swift violins and other orchestral instruments.
Like I said before, Speed Racer earns 1st place so far, but be careful: If you don't like your music too "speedy", then Speed Racer isn't the score for you.
Speed Racer Original Soudtrack June 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having seen the movie, I was very interested in finding the soundtrack for it, and luckily found it on Amazon.com. The music is very reminiscent of the original Anime TV show from the '60s, and easily evoked images from the movie which I had just seen two weeks prior to ordering the CD. My only disappointment: The remix of the old Speed Racer theme ("Go Speed Racer Go" by Ali Dee & The Deekompressors), though played during the end credits of the movie, wasn't included on this CD. Grade A+ All The Way
A 5-Star Composer Working With 3-Star Material May 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, I LOVE Michael Giacchino. He melted my mind with The Incredibles' score and then he charmed me with Ratatouille. I can't wait to see what he'll do with the upcoming Star Trek feature and I can only hope that the Brain Trust at PIXAR lets him take the scores for CARS 2 or Toy Story 3 out for a spin. But back to the task at hand. . .
In theater, I was thoroughly impressed with the way Giacchino subtly let the music play its supporting role to the story on screen. Given the hype for this feature, I actually brought foam earplugs expecting to have the Dolby-enhanced soundtrack blasted at me for 2 hours. I was more than pleased to find that the score was applied with an artist's touch and my wife and I found ourselves at the end grinning like kids again just waiting to hear the three-tone fanfare announcing Speed's triumph over cheaters and other villiany. I ordered the soundtrack the next day.
On its own, however, the soundtrack isn't as strong as the scores from the PIXAR features. I don't think it's Giacchino's fault, though. Let's face it, Brad Bird's script for The Incredibles is a Shakespeare play compared to the dramatic gravitas of Speed Racer--as it should be. Speed Racer the Movie is a 60's cartoon on Ecstasy. It's a visual snack that I look forward to watching over and over on DVD, but it's not great art.
The score, by necessity, follows the story: Speed Racer RACES...for two hours. Eventually, the music starts to blend together. The lightweight plot produces lightweight musical compositions. After all, how much different, musically speaking, is racing on ice versus racing on sand? The songs are all good, but not as memorable as his previous work.
On the plus side, though: the full orchestra and chorus delivers a richness of tone and color that has become the Giacchino trademark of quality. And the composer is fully faithful to the music of the TV show, especially in "Speed Racer", his take on the Americanized surf-sound version of the Japanese original theme song.
Giacchino shows his respect here, but it also appears that Warner Bros. pulls a "Royalton" with the theme, for this is NOT the song everyone hears during the credits (unless it played later on; I didn't stick around for the full credits). In fact the j-pop techno remix by Ali Dee and the Deekompressors that everyone knows from the movie is missing from this CD, suggesting to me that Giacchino had nothing to do with it. Did he refuse to allow it on the CD because it wasn't his work? It seems to me that Giacchino stayed true to his muse, but the producers decided to add something a bit more "Fast and the Furious" that they could sell to the kiddies as the pop single of the movie. Sad that Giacchino labors for an entire score, only to have an utterly forgettable piece of techno fluff get the star position in the film. Like others reviewing this CD, I too expected to hear the single, but on reflection I think I respect the composer more rather than like the CD less for its absence.
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