He’s a Demon on Wheels

As we all know, after saving the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario (played by John Goodman) settled down into the world of extreme racing, and thus the illustrious line of MarioKart games was born.  In 2008, the Wachowski Brothers adapted MarioKart to film, except they added a monkey and called it “Speed Racer”. I’m not kidding. There are even blue sparks.

Also, there are ninjas, and the supporting cast includes Shaft.

I pretty much watched this for the visual effects and was satisfied. Wachowski Brothers are still pretty inventive in that avenue. The rest of the movie was actually pretty good, so long as you accept that it is targeted at a young audience and thus has a lot of corresponding comic relief.