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Created May 17, 2008 07:06AM PST • Edited May 17, 2008 07:19AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Great 4.0

   A candy-coated kick to the brain, and as close you can get to a cartoon while still using flesh-and-blood actors. The richness of the world they’ve created is uncanny; the colours drip into the aisles then explode off the screen. At one point, I witnessed a blue that I’m sure was bluer than any blue I’d ever seen before… The racing sequences are amazingly kinetic car wars like nothing I’ve ever seen before. They called it “Car Fu” and it’s really the best word for it. Outside these battles, the movie does slow down considerably, leaving a paper thin storyline about family and corruption and the importance of small businesses (?). The running time could have used some refinement, but the experience was well worth the time and the price of admission. Now excuse me while I slip into a diabetic coma…

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   Purposefully cheesy, but it wouldn’t have worked any other way. And the kid sidekick/monkey combo, which could have been disastrous, was actually pretty funny.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    I am totally blown away by the effects in this movie. The car stuff is one thing, that’s pretty much a well choreographed pinball machine, but the way they drenched the entire world with such vivid color is really cool. Also, I love the anachronism of the 30’s style gangsters with the high-tech gadgetry.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

12. Play Perfect 5.0

13. Music Perfect 5.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.7

    “Let’s pinch off these turds”

17. Sex Innocent 1.2

18. Violence Fierce 1.9

19. Rudeness Salty 2.0

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.2

    The colour really separated the movie from reality here.

22. Circumstantial Supernatural 4.0

23. Biological Glib 2.0

24. Physical Supernatural 3.6