New Film Friday: May 9

By Rebecca Nicholson

Speed Racer (PG)

Christina Ricci reckons her Speed Racer character Trixie is "a feminist ideal", but you'll have to sit through this panned Wachowski Brothers effort to make up your own mind.


Empire 3/5: "It’ll split the ranks like a pizza cutter: you might admire it as a Warholian blur of pop art, gawp and gasp at its Hot Wheels-for-real dynamism, or get a headache."

Total Film 2/5: "It's like being sucked into the ADHD-addled imagination of an eight-year-old."

Independent 2/5: "...a movie of such garishness and impenetrability as to test the stoicism of any audience member older than 14."


What Happens In Vegas (12A)

Ashton Kutcher: phwoarsome man-dude or irritating chump? Perhaps two hours of him pissing about with Cameron Diaz will make up your mind.


Total Film 2/5: "Once the second-act schmaltz kicks in, you'll be wishing that what happened in Vegas, had just stayed in Vegas."

Times 2/5: "The mean-spirited battle of the sexes is enjoyable, if unimaginative, but Joy and Jack are so irritating that you start to begrudge them their happy ever after."

Time Out 2/6: "A bland comedy punctuated by the odd witty moment. The inevitable romance is so routine it barely merits a mention.


Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (12A)

Morgan Spurlock goes from eating McDonald's to hunting out the world's most wanted terrorist in a comedy style. LOLZ! WAR!


Guardian 1/5: "With insistent, fatuous naivety, Spurlock doesn't attempt the simplest analysis of politics or motives; he simply galumphs around various countries, variously amusing and annoying the people he meets."

Times 1/5: "...mawkishly sentimental and fundamentally untrustworthy."

Independent 3/5: "...wry, good-natured and rather flip."


Honeydripper (PG)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story could have killed music-themed films like this, had it not been rubbish. Thankfully it was, leaving us with this tale of a 50s R&B joint in the Deep South.


Guardian 2/5: "John Sayles's disconcerting weakness for soft-edged sentimentality is on display in this amiable but underpowered tale of the American south."

Empire 3/5: "A gentle, enjoyable musical fable."

Time Out 4/6: "A stirring tribute to the power of music."


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