When it hit the airwaves in the late 1960s, Speed Racer was pretty innovative television — for a cartoon.
Four decades later, the story of a family that works out its issues on a racetrack seems a little hokey.
So how do you please a YouTube generation that likes its humor ironic and its special effects cutting-edge while pleasing baby boom moviegoers who still remember Trixie’s haircut and Chim Chim’s jumpsuit?
The brothers Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta) take a crack at updating the cartoon with Speed Racer, which gets its first look here and whose trailer runs tonight on Entertainment Tonight.