Releasing a week after the MCU’s debut certainly didn’t do Speed Racer any favors; nevertheless, it’s the latter film that has arguably prevailed as the more prescient of the two.

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Speed Racer is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car-racing rally that claimed the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. Speed is loyal ...