Speed Racer first certified bomb of the summer

Here's a pitch for the Warner Bros. execs... let's make a 129 minute kid's movie, cast no major stars, and fill it with seizure-inducing special effects. What it lacks in plot and character development, we'll make up for with split-second editing and lots of bright colors. Oh yeah, we'll base it on a cartoon that no kid has ever seen.

Maybe the idea of casting John Goodman in a crappy cartoon-to-live-action remake was pitched as the can't-miss formula to recapture the magic that made the Flintstone movies such a mega-franchise.