So Speed Racer opens tomorrow, and a lot of people are really, really stoked for it—and a lot of people a really, really going to hate it.

Nothing invites fanboy discontent like remaking a classic cartoon (a year after it came out, I still get shit for liking Transformers)—but more than that, I think a lot of people are going to be put off by Speed Racer’s visuals, and also by its general tone. This is a kids movie through and through, and the Wachowski Brothers have made a giddy, eye-bending spectacle that’s sure to delight anyone under the age of 10. As for anyone older than that… I have no idea who’ll like this sort of thing and who’ll just get pissed off by it.

ANYWAY. If you’re a bit wary, Yahoo! Movies (via AICN) has the first seven minutes of the flick online. If you like it (and if it doesn’t give you motion sickness, or trigger an epilepsy attack), I’d recommend checking it out in theaters this weekend. Sadly, mainstream movies that’re this visually experimental don’t come along very often (the closest visual parallels to Speed Racer I can think of, actually, are a few of the films that screened at the Peripheral Produce Invitational), and watching this sort of thing on a computer monitor just doesn’t do it justice.