Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: why did they bother?

Really, why bother to make a movie in the odd manner in which someone had the harebrained concept as to make this one? This movie had to have been produced almost entirely in front of a blue screen. There is practically nothing real. It is almost as if the joke is on the viewer who possibly expected to see an actual movie. It is that bad. An as for Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, and Christina Ricci, you can almost see the look on their faces that A. No one they know ever sees this dog, and B. The paycheck doesn't bounce. Frankly, if you like the old Speed Racer cartoon, then watch it, not this. The only reason I gave two stars is for the learning experience. I learned just how badly botched even a simple old cartoon like Speed Racer could turn out modernized in film length. Blech.