![]() What's really weird about the whole mess is that visually, the game is pretty damn impressive. It is, like the rest of the game, something that you start up and give to a three year old to keep them happy for a few minutes.īuy. Your reward? A tally of how far you went before the sweet, sweet embrace of video game death saves you from this nigh-eternal suffering. There is no more perfect an example of what Crazy Frog Arcade Racer than the Chase Mode, where you continually race around a track - not picking up any weapons or power-ups or anything, just racing endlessly - over and over until the drones placed all over the course hit you enough to whittle your health down to nothing. which, I suppose, is why they called it a mini-game. Although, tapping all four face buttons in various one-, two- and three-button combinations to a bunch of Crazy Frog tunes or guiding a pinball around a course with billiards-style bumpers to hit a bunch of targets barely qualifies as a game. Or mini-games! Yes there are two delightfully simple options for those that just can't seem to rid themselves of their Crazy Frog addiction. Well, unless you absolutely crave the frighteningly well done CG videos for two of the Crazy Frog "songs."ĭon't. A whopping 12 tracks, a dozen racers and the "option" of running through the former with the latter in Time Trial and Single Race Modes is really all that greets here. ![]() ‘If you hit yourself and it hurts, does it mean you’re strong or weak?’ asks one character, but Zhi wins this wacky race naturally because ‘the plant knows how to grow.’ For fans of a cross country road-race, in the old Wacky Races style, Rally Road Racers should hold the attention of most kids right to the finish line.In actuality, Crazy Frog Arcade Racer (also known as Crazy Frog Racer 2, thanks title screen!) is exactly what you think it is: a racer that piggybacks off the baffling success (at least abroad) of one of the most annoying mash-ups of eurobeat backgrounds and, well, something that sounds like a guy doing an impression of an F1 car sped up a bit too much. ‘Who let the frogs out?’ is the predictable stolen song here, but for all its many borrowings, Rally Road Racers adds up to a passable time-passer for twelve and unders with a dash of locally-sourced philosophy. ![]() JK Simmons quite literally plays the goat here, while Chloe Bennet, Catherine Tate and Sharon Horgan make up a better-than-needed vocal cast. Also appealing to adults is Zhi’s common interest in his granny’s Tai chi, which allows him to balance his chakras properly when the racing action begins it’s a neat inclusion that gives Rally Road Racers the depth it requires. In passing, we see a poster for a film called ‘The Fast and The Furriest’, which might have been a more evocative title for this cheeky film elsewhere there’s a few other grace notes including the inclusion of The Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz, plus a car dashboard with a number of sabotage surprises including one marked Brexit and a smartly imagined scene which riffs on the classic Take on Me video by a-ha. The capitalist monstrosity about to demolish granny’s abode is crazy frog Archie Vainglorious (Cleese in his ‘Cor Blimey’ Brit mode), who is also the organiser and star of the Silk Road Race he makes the rules too, which include the competitors (including UK entry The British Invasion) being hit by a stream of missiles from the starting line this is very much a Tex Avery style of animation, and all the better for it. With a painted soup pot for a helmet, Zhi doesn’t have the look of a winner, but when the house belonging to his granny (Lisa Lu) is threatened with demolition in a classic Arthur Dent scenario, he aims to save the day by entering the Silk Road Rally in China. Yang), who, much like Turbo the snail, is obsessed with speed even though his species is generally slow off the mark. Released by the Viva Kids imprint, who successfully picked up The Amazing Maurice earlier this year, Rally Road Racers feels like it was conceived with one eye on the lucrative Chinese market the hero is slow loris Zhi (Jimmy O. The latter film is by far the biggest film of the year so far at the box office, but while Rally Road Racers is a rather more humble proposition, it’s a cheerful, thankfully non-preachy cartoon that should work for young kids and families. How would you feel about hearing John Cleese singing a-ha’s 1983 classic Take On Me? That’s just one of the unique selling points of this animated feature from writer/director Ross Venokur, which takes the spirit of the Cannonball Run films from the 80’s and updates it to the candy-coloured racing world of The Super Mario Movie.
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