the audience applauded

I'll tell you why so serious

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

You have to wonder just how much Randy Quaid hates Russel Crowe. Here's Randy Quaid pasting a career together with a few vaguely memorable moments in good movies like The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon and Midnight Express. And then making us laugh with his wackiness in Freaked, Caddyshack 2 and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. No Innerspace or Right Stuff but at least he has his brother or more importantly, his ex-wife Meg Ryan. With a little money coming in from parts Dennis' name gets him, Innerspace royalties and Meg carrying them both, the Quaid boys could drink away their days as Hollywood's poor man's Sheens, Carradines, Penns or Howards.But no.Meg Ryan had to go and make a little movie called Proof of Life and fall in lust with her bloated Australian co-star, Russel Crowe. She leaves her alcoholic husband behind, and at the epicenter of that divorce is Randy Quaid and his career. Dennis goes on to make a few disaster movies but can't really seem to get his older brother Randy, who had more early success as an actor, anything better than Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure which most definitely went straight to thrift store shelves across the country.Which is essentially where I found Kart Racer. We never really find out what happens to his wife, why he suddenly decides to support his son's interest in kart racing or how long he's had a secret kart track in his garage but we watch it to the end. He doesn't look like he's starving in the movie but he also doesn't look like he's acting past a huge guttural laugh that doesn't seem to be a part of the scene or sympathetic to his son's kart racing plight.At least he's working. Kart Racer may not be the best way to get back at at Russel Crowe but maybe two cents of that three dollars I spent on the movie will find it's way to Randy Quaid, bringing him one step closer to revenge on The Gladiator.

This movie is cute but it is nothing like real Go Kart racing. At national events they would never let you go out on the track without a neckbrace. NEVER! Also Watts drives a Rotax well Rotax's do not shift and in the movie you can hear it shift. Lastly his enemy is out on the track with him and he is pushing karts off the track and making karts crash. In real life they do not stand for any sort of pushing or bumping you would be Disqualifed in a matter of seconds. There are plenty more things wrong with this movie but these are the three that stand out the most. The movie isn't horrible but it could have been more realistic. Anyone who knows anything about go karting or racing can tell that it is all wrong.

Kart racing isn't so easy, of course. And a goof I noticed: after the "Davies Comet" engine is installed, there is still footage of Watts racing with the Rotax Max. Also, kids that age do not race with MaxSr engines.The indoor lapping in the shop was a bit nuts.The racing sounds were overdubbed with car engines or something, because I drive a rotax kart and I have never heard it sound like that. These are two-cycle engines, and I rarely heard the noises I associate with these engines during any of the racing/driving footage.Also, these karts--RotaxMax--do not make 105mph top speed.

It was a good movie. A little heavy on the accents but it had a thrilling story. The beginning is a little boring, but it has a solid ending. IT has a fun and competitive liveliness to it. It is enjoyable. It is good for kids under the age of 15.