“Speed Racer” crashes and burns at the box office.
A huge setback to both anime and the Wachowski Brothers – some of our most prominent forecasters of the apocalypse. Maybe they were just getting TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH.
An uprising of chimpanzees calling themselves “The Army of Chim-Chim” take revenge for the treatment of Speed’s simian sidekick -- by forcing billions of humans into the trunks of *their* cars for a change.
Finally, a lucky break for mafia stool pigeons, the people best trained to survive prolonged trunktime.