Customer Reviews

Hot Wheels Acceleracers, Vol. 2 - The Speed of Silence

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The story of Vert Wheeler and his racing friends that began in "Hot Wheels World Race" and "Hot Wheels Acceleracers: Ignition" continues here.

"Vert" Wheeler and the rest of the Teku racing team must work with their rivals the Metal Maniacs to drive in the "Racing Realms", other dimensional race tracks that test a driver's racing skills to their extreme limit. Whoever reaches the finish line of each realm first receives an "Accelercharger", which grants the user's vehicle a special power (frictionless driving, hyperspeed, etc). Scattered throughout the realms are "Hyperpods", which the driver's car can attach to give it special abilities as well.

Unfortunately, the evil Gelorum has obtained the Wheel Of Power (see the Hot Wheels World Race DVD) and her robots will stop at nothing to obtain all the Accelerchargers!! If they do, they will be able to take over the world, which is NOT a good thing for us humans!

Not only that, but a mysterious THIRD racing team, the Silencerz, have shown up! Who (and what) are they, and are they on the side of good or evil?

This episode does a great job of propelling the main storyline, as well as moving along several subplots. It's always fun to watch adventures with the Hot Wheels drivers as they take on Gelorum and her drones on fantastic race tracks.

A lot of the reservations I had about the Hot Wheels Acceleracers : Ignition release are not as strong here.

- The Teku and Metal Maniacs now appear more as rival racing teams (which they should have been anyway) as opposed to rival street racing gangs.

- The physical violence content has been reduced as well. There's nothing on this disc that resembles the opening sequence of the Ignition DVD when Dr Tezla was attacked by the drones.

My children enjoy this DVD, and look forward to future Hot Wheels Acceleracers DVDs.

The Cartoon Network has already broadcast the third part of the Hot Wheels Accceleracers saga, Breaking Point, and will be airing the fourth episode "Hot Wheels Accceleracers: The Ultimate Race" on October 1st of 2005. If you missed part 3, they usually rebroadcast them the day before the new episode, so look for it on Friday, September 30, 2005.

This DVD comes with 6 micro-episodes, that contain racing and plot elements in realms not shown in the main movie (the Cliffside Realm and the Ice Realm).

Check out my reviews of the Hot Wheels World Race and Hot Wheels Acceleracers: Ignition DVDs for more information on those titles.

I bought this for my 5 year old's birthday and I was disgusted. He loved World Race and so did I but I think this one has gone too far. I don't like how it talks about Marky being in prison and that a lot of the characters have tatoos on them. They made all the characters look so old and it just seems more violent to me than World Race. Kids shouldn't have to be exposed to that stuff in a cartoon. I only watched 1/3 of it and turned it off.The next day I took it back to get a refund. I'm going to buy World Race but not this one! Frankly, I am surprised at all the positive reviews.

PLEASE BRING BACK TARO KITANO AS HE WAS IN WORLD RACE!!!! Okay, I sort of got that out of my system. SO continues the saga, but you need to view/watch the "extras" (read: realms) for plot points, etc. This volume had much less violence and some more levity than "Ignition", but many questions are still left unanswered - where is Banjee?? Why was Mark Wylde in prison? What happened between Lani and Taro that they don't seem to like each other? <sigh> I guess I'll just have to wait for the next two DVDs (I hope my questions are answered). Still, an interesting movie if you liked the previous two (World Race and Ignition). Cool cars and cool realms. Vert disappears for a while to determine if he was lucky or really was the best driver. Galorum has someone - does she have others? Will the drivers care more about the race or their friends?

The story of Vert Wheeler and his racing friends that began in "Hot Wheels World Race" and "Hot Wheels Acceleracers: Ignition" continues here.

"Vert" Wheeler and the rest of the Teku racing team must work with their rivals the Metal Maniacs to drive in the "Racing Realms", other dimensional race tracks that test a driver's racing skills to their extreme limit. Whoever reaches the finish line of each realm first receives an "Accelercharger", which grants the user's vehicle a special power (frictionless driving, hyperspeed, etc). Scattered throughout the realms are "Hyperpods", which the driver's car can attach to give it special abilities as well.

Unfortunately, the evil Gelorum has obtained the Wheel Of Power (see the Hot Wheels World Race DVD) and her robots will stop at nothing to obtain all the Accelerchargers!! If they do, they will be able to take over the world, which is NOT a good thing for us humans!

Not only that, but a mysterious THIRD racing team, the Silencerz, have shown up! Who (and what) are they, and are they on the side of good or evil?

This episode does a great job of propelling the main storyline, as well as moving along several subplots. It's always fun to watch adventures with the Hot Wheels drivers as they take on Gelorum and her drones on fantastic race tracks.

A lot of the reservations I had about the Hot Wheels Acceleracers : Ignition release are not as strong here.

- The Teku and Metal Maniacs now appear more as rival racing teams (which they should have been anyway) as opposed to rival street racing gangs.

- The physical violence content has been reduced as well. There's nothing on this disc that resembles the opening sequence of the Ignition DVD when Dr Tezla was attacked by the drones.

My children enjoy this DVD, and look forward to future Hot Wheels Acceleracers DVDs.

The Cartoon Network has already broadcast the third part of the Hot Wheels Accceleracers saga, Breaking Point, and will be airing the fourth episode "Hot Wheels Accceleracers: The Ultimate Race" on October 1st of 2005. If you missed part 3, they usually rebroadcast them the day before the new episode, so look for it on Friday, September 30, 2005.

This DVD comes with 6 micro-episodes, that contain racing and plot elements in realms not shown in the main movie (the Cliffside Realm and the Ice Realm).

Check out my reviews of the Hot Wheels World Race and Hot Wheels Acceleracers: Ignition DVDs for more information on those titles.

I have purchased both the first Hotwheels movie, and Vol.1 of the episodes. This one didn't have any new twists or new turns over the story. Infact at a point they will brush off the count of how many rounds where won between the two teams. My boys injoyed it, but I guess since I get to judge it ( I gave it a three), I was thinking of my self injoynment. I guess my boys would actually give it a 4 star. All in all it was good fun for the my boys (6, 10 y/old).

It's good, it's cool and I like it. It's better than Ignition because they race in better realms. If you liked Ignition, you'll love this.

This movie is better than "Ignition" and a little bit better than "World Race". My favorite realm was the Water Realm. The reason why I like it better than the City Realm is because it is really cool the way that the Acclerons made the way you get down to the track. Also I like the fact that the cars have to travel through a pipeline under water. The fish are neat too! I think it's cool when the cars come to the surface of the water for the finish. The City Realm was cool too, but not as cool as the Water Realm.

My son will be 9 in December, and absolutely loves cars. These DVDs are his favorites! He understand the good/bad aspect of the whole story, and loves to quiz me to see if I know which driver belongs to each car. I usually do pretty well too. I look forward to parts 3 and 4 being released on DVD.

He loved World race but the Acceleracers movies are even more exciting to him, he gets so into them I just can't believe how much attention he pays to these movies, he knows every detail! The graphics have changed and the plot and characters have become more complex and even a little dark. I myslef enjoyed it but was a little disappointed in the character Marky Wylde from the World Race, I think they went a little to far with him not just just in physical change but in his whole attitude. It kind of confused my son too but other than that the movies are GREAT!!!

My son was 5 years old when he received all the hotwheel DVDs I could find. He loves them. He is now 6 and still watches them like he is watching them for the first time. Great buy.