NASCAR: The IMAX Experience (2004)
Warner Bros. Pictures

Description

Until you've seen NASCAR: The IMAX Experience, you haven't really seen NASCAR. Even without the advantage of a gigantic IMAX screen and 70-millimeter 3-D projection, this 48-minute IMAX film is a perfect primer for newcomers to the sport of stock-car racing.

Tags

Racing, Cars, IMAX, NASCAR

Collected reviews and ratings

8.0 filmcritic.com | Blake French

You don’t have to attend a race to be hooked on the sport. Just go to this movie. It is an experience you’ll not soon forget... and you will be hooked.
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8.0 Amazon user reviews

NASCAR - The IMAX Experience is a good place to start for those who have not followed NASCAR closely, or who have never attended a NASCAR race.
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7.5 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

This otherwise entertaining, aficionado-oriented production, with its circus-act technology that lets a viewer feel, briefly, like a member of the Petty racing dynasty, is as gaudily patched with corporate sponsorship as the sport itself.
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7.2 DVD Verdict | David Packard

In the end, NASCAR—The IMAX Experience feels like a quick cash-in on the exploding popularity of the sport. I don't doubt that this film worked during its original theatrical release, but the IMAX experience glossed up what is really a bland, crammed summary of a sport that deserves better.
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6.3 TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

Aimed squarely at dyed-in-the-wool fans of stock-car racing, this large-format 3-D film offers a bit of NASCAR history, a smattering of engineering facts, glimpses of some of the sport's most popular personalities and a whole lot of hyperbolic chatter about the populist glory of driving really noisy cars in a circle at 200 miles per hour.
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5.0 DVD Talk | Holly E. Ordway

Where NASCAR: The IMAX Experience is weakest is in its informative content. Sure, this is an IMAX film, so it's primarily a visual spectacle, but it would be nice to learn a bit about the topic as well.
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5.0 Variety | Dennis Harvey

Surprisingly, the large format and three-dimensional technology do little to heighten the excitement of the races. In the end, docu is less a film with real behind-the-scenes insight and more a serviceable, if routine, promo package for the (very) bigscreen.
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