“Turbo,” the DreamWorks Animation feature about a snail who wins the Indianapolis 500, was a moderately successful effort to distill the spirit of America’s commercialized sports culture into a ...

Turbo (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) is an underdog snail whose dreams kick into overdrive when he miraculously attains the power of super-speed. (DreamWorks Animation LLC ...

What was in the water when the folks at DreamWorks Animation decided to make a 3-D digital feature about a snail who wants to race in the Indy 500? “Turbo,” directed by David Soren from his story idea ...

Even within the world of animated-film logic, it’s a bit of a stretch that a snail — even one with superpowers gained during a trip through a car’s engine — could compete in the Indianapolis 500. But ...

Crews are working around the clock to transform the TODAY plaza into an Indy 500-style racetrack. On Tuesday, Matt, Savannah, Natalie and Willie will be joined by Ryan Reynolds, star of the upcoming ...

After seeingthe animated movieTurbo,Code Switch's Karen Grigsby Bates and Kat Chow reflect on the movie's attempt at showing diversity. DreamWorks Animation's movie, Turbo, hit theaters earlier this ...

There are underdogs. And there are underdogs. Then there is “Turbo,” a garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500. Honestly, they pretty much had me at “racing snails.” The idea for animation’s ...

A juiced snail strives to win the Indy 500 in a very straight-line, young boy-aimed animated outing. By Todd McCarthy In delivering a film about a garden snail that dreams of winning the Indy 500, ...

Turbo is Cars with snails: It’s light on jokes but cute — with animation so vivid that it resembles photo-real. It’s another “impossible dream” tale — this time about a motor-head mollusk with a need ...

The San Fernando Valley has provided the setting for countless memorable film scenes. The tree-lined street where E.T. rides a bike into the sky is in Granada Hills, the high school where the stoners ...