Critic Reviews

• Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

  The movie makes an excellent primer about the world of stock car racing for fans and nonfans alike.

• Janice Page, Boston Globe

  NASCAR 3D will delight fans of auto racing.

• Sara Gebhardt, Washington Post

  An interesting behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's most popular spectator sports.

• Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times

  Its rampant corporate sponsorship is messy and distracting, and the athleticism necessary to triumph is still less intriguing (perhaps because it's less visible) than the athleticism necessary to triumph in, say, baseball.

• Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

  Doesn't quite overcome its shameless self-promotion, but the film will satisfy the Lynyrd Skynyrd set while providing a decent explanation to those who are baffled by the sport's popularity.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  A 45-minute glorified infomercial.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  A rather rote and superficial look at the NASCAR circuit.

• Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International

  It turns out that racing around an oval track offers surprisingly few opportunities to exploit 3D effectively.

• Ross Anthony, Hollywood Report Card

  I wanted more time on the track, more passing, more actual racing. NASCAR (Stock car racing) implies "adrenaline rush" and I missed that in this otherwise solid documentary.

• Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune

  The film is about as illuminating as the race cars' stickered-on headlights.

• Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

  This one does manage to put audiences in the action. And its brief examinations of the science of auto racing are pretty educational.

• Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views

  Part infomercial, part historical documentary, all in 3-D, Nascar 3D is best seen as a spectacle, something that exists for its format rather than its content.

• Linda Cook, Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

  Gentlemen and ladies: Don your goggles!

• Marty Mapes, Movie Habit

  In spite of flaws, for sheer size and bravado, it still deserves a look

• Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

  Those vehicles sure are big, they come right at you, and they're in one heck of a hurry. For about 40 minutes, that's all you really need.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  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.

• Bob Ehlert, Sacramento Bee

  An uneven combination of documentary and demolition drama.

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