Review of Go Kart Go

'Go Kart Go' (1964) is simply smashing, fast-moving, rough n' tumble, marvellously madcap kids comedy over the remarkably intense rivalry between two opposing Go Kart teams that culminates somewhat calamitously in a no less smashing whizz-bang conclusion where wholesome flaxen-haired hero 'Jimpy' (Denis Waterman) stoically takes on the conspicuously dastardly Harry Haggertty (Frazier Hines) in a terrifically thrilling, lemonade-spilling, axle-spinning climax of Daredevil Go Karting and delightfully disarming 'pluckiness' that makes 'Go Kart Go' one of the more niftily nostalgic, riotously rose-tinted examples of the ceaselessly edifying coda of 'good forever trounces evil' so beloved of the greatly admired Children's Film Foundation. With an exemplary supporting cast of expert comedy wags including the estimable pratfall-ready talents of Wilfrid Brambell, Graham Stark, Cardew Robinson, and a pacey, finger-poppingly rocking score by film & TV music legend Ron Goodwin, you'd be a rotten egg to miss out on these wizard larks!