A genuinely hilarious belly-acher.
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01/08/02
Rat Race (2001)
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Reviews Counted:124
Fresh:53
Rotten:71
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Rat Race moves from one sight gag to another, but only a handful of them are genuinely funny.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: An all-star cast proves just how far people will go for the chance to win $2 million in Jerry Zucker's RAT RACE. In the tradition of Zucker's AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN 2-1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR, this... [More]
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jon Lovitz, John Cleese
Director: Jerry Zucker
Reviews for Rat Race
Top CriticYou have to wonder about the mentality of anyone who would want to use the "Cannonball Run" pictures as inspiration.
01/20/02
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01/22/02
Top CriticWhen I saw it, I didn't laugh more than three times. But in recalling the film now, it seems a lot funnier.
08/21/01
good old fashion fun
08/14/01
There are a few clever moments, but the movie is nothing at all special and a pale, pale, pale, pale imitation of its model.
08/16/01
A few decent running gags ... and an ocean of bad ones.
08/21/01
A comedy like Rat Race works only when viewers can -- or want to -- identify with the underdogs on screen.
08/17/01
Goes for fast and dumb, and dammit if it doesn't connect dead-on with the funnny bone.
08/20/01
A mixed bag that's a perfect fit for this summer of mediocrity.
08/16/01
...a handful of downright hilarious moments, another dozen chuckles and about 60 dead-on-arrival comedic misfires.
08/14/01
These people, and the actors who play them, work so very hard that just watching them tires you out.
08/17/01
A few gags are too inspired for Rat Race to be lumped in with the recent spate of wretched comedies. But it also includes too many broad, shrill and gratuitously vulgar moments to be defended without apologies.
08/16/01
The sight gags are too few and far between and the characters, in varying degrees, all seem pale refugees from sitcomland.
08/17/01
...this film earns its laughs. Sure, there are some jokes that involve bodily functions, but at no point does anyone get a penis stabbed into the side of their head.
04/22/02
Latest News for Rat Race
June 05, 2001:
Take 40 Lucille Ball impersonators, a bus full of mental patients, and a van carrying a human heart destined for transplant; shake well; and you’ll get a small taste of the chaos that awaits you in this manic road comedy. 
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May 22, 2001:
Someone who saw an advance screening, besides saying that they liked it, wrote in to say that Jason Alexander, who had been announced as being in the film, wasn't in the version she saw.
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