It is outrageous, cheerfully vulgar, undeniably lowbrow, and very, very funny.
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08/20/01
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
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08/20/01
Goes for fast and dumb, and dammit if it doesn't connect dead-on with the funnny bone.
08/20/01
Starts off with a mildly humorous tone and then unexpectedly ramps up to a full-blown gut buster.
08/20/01
Instead of delivering the equivalent of an Airplane!, Jerry Zucker has made a monstrosity more akin to a plane crash.
08/19/01
Bar none, the funniest film of the summer.
08/17/01
It is drecky, dull-headed comedy, all pratfalls and wild hair and poop jokes.
08/17/01
Race, which delights in bashing all manner of transportation, hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.
08/17/01
...a hit-or-miss comedic proposition.
08/17/01
It's a mad mad mad mad world, all right, and Rat Race makes it seem all the zanier.
08/17/01
Rat Race is much funnier than most comedies currently in release -- compared with American Pie 2 ... But ultimately it falls just short of the finish line.
08/17/01
Often amusing but only occasionally hilarious.
08/17/01
The funniest film to come along since South Park.
08/17/01
Seems designed for kids who won't get about a third of the jokes. Or maybe for the quirky kids who think that Hitler gags require, as a punch line, lesbian bikers.
08/17/01
A comedy like Rat Race works only when viewers can -- or want to -- identify with the underdogs on screen.
08/17/01
A scoopful of slapstick silliness that runs refreshingly counter to the bodily fluids and gross-out humor that dominate film comedy today.
08/17/01
A ragged, wildly uneven road comedy.
08/17/01
Despite the laughs and a script that moves briskly from one joke to the next, the actors (all talented in their own righta) don't work together as a team to create a compelling story.
08/17/01
Top CriticThese people, and the actors who play them, work so very hard that just watching them tires you out.
08/17/01
Rat Race isn't a stupid movie -- it's an aggressively stupid movie that journeys into realms of absurdity that are, well, aggressively funny.
08/17/01
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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