Has just enough in it for me to recommend the film -- but not enough to give the film an above average rating.
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08/16/01
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
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
C'mon. Cite one skit this year that's funnier than the one featuring Jon Lovitz's theft of Hitler's car.
08/16/01
A delightful throwback to old screwball comedies.
08/16/01
There is such a Love Boat thing going on here, with all the washed up celebrities being brought together in an attempt to equal one star, that it makes you start feeling sea sick.
08/16/01
A woebegone attempt at an ensemble farce which Paramount Pictures could label 'guaranteed laugh-free' without the slightest danger of a lawsuit.
08/15/01
Fragmented and varying in quality.
08/15/01
good old fashion fun
08/14/01
A great goofy delight, a dandy mix of energetic performances, inspired sight gags and flat-out silliness.
08/14/01
As in Mad, Mad World, the comic actors fare much better than the straight ones.
08/14/01
Funnier than it could reasonably hope to be.
08/14/01
...a handful of downright hilarious moments, another dozen chuckles and about 60 dead-on-arrival comedic misfires.
08/14/01
An uncomfortable comment on the desperate-to-be-cast nature of the second-tier Hollywood actor.
08/13/01
It's basically a matter of the characters being humorous or not, and most just weren't for me.
08/13/01
Rat Race has swell stunts and special effects and enough laughs of all kinds to recover from its less successful episodes.
08/10/01
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08/10/01
Everybody here is thoroughly enjoyable.
08/03/01
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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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