Both panned and praised when it was released, this zany cross-continental romp zooms ahead full throttle for all of its 157 minutes.
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05/06/08
The Great Race (1965)
68 %
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Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 13
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A tribute to masters of slapstick Laurel and Hardy, Blake Edwards's spectacular farce stars Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. In 1908 New York, the evil, black-clad Professor Fate (Lemmon) challenges the Great Leslie... [More]
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk
Director: Blake Edwards
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Lemmon plays it dirty throughout and for huge effect. Curtis underplays for equally comic effect. Wood comes through on a par with the two male stars.
05/06/08
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This is one of those spectacular comedy star vehicles which is perfectly watchable on a wet Sunday afternoon but which, looked at from almost any other perspective, is just a waste of celluloid.
05/06/08
Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk save this overblown comedy that tries too hard to be too slapstick.
06/26/03
A lumbering behemoth of 160 minutes of overproduced, overbearing overkill.
08/21/02
...a boisterous, madcap chase film that overstays its welcome but provides enough laughs along the way to make up for its shortcomings.
06/20/02
It's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness.
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