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08/09/02
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Rat Race (2001)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:8
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Rat Race moves from one sight gag to another, but only a handful of them are genuinely funny.
Theatrical Release:Aug 17, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $55,843,381
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
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Reviews for Rat Race
Top CriticFitfully amusing farce.
01/06/02
Top CriticAn overheated, underdone farce.
08/27/01
Top CriticA few decent running gags ... and an ocean of bad ones.
08/21/01
Top CriticRace, which delights in bashing all manner of transportation, hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.
08/17/01
Top CriticIt's a mad mad mad mad world, all right, and Rat Race makes it seem all the zanier.
08/17/01
Top CriticThe funniest film to come along since South Park.
08/17/01
Top CriticRat Race is like being locked in a car trunk for two hours with a marching band playing the collected hits of Spike Jones.
08/17/01
Top CriticZucker, who's been dabbling in tearjerkers like Ghost for the past decade, is a little rusty.
08/17/01
Top CriticExpert comic performers and a broad script that avoids mean-spiritedness create surprising laughs.
08/17/01
Top CriticIf you don't think Hollywood movies have gone all soft in the head and heart, compare the sticky sweet ending of this with the finale to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
08/17/01
Top CriticTake a couple of laughs here, a couple of smirks there, and the conclusion is obvious: If ever there was a movie designed with the fast-forward button in mind, Rat Race is the one.
08/17/01
Top CriticTerminally dumb, noisy and tasteless, Rat Race is the quintessential big-studio August movie, one for the summer season's dumping ground.
08/17/01
Top CriticHollywood Squares remake of Mad World.
08/17/01
Top CriticThe sight gags are too few and far between and the characters, in varying degrees, all seem pale refugees from sitcomland.
08/17/01
Top CriticThere are no winners in Rat Race, only a lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles.
08/17/01
Top CriticRat Race chooses to rehash the worst aspect of Mad, Mad World, downgrading the experience from mindless to dreadful.
08/16/01
Top CriticZucker and Breckman get more than enough humor out of sharp set pieces and smartly scripted character clashes to sprint all the way to the finish line.
08/16/01
Top CriticWith alarmingly few exceptions ... nothing that occurs can remotely be construed as humorous.
08/16/01
Top CriticIs about as amusing as a Holocaust documentary.
08/16/01
Top CriticLatest 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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