Ruthlessly dumb people--but funny, too.
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Rat Race (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 52
Rotten:70
Average Rating: 4.9/10
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 film features wild chase scenes, slapstick... [More]
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jon Lovitz, John Cleese
Director: Jerry Zucker
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Manic, messy, and for the most part silly, this road comedy marks Zucker's bumpy return to the genre after a number of equally bumpy dramas such as First Knight.
11/01/06
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06/24/06
... the only real surprise is how genuinely dreadful a movie that aims only for pleasant, profitable mediocrity can be.
01/29/05
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12/15/03
Some great moments, but with the talent on offer, this film should have broken ribs.
04/08/03
It goes on, and on, and on for 113 minutes, which is way past any reasonable person's limit for this sort of thing.
10/21/02
Zucker instinctively knows how far to push the crude and uncouth, and when to retreat into the merely goofy.
09/03/02
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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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