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Modeled after 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jerry Zucker's Rat Race lacks the irreverence of Zucker's 1980 hit Airplane! but has enough chuckles to make it an agreeable time-killer. Like Mad, Mad, Mad..., it employs a huge ensemble of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an eccentric hotelier (pearly-toothed John Cleese) to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico for a $2 million jackpot. With a backstage gambling subplot, Rowan Atkinson's Italian-geek lunacy, Seth Green's slacker antics, and some nicely understated work from SCTV alumnus Dave Thomas, the movie has almost as many highlights as clunkers, and Zucker's embrace of easy gags and traditional slapstick will tickle anyone's old-fashioned funny bone. Other ingredients are hopelessly stale: Whoopi Goldberg's frantic mugging, Cuba Gooding's latter-day Stepin Fetchit, "mature" humor that compromises the movie's broad appeal, and the assumption that crashing vehicles are inherently hilarious. Lamentable decisions, perhaps, but Rat Race maintains a pleasantly altruistic spirit. --Jeff Shannon
Yes. I have been told that I'm crazy because I say that "Rat Race" is one of the funniest movies ever made. Nonstop laughs! I never stopped laughing until the end of the movie! An allstar cast of both funny comedians and serious actors and actresses powers this movie to number three on my all-time list for comedy films (behind "Dumb & Dumber" and "Me, Myself, & Irene.")
Among The Best Comedies Of The 2000s
In "The Rat Race", a group of randomly selected people from a Las Vegas hotel/casino are summoned into the office of the manager (played by the inimitable John Cleese), who, looking for a new form of entertainment and wagering for himself and his high rollers, has come up with the idea of putting a couple million dollars in a locker on the other side of the country, informing the randomly chosen players of it, and setting them loose with the incentive of whoever arrives there first gets the loot. Cleese and friends proceed to watch via numerous mini cameras, bet on who'll win out and marvel at the lengths their contestants will go to to reach the jackpot.
What may sound like a slightly mean-spirited but funny premise actually turns out to be a good-spirited and funny movie, with an adventurous, playful and often delightfuly absurb flow of events. At times it even approaches the greatness of Cleese classics like "A Fish Called Wanda", "Fierce Creatures" and the BBC's legendary "Fawlty Towers". The characters come alive, mesh with each other and the plot perfectly, and give uniformly great performances. Admittedly, it could have benefitted from more screen time for Cleese himself but the stars with the screen time make up for it, playing their roles wonderfully. Some priceless comedic moments, and I don't believe I've ever heard the famous "Mountain King" excerpt from Grieg's "Peer Gynt" used to score quite such a wonderfully preposterous scene as it does here.
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This movie is great. It's funny (silly funny), entertaining and genius. It is a loose remake of It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, but with a fantastic cast, it seems fresh for younger viewers. Whoopie Goldberg is hilarious, as is Jon Lovitz who I absolutely adore. He is beyond funny. Sure he provides a bit of tasteless humour (a few Nazi jokes), but generally he is near his best. Seth Green is good and you'll know all the rest. If you want a light movie where there isn't much need for major concentration, and you want a good laugh or three, then watch this. It's very good. I highly recommend this.
Stanley Kramer's sprawling 1963 comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people--all played by well-known entertainers of their day--is the kind of mass comedy that Hollywood hasn't made in many years. (Another example from around the same time is Blake Edwards's The Great Race.) After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by a suspicious cop (Spencer Tracy). The ensuing two and a half hours of mayhem has its ups and downs--some bits and performers are certainly funnier than others. But Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema (Guess... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Stanley Kramer DVD Release Date: Released the 07 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Mr. Bean meets Mr. Bond in Johnny English, a spy spoof that skewers the genre with Rowan Atkinson's trademark brand of veddy-British slapstick. It's a bit half-baked as a wannabe franchise, but Atkinson's creation of a new screen persona is just promising enough to warrant a sequel, despite critics' complaints that Austin Powers had already exhausted the spy-spoof's potential. Poppycock! Atkinson's gift for physical and, in this case, even verbal humor will surely please his devoted fans, even when a rather tepidly comedic screenplay prevents the British funnyman from reaching new heights of absurdity. As bumbling superspy Johnny English, who gains top-level MI-7 clearance after inadvertently causing a colleague's demise, Atkinson breathes life into gags that are too... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Rowan Atkinson - Natalie Imbruglia - John Malkovich Director(s): Peter Howitt (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 6 to 8 days
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Road Trip is a mostly agreeable, by-the-numbers teen flick with a handful of inspired sequences, most of them involving MTV's resident disturbed soul, Tom Green. It concerns a sleepy University of Ithaca student named Josh (Breckin Meyer) who accidentally mails a video of his sexual encounter with an infatuation (Amy Smart) to his longtime girlfriend (Rachel Blanchard), who's seemingly avoiding him while at school in Austin, Texas. Naturally, he recruits some buddies--Seann William Scott as the lech, D.J. Qualls as the hopeless nerd, and Paulo Costanzo as the doper genius--to hit the open highway and intercept the package. Even more naturally, mayhem ensues: A car explodes, a bus is stolen, a nerd is deflowered, French toast is horribly violated, and an elderly man... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Breckin Meyer - Seann William Scott - Amy Smart - Paulo Costanzo - DJ Qualls Director(s): Todd Phillips DVD Release Date: Released the 19 December 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Charge your micro-mini cell phones and whip up some orange mocha Frappuccino, 'cuz Zoolander is on the runway, and you're gonna laugh your booty off! Based on a sketch created by writer-director Ben Stiller and cowriter Drake Sather for the 1996 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, Zoolander is a delirious send-up of New York's fashion scene as epitomized by male model Derek Zoolander (Stiller), a dimwitted preener who's oblivious to a Manchurian Candidate-like plot to turn him into a brainwashed assassin. Tipped off by a reporter (Christina Taylor), Zoolander teams with rival model Hansel (Owen Wilson) to foil the poodle-haired fashion designer (Will Ferrell) who's behind the nefarious scheme. The goofy plot's only half the fun; with roles for Stiller's parents (Jerry Stiller... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Owen Wilson DVD Release Date: Released the 12 March 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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To honor a childhood oath, three friends (Seth Green from Austin Powers and Party Monster, Matthew Lillard from SLC Punk and Scooby Doo, and newcomer Dax Shepard) head into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure. After grappling with a bear, whitewater rapids, backwoods psychopaths, beautiful eco-terrorists, homophobia, and a very hairy Burt Reynolds, the boys face their fears and learn valuable life lessons about treasuring friendship and stuff. Dude, it's totally, like, Deliverance for the Gen-Y slacker set! Admittedly, it falls a bit short as a meditation on masculinity, but teen audiences will find plenty to enjoy. The interplay among Green, Lillard, and Shepard has a rambunctious enthusiasm that overcomes the predictability of the script.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dax Shepard - Matthew Lillard - Seth Green Director(s): Steven Brill DVD Release Date: Released the 11 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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