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73
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72
Roman de gare
72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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69
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68
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67
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67
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67
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66
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66
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65
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
Girls Rock!
59
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59
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58
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
Pathology
55
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54
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52
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52
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47
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47
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44
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37
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35
Meet Bill
35
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32
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32
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30
Cover
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20
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Rat Race
Paramount Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual references, crude humor, partial nudity and language
Starring
Whoopi Goldberg,
John Cleese,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Rowan Atkinson,
Jon Lovitz,
and
Kathy Najimy
An irreverent look at the outrageous lengths people will go for the chance to win two million dollars.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Andy Breckman
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jerry Zucker
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 29, 2002
Video: January 29, 2002
Theatrical: August 17, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
112 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The funniest film to come along since "South Park," and one that succeeds in a more difficult and satisfying way.

90
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Inspired, elaborately plotted, and unusually satisfying variable-speed chase comedy.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The movie is over in a breezy 112 minutes, but it may be another half-hour before your sides quit aching.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The easygoing silliness with which this late-summer movie surprise scuttles from mayhem to mayhem and the verve with which the cast throws itself into the fray are so cheering and liberating.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Even though this will not go down as a great Zucker comedy, he has made Rat Race funnier than it could reasonably hope to be.

80
Time
Richard Schickel
It's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote.
80
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
An outrageously silly movie that makes me laugh.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The movie is so cheerfully, furiously relentless, its contagious silliness wears you down.

75
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Rat Race isn't a stupid movie -- it's an aggressively stupid movie that journeys into realms of absurdity that are, well, aggressively funny.

70
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
And even though the jokes keep on coming, not all are side-splitters. But before it's all over, they will have viewers howling at one or more pants-wettingly silly moments.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Atkinson, somehow managing to be simultaneously delicate and broad, can do things with his face that shouldn't be legal. His delighted and delightful Mr. Pollini is a little taste of comic genius.

70
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
The good news is that this off-the-wall ensemble comedy may just be the summer's happiest surprise.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A strong ending might have obscured the mediocrity in the writing, or at least diverted us, but the ending is sentimental where it needed to be hard-edged and comically merciless. For a film about people hurtling forward, Rat Race is pretty pedestrian.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A cheesy affair with no big winners. Especially the audience.

50
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Zucker gives the movie an ebullient spirit, but he also keeps everything at the same loud pitch throughout.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A sad, sad, sad, sad rip-off.

40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
For every inspired bit -- Templeton playing chauffeur to 40 I Love Lucy-era Lucille Ball impersonators -- there's one that falls spectacularly flat.

40
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Zucker's frenzied trifle is painless, with a few decent running gags -- and an ocean of bad ones.

38
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Despite these flaws, people sick of gross-out films and teen-sex comedy may be so hungry for farce that they laugh.

20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Overheated, underdone farce. Race for the exit.

20
Variety
Robert Koehler
A lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles.

20
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This ripoff, directed by Jerry Zucker, has a few funny moments, but it's a sad sad sad sad example of what Hollywood is currently serving up -- and what audiences are swallowing -- as summer entertainment.
20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
It lumbers from one scene to the next with the stop-and-start mistiming generally seen in the outtakes shown at the end of the "Cannonball Run" movies, which this picture resembles in spirit.

12
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Somnambulistic pacing, kerplunkingly unfunny jokes, and mugging thespians making fools of themselves. Truly torturous spectacle.

10
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
There's nothing more enervating than a stupid film with only random, and perhaps accidental, flashes of smarts; the rare prescient moments only serve to highlight how banal and vacant the rest of the movie is, especially when it stoops to conquer the gross-out market bled dry by the Farrelly Brothers and their myriad acolytes.


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