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100The funniest film to come along since "South Park," and one that succeeds in a more difficult and satisfying way.
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90Inspired, elaborately plotted, and unusually satisfying variable-speed chase comedy.
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88The movie is over in a breezy 112 minutes, but it may be another half-hour before your sides quit aching.
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83The 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.
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80An outrageously silly movie that makes me laugh.
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80It'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.
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80Even though this will not go down as a great Zucker comedy, he has made Rat Race funnier than it could reasonably hope to be.
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75The movie is so cheerfully, furiously relentless, its contagious silliness wears you down.
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75Rat Race isn't a stupid movie -- it's an aggressively stupid movie that journeys into realms of absurdity that are, well, aggressively funny.
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70The good news is that this off-the-wall ensemble comedy may just be the summer's happiest surprise.
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70Atkinson, 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.
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70And 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.
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63A 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.
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50Zucker gives the movie an ebullient spirit, but he also keeps everything at the same loud pitch throughout.
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50A cheesy affair with no big winners. Especially the audience.
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50Hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.
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42A sad, sad, sad, sad rip-off.
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40For every inspired bit -- Templeton playing chauffeur to 40 I Love Lucy-era Lucille Ball impersonators -- there's one that falls spectacularly flat.
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40Zucker's frenzied trifle is painless, with a few decent running gags -- and an ocean of bad ones.
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38Despite these flaws, people sick of gross-out films and teen-sex comedy may be so hungry for farce that they laugh.
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20Overheated, underdone farce. Race for the exit.
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20It 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.
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20A lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles.
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20This 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.
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12Somnambulistic pacing, kerplunkingly unfunny jokes, and mugging thespians making fools of themselves. Truly torturous spectacle.
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10There'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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andrewr10"Should have bought a squirrel" This movie is awsome!
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AlexH0How do people think this movie is good? Rat Race is a horrible, annoying, and unfunny movie that should've never been made.