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| Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 19, 1981 |
Starring:
Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore
Summary:
A motley crew of eccentric competitors participate in a frenetic and illegal cross-country road race. However, the entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.
The highway is alive with the sound of a loud musical score, spectacular car crashes, pursuits, sudden breakdowns and jokes, practical and impractical. Some of it is ingenious, and all of it is breathless...The Cannonball Run is inoffensive and sometimes funny. Because there are only a limited number of variations that can be worked out on this same old highway race, don't bother to see it unless you're already hooked on the genre.
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Criticizing it is like spitting in the wind, but at the risk of sounding like the spoilsport villain of the piece (a snippety liberal Washington bureaucrat, wouldn't you know), there's a smug, bully-boy spirit underneath this supposedly merry romp. The message is Go for It, and the theme song tells us 'Youv'e gotta have a dream to, make a dream come true," but what have our dreams come to? Breaking the 55-mph speed limit? In this movie, paradise is being able to land a Piper Cubin a busy city street to pick up another six-pack. Unfettered individualism has come to this: drive hard and carry a big Schlitz. [13 July 1981, p.81]
Farrah Fawcett offers to this corrupt "entertainment" a small measure of
the fresh innocence Marilyn Monroe used to bring to her movies; watching
her work under these circumstances is like watching a maiden being thrown
to Moloch. [22 June 1981]
Content to pick up where the skid marks from "Smokey and the Bandit II" left off, The Cannonball Run quickly establishes itself as an aggressive shambles, the latest exercise in amateurism from facetious professionals. [20 June 1981, p.B1]
Jul 23, 2021
Classic.
Old school, action b-movie, fast and furious should bow before this.
Fast cars, comedy, gorgeous girls, a little surreal.
I watched it times and times again on tv..ages ago...still funny today but there is a little nostalgia factor...so if 'u new to this movie lower the vote a notch
Old school, action b-movie, fast and furious should bow before this.
Fast cars, comedy, gorgeous girls, a little surreal.
I watched it times and times again on tv..ages ago...still funny today but there is a little nostalgia factor...so if 'u new to this movie lower the vote a notch
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Nov 15, 2020
From the times when you still could have fun. Gone for good sadly,as are most of the stars..
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