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Summary: Very different.
Review: I actually laughed quite a bit at this movie...for the first hour it was really a gem. All of the characters are very charming and have interesting stories to facilitate the audience getting to know them. Very creative storyline, great delivery, great concepts interwoven into the stories of each. The Barbi museum was irreverent but hilarious...the boys getting a copy of their key was a riot, John Cleese was perfect, the brother with a tongue ring was TOO MUCH FUN! As for my complaints...I felt the Mr. Bean guy and the fat man from Seinfeld were just awful and boring, with the exception of one scene. Kathy Najimy was very underused. And the only other issue I have is the "big" ending. I didn't like that one bit, nor did I like the Sugermouth concert. They could have ended the film a good ten minutes earlier and I would have been a happy camper. But it' a very creative movie with good cinematography.
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Summary: A Hilariously Dumb Movie
Review: If you like movies that have depth to them, don't see this movie. But, if you are in the mood for a cute, hilarious movie, I recommend Rat Race. When I saw Rat Race, I was laughing every second because the movie was so silly. Rat Race has tons of strange and quirky twists, like a Jewish family stealing Hitler's car. Another reason that I liked Rat Race so much was the fact that it had a good ending. Sometimes, movies that have more than one main character end up with stupid endings (If you've seen Best in Show, you know what I mean!!) With Rat Race, the ending is very cute, and you would never guess how it was going to end ahead of time. So if you haven't seen Rat Race, go see it...right now!!
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Summary: Zany screwball comedy is a hit!
Review: The race is on in "Rat Race," the latest screwball comedy about a group of people given the chance to win two million dollars, depending on who arrives first. The setup is hokey and the jokes run from strained to laugh-out-loud funny, and when the final scene finishes, what you have is a good time at the movies that isn't the most satisfying of all comedies, but is no failure. The film starts out in Las Vegas, where eight people play eight different slot machines and each receive a gold coin as an invitation to a dinner hosted by hotel owner Donald Sinclair (John Cleese). There's the Cody brothers, Blaine (Vince Vieluf) and Duane (Seth Greene), mother/daughter duo Vera (Whoopi Goldberg) and Merrill (Lanei Chapman), play-it-safe Nick (Breckin Meyer), vacationing family dad Randy (Jon Lovitz), former football referree Owen (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), and quirky Enrico (Rowan Atkinson). They are given the offer, and off they go, racing to reach the jackpot before the others can beat them to it. It's a ridiculous setup, of course, but the the jokes are enough to keep the movie at a commendable comedic high rather than drown it in one-liners we've all heard before. There are moments that fail in tickling our funny bone, of course; no comedy is without them. Blaine recently pierced his own tongue, requiring that he speak awkwardly and without coherence at times. This is funny at first, but seems to get old when Duane must re-utter everything he says. But the moments that do work are pure gold, a treasure chest of slapstick gags and humorous jokes that are worth the price of admission. Goldberg and Chapman are a hit as the mother/daughter group who become sidetracked when they decline to purchase a squirrel from roadside vendor Kathy Bates, who guides them in the wrong direction, and off a cliff. Randy and his family are a complete knockout when they arrive at a Barbie museum, only to discover that it is run by Nazis who have ruined their van. In turn, they steal Adolf Hitler's car, and the results are side-splitting. Cuba Gooding, Jr. proves his worth in a comical film as Owen, who made a bad call in his last football game and keeps running into people who recognize him. His adventure lands him on a tour bus filled with Lucille Ball look-alikes on their way to an "I Love Lucy" convention. I was surprised most especially by how funny he can be; his mark as a great actor is his ability to play drama and comedy to perfection. The real stars of the show are Rowan Atkinson, who is delectably goofy and wired-up as Enrico. His bouts of narcolepsy cause him to come to sudden halts for long periods of sleep, while his miscomprehension of the English language hits home. When he hitches a ride with a medic transporting a vital donor organ for transplant, at all goes downhill for them, with wacky results. In closing, "Rat Race" is not a movie you pick apart for plot development and story coherence. It barely seems to matter, and if you try to look for them, you miss out on the laughs, the fun, and the comedy in one of the funniest films of the summer season.
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Summary: Funny Movie
Review: If you really want a good laugh, go to see Rat Race. This movie was great, it had me crying becuase I was laughing so hard.
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Summary: I Only Stopped Laughing Because My Throat Was Hurting
Review: I hadn't laughed this hard and this often in a movie theatre in a year. I have a feeling that this is a movie that will work much worse on the small screen so I recommend seeing it in a theatre. This film is extremely silly and extremely over the top and features a healthy range of types of humor. There is no leading star comic performance, there are few interesting characters to develop, just a terrific ensemble cast in a string of wildly hysterical occurrences that look incredibly stupid in commercials but play incredibly well in context. Even the gags that don't work are forgivable, even welcome, for allowing a brief respite from so much laughing. A refreshing comedy for its intelligence, imagination and its style. And it is good to see such fine comedic talents as Rowan Atkinson, Jon Lovitz, John Cleese and Jerry Zucker back and in such a successful effort. Particularly it is good to see a Zucker brother back and finally abandoning some of the purely nonsensical humor of the Airplane and Naked Gun films which had not been working throughout most of the '90s.
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Summary: worst movie of the year
Review: Went to see this movie with high hopes-what a disappointment! It was, without a doubt, one of the all time worst movies I have ever seen! Time magazine mentioned this movie in the same article as "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Talk about two opposite ends of the quality spectrum! I wouldn't even recommend watching this movie when it eventually comes to free TV!
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Summary: Funny, funny stuff
Review: This homage to "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World" is pretty funny, though a lot of the laughs were given away in the trailer and TV commercials. The DVD has some hilarious outtakes that are so funny you'll wonder why they were left out of the original movie. The film is definitely worth a look.
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Summary: A fantastic update of a classic
Review: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is my favorite movie, so I was very exciting when I heard of this version with updated themes and modes of transportation. The plot is basically the same: different groups of very diverse people are randomly selected in Las Vegas to participate in a no-holds-barred road race to get to 2 million dollars hidden in Silver City, NM. The whole way, they are being monitered without their knowledge by someone with his own innuendo. I was worried about Rat Race's ability to live up to the greatness of IAMMMMW, but it succeeded spectacularly, even improving on some things. For example, we spend just enough time with every contestant. By the end, we know all of them, and can predict fairly easily the kind of things they'll do. Also, unlike the original, you will never get lost the first time you see Rat Race. All the plots are very easy to follow. Some of the jokes are a long time coming, but the build-up is really what counts and the payoffs are definitely worth it. Check it out. You won't be dissapointed.
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Summary: FUNNIEST MOVIE IN A LONG TIME! VERY CREATIVE!
Review: This movie was incredible! I agree that the previews for it made it look like a movie not worth seeing, but never judge a book by its cover! The whole movie was hilarious! It is way funnier than any movie in theatres right now! The characters are great! The actors/acting is great! THE MOVIE IS 100% FUN! It's also so creative that it's very refreshing because so many new movies lately have had the same ol' themese to them with obvious results, but this one is actually original! If the movie doesn't do well in the theatres, it's ONLY BECAUSE OF THE COMMERCIALS! GO SEE IT AND LAUGH YOUR HEAD OFF!
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Summary: Rat Race is not so funny...
Review: With this cast of comedic actors, I thought this movie would be funny, but I was wrong. It had a few funny scenes, but the funniest were the ones you saw in the previews. The movie was just stupid, but I gave it three stars, because I didn't get bored; and some scenes were funny. The funniest was Rowan Atkinson, but he didn't have a big part. Seth Green, his friend, Brekin Meyer, Amy Smart, and Whoopi Goldberg were funny in some scenes. If you are bored and have seen everything else out there and don't want to see a movie you've seen twice, than see "Rat Race", otherwise wait to video or dvd.
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