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Summary: This movie is great!
Review: A great chase movie, Reynolds and DeLuise make a great combo. The cars in this flick are nasty fast, and the 2 chicks in the Lamborghini Countach make the movie...especially the opening chase scene.
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Summary: Absolutely Brilliant
Review: This film is for the people who love cars, love a cast which brings together all the stars of the twentieth century (minus the one in the 90s), love to have a good laugh at silly things. It will have you laughing for days. You will adore the character who are all crazy in their own special way. It is silly but brilliantly so. It is definitely a classic which I have watched about 300 hundred times.
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Summary: Hilarious & Horrible all in the same movie
Review: From a comedy standpoint, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, SammyDavis Jr. and Dean Martin are incredible. From the same perspective Farrah Fawcett and the whole "AJ Foyt" aspect are horrible. Definitely a cult classic however!!
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Summary: REYNOLDS & DELUISE TAKE PART IN A RACE FROM CT TO CA
Review: BURT REYNOLDS AND DOM DELUISE ARE BOTH PARTNERS IN AN ALL STOPS OUT NO SPEED LIMIT AND HIGHLY ILLEGAL RACE FROM CONNECTICUT TO CALIFORNIA. IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WITH OUT GETTING BUSTED THEY "BORROW" AN AMBULANCE TO USE AS THEIR RACE VEHICLE. GUEST STARS INCLUDE SAMMY DAVIS JR., ROGER MOORE, AND JIMMY "THE GREEK" SNYDER.
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Summary: CAN'T COMPARE WITH "The Gumball Rally".
Review: I bought this movie on DVD because it was on sale and "The Gumball Rally" DVD was no where in sight (because it's not on DVD). I have never seen this movie until now but having watched I would happily take my $8.00 back if offered.The best part of the movie is the opening session, one sleek black Lamborghini tearing up the road. The rest is ridiculous and corny. More emphasis should have been placed on the cars rather than the actors, actresses, and corny stuff. "The Gumball Rally" did a better job with two lovely cars and serious acting mixed with just the right amount of comedy; not corny and ridiculous antics. Scenes of beautiful actresses in this movie are nice but who needs it if there are beautiful cars and who wants to see an ambulance go cross country, that killed me. Buy "The Gumball Rally" instead if it ever comes out on DVD. If you still have a (soon to be antique) VHS player then your lucky and can buy it now. If you really want this movie though buy my copy for four bucks so I can take back 50% of my loss. It's only been used once and I won't use it again.
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Summary: Fast paced and funny from sea to shining sea.
Review: In this first movie to actually carry the word "Cannonball" in the title, was penned by the genius of Brock Yates, who in 1971, organized and raced in the first "Cannonball Run." Burt Reynolds in his comedic element as "J.J. McClure" who decides to make this trip to California in the guise of an ambulance driver. At his side, is Dom DeLuise who occasionally drifts out of reality when the going gets tough into a self-contrived super hero named "Captain Chaos." Other stars joining in the challenge are Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, driving a Ferrari dressed as priests. Adrienne Barbeau and Tara Buckman provide some stimulating appearances as Marcy and Jill in a Lamborhini that looks somewhat like Darth Vaders personal space ship. There's an hillarious fight scene towards the end of the film featuring Peter Fonda and Jackie Chan that will keep you smiling for days. Even after twenty years, still wonderfully refreshing and entertaining. Don't miss it. :)
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Summary: A blast from the past
Review: This is one of those wacky 70's movies with an all-star cast that became almost a staple of the time. With Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluise, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Jack Elam in the starring roles, it served up some very funny comedy that I was surprised to find still holds up today. There are so many stars from previous years and decades in the movie that it's almost like they're getting together for one last silver screen reunion before retiring to rest on their laurels. The fact that the movie is one big farce and they probably didn't take it that seriously, either, probably helped, since it looks like everyone is having an uproariously good time while doing it. Some of the antics date the movie a bit, but still, it's all in good fun, and apparently the movie is based on real races that were popular at the time, although highly illegal.
I was pleased to see Elam get considerable screen time here. He was a real trooper who served tirelessly in supporting roles all his life and was always a class act even when he was a disreptuable bad guy (which he was most of the time). I remember Jack Elam most from the opening scene at the train station in Once Upon a Time in the West, but here he gets probably his funniest role as a wayward proctologist who's always brandishing his middle finger, causing the other actors to back away in fear, which was always good for a laugh. In the Once Upon a Time scene, I read that they smeared watermellon juice on his face to get the flies buzzing around his head to do that scene. His famous wall-eyed visage only made the doctor role funnier. Deluise, "the fat man who make everyone feel good," also gets one of his funniest parts. All in all, still a fun movie sporting many of the most famous shining lights of previous Hollywood decades.
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Summary: What it would look like if Ed Wood made a car chase movie
Review: It would be one thing if Cannonball Run was just a crappy movie made by actors who seem to forget they are on camera but this movie inflicts the greatest sin in that it has a complete lack of respect for it viewers. From phony car chase scenes where the action is sped up and quick turns are made over the top of 50 pre-existing sets of black rubber on the highway to the ridiculous improv mugging of Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise who seem to think that because they make each other laugh that they are actually funny this movie seems to say "You are stupid enough to have paid to see this crapball that we are going to refuse to put any effort into entertaining you." If your idea of humor is DeLuise morphing into a fat superhero cleverly referred to as Captain Chaos, or Him and characters who not only drive drunk but actually flaunt their cocktails/beer when pulled over by police then you will pee your pants with glee when watching this movie. It's difficult to determine who phones in the worst acting performance in Cannonball Run: Farrah Fawcett who seems to be under the influence of bus fumes throughout; Burt Reynolds whose lack of self-awareness is almost frightening; Dom DeLuise who apparently didn't realize the camera was rolling in his scenes; Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr. who pass off their drunken rat pack stage antics as acting or Adrienne Barbeau who flashes her prodigious bosoms to every cracker state trooper in the country. It's difficult to decide what element of crapness is the most frustrating: The fact that no matter where in the country the action is supposed to be taking place it looks like Barstow; the car chase that conveniently supplies a ramp to jump the train (which conveniently has a long row of flatbed cars just as the truck approaches the ramp) or the seemingly endless number of scenes where one of the "racers" has been pulled over by the (usually dimwitted and incompetent) local authorities. Like "Plan 9 From Outer Space", Cannonball Run has that slapped together in 4 days of shooting feel. As though Hal Needham was oblivious to what was happening and just shouting "Print it." My favorite example is the scene where Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise land a plane in a small town's downtown area. Barricades and crowds just happen to already exist as the plane lands. When the plane takes off check out the left side of the shot as a cameraman is obviously apparent standing on a stairway. To sum up, this movie really irks me with its complete lack of regard to everything moviemaking stands for. And writer Brock Yates has tried to divorce himself from this movie claiming that it was taken in a different direction than he has intended. C'mon Brock, the scenes where you appear at the beginning of the race would seem to indicate you were "acting" of your own accord (no pun intended.) So spare yourself the time of buying this stinkbomb and just flush a $10 bill down the toilet instead.
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Summary: Do not buy this
Review: The movie is good, however we cannot watch it because we hate the widescreen format. Nowhere in the description and product details does it say that it is widescreen. We looked.
What is it with the companies putting out only widescreen. Give us fullscreen! At least have both so that customers can choose.
The movie is good but the format sucks. Because of the widescreen, we give it 1 star. We recommend that you do not purchase this item until it is available in the fullscreen format.
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Summary: CAN'T COMPARE WITH "The Gumball Rally".
Review: I bought this movie on DVD because it was on sale and "The Gumball Rally" DVD was no where in sight (because it's not on DVD). I have never seen this movie until now but having watched I would happily take my $8.00 back if offered. The best part of the movie is the opening session, one sleek black Lamborghini tearing up the road. The rest is ridiculous and corny. More emphasis should have been placed on the cars rather than the actors, actresses, and corny stuff. "The Gumball Rally" did a better job with two lovely cars and serious acting mixed with just the right amount of comedy; not corny and ridiculous antics. Scenes of beautiful actresses in this movie are nice but who needs it if there are beautiful cars and who wants to see an ambulance go cross country, that killed me. Buy "The Gumball Rally" instead if it ever comes out on DVD. If you still have a (soon to be antique) VHS player then your lucky and can buy it now. If you really want this movie though buy my copy for four bucks so I can take back 50% of my loss. It's only been used once and I won't use it again.
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