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 enlarge | Director: Jerry Zucker
Actors: Breckin Meyer, Jenica Bergere, Cuba Gooding Jr., Carrie Diamond, Douglas Haase
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  295 reviews
Sales Rank: 5057
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: PARD336844D
ISBN: 0792174976
UPC: 097363368441
EAN: 9780792174974
ASIN: B00005RYLX
Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 2001
Release Date: January 29, 2002
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Money+Race=Hilarious Movie! January 28, 2006
E. Sudzina (Ohio United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
When people ask me what I think are some of the funniest movies ever made, Rate Race inevitably goes on my list. A wide arrange of characters and predicaments highlight this movie where teams of people try to get to a cash prize a wealthy entrepeneur has hidden in a locker somewhere. He does this as a betting competition for other wealthy entrepeneurs and bussinessmen alike. Everyone wishes they have more money than they actually do, just like the characters in the movie and sometimes people do anything, and I mean anything, they can to get it. It is just human nature. In this movie human nature is hilarious.
 Exciting January 1, 2006
Oswald Muerner (Bern, Schweiz)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Entertaining comedy with Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart and others. A group of gamblers is animated by the casino owner Sinclair for a race to New Mexico. They use crazy means of transport including rental cars, taxis, helicopter, busses, Adolf Hitler's Mercedes, a horse, a train and a rocket car. Also starring Rowan Atkinson, Whoopie Goldberg and John Cleese.
Laugh Until You Cry Humor! November 20, 2005
Jordans11 (Washington State, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rat Race is my favorite movie of all time. I have seen it about 40 times, and each time I still howl with laughter. The cast is excellent as the film includes John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean), and John Lovitz. Everyone involved delivered a great and very funny performance, but none more than Lovitz. He brings the "stupid humor" element from his SNL comedic influences. Atkinson is almost the same as his Mr. Bean character, but is even more funny in Rat Race. All around through, everyone was funny.
The only thing I would change about this movie is the ending. I think it serves its purpose, but doesn't do the film any real justice. Rat Race is modern version of the old film "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World", which was memorable partly because its ending was very funny. Rat Race doesn't end with a big enough bang, but it still satifies.
Despite this, Rat Race shines. It is a complete out of the park home run for Jerry Zucker and is even better than his early classics like Airplane and The Naked Gun. If you want to laugh so hard that you actually start crying, this is the movie you are looking for.
I've been told that I'm crazy September 25, 2005
Brocko (Somewhere Beneath Minnesota)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yes. I have been told that I'm crazy because I say that "Rat Race" is one of the funniest movies ever made. Nonstop laughs! I never stopped laughing until the end of the movie! An allstar cast of both funny comedians and serious actors and actresses powers this movie to number three on my all-time list for comedy films (behind "Dumb & Dumber" and "Me, Myself, & Irene.")
Among The Best Comedies Of The 2000s September 19, 2005
Stephen B. O'Blenis (Nova Scotia, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In "The Rat Race", a group of randomly selected people from a Las Vegas hotel/casino are summoned into the office of the manager (played by the inimitable John Cleese), who, looking for a new form of entertainment and wagering for himself and his high rollers, has come up with the idea of putting a couple million dollars in a locker on the other side of the country, informing the randomly chosen players of it, and setting them loose with the incentive of whoever arrives there first gets the loot. Cleese and friends proceed to watch via numerous mini cameras, bet on who'll win out and marvel at the lengths their contestants will go to to reach the jackpot.
What may sound like a slightly mean-spirited but funny premise actually turns out to be a good-spirited and funny movie, with an adventurous, playful and often delightfuly absurb flow of events. At times it even approaches the greatness of Cleese classics like "A Fish Called Wanda", "Fierce Creatures" and the BBC's legendary "Fawlty Towers". The characters come alive, mesh with each other and the plot perfectly, and give uniformly great performances. Admittedly, it could have benefitted from more screen time for Cleese himself but the stars with the screen time make up for it, playing their roles wonderfully. Some priceless comedic moments, and I don't believe I've ever heard the famous "Mountain King" excerpt from Grieg's "Peer Gynt" used to score quite such a wonderfully preposterous scene as it does here.
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