Rat Race

Pros: There isn't a single pro in the movie
Cons: Everything, but most of all the movie isn't funny.

The movie Rat Race has had a surprisingly large amount of hype attached to it this past week. Why shouldn’t it, there are some pretty respected actors in this film. A lot of big names are in this movie such as: Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, John...

Pros: A couple scenes made me laugh
Cons: Poor character development and stupid climax

This is one movie I was sorry to miss when it first came out. I am a huge fan of the 60's classic comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and this movie was obviously a modern day reworking of the classic. Couple that with the all star cast, and ...

Pros: Great cast for this ensemble comedy.
Cons: Weak in plot development.

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Remember movies that opened with great title sequences? Pink Panther films? 007? If you go to the theater to see Rat Race, don't miss the opening titles. Nuff said? I don't want to spoil them, but...

Pros: Some highly inventive comic situations.
Cons: Some poor casting choices. A cop-out feel-good ending.

My next gig in my summer long concert tour was, of course, my appearance at the annual 'Hip Hop' awards that all my fans have long been looking forward to. Something named Death Row records sent the corporate jet to Dallas to pick me up along with a...

Pros: Close to being a classic slapstick comedy
Cons: If you like Atkinson, don't read the following review

Most film buffs will forever remember Jerry Zucker for his excellent direction in the film, Airplane!. This film redefined the slapstick comedy genre and helped pave the way for other slapstick comedy performers/directors/writers to return on the...

Pros: Great cast, some really funny gags
Cons: every part Cuba Gooding, Jr was in (and I like him!)

Rat Race is sort of a retelling of the classic comedy It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. It features a cast full of comedians , some of whom you've seen before and some new faces, and is about a race for money. This group of people is chosen at random...

Pros: John Cleese and his betting cronies steal all the laughs.
Cons: "Hey look, it's Smashmouth!" Gimme a break.

Since this is a comedy directed by one-third of the team responsible for the finest American comedy of the modern era (that's Airplane!, of course), you might expect this to be a fast-paced, laugh-a-minute marathon of humor. You'd be wrong....

Pros: Some Funny Moments
Cons: Plot, Not Paced Well, Ending

I remember my recent trip to Vegas and would like to go again, I just hope that I don't have an experience like the characters in this movie. We recently rented this movie and got a few laughs out of it, but overall found it boring and were disappointed...

Pros: A few funny moments seep in...
Cons: but this is mostly a cheap farce with tasteless jokes.

In Rat Race, several characters (played by the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Breckin Myer, Amy Smart, Jon Lovitz, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Rowan Atkinson and Seth Green, to name a few) end up racing to Silver City, NM, to see who will be the first to...

Pros: Plenty of physical comedy, pratfalls, slapstick and silliness
Cons: The schtick runs thin very quickly

Like Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963), this silly screwball comedy has a simple premise. Six unsuspecting people, along with their partners, are entered in a bizarre "human rat race" devised by an eccentric Las Vegas casino...

Pros: Cuba Gooding Jr., Whoopi Goldberg
Cons: Tends to be a little drawn out.

I seem to be one of the few people who enjoyed the movie "Rat Race." I had heard some negative things about the movie including some from fellow epinioners, but decided to give it a try anyway. My friend and I usually see at least one movie on the...

Pros: Some hilarious humor.
Cons: Some board in the crotch humor, the ending is a cop-out.

Rat Race is one movie that comes with its funny pedigree intact. Consider:

1: It's from the creators of Airplane
2: It stars former SNL and Monty Python casts members as well as well-established comedic actors.

So when you put...

Pros: some great stars in the movie,good laughs
Cons: a few awkward moments.

Rat Race is the first comedy I've seen in a long time that hits the right 'funny spot' in all the right places. Comparitively Speaking ---------------------- Compared to the last few comedies I've seen,which include *'Me,Myself and Irene' ...

Pros: I laughed five times.
Cons: Five times wasn't enough.

There's probably some movies I just don't get. This is one of them. I remember when upon the release of Rat Race, one reviewer said it could quite possibly be "the funniest movie of all time." If your film even gets ONE serious label like that, ...

Pros: Some very funny moments.
Cons: Some very lame moments.

“Rat Race” enters theaters with a promise. All director Jerry Zucker wants to do is make us laugh. The director of such films as “Airplane” and Hot Pursuit” has set out to do another madcap comedy may be an anti-intellectual but we still love him. His...