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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792174974
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792174976
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 4419
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The laughs roll from start to finish when a group of crazed contestants compete for $2 million in a no-rules winner-takes-all race. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: Rowan Atkinson Whoopi Goldberg Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jerry Zucker
Amazon.com:
Modeled after 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jerry Zucker's Rat Race lacks the irreverence of Zucker's 1980 hit Airplane! but has enough chuckles to make it an agreeable time-killer. Like Mad, Mad, Mad..., it employs a huge ensemble of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an eccentric hotelier (pearly-toothed John Cleese) to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico for a $2 million jackpot. With a backstage gambling subplot, Rowan Atkinson's Italian-geek lunacy, Seth Green's slacker antics, and some nicely understated work from SCTV alumnus Dave Thomas, the movie has almost as many highlights as clunkers, and Zucker's embrace of easy gags and traditional slapstick will tickle anyone's old-fashioned funny bone. Other ingredients are hopelessly stale: Whoopi Goldberg's frantic mugging, Cuba Gooding's latter-day Stepin Fetchit, 'mature' humor that compromises the movie's broad appeal, and the assumption that crashing vehicles are inherently hilarious. Lamentable decisions, perhaps, but Rat Race maintains a pleasantly altruistic spirit. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "It's a Race, It's a Race ... Zzzzzzzzzzzz"
This is one of those movies that I have seen about a dozen or so times. When I saw it in the movie theater, I nearly busted a gut. It's the kind of humor I love, real slapstick, in the genre of movies like "Airplane" or "Vacation". Completely goofy and entertaining with a fun cast who really pull off a very entertaining movie.
I owned Rat Race in VHS and am now in the process of replacing it on DVD. There are not many movies I have replaced in this manner -- but this one is just ... Read More
Rating: - Love this movie!
I thought it would be just a remake of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", but it is hilarious! Kathy Bates' uncredited cameo as the Squirrel Lady is not to be missed.
Rating: - A race worth running...
I've seen `It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' and loved it, so I was setting myself up for disappointment with `Rat Race'; Zucker's 2001 comedy which drew immense inspiration from the later, but what I found was a delightful comedy that surpassed my expectations and can stand on it's own, apart from the original. Sure, there are some drawbacks, but to me those drawbacks are few and far-in-between.
The film revolves around a random group of people who are given the chance to win two ... Read More
Rating: - Hilarious!
All star cast. Youth and adults alike will enjoy the humor. Very funny!
Rating:  - A modern version of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
It is boring to be rich. It must be, because the ultra-rich spend their time sitting around and placing bets on bizarre things: how long the serving staff can hold on to the curtain rod before letting go, how much a call girl will charge for participating in a bizarre bath, who will throw up first, and last, in a rocking Lear jet, and... the point of this slap-stick movie... which of a handful of "ordinary" people can make the trip to New Mexico from Las Vegas first and collect the $2 million waiting ... Read More
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