The easygoing silliness with which this late-summer movie surprise scuttles from mayhem to mayhem and the verve with which the cast throws itself into the fray are so cheering and liberating.Read Full Review »
80
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Even though this will not go down as a great Zucker comedy, he has made Rat Race funnier than it could reasonably hope to be.Read Full Review »
80
Time: Richard Schickel
It's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Rita Kempley
And even though the jokes keep on coming, not all are side-splitters. But before it's all over, they will have viewers howling at one or more pants-wettingly silly moments.Read Full Review »
70
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Atkinson, somehow managing to be simultaneously delicate and broad, can do things with his face that shouldn't be legal. His delighted and delightful Mr. Pollini is a little taste of comic genius.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Jay Carr
A strong ending might have obscured the mediocrity in the writing, or at least diverted us, but the ending is sentimental where it needed to be hard-edged and comically merciless. For a film about people hurtling forward, Rat Race is pretty pedestrian.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Susan Wloszczyna
Hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.Read Full Review »
40
Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Zucker's frenzied trifle is painless, with a few decent running gags -- and an ocean of bad ones.Read Full Review »
20
The New York Times: A.O. Scott
It lumbers from one scene to the next with the stop-and-start mistiming generally seen in the outtakes shown at the end of the "Cannonball Run" movies, which this picture resembles in spirit.Read Full Review »
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