Rat Race (2001) Critic Reviews

The funniest film to come along since "South Park," and one that succeeds in a more difficult and satisfying way.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

Hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear.Read the full review

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 the full review

Overheated, underdone farce. Race for the exit.Read the full review