Rat Race 2001

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: That so much energy and talent could be squandered on such idiocy says loads about the state of Hollywood today. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Hollywood Squares remake of Mad World. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie is so cheerfully, furiously relentless, its contagious silliness wears you down. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: A few gags are too inspired for Rat Race to be lumped in with the recent spate of wretched comedies. But it also includes too many broad, shrill and gratuitously vulgar moments to be defended without apologies. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Is about as amusing as a Holocaust documentary. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's a mad mad mad mad world, all right, and Rat Race makes it seem all the zanier. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Rat Race chooses to rehash the worst aspect of Mad, Mad World, downgrading the experience from mindless to dreadful. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Rat Race is like being locked in a car trunk for two hours with a marching band playing the collected hits of Spike Jones. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Rat Race is much funnier than most comedies currently in release -- compared with American Pie 2 ... But ultimately it falls just short of the finish line. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's a bad, bad, bad, bad movie. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Expert comic performers and a broad script that avoids mean-spiritedness create surprising laughs. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: This thing's a gas. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Take a couple of laughs here, a couple of smirks there, and the conclusion is obvious: If ever there was a movie designed with the fast-forward button in mind, Rat Race is the one. Read more

Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: If you don't think Hollywood movies have gone all soft in the head and heart, compare the sticky sweet ending of this with the finale to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A mixed bag that's a perfect fit for this summer of mediocrity. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The funniest film to come along since South Park. Read more

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Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today: Race, which delights in bashing all manner of transportation, hits its silly stride early and never shifts into a higher gear. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: There are no winners in Rat Race, only a lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: A few decent running gags ... and an ocean of bad ones. Read more