What a cast. Rat Race really is a 'remake' of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World: it's a race, in the desert, for money, and it seems to deliberately cast some of the best names in comedy for no other reason than to assemble the best names in comedy.
Which isn't a bad idea. It makes for a jolly movie.
Rat Race is a random, non-nonsensical movie, but it is very funny. Besides having a much easier name than it's predecessor, I find it funnier. That could be the generational gap. Rowan Atkinson is very funny, as usual, and Cuba Gooding Jr. also plays a highly entertaining character. Seth Green and Vince Vieluf's segments are the most slap-stickish of a very slap-stick movie and always accompanied by a cleverly appropriate musical score.
The ending is great, too. Pretty intelligent, philosophical really, for a "Wacky" movie like this.
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