Rat Race
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 17, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
6
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The funniest film to come along since "South Park," and one that succeeds in a more difficult and satisfying way. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Inspired, elaborately plotted, and unusually satisfying variable-speed chase comedy. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The movie is over in a breezy 112 minutes, but it may be another half-hour before your sides quit aching. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
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
Mr. ShowbizCody Clark
An outrageously silly movie that makes me laugh.
80
TimeRichard 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.
80
Washington PostDesson 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
75
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Rat Race isn't a stupid movie -- it's an aggressively stupid movie that journeys into realms of absurdity that are, well, aggressively funny. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The movie is so cheerfully, furiously relentless, its contagious silliness wears you down. Read full review
70
Washington PostRita 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
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
The good news is that this off-the-wall ensemble comedy may just be the summer's happiest surprise. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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 GlobeJay 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.
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