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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe funniest film to come along since "South Park," and one that succeeds in a more difficult and satisfying way.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe 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.
- 80TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelIt'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.
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonEven though this will not go down as a great Zucker comedy, he has made Rat Race funnier than it could reasonably hope to be.
- 70L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertL.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertThe good news is that this off-the-wall ensemble comedy may just be the summer's happiest surprise.
- 63Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrA 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.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonZucker's frenzied trifle is painless, with a few decent running gags -- and an ocean of bad ones.
- 40TV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsTV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsFor every inspired bit -- Templeton playing chauffeur to 40 I Love Lucy-era Lucille Ball impersonators -- there's one that falls spectacularly flat.
- 20VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerA lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles.
- 20Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThis ripoff, directed by Jerry Zucker, has a few funny moments, but it's a sad sad sad sad example of what Hollywood is currently serving up -- and what audiences are swallowing -- as summer entertainment.