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So-so
Avg. Critic Score: 52 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

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

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa 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
    Washington Post | Desson 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

  • 70
    Washington Post | Rita 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
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth 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

  • 50
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

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

  • 20
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    This 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. Read full review

  • 20
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

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

  • 20
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    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 full review

  • 20
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    A lineup of comic actors running on empty long before the dust settles. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ Vulgar and lowbrow, but very funny.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this PG-13 movie has some vulgar humor, including bathroom jokes, a weird proposition made to a prostitute, an offensive porn movie title, and a cross-dressing man. A multiply-pierced woman flashes her breasts as a way of flirting with a man she does not know (nothing seen).
  • Families can talk about Brecken Meyers's statement that "Good things take time, but great things happen all at once." Why does money make people take such foolish risks? Who were you rooting for? Why? Compare the amount at issue in this movie with the amount that people were racing for in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World." Why is it so much more?
What to watch for
  • violence false2 Violence: Comic peril and violence, no characters hurt; skeleton.
  • sex false3 Sex: Reference to pornography, prostitute, character flashes her breasts (off screen).
  • language false3 Language: Some crude language, potty humor.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false2 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking.

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