Rat Race

A very loose remake of the classic multi-star comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this madcap comedy is directed by Jerry Zucker, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy team and director of Ghost (1990). John Cleese stars as an eccentric casino owner who devises a contest pitting six ...more

Director Jerry Zucker's joyously dumb, slaphappy riff on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World garnered some unfair criticism upon its release: How dare they tamper with a classic? But truth be told, the 1963 source inspiration for Zucker and screenwriter Andy Breckman was overlong, underwritten, and more than a little bloated, despite its who's-who cast of early-'60s comic geniuses. Much like the original, Rat Race is only as good as whomever's onscreen at any given moment. But unlike Mad, Mad World, ...more