the commercials for rat race made it look too juvenile for me to enjoy and but since my boyfriend adores this movie (and the soundtrack) and i finally relented and watched it with him tonight. i make him watch david lynch films and all sorts of obscure indie stuff (i recently forced urbania on him) and so i felt i owed him an innocuous hollywood product. i do not want to hurt his feelings and so i saved my bitching for yalls. yeah and rat race has its moments and but a great deal of it irritated me. let start at the beginning. rat race was marketed as a family film and so i was a little surprised to discover that the first scene centered around a porno movie. (i can hear it now represent mommy and what does afro whores mean. ) this scene has no purpose in this movie other than to cram some naughtiness into a pg 13 movie. and while were still on the segments in the casino and it pretty convenient that all the characters happened to play and within the same time frame and the slots that held the gold coins. what would have happened if they do not. would those millionaire gamblers just sit around and wait. and how did they get those gold coins in the slots in the first place. but i am belaboring a plot point that necessary for the movie to exist and so i will press on. about whoopi and her long lost daughter represent theyre meeting for the very first time and yet throughout their whole ordeal they do not discuss with each other anything about themselves. why make their relationship such a presumably complicated one. couldn not they have just been and say and a mother and daughter on vacation together. why the business concerning a long ago adoption. and why portray the daughter as a hard driving career woman chained to her cell phone who never again needs contact with her business. did the screenplay just forget about this subplot and character trait. this illustrates the main weakness of this movie  the characters are inconsistent and interchangeable while it exhausting when everyone is equally zany and with no identifying traits. and another thing  the events aren not plausible. oh and sure and the characters can do some quirky things and but the characters themselves have to be believable. take the naked gun (another jerry zucker movie) for example. frank drebin has some pretty exaggerated moments and but everything he does is and in theory and possible in his world. (jane is also funny and but it a different kind of funny and which makes all the difference. ) a character in rat race defying natural laws by leaping onto a speeding train destroys any plausibility the movie may have while these clearly aren not real people and so why should i care about them. another problem i have with rat race is a moral one. the characters obtain their modes of transport almost totally by theft. i know and i know and this is just a silly comedy and and the same actions do not bother me fifteen years ago when i saw million dollar mystery and but there a lot of lawbreaking in rat race and and it bothers me now. and i would not delve into the whole airport sabotage sequence other than to wonder if the screenwriters do not consider the real life implications of such an action while was that scene funny before 9/11. i will skip over the distasteful bits concerning the heart and the drugging of one family and the nazis (whose buildup and payoff worked better in an episode of seinfeld) and and move on to complain about the acting. rowan atkinson started out annoying and ended insufferable while i do not know when i liked a comical character less. and the three oscar winners need new agents. whoopi came off best and but she do not have much to work with (loved the copper perm and purple lipstick though) while kathy bates part was shrill but mercifully brief while cuba and was. oh and man. cuba and babe and please fire your agent. following instinct and chill factor and this is your third strike (be glad i haven not seen pearl harbor or snow dogs)  it time to give your 97 best supporting actor oscar back to its rightful owner (edward norton and for primal fear). an actor of your stature has no business running half naked through the desert and being checked out by a transvestite lucille ball impersonator. do you even read the scripts to your movies anymore and or are you reaching into a bag and pulling your next project out at random. there other small points that bother me (how did grisham and the hooker get to the loot so fast. ) and but and basically and rat race amounts to little more than your basic batch of character types being hindered by arbitrary obstacles on their way to a rather underwhelming and inexplicable ending. they give the money to charity. what kind of ending is that. yeah and it the noble thing to do. never mind the probability of cross promotion or licensing whores smash mouth (do they ever say no to selling out. ) putting on a benefit concert in the middle of the new mexico desert and but who would honestly do such a thing. yes and they say it the journey and not the destination and that makes a trip worthwhile and but there no journey without a destination. if there was ever an example of a wrong happy ending and this would be it. what a bummer end to a movie that and despite my nitpicking here and i did enjoy parts of (i confess to enjoying the bit with the cow and some of the lucy stuff along with the character with the tongue piercing  at first i thought his indecipherable speech would run me up a wall and but he grew to be my favorite). but as far as my boyfriend knows and i found rat race quite funny and charming. 
the commercials for rat race made it look too juvenile for me to enjoy and but since my boyfriend adores this movie (and the soundtrack) and i finally relented and watched it with him tonight. i make him watch david lynch films and all sorts of obscure indie stuff (i recently forced urbania on him) and so i felt i owed him an innocuous hollywood product. i do not want to hurt his feelings and so i saved my bitching for yalls. yeah and rat race has its moments and but a great deal of it irritated me. let start at the beginning. rat race was marketed as a family film and so i was a little surprised to discover that the first scene centered around a porno movie. (i can hear it now represent mommy and what does afro whores mean. ) this scene has no purpose in this movie other than to cram some naughtiness into a pg 13 movie. and while were still on the segments in the casino and it pretty convenient that all the characters happened to play and within the same time frame and the slots that held the gold coins. what would have happened if they do not. would those millionaire gamblers just sit around and wait. and how did they get those gold coins in the slots in the first place. but i am belaboring a plot point that necessary for the movie to exist and so i will press on. about whoopi and her long lost daughter represent theyre meeting for the very first time and yet throughout their whole ordeal they do not discuss with each other anything about themselves. why make their relationship such a presumably complicated one. couldn not they have just been and say and a mother and daughter on vacation together. why the business concerning a long ago adoption. and why portray the daughter as a hard driving career woman chained to her cell phone who never again needs contact with her business. did the screenplay just forget about this subplot and character trait. this illustrates the main weakness of this movie  the characters are inconsistent and interchangeable while it exhausting when everyone is equally zany and with no identifying traits. and another thing  the events aren not plausible. oh and sure and the characters can do some quirky things and but the characters themselves have to be believable. take the naked gun (another jerry zucker movie) for example. frank drebin has some pretty exaggerated moments and but everything he does is and in theory and possible in his world. (jane is also funny and but it a different kind of funny and which makes all the difference. ) a character in rat race defying natural laws by leaping onto a speeding train destroys any plausibility the movie may have while these clearly aren not real people and so why should i care about them. another problem i have with rat race is a moral one. the characters obtain their modes of transport almost totally by theft. i know and i know and this is just a silly comedy and and the same actions do not bother me fifteen years ago when i saw million dollar mystery and but there a lot of lawbreaking in rat race and and it bothers me now. and i would not delve into the whole airport sabotage sequence other than to wonder if the screenwriters do not consider the real life implications of such an action while was that scene funny before 9/11. i will skip over the distasteful bits concerning the heart and the drugging of one family and the nazis (whose buildup and payoff worked better in an episode of seinfeld) and and move on to complain about the acting. rowan atkinson started out annoying and ended insufferable while i do not know when i liked a comical character less. and the three oscar winners need new agents. whoopi came off best and but she do not have much to work with (loved the copper perm and purple lipstick though) while kathy bates part was shrill but mercifully brief while cuba and was. oh and man. cuba and babe and please fire your agent. following instinct and chill factor and this is your third strike (be glad i haven not seen pearl harbor or snow dogs)  it time to give your 97 best supporting actor oscar back to its rightful owner (edward norton and for primal fear). an actor of your stature has no business running half naked through the desert and being checked out by a transvestite lucille ball impersonator. do you even read the scripts to your movies anymore and or are you reaching into a bag and pulling your next project out at random. there other small points that bother me (how did grisham and the hooker get to the loot so fast. ) and but and basically and rat race amounts to little more than your basic batch of character types being hindered by arbitrary obstacles on their way to a rather underwhelming and inexplicable ending. they give the money to charity. what kind of ending is that. yeah and it the noble thing to do. never mind the probability of cross promotion or licensing whores smash mouth (do they ever say no to selling out. ) putting on a benefit concert in the middle of the new mexico desert and but who would honestly do such a thing. yes and they say it the journey and not the destination and that makes a trip worthwhile and but there no journey without a destination. if there was ever an example of a wrong happy ending and this would be it. what a bummer end to a movie that and despite my nitpicking here and i did enjoy parts of (i confess to enjoying the bit with the cow and some of the lucy stuff along with the character with the tongue piercing  at first i thought his indecipherable speech would run me up a wall and but he grew to be my favorite). but as far as my boyfriend knows and i found rat race quite funny and charming. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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