a breezy, funny comedy with a pretty solid cast. It's a remake of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which is itself an absolute classic with a great cast. I recommend each.
My dad loved this fricking movie because of and my brother and I would watch this with him all the time and we would all cry laughing. Frick I miss those times and him
Someone confirm but I'm pretty sure this is one of those films that falls in the "after the turn of the millennium but before 9/11" window which is to say peak light and comfy kino
Wow, Rat Race is literally the last thing that came out in the West before the great decline began. The last piece of media where America was basically still culturally the 90s
lmao, I like how it keeps changing. In the 2000's, it was the 90's, in the 2010's it was 2007/2008, and now its 2012. I guess when the alphas are on here it will be 2020.
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It was 9/11
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My parents are boomers and they think it was late eighties (Coincidentally around the time they had kids)
I think the great decline started in 2008, see [...]. That could just be the millennial in me talking but I think we can agree the rise of iPhones and the Great Recession was a huge shift.
2001 (specifically after 9/11) was the loss of innocence, 2008 was the start of the great decline.
Before Rat Race came out: >Family was still together >Dad was working a trade with his own business >Mom was just fine being a stay-at-home >Me, brother, and sister were normal and generally enjoying life
After Rat Race >Parents divorce >Family distant and split apart due to alcoholism, divorces, and early deaths >Dad goes full alcoholic, loses his business and later dies from liver failure >Mom now wants a career and ignores me for most of my teenage life >Sister does drugs and alcohol >Brother knocks up a woman and then gets divorced >I'm in my 30s talking about Rat Race with zoomers
>have a husband who becomes an alcoholic and dies >try to kickstart a career out of nowhere with autistic children to stop them from starving to death >one of them is an ungrateful moron who posts sad frogs on Cinemaphile in his 30's
give me your mothers phone number so i can apologise to her on your behalf you fat piece of shit
I was 12 when I first saw this movie and the scene in the bus station bathroom when Cuba said "It's her... vegana" made me laugh for days. As an adult, his whole encounter with the I Love Lucy bus is funnier.
Same, I kept quoting that line when I was ~11 and my mom and sisters always looked at each other uncomfortably. their fault for not telling me what it was
i dont know why i fricking hate this moron and his music. i hate shrek. the smash mouth part at the end came up id instantly turn it off. i bet hes obese these days
So they all got paid at the end? The main gambler has to be one of the richest people ever to make that bet so he should have a lot left but it probably took half of what he had
Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Owen Templeton, a disgraced NFL referee. For years I've wondered about what that says about my memory and mental focus. That there were times I couldn't recall the name of my cousin's husband, there are so many books I haven't read, things about economical planning, quantum mechanics, and the Crimean War I don't know, yet I reserve a place in my brain with perfect clarity OWEN TEMPLETON, the name of a character from a dumb comedy I saw twenty years ago.
A pretty solid knock off of It's A Mad,Mad,Mad,World.
I wish they'd just had Rowan Atkinson straight up play Mr. Bean even though he's still funny. Could have used more of John Cleese and his butthole billionaire friends those scenes are all great. The ending isn't great but the inclusion of Smash Mouth makes it cringier then it needs to be. Smashmouth is one of those bands that was huge for like 1 year and then instantly became cringe and dated the moment their 15 minutes of fame were up. Oddly at this point they're almost nostalgic, not good; bit nostalgic.
People could actually afford to go to the movies in the 00s so they put out a load of truly trashy movies and people bought tickets anyway because going to the cinema was a social thing. The 2008 recession has robbed us of this Trash Kino and made Hollywood regress into super safe formulas (e.g. franchise movies, superhero, zombie, etc.)
Are you crazy?! This is Hitler's car!
>Hitler's car.
Sometimes we are thrust into greatness. Sometimes greatness is thrust upon us...
the nazi museum and hitler car were the only part of the movie i remembered and it was a genuinely funny bit
a breezy, funny comedy with a pretty solid cast. It's a remake of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which is itself an absolute classic with a great cast. I recommend each.
Go to bed James. It's past 5:40
I'll say it was greatly influenced by MMMMW but its not a remake.
I'd have to say you're splitting hairs. The whole structure and dynamic is identical. The details are different, but they perform the same function.
My dad loved this fricking movie because of and my brother and I would watch this with him all the time and we would all cry laughing. Frick I miss those times and him
Comfy kino
as fpbp pointed out, you watched Jon Lovitz' finest comedy seven minutes inside a bullshit 90 minute movie.
YOU
That is probably the worst thing in the movie. Dare to see someone do something like that know
>Newman not even billed at all when he's a big part of Mr Bean's bit
He did it for free??
Someone confirm but I'm pretty sure this is one of those films that falls in the "after the turn of the millennium but before 9/11" window which is to say peak light and comfy kino
yes. Same with Scary Movie, Road Trip, Me Myself and Irene. Things were funny but not too serious or overly self-conscious.
Everyone knows the millennium didn't really end until 2008.
>Release Date: August 17, 2001
Take me back
Wow, Rat Race is literally the last thing that came out in the West before the great decline began. The last piece of media where America was basically still culturally the 90s
I think the great decline started in 2008, see
. That could just be the millennial in me talking but I think we can agree the rise of iPhones and the Great Recession was a huge shift.
Nah, I'm a zoomer and the great decline was more 2012 onwards. My cousin thinks it was after Covid, lol
>the great decline was more 2012 onwards
lmao, I like how it keeps changing. In the 2000's, it was the 90's, in the 2010's it was 2007/2008, and now its 2012. I guess when the alphas are on here it will be 2020.
It was 9/11
My parents are boomers and they think it was late eighties (Coincidentally around the time they had kids)
Zoolander came out a week after. It's close enough to make the cut in my books.
2001 (specifically after 9/11) was the loss of innocence, 2008 was the start of the great decline.
>Pax Americana ended to the sounds of All Star by Smash Mouth
Before Rat Race came out:
>Family was still together
>Dad was working a trade with his own business
>Mom was just fine being a stay-at-home
>Me, brother, and sister were normal and generally enjoying life
After Rat Race
>Parents divorce
>Family distant and split apart due to alcoholism, divorces, and early deaths
>Dad goes full alcoholic, loses his business and later dies from liver failure
>Mom now wants a career and ignores me for most of my teenage life
>Sister does drugs and alcohol
>Brother knocks up a woman and then gets divorced
>I'm in my 30s talking about Rat Race with zoomers
>Rat Race (2001)
>Not even once.
>I'm in my 30s talking about Rat Race with zoomers
Kek I never noticed the horse. It looks like he wants to come in.
>have a husband who becomes an alcoholic and dies
>try to kickstart a career out of nowhere with autistic children to stop them from starving to death
>one of them is an ungrateful moron who posts sad frogs on Cinemaphile in his 30's
give me your mothers phone number so i can apologise to her on your behalf you fat piece of shit
867-5309
Damn that movie really fricked up your family
I have a particular fondness for the films you’re describing, stuff like Evolution
>caw caw,caw caw
>ah ah tookie tookie caw caw caw caw caw
JP3 is also came out around that time. July 2001.
>I'M A FRICKING BLACK WOMAN IN A ROCKET CAR
amy smart being my wife
>HE RUIN OUR HORR WACATION
Jon Lovitz kino.
Daaaddd I’m prairie doggin
A bunch of israelites fighting over shekels.
Found the mooslim
Found the israelite.
Go blow yourself up.
is this movie about israelites?
Not particularly, though it contains them.
I was 12 when I first saw this movie and the scene in the bus station bathroom when Cuba said "It's her... vegana" made me laugh for days. As an adult, his whole encounter with the I Love Lucy bus is funnier.
Same, I kept quoting that line when I was ~11 and my mom and sisters always looked at each other uncomfortably. their fault for not telling me what it was
You never learned about it from playing doctor with your sister?
them betting on the maids hanging from the curtain rods is one of the funniest things ive ever seen
This movie was really, really, really, really stupid. In a fun way.
The opening credits are extremely cheesy. Don't what they were thinking.
>WHAT IS LIIIIIYIIYIIIIIIIYIIYIIIIIIIYIYIFE
Throwback to all those animated openings to comedies in the mid 80s to early 90s.
>life is nothing
>it's a nothing
>life is nothing BUT A FAT RAT RACE
it, like the cover, is a monty python reference, as supported by john cleese's involvement
>That transition at the end in the casino
KINO
Pubescent me thought this contained one of the greatest sideboob scenes in cinema history.
I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric
>HEY ITS SMASH MOUTH!
i dont know why i fricking hate this moron and his music. i hate shrek. the smash mouth part at the end came up id instantly turn it off. i bet hes obese these days
yeah the ending is terrible
He retired because he got drunk and briefly became a Nazi. No joke.
> briefly became a Nazi
based. did he switch to making NSBM? (National Socialist Black Metal)
>somebody once told me the israelites are going to rule me
Their entire career is ripping off other artists.
All Star is a great song
It unironically is an okay song
Forgot about the song until I saw it again
Enjoy the fact Smashmouth is still seething to this day about Shrek making their music a joke the everyone
You should be picking up a gun with a finger and a thumb and then fire it straight at your forehead
So they all got paid at the end? The main gambler has to be one of the richest people ever to make that bet so he should have a lot left but it probably took half of what he had
It’s cool the band made an appearance. That song was in 2 movies the same year and had cover of another in shrek so they were pretty busy around then
SOME
BODY
ONCE
TOLD
ME
Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Owen Templeton, a disgraced NFL referee. For years I've wondered about what that says about my memory and mental focus. That there were times I couldn't recall the name of my cousin's husband, there are so many books I haven't read, things about economical planning, quantum mechanics, and the Crimean War I don't know, yet I reserve a place in my brain with perfect clarity OWEN TEMPLETON, the name of a character from a dumb comedy I saw twenty years ago.
Owen Templeton.
Owen Templeton.
I have no idea why but this post fricking sent me.
lost
Zoomer
only downside is the dance party ending
When I was 12 this was the funniest movie I'd ever seen
IT'S A RACE, IT'S A RACE
I'M WINNING, I'M WINNING
this and the brothers scenes are pure Gold
whole movie is great
Best part of the film without a doubt.
the fricking barbie museum and ended in veteran show will never not funny to me
Whopee Goldberg can lick my taint
A nice Barbie museum
>Wtf did I just watch?
The only good remake among remakes
kino
You should have bought a squirrel
>Wtf did I just watch? kekw
A pretty solid knock off of It's A Mad,Mad,Mad,World.
I wish they'd just had Rowan Atkinson straight up play Mr. Bean even though he's still funny. Could have used more of John Cleese and his butthole billionaire friends those scenes are all great. The ending isn't great but the inclusion of Smash Mouth makes it cringier then it needs to be. Smashmouth is one of those bands that was huge for like 1 year and then instantly became cringe and dated the moment their 15 minutes of fame were up. Oddly at this point they're almost nostalgic, not good; bit nostalgic.
Pure Kino
shit movie
I’d beat the shit out of you if you said that around me.
My friends and I used to watch this all the time. RR and pic related were my jam.
aside from the stupid cg cow bit this movie holds up very well
That hard cut to the nazis after the daughter goes "Wow, the Barbie museum" will never fail to get me
People could actually afford to go to the movies in the 00s so they put out a load of truly trashy movies and people bought tickets anyway because going to the cinema was a social thing. The 2008 recession has robbed us of this Trash Kino and made Hollywood regress into super safe formulas (e.g. franchise movies, superhero, zombie, etc.)
>watched this shit in the theaters with my best friend at the time
frick I'm old
The more I think about it the early 2000s were the best times of my life
Then you joined the rat race
>History of anime
That's a troll image, all the bottom animes came out years before 2007
found it funny as a kid and thought the blonde was hot as frick
didnt watch it since then tho
>rat race
This is about israelites?