Rat Race

When movies are remade, the idea at the time of conception sounds good and when you add in the names of the actors to be involved you get the feeling that you could have a hit. Unfortunately what we have here is a good idea gone badly. With the original movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the comedic talent is what carried the movie and makes the whole trip hilarious and side splitting, but with Rat Race you have every actor trying their hardest to be funny and most of the time its just stupid. A Las Vegas casino owner picks six different people to take part in a race where they could win two million dollars. The comedy actors that are in the film try their hardest to keep the jokes going, but who ever told Cuba Gooding, Jr. he was a comedian should be shot, his acting here is the worst out of the troop. Even though some of the situations that are set up for the characters are funny, you would think that they could have come up with at least a few that would produce more than a chuckle. You can see some of the jokes coming from a mile away and by the time they get to you they're staler than week out bread.
If you want to watch a funny chase film, rent the original movie, you'll enjoy yourself a whole lot more. Even though some of the actors do a very good job in the movie, Jon Lovitz for one, it's not the kind of movie that you can watch repeatedly, unless of course you've had your lobotomy and like the self-torture.