Movie 2004.10.22 - Rat Race

Spent my Friday night watching a movie called Rat Race. It was one of those comedies with a very thin plot - something like Cannonball Run. The story goes like this: there's this eccentric millionaire casino magnate who drafts a bunch of people for a race. They are each given a key, which will open a locker located in Silver City, New Mexico. Inside is a duffel bag containing $2 million. Lastly, there are no rules to the game.

I wouldn't call it an all-star cast, but you have Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean), Whoopi Goldberg, John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr., et al. Lots of funny stuff that kept me laughing:

• Cuba tricking the bus driver out of his uniform
• Cuba with a bunch of wailing Lucy lookalikes
• John Cleese with Hitler moustache delivering a "German" speech at a WWII veterans' convention
• John Cleese and family being attached by a bunch of tomboy bikers
• Rowan Atkinson losing the human heart.
• The Cody Brothers driving the car up the antenna tower.
• The Cody Brothers with the hot-air balloon and the cow.
• Breckin Meyer denying he watched Afro Whores.
• Amy Smart freaking out at her two-timing boyfriend.
• "We should have bought a squirrel."
• "First we get naked. We get in a hottub filled with peptobismal. We put on paper sailor hats. I clip your toenails and you shave my buttocks."
• "Little cockdoggies." "They're called cocktail wienies."
• "But Dad, I'm prairie-dogging it."

Come to think of it, I didn't get the last one.