Rat Race

Fans of 1960s caper movie It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World will enjoy this infectiously silly film that's packed with celebrities and gags. John Cleese - complete with the maddest set of dentures ever seen on film - plays the billionaire casino owner who decides to give his high-rolling gamblers something unusual to bet on: the outcome of a race from Las Vegas to a locker a few hundred miles away in New Mexico that just happens to contain $2 million. A group of ordinary people are given the chance to get their hands on the loot - the only rule being that whoever gets there first, takes the cash. Among those in the hunt are a narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson), a recently reunited mother and daughter (Whoopi Goldberg and Lanai Chapman), two idiot brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf) and a nagging Jewish husband and wife (Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy) who manage to run into a band of neo-Nazis en route. It may be an old-fashioned chase movie with jokes as ancient as the hills, but it's still a fun diversion.