- Film Review
- Reviewed By Joanna Berry
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3 out of 5
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.
Plot Summary
Chase comedy from the co-director of Airplane!, starring John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg and Cuba Gooding Jr. Anything goes when an eccentric Las Vegas billionaire sends a group of underachieving strangers on a race to retrieve $2 million from a locker in New Mexico.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Vera Baker
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Donald Sinclair
- John Cleese
- Owen Templeton
- Cuba Gooding Jr
- Enrico Pollini
- Rowan Atkinson
- Randy Pear
- Jon Lovitz
- Beverly Pear
- Kathy Najimy
- Duane Cody
- Seth Green
- Nick Schaffer
- Breckin Meyer
- Tracy Faucet
- Amy Smart
- Zack
- Wayne Knight
- Gus
- Paul Rodriguez
- Blaine Cody
- Vince Vieluf
- Merrill Jennings
- Lanai Chapman
- Shawn
- Dean Cain
- Squirrel lady
- Kathy Bates
Crew
- Director
- Jerry Zucker
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