The Great Race
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Movie Reviews of The Great Race
Movie Review: "Push the Button, Max!!!"
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is to modern slapstick what "Dr Strangelove" is to black comedy. It virtually defines the genre. It's got everything, and owes a little something to many, ranging from Laurel & Hardy to Rocky the Flying Squirrel. The endless attempts of Professor Fate to foil the Great Leslie belong to the ages, and we cheer as Leslie adroitly turns aside each attempt. Until, near the end (spoiler coming up!) the Great Leslie finally gets his in the greatest pie fight in the history of cinema. Worth watching over and over, I have the VHS and have just ordered the widescreen DVD.Movie Review: The greatest pie-throwing scene of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is worth the price just to view the scene in the royal bakery. I won't give away the details, but it is the greatest pie-throwing scene EVER! Through 35 years of watching movies and TV, a pie-in-the-face is still a guaranteed laugh from me! Jack Lemmon steals the movie as Professor Fate, the buffoonishly-evil adversary to The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis). The movie is almost a live-action version of the Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons. At three-hours+, the movie has its slow points, but it always puts me in a good mood, and it's a "keeper" for my DVD library!Movie Review: The Great Race is a Classic Comedic Thrill Ride!
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1965 classic comedy by Blake Edwards is fantastic. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis were at the top of their forms in this melodrama. Curtis plays The Great Leslie, the hero, and Jack Lemmon plays Prof. Fate, the villain. Natalie Wood and Peter Falk have many great moments respectively as the heroine and the villain's sidekick. Prof. Fate and Leslie have a car race from New York to Paris to prove who is better. The cars and stunts are great. The film also includes the largest pie fight ever staged. It's all in good fun and great for kids to watch as well.Movie Review: "Push the button Max!"
Summary: 5 Stars
I was SOOOO happy to find this! This has been one of my fav movies for years. My mom rented it back in the 80's (don't know when really, I was little) and copied it. I wore the old tape out so bad that for the last year before it finaly broke, it rolled like crazy. I love the song "Sweetheart Tree" and I find myself humming it sometimes when I get bored. For some reason on my DVD part of that song is in sing-a-long, but not the whole song. Seems silly but it's true. This movie is a classic. If you've never seen it, you don't know what you're missing.Movie Review: One of the best classic comedies ... all over the world !
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes ! All over the world . First few times I watched it as a kid ... in Russia . I had to skip school with friends and sneack in the movie theater thrue the exit , just to watch it again .And gess what... I steel laugh , when I watch it . I know , it is a little corny sometimes .But I don't care - Just relexxx and enjoy it . If you can't - go and rent "Dumb and Dumber".
Just an autorace from New York to Paris ? I don't think so . Just watching " inspector Columbo " being young and kind of clumsy is priceless.