Rat Race — More Nazis Than Expected

One of us has rewatched Rat Race every year for three years. Another reckons he got oversold. Sam picked this one, a film his fiancée loved as a kid and he only discovered three years ago. Jerry Zucker's 2001 ensemble comedy is basically The Amazing Race with no rules: John Cleese plants six tokens in his Vegas slot machines, and whoever reaches a locker in Silver City, New Mexico first keeps $2 million. Along the way Rowan Atkinson falls asleep in the hotel lobby, Jon Lovitz drives Hitler's car through a WWII veterans' parade, a human heart ends up inside a dog, a cow ends up tied to a hot air balloon, Cuba Gooding Jr hijacks a bus full of I Love Lucy impersonators, and Smash Mouth play All Star with a little help from Hitler's harmonica. We also get into what you'd actually do if you lost a human heart, and how the airport scenes play now that you know the film came out a month before 9/11. The ratings aren't even close, and somehow Avengers: Endgame gets dragged into the argument. Next week: The Wild Robot, Pacco's pick. Bring tissues. It has ducks in it. Chapters: 00:00 Warm cola and a pyramid scheme 00:14 Rat Race, the annual rewatch 02:07 Who'd you bet on? 06:19 Those animated opening credits 10:53 Free buffet, no rules 12:58 Would you go to Darwin for $2 million? 15:42 Released one month before 9/11 19:43 Randy's family and the Nazi museum 23:13 Mr. Bean, a human heart and a dog 25:00 A drifter, let's kill him 28:40 The cow and the hot air balloon 31:15 The I Love Lucy bus 34:59 The billionaires' bets 37:59 Smash Mouth and Hitler's harmonica 40:06 What worked, what didn't 44:29 Ratings 47:04 Five stars, half stars and The Emoji Movie 51:50 Next week's pick, and bring tissues Follow us on Letterboxd to see what else we're watching Sam: https://letterboxd.com/Delorenzo6/ Corey: https://letterboxd.com/coreymid/ Pacco: https://letterboxd.com/paccothegoose/ #RatRace #MoviePodcast #PileOfMates #RowanAtkinson #JohnCleese #WhoopiGoldberg #CubaGoodingJr #2000sMovies #ComedyMovies #MovieRewatch #FilmPodcast #AustralianPodcast