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The Cannonball Run

1981

Hal Needham

Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin ...

5.2

3,305

Action. Adventure. Comedy A cross-country car race provides the plot for this action-packed madcap comedy with an all-star cast. The fun continues from coast to coast with the likes of Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Mel Tillis, Sammy Davis Jr., and dozens of others.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'The Cannonball Run' is inoffensive and sometimes funny."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Cross-country race of the title comes off as almost entirely incidental to the star turns. Overall effect is akin to watching the troupe take a vacation."	NEG
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"A truly stupid film based on what should have been a surefire hit"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"70's stuff and nonsense but fun nevertheless with a crazy ensemble cast of celebrities of the era (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Looks like something knocked off on rest days from 'Smokey and the Bandit II.'"	NEG
Canada	The Globe and Mail	"Fawcett offers to this corrupt "entertainment" a small measure of the fresh innocence Marilyn Monroe used to bring to her movies; watching her work under these circumstances is like watching a maiden being thrown to Moloch."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Cannonball Run' is an abdication of artistic responsibility at the lowest possible level of ambition. In other words, they didn't even care enough to make a good lousy movie. (...) Rating: ½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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