The Cannonball Run

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The Cannonball Run

PG,

1981,

1h 35m,

Comedy

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29%

31 Reviews

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61%

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61%

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A daredevil (Burt Reynolds) and other characters (Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett) get in their cars and take off on a cross-country race.

Critics Consensus

Cannonball Run casts a bevy of famous faces as its wacky racers but forgets to give them characters to play, resulting in 90 dull minutes that feel like a marathon.

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Ian Nathan

Empire Magazine

May 5, 2008

3/5

Nonsense but fun nevertheless with a crazy ensemble cast of celebrities of the era.

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Variety Staff

Variety

May 5, 2008

Full of terribly inside showbiz jokes and populated by what could be called Burt and Hal's Rat Pack, film takes place in that redneck never-never land where most of the guys are beer-guzzling good ole boys and all the gals are fabulously built tootsies.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 23, 2004

0.5/4

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.

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Jas Keimig

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Feb 1, 2022

The Cannonball Run is stuffed full of stars and stupidity.

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Diego Galán

El Pais (Spain)

Aug 21, 2019

The movie doesn't go beyond repeating a formula of parallel stories. [Full Review in Spanish]

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PJ Nabarro

Patrick Nabarro

Nov 10, 2018

3/5

Cannonball Run exists somewhere in between being a last bastion of an 'old boys' Hollywood comedy, versus offering a wry send-up of those values.

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George W

Feb 6, 2019

1980s comedy with Stars from Burt to Jacky Chang this comedy is full of jokes and old comedy slapstick.

Han S

Feb 23, 2018

This movie is awesome. Period. I don't care what anyone says... It may take you a couple of times to catch all the jokes and etc. However, if you invest the time into movie and can enjoy it. You can gather a plethora of laughs from a great racing movie. It's absolutely ridiculous and I love it that way. I'd put it up there with all the great racing movies and all the modern racing movies could learn quite a bit from this movie. I saw this when I was like 13 and I have loved it ever since. It's a Time Machine back into the past and I think anyone my age of 24 now could appreciate it. Watch it. Enjoy it. Love it.

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Draco M

Jan 19, 2018

Lacking any real sense of urgency, The Cannonball Run fails to capture the essence of a true racing movie. Is it a racing movie though? It's a movie about a race that that doesn't appear to be a racing movie. If that's the case, then what exactly is it?. Basically a project for a bunch of A-list stars, attempting to flaunt their comedic chops and picking up a sizable paycheck in the end. Also, it's dated, very dated. What passed for comedy in 1981, doesn't exactly translate well some 30-plus years later.

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Nov 17, 2017

Pure fun and what a cast

Hermione L

Aug 12, 2017

Enjoyable dumb ensemble road race movie.

Hermione M

Jul 14, 2017

Probally an underrated great comedy of the early 1980s. Want to watch a film with some great comedy and not have to think like in today's comedies, I highly recommend this film. Probally one of my all time favorite comedies.

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Hal Needham

Director

Burt Reynolds

J.J. McClure

Roger Moore

Seymour Goldfarb, Jr.

Farrah Fawcett

Pamela Glover

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Synopsis

A daredevil (Burt Reynolds) and other characters (Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett) get in their cars and take off on a cross-country race.

Director: Hal Needham
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Screenwriter: Brock Yates
Production Co: Golden Harvest Company
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Jun 5, 2001
Runtime: 1h 35m

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