Jerry Zucker directs Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg and Jon Lovitz in this zany comedy where a group of strangers race across country to reach a hidden fortune.

It’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World for Generation X. The first act is a dud but it gets better and better. The squirrel lady. The bus full of Lucys. Hitler’s car. The various domino rallies build and build from those small beginnings to genuine massive laughs. Welcome smaller turns from John Cleese, Amy Smart and Smash Mouth. Jon Lovitz’s exclamation of the innocuous line “I don’t want to work in Hooome Deeepot!” is a thing of true cinematic beauty. At times in intended bad taste, other times gloriously orchestrated… this feels very much the lost gem of broad, mainstream Hollywood comedy.

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