The Great Race

La película que más veces he visto en mi vida. La he visto 22 veces y nunca me canso. El Profesor Fate, Max y El Gran Leslie siempre me han acompañado a lo largo demi vida. Una película 🎥 absolutamente genial 👍🥇🥇 Siempre le estaré agradecido a Blacke Edwards.

Ok, this is a very dated movie & when I watched it as a kid countless times on TV I delighted in it. See? That’s the campiness of it. If it’s a choice between The Hunger Games or something else for your 8 yr old child, hopefully this is available as an option. So, to summarize, my rating as a 62 yr old Army, 3x deployed veteran, it’s maybe a 2 star…as an 8-9 yr old kid, without worries, it’s a 5 star greatest movie ever!

Given proper context, it's an okay film but the 60's employed this type of humor way too much, typically leaving me pretty cold.

If you hacked an hour off the runtime and recast the leads I think you'd have a solid comedic epic. As it stands, you've got a long slog where no one has an ounce of chemistry.

Much of the slapstick fun in this early Edwards' effort scores, including standout bar/pie fight sequences. Unfortunately, these pleasures are marred somewhat by the film's over length. But most of the cast is just fine: Curtis is clearly enjoying himself, Wood is lovely and Falk steals his scenes. However, Lemon's work, in this as well as other films of the era, just hasn't aged well. He's sporadically funny here—but (regrettably) mostly just annoying.

This is one of my all-time favorite films. A wonderful tribute the beauty and acting of Natalie Wood. Also, a great film for demonstrating the comic chops of both Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk. Professor Fate's scenes are all just fantastic.

If you hacked an hour off the runtime and recast the leads I think you'd have a solid comedic epic. As it stands, you've got a long slog where no one has an ounce of chemistry.

I saw it as a child. It was good then. I doubt it would be worthwhile now.

Aside from Natalie wood's iconically feminist presence, this gem is full of unexpected laughs between this hijinks that make it still enjoyable to this day.

Gorgeous in a way that early color films are, filling the screen to make it absolutely worth a trip to cinema, The Great Race is one of the great comedies of all time. It means something when all of the stars are wonderful to look at. Tony Curtis still had most of his early glamour, Natalie Wood was never more beautiful and Jack Lemmon somehow managed to be the personification of a cartoon dastardly and highly cinematic villain. It is a visually stunning masterpiece of a spoof with the greatest pie throwing scene in movie history. Some parts do seem long, but even they recall a time when families would spend an entire afternoon at the local pictures. They give you a chance to take a breath before the next show-stopper. The music is as good as the rest of it: it is a complete delight.