The Great Race

Perfect family movie is fun from beginning to end.

Lemmon plays it dirty throughout and for huge effect. Curtis underplays for equally comic effect. Wood comes through on a par with the two male stars.

It's highly inventive, self-conscious camp, made in 1965, well before the genre wore itself out in superciliousness.

A relatively disappointing film, The Great Race is nevertheless one that Blake Edwards dreamt of making for years , the pure cartoon that his previous films foreshadowed. Was he wrong to strive increasingly towards the cartoonish?

It’s degrading to waste nights at these movies: The Great Race is a three-hour Tom and Jerry cartoon -- without animation.

If The Great Race flubs the "comedy" half of a comedy super-production, it's pretty good at the super-production half.

Here is a slapstick omnibus, spilling over with all the humor, sentiment and visual gags spawned during the adolescence of the flickers, a nostalgic Technicolored resume of yesteryear's screen fare.

A monumentally epic disaster...

Comedy masterpiece, and one of the few films to look at votes for women.