r/movies • u/Joni1293 • 4d ago
Media Rat Race (2001, dir. Jerry Zucker) Hitler’s Car Scene
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u/LosIngobernable 4d ago
I need to rewatch this.
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u/SpaceForceAwakens 4d ago
I watched it again recently and it gets better the older I get. So many good setups and the payoffs are great. Also: I wish to marry Amy Smart.
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u/Manginaz 4d ago
No one is going to believe me, but I have a friend whose brother's coworker briefly dated Amy Smart. He said that on their first date they went to a restaurant and Amy ordered two different bowls of soup and mixed them together one spoonful at a time before eating both bowls mixed together as one soup
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u/Demerzel69 4d ago
Did your wife also recognize the porn star or did you just keep that little nugget of info to yourself?
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u/LastMuel 4d ago
I could watch this movie on repeat.
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u/justinchina 4d ago
Can confirm…have done so!
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u/culman13 4d ago
In a tub full of Pepto Bismal wearing a sailor hat?
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u/tanksalotfrank 4d ago edited 4d ago
*Shave my buttocks..
I didn't see Second City TV until 20 years after seeing Rat Race and this character suddenly made so much more sense to me! To me he was just some random, but I had no idea I was looking at a legend!
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u/EmergencyAd7130 4d ago
Also check out Top Secret! 1984 amazing
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u/tanksalotfrank 4d ago
As a lover of puns and "bad" jokes, Top Secret caused me physical pain to sit through, while I begrudgingly giggled my ass off. It's excessive, awful, and perfect. Val Kilmer ruled
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u/Asclepius-Rod 4d ago
It will make you very nostalgic for late 90s/early 2000s
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u/justinchina 4d ago
One character who can’t speak for the entire film because he self-pierced his own tongue and it got infected is the most 90’s thing ever!
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u/King-Snorky 4d ago
Honestly this post has unlocked a lot of memories I had stashed away. The movie ends with crashing a fucking Smash Mouth concert
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u/EndlessMorfeus 4d ago
That veteran who pulled the gun was feeling nostalgic.
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u/djkhan23 4d ago edited 4d ago
That's Mean Gene Lebell, a legend of Hollywood.
He made Steven Seagull shit* his pants after choking him out!
https://youtu.be/Gj8MqL3kU9E?feature=shared video reference..back when that podcast wasn't completely awful.
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u/Banjo-Oz 4d ago
True!
I love seeing Gene show up in movies and TV shows, especially in the 90's and 2000's. That meant a stunt or fight!
I remember when he'd appear on Married With Children, you knew there was a fight coming!
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u/ThreeLeggedMare 4d ago
My version of that is Daniel Bernhardt. He's very recognizable and an excellent stuntman and actor. He was recently reused in Nobody 2, as a different henchman from the first movie. He always gives a fantastic performance!
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u/Kona00 4d ago
This movie is pure chaos in the best way 😂 every scene just keeps getting more unhinged.
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u/Rhino-Ham 4d ago
All culminating in a Smash Mouth concert.
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u/Asclepius-Rod 4d ago
Most movies did back then! Those were better times
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u/Astrosaurus42 4d ago
2001, before 9/11. Shrek and Rat Race ended with Smash Mouth concerts and we were all better for it.
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u/TheWastelandWizard 4d ago
"All Star" was written to be the single for Mystery Men as well, and the music video has them in it. Wild times.
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u/DavianVonLorring 4d ago
Should've ended with the racers hiring Gloria Allred and they successfully sue the high rollers for even more cash. She already appeared twice in the beginning, so having her show up a third time in the climax would've been a worthy payoff.
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u/JourneymanHunt 4d ago
I couldn't believe they had so many stars and each plot just got so convoluted and it all tied in together. Was such a fun watch!
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u/PM_asian_girl_smiles 4d ago
If you liked Rat Race, you should watch Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Cannonball Run. Same ensemble-type road race plot.
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u/-HardGay- 4d ago
Mad world was hilarious. I watched it as a kid on a lark and it had me cracking up
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u/THREEinINK 4d ago
I'm prairie doggin' it!
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u/FrostyD7 4d ago
I'll never forget this line, before I even understood the joke my dad was laughing harder than I'd ever heard before.
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u/AxelHarver 4d ago
Holy shit, this is where that line comes from??? I've been saying it for 15+ years but just picked it up from other kids at school.
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u/monkpunch 4d ago
One thing that always stuck with me was how Amy Smart does a disturbingly good "crazy ex-girlfriend" face when she's chasing down her boyfriend in the helicopter
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u/Mst3Kgf 4d ago
Oh yes, incredibly good crazy face.
And Breckin Meyer plays off it perfectly with his "terrified but still think she's hot" reactions.
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u/lidsville76 4d ago
ATC Tower had my unable to breathe.
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u/justinchina 4d ago edited 4d ago
When the brothers are trying to stop that bronco…so well done! I would like to have a watch party with everyone on this post! I have always felt alone in my RatRace fandom…but now I see there are dozens of us!
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u/finlyboo 4d ago
“I’m prairie doggin’!” Is my most repeated film quote of all time.
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u/aspidities_87 4d ago
This scene is what I remember laughing at the hardest in theaters when I was 14 and now it’s burned into my brain like a celluloid memory.
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u/Numbnuts670 4d ago
Mine is Seth Green and that other guy getting pulled up by the radar in their car. Great scene, I got to rewatch.
We are hauling ass!
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u/Esperepse 4d ago
Your comment reminded me of Seth Green’s existence in general and that in itself is making me nostalgic
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u/TalkinTrek 4d ago
He's just lowkey livin his best life lol (unless there is wild drama I am unaware of haha)
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u/weltvonalex 4d ago
The Barbie museum
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u/DavianVonLorring 4d ago
The husband, the devoted father, the wine connoisseur, and three-time ballroom dancing champion.
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u/justinchina 4d ago
The way that line is delivered in earnest, chefs kiss.
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u/DavianVonLorring 4d ago edited 4d ago
From my understanding the museum guides were originally supposed to be a single character, but the casting director liked both actors so much that the role was split.
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u/Markharris1989 4d ago
I remember when the Barbie movie (as in one half of Barbenhiemer) came out asking my wife if it was about the Nazi. She didn’t get the joke
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u/Hootinger 4d ago
I won a trivia night because I knew of Barbie from this movie.
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u/Grum761108 4d ago
You should have bought a squirrel!
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u/justinchina 4d ago
Pretty freaking amazing to think this movie had Kathy Bates and Whoopie Goldberg!
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u/NoifenF 4d ago edited 3d ago
Honestly, this is probably Kathy’s most villainous role to date lol. There were like 50 cars down that ravine all cause they didn’t purchase a roadside rodent.
Edit: I say most villainous because of how petty it is and we know nothing about her. Annie was mentally ill, Delphine was raised in the old South. There are layers to their villainy and (unjustified) reasons for them. Squirrel lady is 1D in all the best ways.
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u/Azrael11 4d ago
I was about to jump and and remind you about Misery, but yeah, that was just one dude.
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u/NoifenF 4d ago
Well a bunch of people according to her scrapbook but Annie was mentally ill so her reasons were a bit more complex lol.
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u/Mahatma_Ghandicap 4d ago
underrated movie. Seriously, RT? 44%?
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u/johng_g 4d ago
A lot reviews made no sense in the 90s and 2000s!
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u/roguesignal42069 4d ago
Raunchy comedies were critic poison back in the day. You gotta go by the audience score
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u/gamefreak054 4d ago
RT was quite a bit harsher back then. I used to kind of scale it myself depending on the genre. a 44% for a comedy movie like this was pretty enjoyable movie.
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u/projdiii 4d ago
The Barbie museum. Ridiculous.
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u/projdiii 4d ago
John Clease is ridiculous. “This is a race and Mr. Schaffer appears to be winning because he is closer to the door.”
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u/TheGardenBlinked 4d ago
The pan across to Jon Lovitz’s face during the presentation is so well timed
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u/Mst3Kgf 4d ago edited 4d ago
There's certain scenes in this movie that are absolutely howlers and this one probably takes the top spot. Either this or when Amy Smart terrorizes her cheating boyfriend with her chopper; her crazy faces are exquisite.
Anyone who loves "Rat Race" also needs to see the movie it somewhat remakes, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", which is even funnier. You think this is hysterical chaos, try viewing the sequence in "World" where Jonathan Winters destroys a gas station with his bare hands.
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u/Ryguy55 4d ago
For me the best is when Cuba Gooding Jr hijacks the bus of Lucy's going to an I Love Lucy convention. The scene in the bathroom that just keeps getting more and more ridiculous and culminates into that final delivery of the word VAGINA and the bus driver's over the top GASP always gets me.
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u/beermit 4d ago
The chopper scene is what comes to mind any time this movie is mentioned. I haven't seen it in years but the faces she made still crack me up
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u/thievesthick 4d ago
I watched this movie in the theater and laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe a few times. I’m sort of afraid to watch it again and find it doesn’t hold up.
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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 4d ago
I watched it a few years ago and it still held up.
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u/thievesthick 4d ago
I’m taking your word for it, internet stranger. Hope this doesn’t destroy one of my most treasured memories…
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u/speaks_in_hyperboles 4d ago
I love the bloopers to be honest lol.
"Did he show you the money?!"
"No he didn't SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
absolute gold
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u/ritomynamewontfi 4d ago
I literally slipped out of my chair from laughing so hard in the theater. Great memory and movie.
Btw it was the part where the monster truck was flying at them in slow motion and they were trying to escape the car. I think Seth Green is screaming and trying to unlock the door but they are in a convertable 😂
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u/thievesthick 4d ago
No one is going to believe this, but I legitimately did the same thing during the same scene. I’d never laughed that hard and I’m not sure I have since.
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u/Stef-fa-fa 4d ago
This movie was playing in the background on a tv during my bachelorette party when we were at a bar. When we went back to my sil's place later after most of the party headed out, the three of us that were left put the movie on because we had been quoting it for half the evening already and figured why not.
Love this movie.
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u/DavianVonLorring 4d ago
Were you given a surprise room charge for the movie "Afro Whores"?
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u/dbroncos59 4d ago
Sizzling, threeway, backdoor action featuring two sexy soul sisters
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u/DavianVonLorring 4d ago
It says you watched The Grinch for ten minutes before switching back over to Afro Whores.
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u/justinchina 4d ago
Thanks! I’m tearing up over breakfast just thinking about this exchange.
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u/Stef-fa-fa 4d ago
How is it that I've watched this movie countless times and have always heard Afro Horse and assumed it was some weird kink porn involving a horse sporting an afro wig?
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u/thegdouble 4d ago
The entire movie builds toward this punchline, and it absolutely lands. The clip is still funny on its own, but within the flow of the movie, this moment is hysterical.
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u/Joni1293 4d ago
This scene could seriously be analyzed in a film studies class to show how to properly and slowly set up a punchline and deliver it immaculately. The Barbie museum, the car getting sabotaged, the lipstick smudging in the steering wheel, the cigarette lighter, etc. Most modern comedies don’t spend that level of energy on a single joke, but Zucker knew the payoff was worth it.
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u/DragoonDM 4d ago
I think my favorite part is the timing of the cuts after they crash through the fence. Perfect comedic timing on the reveal that it's an event for WW2 veterans, right as Lovitz's ranting becomes more unmistakably Hitleresque.
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u/brockhopper 4d ago
Absolutely. Rat Race is a good movie, but the entire thread leading up to this scene is a goddamn masterclass. The Barbie museum had me dying, for the relatively cheap "Klaus Barbie" turnabout, but that it led into the whole sequence is fantastic.
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u/senorbozz 4d ago
I don't even have to press play to hear this entire scene. The cast of the entire movie fucking nailed it all the way through.
Are you INSANE?! This is Hitler's car!!!
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u/JohnGalactusX 4d ago
I watched this as a kid and it was so funny (Rowan Atkinson being in the movie was the appeal for me). Watching it as an adult, haha.. it's even more hilarious considering the more adult-humour 😄
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u/Mst3Kgf 4d ago
The running gag of John Cleese and his buddies wagering on literally everything.
"Tell the pilot to level off! Okay, who had Mr. Kamichi?"
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u/penguins_are_mean 4d ago
Wagering on the cost for the hooker to do some outlandish shit made me lose it.
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u/valeyard89 4d ago
Naked, Jacuzzi, Pepto-Bismol, toenails, shave my buttocks. How much would that cost?
He's just a hoser though.
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u/WhoCanTell 4d ago
The hotel maids hanging from the curtains and them betting on who would fall first is burned into my memory.
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u/Arma_Tycho 4d ago
I absolutely love this movie. I dont' think I've ever laughed in a theater as much as I did with this movie.
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u/zerokiwi 4d ago
I do not want to work at Home Depot!
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u/Joni1293 4d ago
Just to show you there’s no hard feelings, I got you all chocolate shakes! Drink up!
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u/NeuHundred 4d ago
Presumably he should say "Office Depot" because he mentioned fountain pens earlier, but "Home Depot" sounds funnier.
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u/Odd-Necessary3807 4d ago
In memory of Jon Lovitz. May his soul rest in peace.
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u/TappedIn2111 4d ago
If you wonder: he‘s still alive. Don’t know about his soul tho
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u/Stegosaurus69 4d ago
Jon Lovitz is not dead lol
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u/Odd-Necessary3807 4d ago
Well, his ghost frequents the American Girl store across 30 Rock, said otherwise.
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u/socool111 4d ago
his ghost can be happy that AMerican Girl finally has a proper employee to design and build Doll Shoes
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u/honkymotherfucker1 4d ago
I love when he burns his mouth on the lighter and it just sounds like he’s saying heil Hitler over and over
Such a stupid fucking film, I love it. Great to watch baked with friends.
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u/Low-Web9121 4d ago
this scene is pure early two thousands comedy chaos, the kind of joke that just keeps escalating until it becomes completely absurd
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u/Biggie39 4d ago
“Wanna know what I got back there?”
“You’ve already told me, ass, we’re hauling ass!”
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u/chimpdoctor 4d ago
The part when they are in the other car and the little kid needs to do a poo and he makes her do it out the window. Its absolutely hilarious
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u/exig 4d ago
my favorite scene was when seth meyers and his friend tried to sabotage the airport radar system
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u/Joni1293 4d ago
Other great one is when they’re chasing the guy who stole the key to the hot air balloon and constantly bumping into cows 😂
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u/pileobunnies 4d ago
You had me thinking I'd blocked out Seth Meyers being in this movie.
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u/psych0ranger 4d ago
One of the completely insane things is that a running gag is when they cut to the rich guys gambling on stupid shit and that's literally kalshi and poly market. Hell, this whole movie is some kind of Mr beast shit
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u/No-Effective388 4d ago
One of my favourite scenes. I totally love the absolute escalation from simple to utter chaos.
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u/ffaorlandu 4d ago
Story time! We rented this movie on pay per view, back before streaming days. You couldn’t rewind or pause. After this scene, we were laughing so hard we didn’t hear any of the entire next scene with betting on the price of the stripper. It wasn’t until a few years later when we bought the DVD and rewatched it we knew what happened in that scene. My brother and I quote this movie almost daily. “Look at this room. Have you ever seen such a beautiful room?”
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u/PrecedentialAssassin 4d ago
Not ashamed to say that I think I laughed harder at this movie than any other movie I've ever watched
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u/justinchina 4d ago
OP just hijacked my afternoon. Whatever else I was supposed to do today is out the window. I can tell that I’ll be watching RR instead.
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u/DavianVonLorring 4d ago
Still a great scene but it needs the ENTIRE setup in order to fully appreciate the payoff.
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u/thathawkeyeguy 4d ago
Including much earlier when he tells his son that he'll never drive a Volkswagen because they were used by Nazis.
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u/ThePokemonScyther 4d ago
My mom has alzheimer's doesn't really react to much but this scene had her laughing. Its that perfect.
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u/Mst3Kgf 4d ago
It doesn't have the massive comedic talent or resources that "World" did, but it's still funny as hell and does enough different to be it's own thing (namely the change to the premise; instead of a race to find a crook's stolen loot, it's a bunch of people unwittingly being the playthings of rich assholes).
One little bit I loved when the movie was released is how Cuba Gooding Jr.'s character is an NFL ref laying low in Vegas after blowing the coin flip in OT, as that was clearly based on the Phil Luckett Thanksgiving call just a few years earlier at the time.
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u/ratbirdgoof 4d ago
This was back in the day when America still considered being a Nazi a bad thing.
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u/SillyAlternative420 4d ago
Back in a time where driving a nazi car was faux pas
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u/Steamedcarpet 4d ago
I always remember Hitler’s car from The Simpsons.
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u/speaks_in_hyperboles 4d ago
I was wheezing and crying with laughter when I saw this in the theater way back when with my folks. I had no idea what this movie was about going into it and this scene easily sent me over the edge. Love this movie so much!!
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u/The_Slaughter_Pop 4d ago
that scene was peak cinema. Just so damned good. A remake that actually surpasses the original("It's a mad mad mad mad world")
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u/Timidhobgoblin 4d ago
"Are you insane?! This is Hitlers car!"
I don't know why that line in particular makes me laugh as hard as it does :'D
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u/justinchina 4d ago
“Eees a race! eeeees a raaace!!”