A few different characters are living their own lives. Nick Schaffer is being charged for the movies that were watched in his hotel room. He convinces the concierge that he did not view them because he was at a bachelor party.

There is also Randy and his family, who are checking into the same hotel. Others include Vera, who gets reunited with her daughter, Merrill, after putting her up for adoption as a baby, Owen, who is a football referee, and Rowan, who is a tourist from Italy. And there are 2 troublemakers, Duane and Blaine Cody, who are also brothers.

At some point, all these people are invited to a conference room buffet by the hotel owner, Donald P. Sinclair. He reveals that there is a locker in Silver City, New Mexico, which contains a duffel bag of 2 million dollars. Whoever reaches it first wins the money.

Once the race officially begins, all the competitors rush to the airport. However, Duane and Blaine have tampered with the radar. This causes all flights to remain grounded and delayed until further notice.

Because of that incident, the competitors find other ways of transportation. But crazy things happen along their journeys.

Merrill and Vera get lost and ask a woman for directions. But that lady is more interested in selling them squirrels.

Owen gets kicked out of his taxi for a bad call that he once made at a football game. The driver even takes Owen’s pants off before ejecting him from the cab.

Randy has to deal with his family, including when his daughter, Kimberly, has to use the bathroom. She ends up having to do her business out the window. She also begs her dad to stop at the Barbie Museum, which he hesitantly accepts. But it’s about a white supremacist whose last name was Barbie—not the doll.

Nick, who wasn’t going to participate, finds a ride with a pilot named Tracy. Even that goes crazy, especially when she sees her boyfriend with another woman. She yells at him and tries to hurt him with her plane.

Meanwhile, Duane and Blaine are continuing to ruin the race for the others, even while on a hot air balloon with a cow hanging from the basket.

Who will win?

Despite the okay beginning, this film made me laugh a lot. I even laughed at scenes that would be dangerous and disturbing in real life. I guess that is the beauty of comedy movies.

For example, when Duane and Blaine drove up the radar and bad things kept happening to them, I found it amusing. Of course, if it were real life, my reaction would have been the opposite.

There were other memorable moments, too. For instance, when Owen needs clothes and transportation, he asks a bus driver to give him his clothes because he claimed that “his wife was having a baby” and made up a bunch of “reasons.” Then he drove a bus full of cosplayers, portraying Lucy from I Love Lucy. That was funny.

Aside from the humor, I had no problem with the constant point-of-view switching through the film. Usually, that confuses me. But in this case, it kept the movie straightforward—probably because I knew that there were a lot of characters competing for the money. Not just one.

And like with any good movie, there were a lot of twists of turns in this one. One included the Barbie Museum not being about the doll. And the others? See the film to find out.

Overall, I enjoyed Rat Race. It was a funny and fast-paced movie. It would make a good watch for anyone 12 and over. The film is rated PG-13 for language and certain levels of bodies shown.

Anyway, I give this film 4.5 out of 5 stars.