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The Cannonball Run

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A wide variety of characters participate in an illegal cross-country road race. It's a hilarious comedic chase as the eccentric participants are willing to do anything to win.

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Actors:	Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin
Director:	Hal Needham
Format:	Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language:	English
Subtitle:	English, Spanish, French
Number of Discs:	1
Studio:	Hbo Home Video
Run Time:	95 minutes
DVD Release Date:	June 05, 2001
Average Customer Rating:	based on 95 reviews

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Cannonball Run Aug 26, 2010
Very good quality product. The DVD seems to be professionally done. Well worth the money.

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At Least Cult Classic Material Jun 18, 2010
I'll begin by saying that this film is a great tribute to Farrah Fawcett. And the media should be ASHAMED of itself for virtually ignoring her death!

This is an interesting movie in that while it appears to be a race across the country, it is a clever group of different comedy acts that are united in a single story.

The story basically involves an illegal race across the country. But we appreciate the film fully if we just enjoy the separated acts of comedy rather than just being concerned with who will win the race.

The 2 main rivals JJ and Jim (Reynolds and Martin) do some deliberate cheating to try to get ahead of the other. But there is something really satisfying about how in the final fight they are fighting back to back.

Victor (Deluise) is an especially interesting character. He seems to be this hopelessly trapped naive and bumbling child in a man's body. But through a conversation with Farrah Fawcett, we come to understand him as he endears himself to us.

Farrah Fawcett's character is especially worth some attention. She seems to start out as this annoying nature lover; but when she is in a sense kidnapped, she adds just the right element of sadness to this comedy: "This isn't a joke anymore. I've been kidnapped." A touch of sadness that breaks the comedy a little prevents a comedy from becoming an utter farce. But her character expands to the point where she understands JJ and Victor. And she goes from being hurt and depressed to actually cheering Victor on to win the race. And she gets annoyed by an action that costs them the race.

The Dean Martin / Sammy Davis Jr pair is great also. They disguise themselves as priests; Dean Martin is more often than not sloshed; and of course he is always after women. And there is something too comical about seeing him dressed like a priest punching different members of the cycle gang out.

Roger Moore has an interesting role in that he is playing a character who is impersonating Roger Moore.

Another point worth mentioning is the role of the highway cops who are often outran. The film may appear to be anti cop. BUT, while the cops are often outran, the director is usually careful to film and show that the cop wasn't actually hurt. (Annoyed and outran yes. But not hurt or killed.) And the 2 women wearing tights with their shirts wide open who were seducing their way out of tickets all the way have a hilarious comeuppance when they are caught and stopped by a woman cop. And later we run across 3 cops on the smarter side who stop the sheik and show themselves to be great drivers. Who could forget the Fire Bird cop's line: "God damned camel jockey!"

I shouldn't ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it. But there is a hilarious end that defies the typical happy end for the main characters JJ and Victor.

Overall it's a great group of comic acts that are unified in a race with just the right touch of sadness. If this film does not become a classic, it will certainly have a cult following.

Love always Farrah

THE CANNONBALL RUN is an abdication of artistic responsibility at the lowest possible level of ambition May 25, 2010
In other words, they didn't even care enough to make a good lousy movie. CANNONBALL was probably always intended as junk, as an easy exploitation picture. But it's possible to bring some sense of style and humor even to grade-zilch material. This movie doesn't even seem to be trying.
Burt Reynolds sleepwalks through a role he's played several times before, but never so indifferently. He's a hotshot driver in a big, illegal cross-country road race; first one to California wins. That means Reynolds gets to drink a lot of beer, talk like a good ol' boy, and get in the middle of a lot of crashes and other stunts. The movie was directed by Hal Needham, a onetime stuntman who graduated to directing with SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977), the first and still the best of the Burt Reynolds car-chase movies. After that, each Needham movie has been worse than the one preceding it. His downward spiral has included HOOPER, THE VILLAIN, and SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II. Movie buffs will note that three of Needham's four movies have starred Burt Reynolds, one of the most important properties in Hollywood. Reynolds is so popular he can make money in almost anythingÑa maxim that CANNONBALL RUN puts to the extreme test. Reynolds and Needham are friends, and indeed the whole cast of CANNONBALL seems to consider the movie a reunion. The film ends with outtakesÑspoiled shots during which somebody breaks up or says the wrong line or otherwise goofs. It's supposed to show us how much fun everybody had. Alas, the outtakes don't look much more goofy than the takes they intended to put in the movie; CANNONBALL assembles a giant cast around an absolutely minimal amount of screenplay, and allows them to kill time expensively. There's not much plot and no suspense. The filmmakers' excuse, no doubt, is that they were really making a comedy, not a road race picture. That would work if there were any laughs in the movie.
But just look at the cast. It's like a cattle call. It's like an Actor's Guild picket line. It's like Hollywood Squares on Wheels. Some of the actors are talented, some are not, but they look equally awful in this movie. At one time or another during this unspeakable experience, you can share it with not only Burt Reynolds but also Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom De Luise, Dean Martin (looking as if a big-a pizza pie hit him straight in the eye), Sammy Davis, Jr. (looking like a severe case of vitamin deficiency), Jack Elam, Adrienne Barbeau (whose role consists of unzipping her jump suit), Terry Bradshaw, Jackie Chan, Bert Convy, Jamie Farr, Peter Fonda (as an aging Hells Angel), Michael Hui, Bianca Jagger, Molly Picon, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, and Mel Tillis. This isn't a cast, it's the answer to a double acrostic.

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"The Love Boat on Wheels" May 07, 2010
After the stunt-filled hilarity of "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Hooper," Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham shift into low gear with a sloppy road-race flick in which no one cares who wins. "The Cannonball Run" was made in a fit of indifference - squandering its eclectic all-star cast (everyone from Dean and Sammy to Farrah and Bianca) and miles of film stock. Not surprisingly, the closing outtakes upstage the entire movie. Encouraged by the upbeat audience reception, Burt and Company would reunite for an appallingly amateurish 1984 sequel. Crash and burn, indeed.

Even the writer Brock Yates distanced himself from this movie. Mar 11, 2010
Brock Yates, the originator of the actual Cannonball Run Race and writer of Cannonball Run movie even distanced himself from it when he realized during the filming that it was becoming a fictional Friends of Burt comedy movie. He mentions this in his book about the history of the Cannon Ball Run. The only movie worse is the Cannonball Run II.

A more realistic movie about cross country racing is The Gumball Rally.