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Hal Needham's latest
crash'em-up, 'The Can- I
nonball Iiun," is quite i
possibly the most stupidly <
conceived movie of the Dast <
20 years. The story of an illegal,
no-holds-barred, 1
coast-to-coast automobile ?
race was filmed before--and 1
better--just five years ago j
sunder the title "The Gumball I
* Rally." (
Anvonp who saw "Th#? i
Gumball Rally" is bound to s
be disappointed by "The <
Cannonball Run." whereas |
the former relied on equal itparts
of humor, stuntwork I
and plain old-fashioned good 1
storytelling to ensure its |
viewers of a good time, the
latter rel.es wholly on the ^
allure of its all-star cast, %
which is headed bv Burt j
^Kevnolds. Roger Moore. J
i'';iri'ah Fawcett and Dom 4
DeLuise
in Needhain's most
recent directorial effort.
Miiokey and the bandit II,"
no sense of chase ever is f|i
generated in "The Cannonball
Run." We're con- j
tinually exposed to a dozen |
ui su last ears, among mem
two Ferraris and a Lamborghini.
Sometimes we see
Qjhem going fast. But more
often than not, we see them
stopped, so that their drivers
and passengers can engage
in a sort of pseudo-witty
redneck repartee, almost
none of which is remotely .
funny to anyone except, of
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THE SOLE exception to
:his rule is Moore, who
maintains his natural air of
iignity throughout the
otherwise hot-damn-I'm-glad
to-be-a-hick-proceedings.
When a surly truck driver
attempts to talk with Moore
yia CB-radio, using all the
jargon inherent to such
transmissions, Moore
demands that the yokel
repeat his message,
speaking slower and using
tmly the Queen's English.
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