The Cannonball Run

The Cannonball Run (1981)

  • 31% of critics liked it
    (29 reviews)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (45,921 ratings)

Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race… More

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PG,
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Genres
Action & Adventure, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 19, 1981 Wide
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Full of terribly inside showbiz jokes and populated by what could be called Burt and Hal's Rat Pack, film takes place in that redneck never-never land where most of the guys are beer-guzzling good ole boys and all the gals are fabulously built tootsies.

  • , Time Out

    The last five minutes, when they show out-takes of flubbed lines, etc, are hysterical. The rest is strictly for those willing to pay for a series of TV chat show performances.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The Cannonball Run is an abdication of artistic responsibility at the lowest possible level of ambition. In other words, they didn't even care enough to make a good lousy movie.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Inoffensive and sometimes funny.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Harmless entertainment at its most commercial and least artistic, offering some fun spotting the stars in cameos

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Ken S


    Nonstop silliness and shenanigans, with an all star cast.

  • AJ V


    Another all star car chase movie. This one is fun but predictable as always, of course there are one or two really funny scenes, but overall it could be better.

  • KJ P


    I was extremely average with only a few laughs!

  • Anthony L


    Not as good as I remembered it but it?s still a childhood favourite. The cast is fantastic too!

  • Jani H


    Saw it again for nostalgic reasons. I thought it would be fun but it turned out to be mostly embarrasing. Ruined my childhood memories of a fun film but Dom DeLuise was fun to watch, as always. Go Captain Chaos!

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