Good Cast but Lukewarm Comedy

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2019)

This film essentially begins with certain people from all over the world competing in an illegal car race starting in Connecticut and finishing in Los Angeles, California. Naturally, being quite competitive and having already raced against each other previously, all of the drivers seek to gain some kind of an edge over everybody else which will propel them to victory. In one particular case, "J. J. McClure" (Burt Reynolds) and his partner "Victor Prinzim" (Dom DeLuise) have decided to drive an ambulance which will allow them to bypass certain restrictions typically enforced on everyone else. Likewise, "Jamie Blake" (Dean Martin) and "Fenderbaum" (Sammy Davis Jr.) pose as priests in the belief that it will confer some kind of advantage along the way as well. Anything to win. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an okay comedy which was inspired by an actual series of illegal coast-to-coast races in the 70's known as the "Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash". Yet, despite the fact that it had an all-star cast, the overall comedy wasn't that impressive and for that reason I have rated this film accordingly. Average.