"Are you one of those Volleyballers?"

Rating: 2/10 (13 March 2013)

Car race comedy written by Brock Yates, who may have been inspired by the television cartoon "Wacky Races", though his screenplay steals more liberally from "Cannonball!" and "The Gumball Rally", both from 1976. The whole thing looked like yesterday's news even in 1981, what with star Burt Reynolds on auto-pilot, surrounded by a slew of his off-camera friends on sycophant-duty. Hal Needham directs without inspiration, and even the photogenic pairing of Reynolds with Farrah Fawcett fails to come off. Slurpy-mouthed and manic-stupid, with a withering finale at the finish line. A big hit at the box-office, nevertheless, and followed by a sequel in 1984. * from ****