Fast, Furious and Funny!

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2006)

One of the most madcap action comedies of all time is "The Cannonball Run." In it, star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham are reunited after their stunt-rich classic "Smokey and the Bandit." The rest of the cast boasts many names such as Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jackie Chan, Terry Bradshaw, Adrienne Barbeau, Peter Fonda and Farrah Fawcett. The story follows everyone on a mad dash across the country in the infamous Cannonball Run, an insane (and illegal) race from the East Coast to the West. Lots of the humor is lowbrow, but it will still make you laugh. The quintessential character of this story has to be DeLuise's alter ego Captain Chaos, since the movie is pure chaos itself. "The Cannonball Run" is a nice mix of adrenaline and laughs!