Synopsis
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.
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Cast
- Burt ReynoldsJ.J. McClure
- Dom DeLuiseVictor Prinzim / Captain Chaos / Don Canneloni
- Dean MartinJamie Blake
- Sammy Davis Jr.Fenderbaum
- Jamie FarrSheik
- Marilu HennerBetty
- Telly SavalasHymie
- Shirley MacLaineVeronica
- Susan AntonJill
- Catherine BachMarcie
Recommandations
- 40
The New York Times
The fact that Cannonball Run II isn't much good may not prevent it from becoming this summer's best- loved lowest-common-denominator comedy, if only because of the utter absence of any competition. - 40
Time Out
There are nun jokes, mafia jokes, big breast jokes, karate jokes, Jaws jokes, more big breasts. It's a long ride. - 20
Variety
Execution is uninspired, laughs are hard to find, and the script is also difficult to locate. Reynold’s high-pitched laugh is wearing thin. - 12
Chicago Sun-Times
Cannonball Run II is one of the laziest insults to the intelligence of moviegoers that I can remember. Sheer arrogance made this picture. - 10
TV Guide Magazine
Burt Reynolds and a host of notable performers seem to be having a hell of a good time wandering through this meandering, episodic farce, but rarely is their good mood shared by the viewer. - 10
Washington Post
If you aren't feeling so generous, it's pretty obvious that the movie is not only a stinker but an inexcusably corrupt stinker, dependent on the indulgence of a public slavish or naive enough to feel honored when old pros content themselves with smugly amateurish shtik. [29 June 1984, p.B5] - 10
Washington Post
Cannonball Run II is a real lemon. [29 June 1984, p.19] - 0
Miami Herald
Oh, yes. Reynolds is in it -- but whatever quiet comic timing he once had with DeLuise in movies like The End has been shot to hell by the confusion in the script and the havoc in the pace. They get it back again during the credits, which are accompanied by some outtakes of DeLuise and Reynolds doing their improvisational bit as DeLuise assumes the role of a human bomb. Even bad bloopers are better than this movie. [29 June 1984, p.7]
