The Cannonball Run

It was nice to take a step into the past see actors I always liked as I was growing up in the movie I actually had never seen before. Now I have to get the other cannonball movies. I wish the Blu-ray had some documentary or something of that nature but it did not.

Brought back many great memories after watching it with a new family generation. A star-studded cast makes the picture fun.

Love this movie as a kid. Classic chase movie with classic stars. They don’t make them like this anymore. Fun and silly.

Great movie from the 80’s

Great buy

Seriously, this is simply one of the most fun movies ever made and you can tell everyone who was a part of it had a ball. The more you look into this film the wilder it gets from the wild assortment of Hollywood actors who showed up to the party to the incredible true story of Brock Yates and Hal Needham actually posing as ambulance drives with Brock's girlfriend on a stretcher and a doctor found in a bar participating in the real Cannonball a few years earlier and using the same story used in the movie to get past the NJ State Troopers. Look it up.Stunts, cars, stars and laughs. Sit back and have fun.

I love this film. I first saw it as a kid and I'm familiar with most of the cast, so that'll at least partly explain my attraction to it.Highlights here for me...- Intro with Lamborghini police chase in desert.- Real camels in desert intro scene with the sheik.- Any scene with Roger Moore, Jackie Chan, or Jamie Farr, with their corresponding theme music.- Jackie Chan's 1st intro to mainstream America, not including his earlier Big Brawl.- A great cast of stars & neat cars, including a red Ferrari, a silver Aston Martin, and a white Rolls Royce.Kids today may actually recognize Jackie Chan & Terry Bradshaw before they recognize anybody else. Roger Moore playing Seymour Goldfarb, Jr., a guy who thinks he's Roger Moore, is fantastic to me. He along with his gadget-filled Aston Martin & near James Bond music is almost single-handedly the reason I prefer this 1st film to the sequel. In this 1st movie we also see a lot of the great Lamborghini, whereas in the sequel, the Lamborghini is ditched near the beginning due to a breakdown.I actually appreciate the humor in this. Jamie Farr as the sheik here is impressively politically incorrect, as is much of the film, but in a mainly tame way. I re-watch this a lot, with my favorite sections being the beginning to Bert Convy riding a motorcycle out of an airplane over Arizona, and then from when Jackie first enters the desert to the end of the film. These beginning & end sequences simply have the most replay value for me.In the audio commentary, the directer & producer incorrectly state that this is Jackie Chan's 1st American film. The producer later clarifies this, saying it's Jackie's 1st exposure to a broad, American audience. This is mainly true. Jackie's 1st American film was actually the Big Brawl, which was released a year earlier, in 1980. Because Cannonball Run was a huge hit, and the Big Brawl was a huge flop, it's logical that Jackie's 1st widespread introduction to America would be considered Cannonball Run. It actually was my introduction to Jackie Chan, although I didn't become fanatical about him & his movies until I rediscovered him in the mid-90's.- Product tie-ins... many brand-names are mentioned or seen here. A partial list: 7-11; Budweiser; Camel; Coca-Cola; Dr. Pepper; GMC Trucks; Goodyear; Hawaiian Tropic & the Hawaiian Tropic Girls; and NASCAR; not to mention the various main auto makers. Some people like this product placement- I think it adds a nice element.P.S. My disc is white, but newer discs may look completely different.

Dated, but a bit of fun.

This is an old classic full of fun and frolic. Definitely worth a watch if you've never seen it!

One of the best car films I've seen, ok it's not serious it is a farce, ok its not trying to win an oscar but that don't matter it is a film to just enjoy one of those films you will like to watch say after a stressfull day or one of those lazy days where you fancy something lighthearted and amusing.

Just brilliant. One of the classics. Have to have it in the collection. Brilliant characters, full energy movie 👍

Great film

Cars. Burt Reynolds. Some of the best one-liners ever on celluloid. Farrah Fawcett at her delectable best. Of course it gets five stars!Schindler's List it isn't. Bloody entertaining it is. And it's survived the test of time remarkably well, too...