The movie won an Oscar for sound editing and I got to tell you the incidental music just pulls you into each scene. The plot you can read here, but what is important with a chase plot is that everyone is going to be on their worst behavior. It helps if they start out miserable, which, being Americans, they all are. So of course there will be betrayal and abandonment, theft and deceit, property damage, and eventually assault and battery.
It did well at the box office and a sequel was planned but never happened. There have been refashioned remakes, but none as successful. Perhaps the best of the bunch was Rat Race, which scored about the same as IAMMMMW in reviews.
I think it's time for a remake but I would cast it with basically no white people. Maybe if Adam Sandler helps produce it, he can be the one white guy (in the Jerry Lewis part, naturally) but otherwise no crackers.
What's our cast? There's an insane amount of talent to choose from blacks, latins, asians,etc.. What would be weird is to cast according to world statistics, so there'd be a lot of Chinese and Indians in the pic, but nah.
Like any casting director, I am aiming for specific talent, like say, Denzel Washington in Spencer Tracy's role, or Keenan Thompson replacing Jonathan Winters.
It doens't have to be black people but I think if the movie is a chase action movie with comedic elements, I think it would work quite well with this demographic.
I am also open to casting all adult performers (porn stars) in a remake. Why not?
