A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Duane and Blaine, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother reunited with her daughter, who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler's personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran's convention. A narcoleptic Italian gets a ride with an ambulance driver, who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck's window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend's house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese's humorless attorney.

Jason Alexander was originally lined up to play Zack.

[a hotel employee hands Nick Schaffer his bill]


Nick Schaffer:
What's this $110?


Hotel Clerk:
Those are your in-room movies.


Nick Schaffer:
No, I didn't watch any movies.


Hotel Clerk:
Okay, let's see... Afro Whores.


Nick Schaffer:
Afro Whores?


Hotel Clerk:
You watched it... let's see... uh, 11 times.


Nick Schaffer:
No, no, no...


Hotel Clerk:
Afro Whores, 2:30. Afro Whores, 4 o'clock. Afro Whores, 5:30. It says in the morning you watched The Grinch for ten minutes and then switched back over to Afro Whores.


Nick Schaffer:
I swear I didn't watch it. Okay? I was at a bachelor party. There were 35 people there. You can ask any of them. You have to take that off my record.


Hotel Clerk:
This is not a record, sir.


Nick Schaffer:
It... It's a delete.


Hotel Clerk:
Okay, fine. How many times *did* you watch it?


Nick Schaffer:
None! I didn't watch it!


Hotel Clerk:
Are you sure? "Sizzling, three-way, backdoor action featuring two sexy soul sisters... ”


Nick Schaffer:
[screaming] I don't need to know what it's about! I did not watch it! I didn't.

[hotel clerk raises her eyebrows]

Errors in geography: Single-deck AMTRAK trains and Acela locomotives do not run through Arizona or New Mexico.

Written by David Forman, Jon Carin & Rick Chertoff
Performed by Baha Men
Produced by Rick Chertoff & Jon Carin
Baha Men perform courtesy of S-Curve Records