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Big Trouble
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You'll have a good time for 90 minutes...and then forget it entirely.
Much like a small dish of ice cream after dinner, the new comedy Big Trouble is pretty tasty, not very filling, entertaining while it lasts, and entirely forgettable after the fact. Clocking in at a slight 80-some minutes, Big Trouble comes off most like a relatively well-written sitcom. Whether or... Read full review »
Big Trouble Keeps Delivering Laughs
The release date for this movie is uncertain, as its subject matter caused it to be yanked after the September 11 atrocity. I saw it at a sneak on Sept. 10 at which the man himself (Dave Barry) addressed an audience of ... well ... local Dave Barry fans. So perhaps this is not an entirely unbiased... Read full review »
Big Trouble is horrible
Barry Sonnenfeld needs an enema. Its time he turn out something good! I have high hopes for Men in Black II, but that is already an established film because it?s a sequel. Barry has been involved with some great films of the past, from Raising Arizona to the original Men in Black, but lately all he... Read full review »
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Big Trouble [VHS]
The frantic pacing of Big Trouble is surely intentional, but the movie leaves you wanting more of... something. Not more characters--it's got plenty of those--but more room for them to breathe in a top-heavy plot that recalls Get Shorty (also directed by Barry Sonnenfeld) without reaching those heights of ingenuity. Based on the bestseller by syndicated Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, this Miami-based mayhem bears the distinct imprint of Barry's humor, in which absurdities pile up like rush-hour traffic, involving a former journalist (Tim Allen) connected by circumstance to a wealthy schemer (Stanley Tucci), his bored wife (Rene Russo), Russian mobsters, mismatched cops (Janeane Garofalo, Patrick Warburton), power-crazed FBI agents (Heavy D, Omar Epps), a Frito-loving drifter (Jason Lee), cretinous criminals (Tom Sizemore, Johnny Knoxville), and a gigantic toad that shoots hallucinogenic saliva. Culminating in an airport bomb smuggling (prompting the film's delayed release after the tragedy of September 11, 2001), Big Trouble needs the brilliant cohesion of Dr. Strangelove; what it gets is Sonnenfeld's knack for sustained chaos, and a few decent belly laughs. --Jeff Shannon
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Big Trouble [VHS]
The frantic pacing of Big Trouble is surely intentional, but the movie leaves you wanting more of... something. Not more characters--it's got plenty of those--but more room for them to breathe in a top-heavy plot that recalls Get Shorty (also directed by Barry Sonnenfeld) without reaching those heights of ingenuity. Based on the bestseller by syndicated Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, this Miami-based mayhem bears the distinct imprint of Barry's humor, in which absurdities pile up like rush-hour traffic, involving a former journalist (Tim Allen) connected by circumstance to a wealthy schemer (Stanley Tucci), his bored wife (Rene Russo), Russian mobsters, mismatched cops (Janeane Garofalo, Patrick Warburton), power-crazed FBI agents (Heavy D, Omar Epps), a Frito-loving drifter (Jason Lee), cretinous criminals (Tom Sizemore, Johnny Knoxville), and a gigantic toad that shoots hallucinogenic saliva. Culminating in an airport bomb smuggling (prompting the film's delayed release after the tragedy of September 11, 2001), Big Trouble needs the brilliant cohesion of Dr. Strangelove; what it gets is Sonnenfeld's knack for sustained chaos, and a few decent belly laughs. --Jeff Shannon
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| Stars | Heavy D | |
| Actors | Zooey Deschanel | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Directors | Barry Sonnenfeld | |
| UPC | 786936165418 | |
| Genre | Comedies | |
| MPAA Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | |
| Release Date | 2002 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 25min | |
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| Original Language | English | |
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| Screenwriter | Matthew Stone | |
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| (04/12/2002, p.5E, Claudia Puig): "...Fast-paced and zany....Sonnenfeld strikes just the right tone here....The script is consistently humorous..." | ||
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