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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 »
How can a psychedelic toad and a crotch-sniffing dog be Big Trouble?
Every time I start writing this, and recall elements of the film, I begin chuckling and lose my train of thought! This is director Barry Sonnenfeld's best movie, and I say that in full knowledge that he also directed The Adams Family (1991), Adams Family Values (1993), Get Shorty (1995), Men In... Read full review »
A few good moments, but Mis-cast, unfunny (DVD Review)
Director Barry Sonnenfeld has had an interesting career, first serving as cinematographer for some of the Coen Brother's earlier efforts. Eventually, he became a director himself, starting out with the low-key crime comedy "Get Shorty" and building up into bigger pictures such as "Men in Black" and... Read full review »
Yes, that was a goat..
I have to shamelessly admit, I have not laughed this hard in a movie theater in a very long time. Big Trouble is an example of what happens if you strip away all of the unnecessary clutter that most films throw in for whatever reason. It focuses on one story, the odd assortment of characters and... Read full review »
Big Trouble isn't worth the trouble...
Comedies like Barry Sonnenfeld's film Big Trouble really make me wonder how such bad movies can actually get made. When a person walks into a movie, he or she goes into the theater with an expectation of the movie being shown. When I went to see Big Trouble, I expected a silly, shallow comedy good... Read full review »
The comedy genre is in 'trouble' with this flick...
They're in trouble because the comic genius of one Dave Barry has finally made it to the big screen. Now, I have to preface this with the fact that I love Dave Barry's humor. I uniquely identify with his real-life columns, and found the book to be funny because it possessed the same wit he displays... Read full review »
In my opinion, one of the funniest comedies of the decade!
The career of director Barry Sonnenfeld has been quite an interesting one. Before directing his first film in 1991, he was a talented and well-respected cinematographer of films such as Blood Simple, Throw Momma From the Train, Raising Arizona, and When Harry Met Sally... before directing The... Read full review »
This is One Deceiving Movie
How could anyone wanting to see a funny movie not want to see Tim Allen in a movie written by Dave Barry? It sucked me, and apparently enough others to put it on the top ten movies list, in, and if you haven't seen it yet, don't worry. This movie REALLY stinks. It pains me to say that, because I am... 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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