Big Business
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Movie Reviews of Big Business
Movie Review: Classic laughs
Summary: 4 Stars
Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler and this movie are as funny now as they were when it came out. The price was right, and now I own it. Perfect.Movie Review: big business fun
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a fun movie to see again with two very funny stars. This movie was a good "feel good"movie and you could see it more than once.Movie Review: Nature or Nurture, Disney Won't Decide
Summary: 3 Stars
This film approaches the nature vs. nurture debate in comedic tones, but in politically correct Disney fashion, they never pick a side.
"Big Business" is an entertaining comedy. It is also a Disney product through and through. It is created by the same corporation that made "The Parent Trap" and it shows. This is a film based on the same mistaken identity and fish out of water genres.
I am with the folks that believe Disney created the Touchstone name so they could cash in on movies that include cussing and nudity, but still maintain their wholesome image. However, I do acknowledge that this film has neither of those, which is good, because if anyone was separated at birth I'm betting it was Lily Tomlin and Mick Jagger. The filmmakers do hurl a not so subtle rock at their chief competitor, Mr. Weinstein by dubbing the evil corporation of the film "Moramax."
Technically writing, the digital transfer is weak. The techs did nothing to improve the look of the film it is often grainy and the special effects are dated, with jarring color differences between the twins and their "clones." Touchstone added no features to the DVD, not even cast bios.
Some of the "cameos" were fun, but one wasn't. I enjoyed seeing a young Seth Meyers as the spoiled child and Louis Rukeyser of "Wall Street Week" getting beaten with a purse. The World Trade Center's twin towers were in several shots and that always takes me out of a film for a few moments.
Interesting choice for the writers/producers to go contrary to type and name red-head rose Midler's character "Sadie" and Tomlin's non-traditional character "Rose."
One must suspend a whole truckload of disbelief to swallow the premise that two sets of twins are born at the same moment at the same rural hospital, mixed up, named the same and then cross paths, multiple times 50 years later without seeing eachother. It is extremely contrived, to say the least. But...if you can do that, you'll be rewarded with a very funny, entertaining hour and a half.
Movie Review: 3 Stars, which should be 5. But disney is apparently cheap!
Summary: 3 Stars
No extras on a DVD. Especially a film so loved with a countless cult following. I would like to ask that people not buy this and write or e-mail disney as to why that decision was made, I already have. Maybe some good will come of it. As for the movie, well I of course love it. Isn't that obvious?Movie Review: DVD Not Worthy of the Movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I was on a waiting list to get this DVD since I love this film. Disney must have been cheaper than usual when formatting this disk, because it has no special features. Oh I take that back, Disney did manage to hawk their upcoming cheesy straight-to-video cartoons in the previews before the feature. Does that count as a special feature? There are not even director's or actor's commentaries on the soundtrack or any information about the making of the film that fans would have loved to see. The only thing we could hope for would be a special edition possibly when the film turns 20, but don't count on it. Although a disapointment, still better than a VHS.