Big (Extended Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Big (Extended Edition)
Movie Review: A comedy plenty of laughable moments!
Summary: 5 Stars
In the eighties, the comedy genre assailed with strength invective around the world, (The meaning of life, Brazil, Consuming passions, Buffet froid Choose me) specially during the middle years. And "Big" not only smartly innovated the proposal around the always disturbing question: what if you or me had the chance to return over our vanished youthful? But answered and cleverly responded as a joke. As you may realize, a considerable number of Fellini works (Amarcord, The clowns)turned around this aspect.
But the touch of genius of the screenwriters was to employ two well defined ages (adult and son and exchange them); allowing to express a duality with the expected tangles of the case.
And if we scrutinize with detail, we should cite this celebrated film as the second most original comedy of the eighties, because of the fact Zelig was much more audacious, irreverent and loaded of major sardonic intentions.
Big will be probably an obligated reference pattern for many filmmakers that really want to risk and bet for this risked genre.
Movie Review: Hanks' star rises again
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is the fortituous meeting of a truly great script, and an actor who was primed and ready for superstardom. Tom Hanks had already been showing a lot of potential for several years (on TV, in "Bosom Buddies" and "Family Ties", and on the big screen in "Splash" and "The Money Pit"), but this film gave Hanks his first opportunity to really flex his considerable acting muscle. And flex it he does. Hanks' performance as overgrown 12 year-old Josh Baskin garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
However, his is not the only great performance in this movie. He's often nearly upstaged by Jared Rushton, who plays Billy Kopecki (Josh's best friend). Billy gets a few of the script's best zingers.
The basic storyline of "Big" was fraught with potential pitfalls and potential violations of taste, but it managed to avoid every one of them. It's often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and several scenes can either make you smile or cringe, depending on from which character's perspective you're viewing the scenes. Simply brilliant filmmaking.
Movie Review: "Extended" edition ?
Summary: 5 Stars
Experience tells me there's two kinds of "Extended editions": the first are the ones in which the director was forced to do something against his will to fit the movie to a certain length (see Terminator 2, Aliens, Blade Runner, etc.), and the second are the ones in which the outakes weren't all that damaged so the studio took a strictly merchandising decision.
BIG EXTENDED EDITION is obviously the latter but don't let that discourage you, this is one of the funniest films of the 80s and there's is no question it was the one film that took Tom Hanks from OK TV star to bona fide movie star.
My favorite scene: the eating of the "little corn". I loved learning from the extras that it was totally the product of improvising at the last second !
This is an excelent DVD, it's just that my next viewing of it will be by choosing the original cut.
Movie Review: A great buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember when i was younger going to see this film with my brother and sisters and really enjoying it this extended cut of big is as great as the original cinema cut with an additional 25 minutes of footage not included in the original release the deleted scenes on the second disc are just the extra scenes that are in the extended cut but with the option of watching either cut of the film on the 1st disc it has to be a great buy and being a buyer from the uk i am pleased that i bought this release as 1 of my 1st ever importsMovie Review: Big
Summary: 5 Stars
Irresistible film brings off far-fetched premise with warmth and charm. Hanks excels as man-boy Josh, and Robert Loggia is also terrific as the toy magnate who mentors him. But it's John Heard who has a comic field day playing Paul, a suspicious, resentful colleague who loses ground professionally and personally to Josh, as both his boss and girlfriend Susan (Perkins) reject him for this wunderkind who came out of nowhere. Don't miss the priceless scene where Josh and Susan have their first "sleep-over".