Big Trouble
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Actor: Johnny Knoxville, Tim AllenBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
Published: 2002-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- The laughs come fast and furious as Tim Allen (JOE SOMEBODY, GALAXY QUEST) and Rene Russo (SHOWTIME, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR) star in a film from Barry Sonnenfeld, director of GET SHORTY and MEN IN BLACK. Based on humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, BIG TROUBLE follows the comedic chaos created when a mysterious suitcase that threatens the security of Miami changes the lives of a d
Movie Reviews of Big Trouble
Movie Review: Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
"Big Trouble" is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld ('Get Shorty') and is just one of those comedies that is destined to recieve bad reviews. Which it did. It's stupid, completely implausible, and has at least one plot hole; but it's actually a very funny, smart (I guess), and entertaining comedy with a great cast. That cast includes Tim Allen ('The Shaggy Dog'), Rene Russo ('The Thomas Crown Affair'), Stanley Tucci ('Shall We Dance'), Ben Foster ('Hostage'), Dennis Farina ('Get Shorty'), Jason Lee ('Mallrats'), Omar Epps ('In Too Deep'), Patrick Warburton ('Family Guy'), Janeane Garofalo ('Mystery Men'), Zooey Deschanel ('Elf'), Tom Sizemore ('Natural Born Killers'), and Johnny Knoxville ('The Ringer') to name a few. The reason I rented this movie, hell the reason I had heard of it, was because I think Zooey Deschanel is hot so I was scanning her filmography. Well, even looking beyond Deschanel this is a good movie. It plays a little bit like "Get Shorty" mixed with it's so-so sequel "Be Cool." It's funny, witty, but also stupid and implausible...As I mentioned above. The movie is a comedy of errors and coincidences and is basically like this. Allen plays Eliot Arnold, Foster plays his son Matt Arnold. Rene Russo and Zooey Deschanel play Anna and Jenny. Tucci plays Anna's husband Arthur Herk. Jason Lee plays Puggy, a homeless man living in a tree on Arthur's property. Dennis Farina and Jack Kehler play two hitmen named Henry and Leonard. Garofalo & Warburton are two cops Romero and Kramitz. Epps and Heavy D play two FBI agents
and finally, Knoxville and Sizmore play two crooks named Eddie and Snake.
Explaining the plot is a pit complicated, but here goes...Eliot is a recently divorced, former-columnist who nows runs an advertising business. His son, Matt and his friend Andrew (D.J. Qualls, 'The New Guy') have to shoot Jenny with a squirt gun...It's a game. As Matt and Andrew arrive at Jenny's house, so do Henry and Leonard to kill Arthur Herk who has been skimming money from his company. As Matt runs up to the house to shoot Jenny, the hitmen take a shot and break Arthur's TV. Kramitz and Romero show up and settle things down...Except now Anna has a crush on Eliot and Arthur realizes that his company is trying to kill him. Arthur goes to a bar that's ran by two Russians to buy a bomb, but get's caught up in the middle of a robbery by Snake and Eddie. After they rob the bar, Snake and Eddie go with Arthur back to his house. At this point, the two FBI agents show up and then things get really stupid. The movie runs a lot smoother than my synopsis. So, yeah...The movie's stupid. We've settled that. Also, the cops and airport security are completely unrealistic. I don't care how closely it resembles a garbage disposal, you're not getting a bomb into the airport. The cops are, at times, dumber than the regular characters. But the movie is charming, goofy, and Farina and Kehler are hilarious as the hitmen. This is a funny movie and I'm sure than anyone who likes Sonnenfeld will like this movie.
GRADE: A-
Summary of Big Trouble
BIG TROUBLE - DVD MovieThe 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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