Big Trouble (2002)
49 %
Reviews Counted: 108 Fresh: 53 Rotten:55 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus:
With its large cast and frantic comic pacing, Big Trouble labors for slapstick-style hilarity, but it never really gains steam.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 85 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 5, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $7,262,288
Synopsis: In Barry Sonnenfeld's BIG TROUBLE, based on the novel by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, Tim Allen stars as Eliot Arnold, a former Miami Herald columnist whose wife has left him, drives a Geo, and has an awkward relationship with his teenage son, Matt (Ben Foster). When Eliot meets Anna Herk... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Farina
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriter: Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone
Producer: Barry Sonnenfeld, Barry Josephson, Tom Jacobson
Composer: James Newton Howard
Screenwriter: Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone
Producer: Barry Sonnenfeld, Barry Josephson, Tom Jacobson
Composer: James Newton Howard
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Faithful to the events in Barry's novel, lifts a good deal of his witty dialogue, and recruits a proven cast of laugh-winners. Why, then, is it so resolutely unfunny?
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07/23/07
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05/26/06
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The worst thing someone could say about "Big Trouble" is that it's too much like "Get Shorty," which is one of the best reasons to go see the film
02/24/04
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02/01/04
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Sprawling comedy has a few laughs in it -- and the specter of recent events hanging over it.
07/17/03
Director Barry Sonnenfeld unites an incredibly unique and charismatic ensemble cast for this witty adaptation of Dave Barry's 1998 novel.
05/20/03
...a highly enjoyable romp that is as multi-faceted as it is tightly constructed.
02/08/03
Big Trouble is one of those great big silly capers that fails at juggling its dark humor while feeling cutesy in its ability to dance around the plot contrivances...derivative, offensive, stylish and smirky crime caper.
02/04/03
Tim Allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast, as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy.
12/08/02
It's a good thing Tim Allen has Santa Claus to fall back on because any more pictures like this one and he'd be in BIG trouble.
11/07/02
In this clumsy attempt to merge farce with satire, the jokes repeatedly miss the mark.
11/06/02
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Huffs like a bus headed uphill while Mr. Sonnenfeld and company shovel on weirdness and hope for the best.
10/15/02
...Big Trouble is...one of the more enjoyable comedies to emerge in a good long while.
09/26/02
the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality
09/11/02
Nothing in Big Trouble occurs for any reason other than to appease director Barry Sonnenfeld's yen for randomly orchestrated cuteness.
08/25/02
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