In this clumsy attempt to merge farce with satire, the jokes repeatedly miss the mark.
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11/06/02
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Big Trouble (2002)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:9
Rotten:21
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: With its large cast and frantic comic pacing, Big Trouble labors for slapstick-style hilarity, but it never really gains steam.
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,... [More]
Starring: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Tom Sizemore
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Reviews for Big Trouble
Top CriticMostly ... Sonnenfeld mishandles the broad part of the comedic formula, preferring repetition to thematic development.
07/20/02
Top CriticBecause the tone is so light, so genial and eager to please, the whole enterprise seems the opposite of prescient. It seems naive, almost delusional.
04/14/02
Top CriticMakes for distinctly uneasy viewing, as Big Trouble's massive subtext repeatedly threatens to overwhelm its haphazardly stylized diegesis.
04/09/02
Top Critic... Big Trouble produces only a very few small chuckles.
04/08/02
Top CriticLike an overloaded aircraft at that security-challenged airport, Big Trouble moves forward in fits and starts but never manages to achieve sufficient momentum for a smooth, satisfying liftoff.
04/05/02
Top CriticOne funny movie.
04/05/02
Top CriticThe way the roundelay of partners functions, and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of Gator-bashing are consistently delightful.
04/05/02
Top CriticI don't think I laughed out loud once. And when you're talking about a slapstick comedy, that's a pretty big problem.
04/05/02
Top CriticI laughed. I didn't respect myself, or the movie, one bit after that.
04/05/02
Top CriticThere are so many self-consciously screwy conceits begging for laughs in this lunatic fringe Miami Vice, the prize for crudest is anyone's call.
04/05/02
Top CriticFeels haphazard, as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot.
04/05/02
Top CriticA frantic search for laughs, with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience.
04/05/02
Top CriticToo scattered, too convoluted and far too hyper to get any workable comic steam going.
04/05/02
Top CriticWhat director Barry Sonnenfeld surely intended to be farce now only seems forced, and even actors as self-sufficient as Allen and Russo seem utterly flummoxed.
04/05/02
Top CriticIt desperately wants to be a wacky, screwball comedy, but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time.
04/05/02
Top CriticA playful trifle that feels so much like a genial knockoff of Get Shorty that it might as well be called Get Shorter.
04/05/02
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04/05/02
Top CriticA fast-moving, riotous comedy with a terrific ensemble cast.
04/05/02
Top CriticManages to emerge winningly as an entertaining experience.
04/05/02
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