Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 2
Refreshingly sweet and undeniably funny, Big is a showcase for Tom Hanks, who dives into his role and infuses it with charm and surprising poignancy.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
Refreshingly sweet and undeniably funny, Big is a showcase for Tom Hanks, who dives into his role and infuses it with charm and surprising poignancy.
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More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks). Still a 13-year-old mentally and emotionally, Josh decides to hide out in New York City until he can figure out what to do next. He lucks into a job with a major toy company run by
PG, 1 hr. 38 min.
Jan 1, 1988 Wide
Dec 18, 2001
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (55) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (2) | DVD (26)
As far as the movie's message is considered -- if only grown-ups could be more like kids -- Jerry Lewis did an infinitely better job of plugging it in the 50s.
Unspools with enjoyable genuineness and ingenuity.
For any other full-grown actors who try their hands at fidgeting, squirming, throwing water balloons and wolfing down food in a huge variety of comically disgusting ways, this really is the performance to beat.
What's great about it is that it shows how wonderfully full of toys the world of adults can be. And though this may fall under the heading of tiny, perhaps even fatuous, revelations, it does send you out of the theater with a lighter step.
The film is funny, sweet, and even a little edgy. It's also emotionally honest and almost never crass.
One of the best comedies about body-switching, Big is charming and occasioally witty with a splendid, star-making performance by Tom Hanks.
Wonderful story with some mature material.
One of Hollywood's all-time most appealing magic realist fantasies. [Blu-ray]
The best of the spate of body-switching films in the late 80s.
Once in a blue moon, there are moments of perfect casting that virtually ensure a movie is going to be a piece of class. And that's what you've got here.
Watching Big again confirms what a genius Hanks can be.
Marshall's film is gold.
The consummate '80s film about kid-dom and growing old too fast.
Hanks so convincingly played a grown-up with a 12-year-old mind that he transformed instantly in the public eye from a run-of-the-mill comedy star to a respected actor with limitless potential.
It touched me
The picture still stands proud as a comedy easy chair of sorts, but even more vividly as Tom Hanks's finest hour as an actor.
Marshall, Hanks, and his co-stars seldom put a foot wrong.
It is...one of those films that simply cannot be touched, no matter how one pokes and prods at its lapses in logic.
After many years, this formula works wonders. Every turn it takes, it's entertaining. Not much more then that. Tom Hanks was fantastic.
January 19, 2012Super Reviewer
The films humor is close to being safe and innocent family fun with a few winks to the adults and is a great film for the family ages 10+. Its not a straight up comedy, but it has some very funny moments and the film is almost the perfect family film. I say almost because they swear up a storm in this film, the most
November 7, 2011Super Reviewer
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