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		List Price: $28.99		Label: Hbo Home Video Salesrank: 59383 Released: March 24, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
In this hilarious and outrageous, marital arts comedy, Rob Schneider stars as Stan Minton a two bit con man that is found guilty of cheating mostly elderly women out of their retirement saving on fraudulent vacation properties. With the help of his crooked lawyer, Lew Popper (M. Emmet Walsh), Stan is able to postpone his jail sentence for six months in order to tidy up his affairs. Stan quickly goes into a depression that not even his gorgeous and bubbly wife, Mindy (Jennifer Morrison), can pull him out of. However, when Stan receives news from an ex-prison inmate that his frail and weak body will be targeted and "loved" by all of the large men in jail, Stan realized his "tender parts" are on the line and as a last ditch effort he enlists the help of a mysterious martial arts guru know only as The Master (David Carradine). Over the course of the remaining months, The Master transforms Stan into a lean and mean fighting machine much to the dismay of Mindy who cannot see past The Master's other "abilities" such as eating Scorpions at the dinner table and smoking a hundred cigarettes a day. Stan is finally shipped off to jail and he soon realizes that prison is not at all like he imagined it's worse! Thankfully Stan has been trained well and he soon brings the warring gangs together and establishes peace inside the prison walls. This is much to the disgust of the prisons Warden Gasque (Scott Wilson) who has been hatching an evil plan to shut the prison down and sell off the land to a Vietnamese development company that he just so happens to be a silent partner in. Gasque offers Stan a deal that will get him out of prison far ahead of schedule if he'll help him with his diabolical plan. With the clock ticking, Stan must decide between his own freedom and protecting the lives of the inmates that he has grown to respect.

Description of Big Stan [Blu-ray]:
Big Stan, Rob Schneider’s Kung Fu spoof, is about as hilarious as one can get without some hardcore stunts such those seen in Kung Fu Hustle. Big Stan is Schnieder, starring as Stan Minton, a lowbrow, too-tan real-estate con artist who, in the opening scene, is scamming an elderly woman out of her savings for a fake timeshare. From here, he’s busted and sentenced to prison, and the film’s setting is split between Minton’s gaudy mansion, in which he attempts to toughen up before serving, and a jail ripe with gangs split by race and undersexed men. Stan is a character whose strength and confidence grows throughout the story, initially thanks to the cheerleading of his doormat wife, Mindy (Jennifer Morrison), but mostly because The Master (David Carradine) trains him in a combo martial-arts style that is as absurd as the idea of Carradine chain-smoking while reviving his Shaolin monk persona from the old TV show. Carradine is funny in Big Stan, though it’s Schneider’s timing and slapstick physical comedy that carries the movie. Does he really learn how to break through wood blocks with his middle finger? One may never know. Strange, unlikely plot twists, like one involving prison Warden Gasque (Stan Wilson), are totally corny. But there are sublime moments, such as those when Stan is able to unite warring teams of buff men long enough to perform choreographed dance numbers, that make the whole film worth watching. Gay jokes abound in Big Stan, but not the calloused kind; in fact, the whole film is aimed at portraying a fantasy in which prison is a safe haven for guys of all sorts, a men’s club as pleasant as a spa. It’s a revelry that may never materialize but it never hurts to imagine. --Trinie Dalton

Big Stan [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Fun of Jail
2009-12-18 - It is just a funny entertaining work of a tycoon being-caught-red-handed, jailed and turned-into-yoga-guru changing a life of inmates to the better (while they are in this prison).

It looks like Oz converted for the viewing during the festive season.


A Hilarious Comedy AND a credible action film
2009-12-06 - I've seen and was amused by other Rob Schneider movies so I knew the type of slapstick humor to expect from "Big Stan".

I winced a bit at the more overt sex jokes and crude language compared to Rob's other films but I suppose that crudeness is not much different from the "American Pie" series or many Judd Apatow or Seth Rogen movies.

I chose to allow myself to enjoy the movie and have some wow moments -

1) The gags were laugh-out-loud funny as expected.
2) A pleasant surprise was that the film also worked as a credible action film, especially Rob's scenes showing skills in arnis-kali, nunchaku, and sticky-hands (Chisao) sparring. Having Simon Rhee, Dan Inosanto and the guy who played the Vietnamese villain (obviously a genuine martial artist) added to the credibility.
3) David Carradine was brilliant as usual and I thought it was a real coup to have him in this movie.
4) The final Wow moment was finding out that Rob directed the movie as well and that this was his first directorial stint. The movie was quite polished and tight for a first-time director.

Of course this is not art. But it's brilliant entertainment.

More power and more movies to Rob Schneider!




One attempt at a joke spread way too thin
2009-12-02 - The basic "joke" that this movie seems to be centered around is that in prison, you will be sexually violated. ANd this is repeated over and over and over and over. Does Schneider think that by repeating this, it will eventually get a laugh? It doesnt. But Big Stan becomes a hero when he is sent to prison and saves everyone from this act....because "it just isnt fair". Sorry Rob, it still isnt funny.

for David Carradine
2009-07-09 - Ok, first off, let me get this clear, I give BIG STAN three stars for the funny and entertaining performance of David Carradine. As for the movie, it's mostly the pits, it's full of unfunny off-putting "humor", lots of prison rape jokes, ha ha. Rob Schneider has never been one of my favorites, and he is no filmmaker, but I also must add, he seems suprisingly competant as a martial artist. Yes, you read that right, the martial arts here are actually pretty good, and I guess, one more reason to see the movie.

The whole reason I even watched this movie was for Carradine, who has a fairly good size role, gets to show off his kung fu, after all he plays the master. DC also gets to show his lighter side with the movie's biggest laughs coming from him, with his training sequences with Schneider perhaps the funniest.

Again, I do want to caution anyone out there, who is not a Carradine fan, or a Schneider either I guess, this is not a good movie. Most of the time, it's not a funny movie, a lot of the time it's just plain dumb. It's also loooooong, a Rob Schneider movie should never exceed ninety minutes, this one is a hundred and five. If I was to grade this one as a real film, I would give it just one star, but Carradine was my favorite actor, and some times we do crazy things for love.

For a truely funny kung fu comedy, see the little known CONFESSIONS OF AN ACTION STAR.

Dopey
2009-07-03 - This film was not very good or funny. I lost interest 1/2 way through. I'm surprised David Carradine would do this horrible movie.