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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 11847
Released: October 8, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.07 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The lives of several miami denizens from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children intersect with humorous and dangerous results. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/04/2005 Starring: Tim Allen Johnny Knoxville Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Description of Big Trouble:
The 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
Big Trouble Reviews:
Slapstick Romp with Some Good Lines 
2009-11-08 - This is a funny film. It is totally lacking in political significance. No insight into The Human Situation should be looked for. No great Comic characters, like Falstaff or even Sheridan Whiteside, are to be found. What we do get is some good laughs, some good slapstick action and some funny verbal sallies. Put them together and you have a most enjoyable, forgettable 85 minutes. It suited me to a T.
Great Transaction 
2009-10-11 - Movie came very fast and was wrapped better than it would have been if I had bought it from a retail store.
Funny Enough to Share
2009-09-11 - I first rented this movie a couple of years ago, partly because it was shot in my old home town. By the end I had laughed so much that I bought a copy, in case I needed some emergency humor. I insisted that houseguests watch it. I lent it to anyone who asked for a move suggestion. Finally, I lost it. But I so liked to have it available that I bought another copy to keep sharing it.
Buy it...you'll like it!
One of my favorites!
2009-05-16 - What a great movie! The entire cast plays their part perfectly! From Tom Sizemore and Johnny Knoxville as clueless thieves, to Tim Allen and Rene Russo falling for each other. I laughed from beginning to end. The hitman, Dennis Farina and his partner (whose name I cannot remember)are unbelievably funny. Pay close attention to them!
Big Trouble
2009-02-12 - I had seen this movie before and could not find it anywhere except Amazon.com The disk was perfect and it is one of the funniest movies I have every seen, (Well, with Dave Berry being the author, what else?). I really enjoyed it and am so glad that amazon.com had it.
