- The laughs come fast and furious as Tim Allen (JOE SOMEBODY, GALAXY QUEST) and Rene Russo (SHOWTIME, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR) star in a film from Barry Sonnenfeld, director of GET SHORTY and MEN IN BLACK. Based on humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, BIG TROUBLE follows the comedic chaos created when a mysterious suitcase that threatens the security of Miami changes the lives of a d
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 SonnenfeldThe 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 r! oom 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< /I>
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