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NUMBERS
Box Office: $7,262,288
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CONSENSUS
With its large cast and frantic comic pacing, Big Trouble labors for slapstick-style hilarity, but it never really gains steam.
CAST & CREW
Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
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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, and has an awkward relationship with his teenage son, Matt (Ben Foster). When Eliot meets Anna Herk (a blonde Rene Russo), the wife of crazy moneyman Arthur (Stanley Tucci) and mother of Jenny (Zooey Deschanel), whom Matt is trying to supersoak, they are immediately attracted to each other. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, language, crude humor, and sex-related material
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 5, 2002
Video: Oct 8, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Touchstone Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Dogs
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Big Trouble Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Isn't it a bit early in his career for director Barry Sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself? And it's a lousy one at that."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "well-paced, tight, little film teetering ticklingly on the fine line between the ridiculous and the possible. -- *INTERVIEWS*"
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"Streamlined to a tight, brisk 85-minute screwball thriller, "Big Trouble" is funny, harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes, which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"One of the funnier movies in town."
-- Vera H-C Chan, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"fast, frantic and fun, but also soon forgotten"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Take a friend (invisible or real) to see this one... it's laugh out loud funny"
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"TV skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Quick: who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security?"
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"It's a fun movie with lots of colorful characters, lots of bizarre plot meanderings and quite a few memorable lines and sequences."
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Tim Allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast, as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy."
-- Gareth J. Von Kallenbach, FILM THREAT
"the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality"
-- James Kendrick, Q NETWORK FILM DESK
"Based on Dave Barry’s popular book of the same name, the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story."
-- Shirley Klass, FANTASTICA DAILY
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"perfectly enjoyable, instantly forgettable, nothing to write home about."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"The kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"I found myself waiting for the next joke more than I was laughing at the
current one."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Definitely just a trifle of a film, but so many light entertainments should be so brisk, witty, and well-performed.
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-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"Though the film never veers from its comic course, its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"Takes aim at the irritations of everyday life ... and finds ways to turn irritation into humor."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"I suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the DVD."
-- Edward Johnson-Ott, NUVO NEWSWEEKLY
"A pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"A little weak -- and it isn't that funny."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
"Despite its promising cast of characters, Big Trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn’t necessarily mean 'funny.'"
-- Kevin Lally, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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ROTTEN 31%
Avg. Rating: 5.1/10 |
"A glorious mess."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"On its own, Big Trouble could be considered a funny little film."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"It's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch, yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast, but never quite gets off the ground."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"I don't think I laughed out loud once. And when you're talking about a slapstick comedy, that's a pretty big problem."
-- Daphne Gordon, TORONTO STAR
"It 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."
-- Renee Graham, BOSTON GLOBE
"A frantic search for laughs, with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Feels 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."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"The filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"The way the roundelay of partners functions, and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of Gator-bashing are consistently delightful."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
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"... a fun (not to mention funny) ensemble piece about stupid people connected by bizarre circumstances..."
-- Anthony Leong, MEDIACIRCUS
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Big Trouble" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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