Terrible, Terrible movie
If you actually thought that was a good movie, you don't deserve to have an opinion. That was the worst piece of trash I have seen in a while...If I was Dave Barry, I would be pissed...
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It´s not a great movie of course. But it´s extremely funny. The Dennys Farina character, the angry Ganster out of his city is a riot. Like in Get Sorty and Snatch. I Think his character deserves a whole movie about him.
shareJason Lee really made the Puggy character come alive to me. I think this adaptation was very faithful, but I read the book about 3 years before I saw the movie, so I can't be sure.
I would love to see a Risky Business movie, but I don't think it would do as well as Big Trouble, because I didn't think the characters were as memorable or the story as compelling.
I am a huge Dave Barry fan, and I have been for about six years. All of his books are great. His fiction was even better than I thought it would be. I think my favorite book of his is "Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States."
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The OP is not a troll. Granted, suggesting that anyone who likes this movie be stripped of all movie opinions is ludicrous. This does not change the fact that this movie is a choppy, amateur, vastly unfunny effort from a director and cast we expect better from.
-The FBI agent dialogue is some of the worst I have ever seen in a high budgeted film.
-Stanley Tucci, a tremendously talented actor, is atrocious. So is Tim Allen. So is the obese FBI agent.
-The voiceover does not work at all. At times Tim Allen's inflection sounds as though he is trudging through volumes of legal jargon.
-The presentation of the hired assassins makes them look like they have never killed anyone before, ever, much less held a gun.
-For a book that made me laugh more than any other I have ever read, the movie script is downright laughless.
-A nuclear bomb went off sixty seconds after falling from a prop plane a few minutes off the coast of Florida and then everything is just A-OK.
Andy Richter was just about the only redeeming facet of this movie, and with his approximate 3 minutes of screen time, it was a drop in a bucket.
2/10. Absolute drivel.
"The suspense is terrible . . . I hope it lasts."
I worked on this film in post production. I had to watch it over and over. Imagine how painful that was!
shareI have to agree with several people on this thread. The movie is by no means an oscar winner. I never read the book and when I happened to catch the movie on Starz or the likes one night a while back, I had never heard of it, but just watched it anyway. I thorougly enjoyed it. It's nothing amazing or particularly well done, but it's definitely a fun movie to watch and just get some cheesy laughes out of. I love the humor in this movie. I don't understand how people can even get at the people's acting in this movie. As far as I can tell, everyone seems to be doing so well enough within the confines of the roles they were given...and adjusted to the style of the humor the movie is in.
I like the movie for what it seems to be (at least to me) - a cheesy comedy with ridiculous characters that are just entertaining to watch in a ridculously twisted web of events. The cast made it for me. I love Tom Sizemore. I enjoy Ben Foster when I catch him. Not a "fan" of Jason Lee, but I usually enjoy his adaptation of the roles he's in. Patrick Warburton is always fun to watch. And the overwhelming non-chalantness of the FBI agents is great. I loved seeing Omar Epps after having seen him so much more often in "House M.D." (I just watched the movie last night again and it was more enjoyable than the first time). Dennis Farina was funny in, what seems to be a typical role for him.
For me, most of the entertainment revolved around the numerous supporting characters and not so much Tim Allen or any of the inital cast.