I'll be seeing this tonight. I like the cast, and it's directted by Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed two of my favorite comedies ever, Get Shorty and Wild, Wild West (Yeah, I loved it!) He also did Men in Black.. I have a feeling I'm going to really enjoy this a lot.

Dave Barry's Big Trouble is one of the funniest, laugh out loud books I have ever read. I loved it.

But this movie sucked. What a laaaame adaptation. The ending was especially butchered thanks to the study feeling it would "remind people of 911". Uhuh. Oh well

Pending re-evalaution, it's worth 5/10.

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Big Trouble is a comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and I was a very big fan of Wild Wild West and Get Shorty, so I knew the comedy would work, and it does. It features a very good ensemble cast, with such names as Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina, Janeane Garofalo, Tom Sizemore and Johnny Knoxville, and the madcap mayhem that ensues is genuinely funny. I don't know why Dennis Farina doesn't do more comedy, because he's very funny. (I do wish they would have succeeded in killing Stanley Tucci, even though he may have had the funniest line in the movie when he told Nina "Get out here, Nina, you work for me, and I want to suck your toes". Gross, but funny!

Puggy was a strange one, and his love for Fritos fit his weirdness quite well. Nothing wrong with Fritos, but I've never seen or heard of them being somebody's favorite meal before. :razz: The whole cast did well, and I found Janeane Garofalo to be particularly funny. I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I'm sure there was another movie that I thought the same thing about her.

My biggest complaint about the movie, is that it was way too short. It's listed at 85 minutes, and if the credits take 10 minutes to roll, I'd buy that. Another half hour could have easily have been added. It was still enjoyable, though.

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I think that one of the problems I had with the movie was the length, too. Too much was cut out. There are sooo many injokes in that movie that reallly would have made it worthwhile had they actually explained it. It was cut waaay too much. (Like I said, the 911 thing forced em to edit the ending signifigantly).

Oh, and the Nina toe sucking thing rocks. And the dog who can't eat his food because of the posionous frog. Heh.

As much as I enjoyed Big Trouble, it's nothing compared to the book.

I mean, I haven't even read that in a year or so, but I was thinking about a part in it just the other day and started laughing out loud. The book is also raunchier and more explicit, heh.

The book is awesome. Like I said, its one of my favorites. I remember when I first read it.... I was so into it, I skipped Christmas dinner to read it... Do you remember all the little injokes? Like that company that built everything cheaply. The one that Tucci's character worked for. There was this one part, where the narrator (Puggy?) talks about how his company used malfunctioning garage doors to lock up prisoners in downtown Miami. Classic. Lol. In the movie, the only time the company gets a nod is at the end- when they rush into the airport and there is massive construction going on. You see their sign. In the book, I think there was a comment about the poor quality of the construction or something.

I'll stop rambling. I liked it. Let's leave it at that. :razz:

I think that was my main issue with the movie, even though I did enjoy it. It seemed like there were situations and characters that had a lot of room to be fleshed out. I couldn't believe how short the movie was, but I still liked it. It does seem like the kind of movie that probably came from a book where everything missing from the movie was done well in.