Rotten
In this clumsy attempt to merge farce with satire, the jokes repeatedly miss the mark.
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Big Trouble
They have forty-five minutes to save the world. They need forty-six.
2002 · 1h 25m · PG-13
Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld
Overview
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
Director and cast
- Barry Sonnenfeld Director
- Tim Allen as Eliot Arnold
- Rene Russo as Anna Herk
- Patrick Warburton as Officer Walter Kramitz
- Ben Foster as Matt Arnold
- Jason Lee as Puggy
- Stanley Tucci as Arthur Herk
- Dennis Farina as Henry Desalvo
- Zooey Deschanel as Jenny Herk
- Tom Sizemore as Snake Dupree
- Johnny Knoxville Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mostly ... Sonnenfeld mishandles the broad part of the comedic formula, preferring repetition to thematic development.
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Because the tone is so light, so genial and eager to please, the whole enterprise seems the opposite of prescient. It seems naive, almost delusional.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Makes for distinctly uneasy viewing, as Big Trouble's massive subtext repeatedly threatens to overwhelm its haphazardly stylized diegesis.
Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice
Rotten
... Big Trouble produces only a very few small chuckles.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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