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	"Big Trouble" reviewed by Steve Sailer for UPI
		Yet, even I didn't expect much from his first novel, "Big Trouble," which is now a high velocity ensemble comedy.
		"Big Trouble" resembles a lighter, sunnier, Miami version of Wolfe's monumental satire on New York City, "The Bonfire of the Vanities."
		Yet, by the close of the screening, "Big Trouble" had won not just applause, but also cheers and whistles.
	www.isteve.com /Film_Big_Trouble.htm (780 words)

	Amazon.com: Big Trouble: Books: Dave Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the novel develops, the sense of humor remains, but seems a strange contrast to the relatively unsavory actions and foul language of two of his main characters.
		Unfortunately, Big Trouble was turned into a movie starring some very talented people which was as bland and humorless as the book was brilliant and hilarious.
		Big Trouble is a pretty funny mis-adventures in Florida kind of tale with some very funny moments and some dry patches in between.
	www.amazon.com /Big-Trouble-Dave-Barry/dp/0399145672 (1664 words)

	Movie: Big Trouble
		In its original form, Big Trouble bears an uncanny resemblance to a screenplay: Much of it is in dialogue, and quite a few wisecracks make it to the screen unscathed.
		Big Trouble revolves around Eliot Arnold (Tim Allen), a divorced former newspaper columnist with a teenage son, Matt (Ben Foster), who thinks Eliot is a loser, mostly because he drives a Geo.
		Big Trouble also feels authentically Miami; Puggy's tree is on the Charles Deering Estate, and a home in Pinecrest masquerades as the Herk house.
	ae.miami.com /entertainment/ui/miami/movie.html?id=61792&reviewId=8504 (448 words)

	Big Trouble
		Big Trouble was set for release just before September 11, but its subplot involving getting a bomb past airport security and onto a plane proved too touchy for movie studios.
		Big Trouble, based on the novel by Dave Barry, is an almost screwball comedy with a mammoth cast of talented actors, most of which do not have much to do.
		Big Trouble does slowly mushroom, taking small events and misunderstandings and having them snowball out of proportion, but instead of feeling of feeling bizarrely natural, some of the antics feel forced, as if they were put into the story just to make it funny.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/big_trouble.html (574 words)

	'Big Trouble'
		Based on a novel by Dave Barry, the ensemble comedy was supposed to open in theaters Sept. 21, 2001, but a subplot about a nuclear bomb being toted through a Florida airport prompted Touchstone Pictures to postpone the release.
		At the middle of "Big Trouble" is a newspaper columnist named Eliot Arnold (Tim Allen) who put his foot through his editor's computer and earned himself a one-way ticket out of his Miami newsroom.
		"Big Trouble," directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, strives to be wacky or zany but never manages, even when it sends one actor running through the airport in the buff.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20020405trouble8.asp (413 words)

	Common Guy's Film Review of Big Trouble
		Big Trouble is a film that is about the hit man (Farina) that is trying to kill Arthur Herk (Tucci) who is in a loveless marriage with his wife (Russo).
		Big Trouble is a film that follows some kids that are playing a game of “killer” and trying to shoot one another with squirt guns.
		Big Trouble was produced well before the tragedy that befell the nation on September 11 and the humor that deals with airline security should be looked at as just that, humor.
	www.ticon.net /~bugzy/mr0399.html (481 words)

	Bucket Reviews
		Big Trouble’s limited success is because of the extreme amount of sensitivity to the terrorist attacks.
		Big Trouble, he had to sacrifice some of the stunning effects, and work with the solid screenplay.
		Big Trouble is nothing beautiful, but it provides us with some short-lived laughs and a good time at the movies.
	www.bucketreviews.com /bigtrouble.html (653 words)

	Big Trouble DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
		BIG TROUBLE is a funny film but doesn't have much of a sense of how to keep the action articulate.
		BIG TROUBLE appears in an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the widescreen image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		BIG TROUBLE is presented in a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/b/bigtrouble.htm (482 words)

	Big Trouble (2002)
		Trouble, Windtalkers and Collateral Damage all were supposed to show up on screens in the fall of 2001, but studio execs decided they all hit too close to home to release them at that time.
		I guess the studio execs thought that would be too troubling in the days right after September 11, and they might have been right, though the scene’s satirical intent seems too clear for it to be anything upsetting.
		Big Trouble appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /bigtrouble.shtml (1797 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Big Trouble Movie Review
		Big Trouble essentially functions as one giant comedy sketch.
		Big Trouble feels very busy most of the time, but each piece of information has a purpose.
		Though it can't match Sonnenfeld's best work, Big Trouble is more than up to the task before it.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /bigtrouble.html (693 words)

	Big Trouble DVD reviewed on AudioRevolution.com
		Noted humor and satire newspaper columnist Dave Barry wrote the novel on which “Big Trouble” was based.
		“Big Trouble” is an ensemble movie, telling the whole story through the interwoven characters’ viewpoints and personal crises.
		However, while “Big Trouble” is definitely worth renting for a night meant for light viewing and a big bowl of popcorn, watching the movie again and again quickly loses appeal once all the gags are revealed.
	www.audiorevolution.com /dvd/revs/bigtrouble.shtml (1234 words)

	Big Trouble
		Big Trouble is a carnival sideshow, its characters varying degrees of desperately freakish for the sake of it with a denouement disingenuously sentimental.
		What works is Big Trouble's brevity (the film clocks in under 85 minutes) and its consistently light tone in the face of the Russian mafia, two FBI agents (Omar Epps and Heavy D) gleefully abusing their power, and a gratuitous homage to Dr.
		Ultimately, while Big Trouble's images were made uncomfortable in a post-attack America, the film is a harmless screwball farce.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/bigtrouble.htm (477 words)

	Big Trouble (2002)
		Then September 11 happened, and Big Trouble's climax — a bungled airplane hijack — suddenly was no longer a ripe subject for parody.
		The trouble is, their business is being disrupted by two bumbling lowlifes (Johnny Knoxville and Tom Sizemore) and is under surveillance by a pair of FBI Agents (Omar Epps and Heavy D).
		Unfortunately, Big Trouble isn't as tightly knit as it should have been — whether Dave Barry's shaggy source novel or Robert Ramsey and Matthew "Not the South Park Guy" Stone's screenplay is to blame is debatable.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=131797&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (671 words)

	Big Trouble
		Big Trouble, a Tim Allen film, is based on a novel by Barry.
		I haven't read that novel, but if this film is any indicator, Barry should not consider quitting his day job at the Herald.
		There are big, broad caricatures of big, stupid characters shown in alarming facial close-ups.
	www.scoopy.com /bigtrouble.htm (592 words)

	Big Trouble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The result of moving Barry's novel to the big screen is a mushy 90 minutes of "toss everything in there, make everyone run around and it'll move so fast it'll be funny."
		When his big weapons buy is interrupted by two carjackers, his family, their friends and a pair of cops all get tossed into the chase.
		Big Trouble careens through all this without taking a breath, and that's sometimes enough to carry it along.
	www.rambles.net /big_trouble02.html (413 words)

	eye - The trouble with Barry - 04.04.02
		Instead, he attached himself to Big Trouble, an ensemble comedy adapted from a best-selling -- and far superior -- novel by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, and the indifference Sonnenfeld brings to the proceedings is palpable.
		Big Trouble is laboured, wheezy and almost completely unfunny: indeed, were it not for the endearingly cranky presence of Get Shorty alumnus Dennis Farina, playing a harried hit man with excellent table manners, long stretches of the film would be unwatchable.
		Van is the ultimate big man on campus, a seasoned party master with seven years of experience as an undergraduate.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.04.02/film/onscreen.html (503 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Big Trouble at Epinions.com
		Big Trouble: Barry's first attempt at a novel.
		Big Trouble, the novel in question, is a darkly comedic crime novel, set in Miami.
		Like the Hiaasen novels, Big Trouble is centered more on the characters and dialogue than the plot.
	www.epinions.com /content_53939506820 (554 words)

	Big Trouble Reviews
		Big Trouble (2002) Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Janeane Garofalo, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore, Ben Foster, Zooey Deschanel, Johnny Knoxville, Dwight "Heavy D" Myers, Sofia Vergara, Patrick Warburton.
		Much has been said about Big Trouble, another film meant for a near-September 11th release that was postponed because its contents would be too upsetting amidst the tragedy.
		Originally due in theatres just ten days after the 9/11 attacks, Big Trouble certainly isn't too big (it clocks in at under 90 minutes), but it is likely to cause a whole lot of trouble.
	www.killermovies.com /b/bigtrouble/reviews (440 words)

	Big Trouble
		Big Trouble is a carnival sideshow, its characters varying degrees of desperately freakish for the sake of it with a denouement disingenuously sentimental.
		What works is Big Trouble's brevity (the film clocks in under 85 minutes) and its consistently light tone in the face of the Russian mafia, two FBI agents (Omar Epps and Heavy D) gleefully abusing their power, and a gratuitous homage to Dr.
		Ultimately, while Big Trouble's images were made uncomfortable in a post-attack America, the film is a harmless screwball farce.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/bigtrouble.htm (477 words)

	Book Review: Big Trouble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dave Barry, a humor columnist for the Miami Herald, is syndicated in newspapers all across the country.
		While he has written many books, this is his first fictional novel - and the funniest book I have ever read.
		Big Trouble is a satirical crime novel in the vein of Elmore Leonard's stories, only more off-the-wall, if that is possible.
	www.lovedungeon.net /rvw/bigtrouble.html (161 words)

	BIG TROUBLE
		Originally due in theatres just ten days after the 9/11 attacks, Big Trouble certainly isn't too big (it clocks in at under 90 minutes), but it is likely to cause a whole lot of trouble.
		Trouble is based on Dave Barry's novel of the same name, and, like most of Barry's work, it's alternately hysterical and irritating, and never anything else.
		Trouble was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and feels like a lighter version of his Get Shorty, which I liked even less than this.
	www.sick-boy.com /bigtrouble.htm (520 words)

	United Press International: Video of the Week: 'Big Trouble'
		Published 10/8/2002 11:54 AM LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Because "Big Trouble's" plot hinges on skyjackers smuggling a weapon past clueless airport baggage inspectors, Touchstone Pictures postponed the release of this hilarious comedy from a date only 10 days after Sept. 11, 2001 to last April.
		Fortunately, "Big Trouble" is back on Tuesday on DVD ($29.99 list) and VHS (only available to rent).
		"Big Trouble" resembles a lighter, sunnier, Miami version of Tom Wolfe's monumental satire on New York City, "The Bonfire of the Vanities." "Bonfire," of course, made a notoriously bad movie.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021007-032454-7991r (791 words)

	DVD : Big Trouble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The cast is big money but, with the exception of Janeane Garofalo and Patrick Warburton, is mostly wasted.
		That short story inaugurated a fascination for all things Barry and "Big Trouble" is a faithful depiction of the mind of this Miami madman.
		The plot is far to complicated to explain in a reasonable amount of time, but is sums up to be about a bunch of people, with completely different lifestyles, who somehow get thrown together because of a big bomb that looks like a garbedge disposal.
	www.ajeno.com /Reviews/ItemId/B00006ADFN/ReviewPage/1 (687 words)

	Big Trouble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Big Trouble" is a smorgasbord of comedy -- there's farce, slapstick, fl humor, theater of cruelty, clever ripostes, non sequiturs, absurdity, romantic comedy and a toad that spits hallucinogenic juice.
		Its release was postponed because of the terrorist attacks, but it may be at least a generation before anyone finds funny the sight of characters running around airports with a nuclear device and lax security personnel waving a bomb through checkpoints.
		Trouble starts when a Miami arms dealer receives a nuclear bomb that everyone insists looks like a garbage disposal.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1456136 (627 words)

	"Big Trouble" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Big Trouble has been classified as one of Hollywood's 9/11 tragedies: Berry's story features a nuclear bomb in a suitcase, an incompetent airport screening process, and the take over of a plane at gun point.
		Big Trouble tells the story of two hit men, an embezzler, a single father, an unhappy wife, nomadic hippie, fl marketers, a herd of goats, and a toad that spits hallucinogenic juice.
		I have read Dave Barry's novel (I've been an admirer of his column and other works), which this film is based upon, and as far as content goes, the book is more profane than the movie (which was the number one thing I disliked about Barry's book)...
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2002/bigtrouble.html (1054 words)

	Big Trouble
		What works well on Big Trouble: the novel's page has been abridged to harmful lengths on screen (such an old cliché, but that's because it keeps on happening).
		In the book Big Trouble -- where Barry has the luxury and space to do what he knows he needs to do -- all of the characters are properly fleshed out.
		But in Big Trouble the movie, characters are consistently left dangling, forgotten about, tossed to the wayside.
	www.jaredsapolin.com /bigtrouble.html (962 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Big Trouble
		"Big Trouble," directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (1999's "Wild Wild West"), is just about as simple as they come, in a preposterous sort of way.
		The most crucial strength of "Big Trouble" is the laid-back camaraderie all of the supporter players share.
		To watch "Big Trouble" is to have a truly great time at the movies as you see how the many characters savvily interconnect.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-4/big-trouble.htm (604 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Big Trouble"
		"Big Trouble" is such a feebleminded, good-natured comedy that it actually makes you laugh with that timeless gag of somebody pretending to cough while calling someone else a bad name.
		Based on a novel by syndicated newspaper humorist Dave Barry, "Big Trouble" is the kind of winsome, sexless, brainless laff-a-thon Hollywood mostly doesn't make anymore.
		Eliot is both the hapless hero of "Big Trouble" and its narrator, which puts him in the position of smugly recounting events that he, as a character, can't possibly know about.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/04/04/big_trouble (967 words)

	Film Quips \| BIG TROUBLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Based on the novel by well-known Miami humorist Dave Barry, Big Trouble is adapted for the screen by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone.
		Describing the story would be not only difficult but also a disservice to both the writers and potential audience members, since the success of some elements depends greatly on their surprise factor.
		Big Trouble was originally scheduled for a fall 2001 release; you'll know why it was postponed when you see the airport sequence.
	www.filmquipsonline.com /bigtrouble.html (402 words)

	Big Trouble
		Big Trouble, a Tim Allen film, is based on a novel by Barry.
		I haven't read that novel, but if this film is any indicator, Barry should not consider quitting his day job at the Herald.
		There are big, broad caricatures of big, stupid characters shown in alarming facial close-ups.
	www.fakes.net /bigtrouble.htm (600 words)

	Dave Barry: Big Trouble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Big Trouble is a light-weight comedy of errors which allows Dave Barry to skewer a wide variety of fairly obvious targets, many of which are specific to the Miami area where he lives.
		The humor in Big Trouble tends to be humor based on the strange situations and odd responses the characters have rather than actual jokes.
		As it is, the novel can be read and enjoyed over a short stretch of time and then put aside with fond, although innocuous, memories.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/barry.html (472 words)

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