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| Starring:
Tim Allen, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Ben Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Jason Lee, Rene Russo, Tom Sizemore, Stanley Tucci, Zooey Deschanel, Johnny Knoxville, Heavy D, Sofía Vergara, Patrick Warburton |
| Directed
by: Barry Sonnenfeld |
| Screenplay
by: Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone |
| Novel
by: Dave Barry |
| Music:
James Newton Howard |
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Big Trouble, big laughs
by Joe De Matteo June
2005
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“You can’t beat these when they’re
fresh.” Puggy truism.
You’ll hear a truism or an insightful
observation, maybe an interesting fact,
certainly a great line, at a rate of one
per minute (loosely speaking) from
almost every one of the great characters
that people Big Trouble. My hat
is off to the writers: Robert Ramsey and
Matthew Stone who wrote the screenplay,
as well as Dave Barry who wrote the
novel. |
| The actual cast is a
cast of characters in itself, and a
perfect match up to their Miami alter
egos. Tom Sizemore plays a loose cannon
bad guy, who just happens to be
loose-minded as well. Sizemore’s Snake
Dupree teams up with Johnny Knoxville’s
Eddie Leadbetter and together they make
a pair of dumb criminals that will have
you laughing each time you see them.
There are all kinds of bad guys and
criminals in Big Trouble. Take
Dennis Farina’s character, Henry Desalvo,
his partner in crime is Leonard Ferroni
(Jack Kehler, the Dude’s landlord/dancer
in The Big Labowski). Desalvo
and Ferroni are a couple of hit men from
Newark, New Jersey sent down to Miami to
whack Arthur Herk (Stanley Tucci) who
has been skimming money from his bosses,
who happen to be weapons dealers.
Farina has a great line right out of the
hopper; “So this is Miami,” he says as
he walks out of the Air Port Terminal
building, “They can keep it.” |
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Stanley Tucci has the last scene in the
film, and it ends the film on one
hellava high note. Getting back to the
teams, another team is made up by
Janeane Garofalo and Patrick Warburton (Puddy,
one of Elaine’s old boyfriends) they’re
the cops, and they play well off each
other, fantastic job by both of them.
There is also a frog that squirts a
hallucinogenic chemical from its eyes,
an annoying dog and even Martha Stuart’s
head.
Tim Allen and Renee Russo don’t start
off as a team, but, well, you’ll see.
Director, Barry Sonenfeld, who directed
Men in Black, Get Shorty
and Adams Family, has given us
another entertaining film, which is
presented in short, tightly packed
morsels. Big Trouble’s action and
characters move you from one laugh to
the next, not at break-neck speed, but
fast enough so you won’t get bored.
Hey, even the soundtrack of this film
pushes the story and laughs along.
Like to laugh? Buy this DVD. I’ve seen
it film 5 or 6 times and I still belly
laugh at it. |
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