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Big Trouble (2002)

The all-purpose title tells little about a slender, strenuous comic caper adapted from a novel by Dave Barry: a lengthy eighty-odd minutes. (Its release was postponed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, owing to worries over the black-market nuclear bomb smuggled aboard a jetliner: heh-heh.) The opportunities are spread very thin among the large cast: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Jason Lee, Zooey Deschanel, Janeane Garofalo, Omar Epps, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Farina, Patrick Warburton. Sharpest gag: the off-screen voices in illustration of the inanities of sports-talk radio. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. 2002.

Reader Rating: Star
MPAA Rating: PG-13

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