Big Trouble
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Year Released: 2002
Rating: 1.5
Cute but disposable film of the Dave Barry novel; life is like an Altman film where everyone's lives intersect in some way (except Altman's typically cruder and more interested in social interaction - Sonnenfeld's all about PG-13 wackiness and visual timing and cheap gags). There's an 80-minute running time and everything moves briskly to the conclusion, but altogether it lacks substance, a message, anything. Big, cheery wave for the scene where Tom Sizemore takes a bomb through airport security claiming it's a food processor - I was frisked, just a few months ago, by an old man with a wand for carrying tweezers in my carry-on. Yes, tweezers. Thought you'd like to know.
