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Big Trouble
(Reviewed March 16, 2002)
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I literally groaned the words "oh my God" as soon as I saw the first frame of this movie, because the very first person seen onscreen is the abominably bad actor Jason Lee. This guy...I tell ya, he's right down there with Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg on my list of "People I Never, Ever Want To See In Movies Again."
Also in "Big Trouble" are TV's Tim Allen, who proves he should stick to doing bad TV sitcom sludge for the monkey-minded masses; Rene Russo, who manages to be in TWO terrible would-be comedies released at the same time (the other being the Eddie Murphy bomb "Showtime"); Janeane Garafalo, doing her same old bored-ironic-chick schtick; Partick Warburton, still doing Puddy; and former Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter, who gets off the only funny line in the entire movie.
I'll even save you the pain and agony of sitting through the thing, and go ahead and tell you what it is. Richter plays a security cop at a sidewalk mall. He shows a fellow security cop a gun tucked in his belt. The other guy says, "You're not supposed to carry a gun on the job." To which Andy pulls out a flask and says, "I'm not supposed to drink on the job, either," prior to taking a swig. Well, I thought it was funny, anyhow.
One thing I will give this bad movie credit for: Despite being a Disney Touchstone movie, a scene in it that shows airport security personnel displaying total incompetence remains intact. (This movie was supposed to have been released last year, but the studio decided that a movie featuring a bomb on a plane might not be a very commercial prospect right after September 11.) Disney-owned ABC just this month made Drew Carey change an episode of his dumb sitcom in which airport security were portrayed negatively. Maybe at Disney ABC, one hand doesn't know who the other is screwing...
Back Row Grade: F
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