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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Feb 2006

The big problem with Big Trouble, despite a fine cast and director (Sonnenfeld made Get Shorty and Men in Black), is that the damn thing isn't funny…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 21 Jul 2000

The folks at Disney's Touchstone Pictures would have been wiser, however, just to have forgotten all about this hyperactive farce…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 27 Dec 1999

Timing is key in a comedy like this, and Sonnenfeld keeps everyone and everything clicking. The pacing is swift and the laughs are steady…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 May 1996

The cast manages to maintain its dignity while sweat and dirt go flying around…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 15 Oct 1993

Zigging and zagging serenely between the extremes of deadpan, postmodern comedy and the antic, Max Sennett-style japery of yore…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Jun 1992

A pleasant diversion, a lightly amusing criminal comedy with a plot so complicated even the people in it can't quite believe what's happening…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Dec 1991

It's a tribute to the film's goofy, inconsequential charm that it's still possible to laugh as someone sneaks a bomb past airport security…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 May 1991

This is, after all, the kind of movie in which traffic accidents not only mess up getaways but also liberate goats to wander through the airport…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Aug 1989

There are stretches of big fun in Big Trouble, and little pleasures too…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon (312) on 08 Apr 1989

Such a feebleminded, good-natured comedy that it actually makes you laugh with that timeless gag of somebody pretending to cough while calling…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 06 Oct 1988

A slick, smart-alecky rat-a-tat crime comedy…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 23 Mar 1988

It's not the bomb on the plane that scuttles this film: It's the mugging, ham-fisted direction and total absence of comic timing…

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By Robert K. Elder (222) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Sep 1986

Sonnenfeld mishandles the broad part of the comedic formula, preferring repetition to thematic development…

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