Big Trouble - PG-13\nStarring: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina\nDirected by: Barry Sonnenfeld\nShowing: Showplace East 11\nEver get a hankering for a flick that you don't have to think about but can still manage to get a few good laughs out of? If so, then "Big Trouble" has your name written frantically all over it. Based on a novel by Dave Barry, this high-paced screwball comedy has as many loopholes as it does cheap giggles -- but it moves so fast you won't have time to acknowledge them anyway.\nIt's difficult to tell where the actual plot even starts, but here it goes: Eliot's (Tim Allen) son Matt (Ben Foster) is playing a game with a high school friend called "Killer" in which the assailant must douse a specifically chosen victim (Jenny, played by Zooey Decshanel) with a squirt gun. The "trouble" is that on the night he chooses to undertake his mission, two real assassins begin their own -- killing Jenny's dad. Simple enough? Well, what follows has more twists than a Mexican tequila bar. \nIt's almost as if the writers wanted to pack in as many quips and zany characters as they could no matter how much the plot deteriorated in the process. The film begins with a hippied-out Jason Lee rambling on about Noah and the biblical two-by-two gathering of the animals. The only thing it seems his speech has to do with the story is that the well-chosen cast appears and reappears in twos -- Janeane Garofalo and Patrick Warburton as the competent but preoccupied cops, two hitmen including Farina (who delivers the film's only full-blown laughs), Tom Sizemore and a less-than-funny Johnny Knoxville as a pair of wannabe robbers, Omar Epps and Dwight "Heavy D" Myers as aggressive F.B.I. agents and drumroll please… two Andy Richters!\nWhy, you might ask? Why not! If you find yourself asking questions while watching "Big Trouble," then that's exactly what you'll be in. \nIt's not exactly a knee-slapping rib splitter, but it's good for a few chuckles. \n
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