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Summary: A hidden jewel.
Review: If you liked Airplane and Naked Gun - you'll love The Big Bus. It's not as "over the top" as the Zucker movies which followed it, but it's easily the best acted and most original.
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Summary: Superb humor-corny-funny-light-a delight to watch
Review: If you were ever inclined toward a movie that is not serious and has no politically correct message nor a "cause" other than to entertain with humor you will like this. There is not a serious moment in the movie and that is one of the reasons it is so likable. Most of us have enough serious moments in reality. Give it a try---you'll love it
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Summary: BEFORE IT'S TIME.
Review: It bombed at the theatre and went straight to cable (at the time) where it picked up quite a following. You simply have to be in the mood for a far-fetched farce. If you are, it's great. Ms. Redgrave shows SHE CAN ACT and then some. Everyone comments on the piano player being so good. I wanted someone to smack him. It's worth purchasing for when you're in the mood.
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Summary: A Spoof that Should Have Worked
Review: Like the "Airplane!" films that succeeded it, "The Big Bus" is hilarious parody of the oh-so-popular disaster flicks of the 1970's. It is really like a disaster film as seen through the eyes of Tex Avery, the master animator who threw everything into his 'toons, including the kitchen sink at the expense of some poor soul."Bus" features a superb cast of movie and television performers who mimic every big name actor featured in bigger budgeted extravaganzas like "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno," and "Earthquake." In the words of Spike Lee, one must "get on this bus" for a fun-filled ride.
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Summary: A Spoof that Should Have Worked
Review: Like the "Airplane!" films that succeeded it, "The Big Bus" is hilarious parody of the oh-so-popular disaster flicks of the 1970's. It is really like a disaster film as seen through the eyes of Tex Avery, the master animator who threw everything into his 'toons, including the kitchen sink at the expense of some poor soul. "Bus" features a superb cast of movie and television performers who mimic every big name actor featured in bigger budgeted extravaganzas like "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno," and "Earthquake." In the words of Spike Lee, one must "get on this bus" for a fun-filled ride.
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Summary: The Single Greatest Film Ever Made
Review: Someday I'll build a bus like that and never look back. I'll dine in my bicentennial dining room, I'd raise the flags of all nations, I'd take a dip in the swimming pool, I'd save Stockard Channing from drowning in soda. Why, you can do anything on this bus. I would, however, NOT eat a busload of passengers. Maybe one foot. If it was in a stew.
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Summary: The prequel to the Zucker Classics!
Review: There were literally hundreds of hilarious moments in this one - surprised it's buried while equally hilarious films like "Naked Gun" and "Airplane!" are (rightfully) revered. Murphy Dunne - the pianist in "The Blues Brothers" is out and out hilarious. (Check out the "Six Months To Live" song.) Other great moments include Sally Kellerman balling over the fact her "estranged" husband gets shot - then Richard Mulligan pops his head up and goes "Heh heh heh heh-heeeh ha!!", Shoulders, the co-driver who keeps to the shoulders, and the attempt to "break wind" that's aborted. "Back to Fifty Five! Cop behind us!" But the best is a conversation between two passengers. An angry vetrinarian asks the man with 6 months to live what he hates. The dying man calmly responds "I hate this piano player." Murphy Dunne, not missing a beat, cheerily responds "Thank You!"
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Summary: Best 70s comedy - way better than Airplane
Review: This is a hilarious movie. I've seen about 10 times and still love it. I'm surprised its so unknown. This is the origianl "Airplane"....but better done. The gags are less obvious...and fewer bad puns.
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Summary: The Big Bus
Review: This is one of the funniest spoof films. I loved it. If you like silly humor it's is the one to have. My favorite is Shoulders who passes out at the wheel. He is too funny. And of course, the pianist and stewardess Mary Jane Beth Sue. So many names for one lady. Get this movie. You won't be disappointed. It is a good laugh!
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Summary: Best disaster movie spoof ever -- pre-dates
Review: Very funny spoof of the '70s disaster films. Barfight scene includes someone threatening our heroes, and our heroes defend themselves with a broken milk carton. "I hate to see a man down when he's kicked!" All the standard disaster movie cliches are sent up. Dinner at the captain's table, the piano bar singer, engine trouble, estranged lovers rekindling a failed romance, hidden secrets, medical emergencies....all during a fateful cross-country trip on the world's first nuclear-powered bus on its maiden voyage. Joe Bologna (also seen in "My Favorite Year") and Stockard Channing headline a cast of '70s icons and Love Boat/Fantasy Island regulars. You just can't beat the drama of a life-threatening situation on an out-of-control BUS! This movie is funnier than you remember it, but if you didn't catch it on TV since the late 70's then do yourself a favor and buy this. Or buy me one. Either way, you'll be doing the right thing.
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