Big Bully

1996 "A comedy for the kid in all of us."
4.8| 1h30m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 26 January 1996 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful past by torturing him once again.

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seinfeldallofan There is no his picture under his name,and the scores for this movie is far too low.I really liked this movie. The music effect is specially great.What happened to you!Do I have to write 10 lines? I don't have much to say however.Well it's about a man who had been bullied by one of his old classmates. After he came back to his hometown, he found he is still scared by this old classmate "Fang". I myself was bullied by a shameless boy when I was in primary school.I still hate him even now.If I'll meet him again, I'll hit him with a hammer from back.Of course I don't think I will meet him again. And both the man and "fang" had a son. Interestingly his boy was still a "captive" of the fang. The fighting scene is wonderful.
MovieAddict2016 Rick Moranis has always been a very funny guy. He was the meek nerd doing his best young Woody Allen impersonation in "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986), and he was absolutely perfect as Barney in "My Blue Heaven," which was--at the time--his fourth pairing with Steve Martin. (They ended up making four films together.)Tom Arnold has never been particularly funny. He showed some signs of talent in "True Lies" (1994), but everything after that just went downhill. Here's a guy who has appeared in some of the worst films and television shows of the last decade, including "McHale's Navy" (1997) and "The Stupids." In fact, I went to the theater to see "McHale's Navy" upon its release and felt like vomiting from the first five minutes into it. "Big Bully" is Rick Moranis' worst film and one of Tom Arnold's best, if that's saying anything.I'll admit that the beginning of "Big Bully" was quite funny. There are many laugh-out-loud segments. But, unfortunately, they are drowned out by an over-the-top and truly awful, ridiculous ending, in which a man's old bully from school goes after him again with weapons from a wood-carving class. (Be careful, your kids may never want to go back to school again.)Rick Moranis is the man who is attacked. His name is David, and the film opens with a younger version of himself being chased down a street and up against a metal gate by a chubby fellow his own age. We assume that he is beaten to a pulp, but before we see anything, it all fades away.Years later, David has a son of his own, and has since moved out into the big city. But he's tired of the city life, and after his wife leaves him, David decides to move back to his home town, along with his son. They arrive, he finds out he has hundreds of dollars due on a Dr. Seuss book he got out from the library years ago (funny segment there), and he moves into his new home. David soon teaches school, where he finds out that an old bully of his, "Fang" (Tom Arnold), is teaching carving.David gets scared, runs away from Big Bully (who seems to be nice now, and truly wants a friendship with the man) throughout the film, until, in a scary moment, he realizes "Fang" really is still a psycho, and the two men battle it out in the school, in ridiculous, childish gags and moments.Alas, that's all the film is comprised of, with scattered--and very predictable--ideas involving romantic interests and such cliches. It's too bad--this was a decent premise to begin with."Big Bully" literally massacred Rick Moranis' career, and since then he has appeared in only a few "real" films--unless you count straight-to-video animated and live-action Disney-esque films real movies.This is just hideous, a film to rival the bad qualities of "McHale's Navy" and "The Stupids." The movie is tolerable in an annoying sort of way until the climactic finale, which is so out of control and awful that it really just makes you want to throw up.This is one bad movie. I can't imagine a worse result stemming from such a poor comedian mixed with such a great one. Rick Moranis should sue, and Tom Arnold should die. But that's just my opinion. I'm not going to be a bully about it, or anything.0.5/5 stars.John Ulmer
wishkah7 Did Rick Moranis's movie career end with this monstrosity called Big Bully? Haven't heard from him since. In this one he plays a writer who got bullied as a child and then gets even with the bully and moves out of town to the west coast. Then in the long run he gets a teaching job opportunity in his hometown only to be tormented by his old nemesis all over again. Now he has a kid who's a bully and his tormenter has a kid who's the bullied? This was supposed to be funny? If anything, it's depressing! Who in their right mind would want to go back to their hometown especially if they've been an outcast or had bad memories when they lived there? Totally unrealistic if you ask me. What was a respected comedian like Don Knotts doing in a movie like this? Then at the end they move to New York with the bully and his family in tow. Well, ha ha! Don't show this movie to your kids. Stay away from Big Bully even if you've been bullied a lot as a child. Big Bully I heard won some Razzie Awards, it certainly deserved it. It's just a sad travesty that passes itself off as a family movie. If you want to see Rick Moranis in his prime, then see "Spaceballs" or "Little Shop of Horrors". And in the meantime I think we can only hope Big Bully gets sent to the garbage incinerator right where it belongs!
fdg This movie was one of the worst i have seen. It was on at 4 AM and i had a choice of watching Pappy Drewit's PappyLand or Big Bully. Frankly after watching Tom Arnold bully then chase Rick Moranis with various items and his no talent acting, I wish I would have chosen PappyLand.