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Plot: For anyone who's wallowed in the inanities of 1970s disaster movies, The Big Bus is not only witty but downright endearing. Instead of an endangered airliner or a capsized cruise ship, this dip...( read more read more... )pily deadpan parody features a block-long, atomic-powered, luxury super-Greyhound setting off on its first transcontinental run with a garish cross section of humankind programmed for redemption, retribution, or just sublime ridiculousness as they roll toward Doom--or Denver, whichever comes first. Writers Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen, who penned the daffy historical spoof Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), twist the sententious ironies of disaster-movie dialogue into pretzels (priceless scene: Richard B. Shull, as a "terminal traveler" with six months to live, and Bob Dishy, a discredited veterinarian who fitted a rabbit for an IUD, debating who knows more about bitterness). James Frawley's direction is drolly cliché-savvy, but his touch proved too delicate for 1976 audiences; it remained for Airplane! to grab the disaster-spoof brass ring four years later. Still, it's not too late to climb aboard. --Richard T. Jameson

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  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 19, 2008
    A spoof of the 70s disaster movies Big Bus is a la Airplane and Scary Movie is the sense that it it totally idiotic humour. A novel idea and some good jokes dont cover uop the fact it is weak and the good gags are few and far betwen.
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    MCT:
    October 18, 2007
    "The Big Bus" should be interesting for me to watch, because this movie looks like "Airplane!" on a bus with nuclear power!
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 25, 2007
    Take well known stars of the late 70's and make a movie about the biggest bus ever made, and combine with a maiden road trip that leads to all sorts of problems along the way.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 14, 2007
    I remember my mother getting this movie instead of Big Business with Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. This movie was freakin' awful.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 25, 2007
    A definit guilty pleasure of mine. Not no a par with the Airplane movies but still enjoyable nonetheless.

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  • Rated: (PG)
  • Directed by: James Frawley
  • Genres: Comedy, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Released: June 23, 1976
  • DVD Released: July 16, 2002

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