The Big Bus

The Big Bus (1976)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 51% of users liked it
    (1,723 ratings)

The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers of… More

PG, 1 hr. 28 min.
Directed By
James Frawley
Written By
Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
Genres
Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 23, 1976 Wide
On DVD
Jul 16, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

    Zany bus ride tries to be 'Mad World,' but hits pot hole

  • Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews

    The 'star-studded' cast of familiar faces is one of the conventions of disaster movies that writers Cohen and Fred Freeman have stuck to

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  • jay n


    Very much a mixed bag with a lot of talented performers trapped in this scattershot mess. Tries to lampoon the disaster movie craze and scores occasionally but mostly of the jokes fall flat.

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