The Big Bus
1976
A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar--and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) and an oil company man who is .. Read more
| Starring | Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Jose Ferrer |
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| Director | James Frawley |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Big Bus
A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar--and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) and an oil company man who is working overtime to sabotage the bus, the passengers (Stockard Channing, Richard Mulligan, Ruth Gordon, Rene Auberjonois, and more) are assured a bumpy ride. Director James Frawley's (TV's The Monkees) is an obvious influence on 1980's AIRPLANE!
| Starring | Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Jose Ferrer, Ned Beatty, Bob Dishy, Ruth Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman, Lynn Redgrave, Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan |
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| Director | James Frawley |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 08 Mar 2004 Production year: 1976 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this intended parody of the 1970s disaster movie genre, the usual bunch of misfits climbs aboard the world's first nuclear-powered coach, travelling from New York to Denver. It's more like The Big Blunderbuss in its scattergun attack on its targets, with the likes of Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, Lynn Redgrave and Ned Beatty making a lot of noise to occasionally pleasing comic effect. You have to admire its intentions, but most “serious” disaster movies of the period had slipped into unintentional self-parody by 1976.
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Frawley's experience directing the Monkees serves him well in timing the one-liners which make up this engaging parody... read more on Time Out
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Airplane on a bus !
Perhaps not a movie for deep exploration of the human soul, this is a disaster movie set on a nuclear powered bus going to Denver (yup, mountain edges...) That's right - an excuse for every bad gag and situation in the book, and if you don't laugh out loud your underwear is too tight.If all you want is giggles, this is for you.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
WARNING: Place critical faculties in neutral before operating this movie
But I risked it (anything for you guys) and found this had dropped a star since I first saw it on release. (My taste must be improving.) A techno-disaster spoof in which the biggest star of all is the Bus itself, a triumph of inappropriate technology. Like most of these, by no means all the gags hit, but you can have fun spotting all the spoofees. Not a bad choice for a winter's night with nothing on the telly (i.e. most of them).
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The Big Bus
A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus--containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar--and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) ...
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