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The Big Bus Reviews

1976

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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
Director	James Frawley
Genres	Comedy

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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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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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- - 3
  - 0
  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... read more »
  
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  - Cardiff Boy
  - Cardiff!!!
  - 21 Mar 2005 at 22:15
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- - 1
  - 0
  Not as good as you remember from when you were a kid, but what is???
  
  I loved this film when I was younger, I mean LOVED it, must have seen it 10 times by the time i was a teenager (quite a while ago, hadnt seen it in about 20 ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Newcastle upon Tyne
  - 28 Aug 2008 at 11:25
- - 0
  - 0
  You WERE a pig at Mount Diablo
  
  Like some other reviewers, I took this out because I'd seen it on TV over 20 years ago, and somewhere stored in a long forgotten box in the loft, I have a ... read more »
  
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- - Jethro
  - 9 reviews
  - Huntingdon
  - 10 Jun 2008 at 23:17
- - 0
  - 0
  Average
  
  If your looking for belly laughs your not going to get them here, although you will get quite a few chuckles, other films from the same genre will give you ... read more »
  
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- - anna woodcock
  - Liverpool
  - 09 Mar 2007 at 12:29
- - 3
  - 0
  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... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 83894
- - Cardiff Boy
  - Cardiff!!!
  - 21 Mar 2005 at 22:15
- - 2
  - 0
  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 ... read more »
  
  Report this review
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- - Mike
  - Spondon, Derby
  - 10 Mar 2005 at 15:34
- - 0
  - 0
  It's about a bus, a big bus
  
  Not as good as 'Airplane' maybe, but the bus in question is not only big, it's totally wicked!
  
  Laughs come thick (quite literally) and ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 318682
- - gitboydeluxe
  - london
  - 12 Jan 2005 at 22:07
- - 2
  - 0
  If you?ve seen and ...
  
  If you?ve seen and liked the ?Airplane? series and any of the disaster movies of the 70?s early 80?s then ?The Big Bus? is one for you. It?s a great comedy send... read more »
  
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  - 148 reviews
  - West Midlands
  - 14 Jul 2004 at 08:37
- - 1
  - 0
  A disappointing revisit
  
  I saw this film probably fifteen years ago and have eagerly awaited an opportunity to see it again ever since. However, as with so many other things the ... read more »
  
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- - shellgrip
  - OXON
  - 07 Jun 2004 at 19:26
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- - 3
  - 0
  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... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 83894
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Cardiff Boy
  - Cardiff!!!
  - 21 Mar 2005 at 22:15
- - 2
  - 0
  If you?ve seen and ...
  
  If you?ve seen and liked the ?Airplane? series and any of the disaster movies of the 70?s early 80?s then ?The Big Bus? is one for you. It?s a great comedy send... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 41125
- - HD
  - 148 reviews
  - West Midlands
  - 14 Jul 2004 at 08:37
- - 2
  - 0
  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 ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 80011
- - Mike
  - Spondon, Derby
  - 10 Mar 2005 at 15:34
- - 1
  - 0
  A disappointing revisit
  
  I saw this film probably fifteen years ago and have eagerly awaited an opportunity to see it again ever since. However, as with so many other things the ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 304598
- - shellgrip
  - OXON
  - 07 Jun 2004 at 19:26
- - 1
  - 0
  Not as good as you remember from when you were a kid, but what is???
  
  I loved this film when I was younger, I mean LOVED it, must have seen it 10 times by the time i was a teenager (quite a while ago, hadnt seen it in about 20 ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 620427
- - a customer
  - Newcastle upon Tyne
  - 28 Aug 2008 at 11:25
- - 0
  - 0
  It's about a bus, a big bus
  
  Not as good as 'Airplane' maybe, but the bus in question is not only big, it's totally wicked!
  
  Laughs come thick (quite literally) and ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 318682
- - gitboydeluxe
  - london
  - 12 Jan 2005 at 22:07
- - 0
  - 0
  Average
  
  If your looking for belly laughs your not going to get them here, although you will get quite a few chuckles, other films from the same genre will give you ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 418483
- - anna woodcock
  - Liverpool
  - 09 Mar 2007 at 12:29
- - 0
  - 0
  You WERE a pig at Mount Diablo
  
  Like some other reviewers, I took this out because I'd seen it on TV over 20 years ago, and somewhere stored in a long forgotten box in the loft, I have a ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 574716
- - Jethro
  - 9 reviews
  - Huntingdon
  - 10 Jun 2008 at 23:17

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  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) ...