The Big Bus

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 years since then!) so when I saw it on sale for £3 I thought what the hell lets give it a go, after all it doesnt do any harm to revist your past......does it?.............

It all came flooding back to me, I found myself reciting lines as I watched it, pointing out to the wife the funny bits to look out for (I know, how annoying), and having quite a few chuckles along the way (more than some recent blockbuster comedies anyway)

The film is nowhere near as funny as I remember and does drag a bit but it still remains in the top 5 of my 'childhood nostalgia list' and it will forever hold a place in my heart.

It's no Airplane, but then again it's no Airplane 2 either - it falls somewhere inbetween the two.

The wife hated it by the way, didnt laugh once, not even a smile. She just looked at me in a pitying way and shook her head when it finished.............

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 home made video tape recording of it. I guess time wears some of the gags thin. but on the whole I loved seeing it again, and would say that if like me you like to occasionally just not have to THINK when watching a film, this will fit the bill. File under 'Bit dated, but the jokes are still excellent'

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 more laugh out loads.

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.

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).