Big Trouble: The Last 90s Movie

Big Trouble came out on April 5, 2002, but it marks the hard end of the 1990s. Delayed because of the September 11th attacks, this silly little comedy about a plane hijacking and a nuclear suitcase bomb was basically scrubbed from the public consciousness. It's not streaming. It's not on blu-ray (anymore), and it's basically forgotten, even though it's filled with stars like Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Zooey Deschanel, Patrick Warburton, Tom Sizemore, Johnny Knoxville and Stanley Tucci (plus a hallucinogenic toad).

But it's also... kind of great? And a wonderful encapsulation of everything that made Dave Barry (who wrote the novel the film was adapted from) such a delightful force for comedy in the 80s and 90s.

Come with me on an excursion into the final cultural output of that naively untroubled time we called the 1990s and see why Big Trouble didn't deserve to get forgotten.

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Music from YouTube Audio Library & James Newton Howard's original score for Big Trouble