It amazes me that so many reactors are weirded out by this movie. Don't overthink it. This movie is fairly innocent. It would be like worrying about beastiality in Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid...
I'm 73 so I've seen a lot of changes over the years in cultural mores. Times change, and younger reactors don't seem much aware of how things were before they were born.
@@flarrfan There seems to be a big cutoff around people born after 1990 or so, i.e. too young to have really experience life before cell phones. My impression is that someone born in e.g. 1985 is more connected to the world of 1970 than someone born in 1995 is to even 1990.
I find it a little annoying when reactors find this film 'creepy' - overthinking the whole thing is like deconstructing a joke- it just isn't funny anymore. Take it from me, back in the day, this was every teenage boy's fantasy, and I'm pretty sure it still is.
I just couldn't take her incessant mile a minute inane over analysis. She missed the primary point of the entire movie. And it's always the female reactors who want to nitpick and change the entire movie instead of just enjoying it. Trying to be "logical" about a fantasy movie. Cripes, maddening.
"The broad success of the fantasy comedy Big (1988) established Hanks as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the industry as an actor. For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor." Splash was a breakout role. BIG was a career changing role and much bigger box office hit.
In his earlier days,Tom Hanks did several movies with Meg Ryan, which I suppose would be considered romantic comedies: Joe vs. the Volcano Sleepless in Seattle You've Got Mail.
50? Elizabeth Perkins, the actress, was only 28 in 1988. Women were more mature in the '70s and '80s apparently. As for romance, the 40 yr old man and 18 yr old girl was a popular coupling in the '70s and '80s. So this is a flip of Woody Allen's movies.
'Popular'... can't recall that many movies with age gaps that large. Even in the only Woody movie where it happens - Manhattan - they make it a plot point of how odd it is (I think the girl is something like 18). Plus this isn't a Woody Allen style movie (for adults) it's a family fantasy - primary audience kids. And she actually has sex with him. And he's 12. Big difference between 12 and 18.
@@TheNightBadger Well, at the same time the very popular 'Hill Street Blues' TV cop drama had the very old sergeant going on about his high school cheerleader girlfriend, who he marries in later seasons. And into the 1990s, the laws didn't cover older female/underage male sex. Only when the girl was younger.
@@jkbrown5496 I don't remember Hill Street Blues very well. I'm still not sure that makes it 'popular' at the time. There were some age-gap relationships sure, but even then middle-aged men and teen girls were frowned upon. Younger women yes, very young, not so much. Also, I'm pretty sure age of consent laws always covered boys as well as girls - even though I imagine society and the law treated them very differently.
Reactors who OVERTHINK everything in a movie, especially a FANTASY movie, I really feel sorry for. How do you enjoy any fictional movies at all?? You spend the whole time trying to dissect it logically with hundreds of inane questions, instead of enjoying the flip flopped bizarre circumstances that have a LESSON. THE LESSON WAS TO ENJOY YOUR INNER CHILD AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. YOU MISSED THE WHOLE POINT. MY GOD, WHY CANT YOU ENJOY THE MOVIE AS IS, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DISSECT IT? REACT DON'T PREDICT. THIS IS JUST INSUFFERABLE STUFF.
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I don't know about her being able to tell that he was a child. Especially in modern society. Most grown ass people these days act like children. I know grown parents that have kids in college and when thier kids go to spring break in Mexico the parents go to party with college kids in other locals like the Bahamas or Florida. Pretty sad. We see adults into "collectibles"(toys), films based on comic books and spending all day on a game council. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a sixty year old man that plays some video games, but not obsessively, and till the last 15 years read comic books (they have gotten terrible) but I would find it very uncomfortable to party with children. Wich, at my age, college aged kids are. Adults aren't really "adults" these days. It seems having a mortgage usually did the trick. But not so anymore.
Oh stop! Elizabeth Perkins did not look even close to 40!! And why would she pick up that he was a kid?? Seriously, how many kids to you know that look like a 30 year old??!!
She was just unable to accept the premise and spent the entire movie trying to over analyze it instead of enjoying the flipped script. I couldn't take it.
Who could resist Ann-Margaret? I've loved her since I saw the open and especially the close of Bye Bye Birdie when I was barely 12. In fact, I think A-M bouncing her boobs at the end might have jumpstarted my puberty.
Well, a teen can get a learner's permit at 15 in most States, I believe. They can in my State. And the boy is said to be 13 a couple of times during the film.
@@ahappyshow Yea, fifteen and one half year you get a permit, but that’s only with an adult in the car. This was obviously a clear path of a sixteen year old , at the LEAST! Probably eighteen. Twelve year old girls move up! It’s natural!😆🌿🌸
Hanks character was 13. So, assuming the girl he was smitten with was a classmate, she was 13. So the older "Chad" who could drive could have been 15 or 15.5. Still too old for the little wench.
I’d’ve said SPLASH was Tom Hanks’ breakout movie. It was such a big hit that another movie that he’d made before (that was shelved) BACHELOR PARTY was released on its coattails.
The actress most definitely did NOT look “40” - she was in her late 20’s and looks her age. Her skin is flawless. Perhaps you are misled by the 80’s hairstyle, but she does not look anywhere near 40.
Hi Dawn, I hope you’re not coming down with a cold. Another early Tom Hanks movie where everyone is age appropriate and wonderful is Joe Verses the Volcano. It’s his first pairing with Meg Ryan. Quirky as all get out, you would have a tough time guessing what’s going to happen next. But it really is good and you’d love it.
In the 80s we were latchkey kids. We basically roamed free as long as we went to school and got home in time for dinner. Only hyperactive parents really cared where you were every minute.
Directed by Penny Marshall (Laverne in 'Laverne and Shirley')...who went on to direct Tom Hanks in 'A League of Their Own'. Two great movies! 'Big' was the first movie directed by a woman to gross over $100 million at the U.S. box office.
Yeah - and Jon Lovitz (who played the Josh's co-worker in the cubicle next to him) was the baseball scout who brought Dottie, Kit & Marla Hooch to the baseball try-outs. Like her brother, Gerry Marshall (and Tom Hank's later), she liked working with certain actors in several films in their careers as producers/directors.
13 year old boys never found this movie creepy when it came out. Their minds were on something else. FYI: Tom Hanks has 8 movies and a lot of TV appearances prior to "Big" (1988). "Splash" (1983) was his first movie, second was "Bachelor Party" (1984). Both are recommended.
Beluga is a type of caviar..... very expensive caviar $ BTW: The girl in the office doesn't know Josh is a teenager ! You find it creepy because you know he's a teenager ! You see a pile of leaves and you... Kids from the 70s & 80s dive and play for a hour in that pile of leaves 😁 Kids today whey see a big pile of leaves: Oh No stay away from those dirty messy leaves !😮 One more thing... whats wrong with a teenager walking the city streets ? I did it all time in the 70s and even now a kid walking the streets in the daytime is not a big deal. Thats the problem today parents shelter their kids and the never grow up or it slows them from growing up. Another great reaction thank you 🙂👍
"Young boys&old men are the best! And in between are just going thru a phase that nobody wants to see." As an old man (70), I have to agree with Dawn!!!
"I wonder how many adults that are walking among us are secret 12-year-olds?" First I laughed, then I thought about it, and I'm pretty sure I've met a few.
She should've known he was a child??? HE WAS AN ADULT! So disappointed that Dawn is just like all the other reactors in her age range. They've been conditioned to see things in ways that were never intended, imposing real world standards on fantasy and comedy films.
@@visamanok thanks! I’m watching SUB version so the editing cuts out stuff. Also if he’s renting he doesn’t have to worry about property tax except for the landlord
Fun little FYI: Tom Hank’s boss in this movie also plays Frank in the movie Scarface. He’s also Richard Gere’s father in the movie An Officer And A Gentleman. Versatile actor.
As I recall, Hank's break through film was not BIG. It was BACHELOR PARTY. Prior to that movie Hanks was a TV star. And it was BACHELOR PARTY that first established him as a major box office draw. BIG came out several years later and Hank's had already starred in several big budget movies including SPLASH, THE MONEY PIT, VOLUNTEERS, DRAGNET and THE MAN WITH ONE RED SHOE. So whoever listed BIG as a breakout film didn't know what they were talking about. As to the movies mentioned prior to BIG I do highly recommend SPLASH and VOLUNTEERS. Both are hilarious.
Oh, Dawn, not you too. Being literal minded and thinking it's a child with a grown woman. IT'S A FANTASY! IT'S A COMEDY! IT. IS. NOT. CREEPY. It's about someone who ages without maturing.
I'll come back for more reactions when you stop over analyzing every little thing instead of enjoying it. And do something about that pot smokers hack.
2:20 "omg how embarrassing" That was me as a young teenager, and still today, actually. Lol. Got picked on, laughed at, and bullied in school because i was so short. I'm still only 5'6...40 years later. 😆 😢😢
The amusement park where Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins go to is called PlayLand Amusement Part, in Rye, NY. It’s also called Rye Playland. I used to go there a lot. The roller coaster that they’re riding is called the “Dragon Coaster and was a big deal when I was a kid and original to the park built in 1928. It’s the same roller coaster in Fatal Attraction!
Opening scene, blonde hottie Josh is smitten with, only to be passed over for the taller obviously older "Chad" who DRIVES. And so the female stomping and grinding on the nads starts in earnest, even before guys hit puberty. See what we had to deal with?
It was so obvious you could tell.... Sure, because you always think that 20 something guy is really a magically transformed 13 year old. First review where Dawnie is losing me with her reaction. You don't have to be offended all the time, sometimes it's alright to just live in the moment of the movie.
Checkout The 'Burbs and The Money Pit with Tom Hanks. The 'Burbs might be a good one for Halloween. A good movie about a supernatural gender change is called Switch with Ellen Barkin, Perry King and Jimmy Smits.
David Moscow (young Josh) was always on set. They would do a dry run of a scene and Tom Hanks would study his idiosyncrasies and then emulate them with the camera rolling. Tom Hanks did the same thing when filming Forrest Gump . he emulated Michael Connor Humphreys’ (young Forest ) verbal idiosyncrasies and then copied them to get the Forest Gump accent
Some Reactors have the same squeamishness when they watch Star Wars in chronological Order... Having the foreknowledge that Luke and Leia are twins before they kiss makes those Scenes very Cringy, but wouldn't think twice if that information when isn't shared until later.
I thought I would refresh my memory on what defines a "breakthrough role". It seems to have nothing to do with box office draw or accolades. Simply, it's a role that gives an actor critical praise and puts his name and face into the consciousness of the general public. "Splash" was the first film that did that for Tom Hanks (four years prior to "Big"), although he got great write-ups for his starring role on the short-lived comedy TV series "Bosom Buddies" three years earlier, which probably landed him in "Splash". He and "Bosom Buddies" co-star Peter Scolari are, to this day, one of my all time favorite comedy teams.
That's true! If the film had been set in 1936, then there would have been one person with 000-00-0025 probably on the East Coast or a Mid-Atlantic state (by Washington DC).
I wish she would show some more of the movie and not a few seconds and then showing her face fullscreen for several seconds. But I don't know how the regulations are for RU-vid
The 1988 TV movie 14 Going on 30 is responsible for a lot of people misremembering the end of this movie. The same premise, with a boy turning into an adult and dating his substitute teacher, at the end he turns back into a kid and his teacher/girlfriend shows up in class the next day as a teenage girl.
I was curious about the game at the beginning. Turns out it's not real however "BoMToons created a game called The Cavern of the Evil Wizard about 20 years after the release of Big as an homage to that game" -quote from reddit.
In response to your question about the wish…kinda, but also different, because it was a prayer (which is ironic because I’m pretty agnostic)… Going into Senior year of high school (in the 90’s), I’d had this awful crush on this one girl. Awful, because it would never happen. I’d sent her one of those carnations they did at schools back then for Valentine’s Day, but she’d been nice enough to turn me down gently. Of course, her being nice really just made me like her more…but it was driving me crazy because I wasn’t going to push anything…I was too nervous to. The girl actually put her phone number in a yearbook signing Junior year, and I was too nervous to even call her because I was afraid I’d come off creepy. So, a few days before Junior year, in bed, I prayed. I said I needed help with this crush, and kinda just started talking and asked if I could just crush on someone else instead…and I kept f-ing talking, because I was a 16-year old idiot, and I described a dream girl. Just totally went in on some image in my head, different than my classmate who I’d been crushing on for a year and a half. Obviously, I didn’t think anything would happen, but what else was I going to do? First day of class, I find out an elective class I’d signed up for had been cancelled, so the schedule I thought I was going to have got shuffled around, and I got put in an alternate class I’d chosen…Art History. It was okay since one of my best friends had picked it for his alternate as well. So as we’re sitting there talking and goofing off as everyone is settling down…this girl walks in…to a T, what I had described days earlier. She goes to the teacher with an add slip, and he told her to pick a seat. It was art history, so of course, the class was half empty seats. And as I’m trying desperately not to stare and looking intently at my desk, this girl walks over to the seat next to me and asks “Is this seat taken?” … There’s no happy ending to this story…It was high school, not real life. I kind of got exactly what I’d prayed/wished for. But yeah…seemed like it would apply to what you asked about.
There's a reason that George Lucas wrote The Phantom Menace with his kids suggesting a lot of the words for the slang of the movie. Slimo! Pretty much all of Jar jars dialogue. Kids know what kids like. He's a Mesa okay day.
If you ever go back to classic, B&W films from the 1940s, there's one called "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and a teenage Shirley Temple. It is a hilarious, comedy-of-errors film with an age-related theme. It is innocent and very funny.
Penny Marshall is a wonderful storyteller. You loved A League Of Their Own and Big. If you really want something amazing of hers to watch you should check out Awakenings with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. She gets superb performances from them both.
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"He's short for his age.... wait, how old is he ? " "Yup, the hairs go all the way down," Dawn.... that is not what he was looking at ! 😳 (In his underwear... get it 😊) The girl at the office Josh's "girlfriend" looks 40 ? Really come-on now late 20s maybe 30 but not 40 ! Dawn, you are an absolute riot 😂 😂 😂
