BIG (1988) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! 

Stunt doubles were hired for the piano scene, but Hanks and Loggia managed to perform it themselves. The scene was choreographed by Paula Abdul.

Nostalgia levels are through the roof for me on this one! 😳

Now do a reaction for Splash. Tom Hanks and John Candy were great in it. Darryl Hannah was so beautiful and awesome in it too.

"13 Going on 30" has a very disturbing concept. In "Big", the Hanks character doesn't loose any time. He just wakes up the next day and is grown up. In "13 Going on 30", the main character wakes up and 17 years have past. She has lived those 17 years, but she doesn't remember them. It is super messed up when you think about it.

Elizabeth Perkins was perfection in this movie.

Wow, haven't seen "Big" in years but it still holds up all these years later. I'm from New York and for years after people would go to FAO Swartz toy store and play on those keyboards. The store is now located in Rockefeller Center. Trivia: as a teen I worked at the Playland in Rye, New York, the amusement park with the boardwalk. This park was also featured in "Fatal Attraction" and Mariah Carey's music video "Fantasy" featuring rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard. "Big" was the first and best of the body swap movies of the '80's.

Thanks, Tom! Thanks, Shaun! 🎹 I adore BIG (1988)! Penny Marshall did such a fine job of directing. Of course, Mr. Hanks, Ms. Perkins, Mr. Loggia, Ms. Ruehl, Mr. Rushton along side of Mr. Moscow all acted the hell outta their parts.

I love you thought the piano was CG done in post. Nah. They actually did it live.

They did the Piano scene themselves . It’s a real piano

Tom Hanks started in a TV series called Bosom Buddies which is a drag comedy.

The commentary in this video gave me some chuckles guys! I just realized that I was thirteen when this film was released and am six months apart in age from the actor who played young Josh. Weird.

They did actually play Chopsticks. A friend of mine was an extra in that scene. One of the little girls watching

Its a little fuzzy but several years ago I watched a show about the making or something with Tom Hanks and he said the message for him is that as kids we yearn for adulthood but when we become adults we yearn for our childhood.

Tom played a grown up kid brilliantly. Jared Rushton who portrayed his buddy Billy was in a few classic 80s movies....Big, Overboard, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

yay! there's also a movie called "vice versa" that's about a kid and adult trading bodies...not as heartwarming as this click. but entertaining.

Lol, Anne Spielberg is Steven's sister, guys.

A very touching movie, and the performance that showed me Tom Hanks can act. Lots of fun. As always: finish Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy: 2) Prince of Darkness and 3) In the Mouth of Madness.

Big is a classic. Tom Hanks gave one of the best performances of his acting career as Josh Baskin.

My favorite Tom Hanks movie is The Burbs, a cult classic comedy/horror, check it out!

Someone else may have mentioned this, but there's a deleted scene where the "girlfriend" changes her mind about becoming a child again and they meet again in school. If I'm not mistaken, it's here on RU-vid

One of my favourite films ever!

Loved this film since I was a kid, I also liked Vice Versa. There is a place for both of them (both 1988), they are similar but not the same. It is really weird that she slept with him, imagine if he got her pregnant haha

I’m so old I saw this in the theater with my mom (80’s latchkey kid) I had to close my eyes at the HIGHLY questionable part. I distinctly remember a group of teenagers behind us hollering at the screen during this particular scene, I’m thinking WTH is happening? Now watching this with my daughter, this awkward scene NEVER happens. I skip it or turn the main TV off.

There is a Rob Schnieder movie were he body swaps with a teenage girl. It's shit but luckily it concentrates on the girl being in the man's body as the other side of the movie could have been so wrong 🤣🤣

I love the fact they got to play forgive me nots in this movie..

This was a fun reaction video!! 😄

Watched this recently on disney+ and when the kid dropped the f-bomb i literally gasped cus no previous version i had seen before had that bit in it hahaha seemed sooo weird

You should watch "Splash".

Man, I first remember seeing Tom Hanks in an ABC sitcom called 'Bosom Buddies' (opening: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3UI_JwF3cnA.html ) from the early 80's. He transitioned to comedy movies (like Splash and Bachelor Party). I think 'Big' was the first time he received some critical acclaim. And every once in a while I am reminded of the incredible amount of talent that passed through the ABC sitcoms of the 70's and early 80's. We had shows like Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Bosom Buddies, and Taxi that gave us stars like Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Penny Marshall (who directed 'Big'), Michael Mckean, Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, Andy Kaufman, Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito. (phew!)

If you traded places with each other you could have a go at yourselves. 🤔

Film audio is far too low.

You guys are funny. Thanks

I'm a grown man and still have a child's imagination. 😃

They did make a female version of this. I think it was called 13 going on 30...Jennifer Gardner or someone was the star

Please watch The Toy, and Harry and the Hendersons.

The piano scene was real, the creator of the piano actually built a larger one the the one in the store so they could play the song which required 3 octaves to play. The actors practiced for 3 months and on the day of shooting dismissed the dancers that had been hired to perform it and did it themselves in one take. The original piano was still in the FAO Schwarz store until it closed in 2015. Penny Marshall videotaped David Moscow, the actor who played kid Josh, acting out all of the adult Josh scenes so that Hanks could study his mannerisms in each situation. That way he could mimic how a kid would act in the same situation and how he was able to seem like a kid so well. This was actually the same age swap movie that came out that year, which upset Penny Marshall because when she agreed to direct the movie she thought it was a unique idea.

Need to turn the movie volume up some, lads.

The piano scene is so iconic. One of the best movie in the 80s.

Tom Hanks' childlike glee throughout the film is a huge reason why this movie is so great. You actually feel like you're watching a kid in an adult's body.

For real though, his mom would NEVER let him out of the house again after that 😂

Great reaction! May want to turn up the volume on the movie.

Great movie mate's it was hard to hear but I loved your reactions, can't wait to see what you pick next (✯ᴗ✯)

Tom Hanks got his start in an 80's TV sitcom called "Bosom Buddies", about two guys who dress in drag so they can get a cheap apartment in a women-only apartment building. His co-star Peter Scolari just died a couple of months ago.

Love, love, love this movie! Watched it so many times with my dad during the 90's 16:37 😂😂 Favorite Tom Hanks movies is Cast Away Forrest Gump The Green Mile Runner ups is this one, Philadelphia and Sleepless in Seattle Btw have you seen Scent of a Woman? Great movie and fantastic performance by Al Pacino

6:57 Tom: I’d be like, “I’m dreaming, this isn’t possible” Shaun: Dreaming? You like it, then? Tom: *looks directly at camera*

Robin Williams in Jack does an amazing job playing an adult child.

A great Tom Hanks film with the great John Candy is Splash and a funny one is Bachelor Party

13 going on 30 is great but the movie that gives similar vibes to this one, in my opinion, is actually Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter is Dead.

Tom Hanks is incapable of making a bad film. I loved him in The Money Pit as a child long before Sleepless in Seattle and Saving Private Ryan.

Please consider GRUMPY OLD MEN (1993) starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. A great holiday movie. Burgess Meredith is pure comedy gold

Steven Spielberg wanted to direct Big but he decided not to because his sister wrote the script and didn't want to take her moment away from her

Yes, Tom Hanks started in comedy - on television. "Bossom Buddies" was a great show. You should watch "Splash", another bittersweet comedy. John Candy plays his brother.

He got the impossible gift of seeing what being an adult is like and then get to go back to being a kid again so he can appreciate it that much more.

I can't believe Tom hasn't seen this movie 😲 how dare he 😂 😂😂

Anne Spielberg is Steven Spielberg's sister, not his "original wife".

You guys helped me get through several bad days due to a medical condition I've been dealing with for the past few months. Just thought you should know.

Great reaction you guys! Can you also react to SPLASH! (1984) which is another Tom Hanks film?

A few other early Tom Hanks films that started his career, Splash, where he falls in love with a mermaid, played by Darryl Hannah. Bachelor Party, The Money Pit, Volunteers.

The Burbs is a brilliant Tom Hanks film and it's so underrated. It's from the director of Gremlins and it's about these weird new neighbors that might be killers. Definitely recommend it!

When Jodie Foster was 13 or 14 back in the 70’s, she did a body swap movie called Freaky Friday.

Building on your comments at the end, I realized that "Home Alone" has a similar arc if you ignore the whole plot of defending the house against burglars.

You need to check out Splash with Hanks and John Candy.

The movie makes me think when you're a kid you just want to be an adult and when you're an adult you wish you could go back to being a kid. Simply, it's the grass is always greener scenario.

Trivia: The child actress whom played Rachel Baskin, Josh's baby sister was not credited in the end credits and to this day, her identity remains a mystery.

I love this movie! 🎬 I am so glad that you guys loved it too. Brings back a lot of memories.Tom Hanks is so good in this. You guys cracked me up throughout. 😁

Another oldish Tom Hanks movie I really enjoy is called Splash from 1984. Daryl Hannah co stars. I think you should consider reacting to that

Hi Guys! Please react to another 80's Tom Hank film "Splash."👍

Whenever you're in the mood for a thriller again... I have a rather good one for the holidays. You guys should check out the movie Better Watch Out

The 90's film "Jack" comes to mind. It stars Robin Williams, Jennifer Lopez, and Diane Lane... also Bill Cosby... Really good movie in the same vain as this movie.

4:14 Shaun I'd give you some of my height. 7:00 so we're just leaning in on that one! 16:33 come on Tom you gotta expect it! 🤣😍

Wow what a surprise not allot of reactors seen it. Great movie. You should also see Punchline, Turner & Hooch and The Money Pit no one react to this movies

They actually did the piano thing themselves and it’s not dubbed.

Calling her a criminal is precisely why a movie like this could never get made, today.

In answer to "what is your favorite Tom Hanks movie?": For me it's the comedy, "The Man With One Red Shoe".

Will she find out he's a twelve year old boy ? And she's a Criminal... Hilarious 😂🤣😂

I loved this as a kid. As an adult it comes across a lot creepy and a bit pedo by the end, that aside it’s still funny and heartwarming. How confusing is nostalgia

Turn up your volume guys.

Tom Hank's gf looks so much like Millie bobbie Brown from stranger things . I mean the way tom Hank's got off that elevator they obv had sex so imagine some kind of sequel starring MBB as their daughter

Why cant we hear it??

Shaun kinda looks like grown up Billy. That actor was also in Honey I shrunk the Kids and Overboard.

I'm surprised he didn't say "I wish to be a Kid again... but also very rich"

I girl in a woman's body. You mean like Freaky Friday or 13 going on 30? Ah, you have heard of it.

Watch Batchelor Party, it's one of Tom Hanks funniest movies

Yes, the piano is still in the toy store, and yes, it does work, and yes, there is a very big queue of middle-aged men waiting to do the dance....

You’re wrong about the Social Security thing. I was super broke my first couple of years in college and couldn’t pay my utility bills all the time. Every time they turned off the power or whatever, I would call the company to set up a new account and switch 2 of the numbers of my social security number (so instead of 123 it’s132) and bam! Power back on. It wasn’t as easy to check that kind of stuff back then and could be attributed employee error if anyone ever cheked on it. I finally got a better job and didn’t have to do that again. It definitely wouldn’t work today.

Yeah imagine they did a remake but the genders were reversed LOL! It would get shut down quick.

I don't know, once I'd seen t*ts, I don't think I'd care about playing in the leafs.

Vice versa is another similar film. Starring Fred savage and judge reinhold

Anne Spielberg is Steven's sister not his first wife. His first wife was Amy Irving.

Joe vs the volcano, joe Dante film with Tom hanks and Meg Ryan! Money pit and the man with one red shoe, those rarely talked about young hanks comedy classics

Have you guys seen Shazam? Parts of it were inspired in this one.

“Criminal” hahahahhahahahah🤣🤣

Tom Hanks' first film was a horror called He Knows You're Alone. It was a really small part and allegedly his character was supposed to die but they liked Tom so much they wouldn't kill him.

Splash...Batchelor Party two Tom Hanks must see films

The sound is terrible….can barely hear the movie

So now you have to react to 13 Going On 30 with Jennifer Garner. Same concept except it’s about a girl.

you guys are awesome but I like Shaun's sense of humor funny. you both are funny. Adrian Robles from Florida. thank you for making my day happier.

This movie is disturbing when you know about Spielberg and Tom ngl

Great choice. The Burbs is another great.

One Of Tom Hanks Best Performances Ever Made