2007 · comedy · crime · martial-arts
Big Stan
Directed by Rob Schneider1h 49m2007
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.
Our read: Big Stan (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
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