Missing: this movie's plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

It's sexy, offbeat fun for the most part, but it's way too laid-back for its own good and, in the end, obstinately refuses to be anything more than the sum of its highly promising parts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2004

Best approached as a Come to Hawaii advertisement with a wisecracking Wilson as your happy tour guide.

| Feb 5, 2004

Newcomer Foster cites Lauren Bacall as a precursor, but her ingnue fatale is more like a lost Olsen triplet.

| Feb 3, 2004

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 1, 2004

Sheen, too, seems to particularly relish his sad-sack character, a pathetic loser of a rube named Bob Jr. He's hysterically funny at times injecting the film with just the type of pathetic silliness the rest of it sorely lacks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2004

Everything here is too mild, too sloppy.

| Jan 31, 2004

The story has been so poked and prodded and spun around it barely knows how to end.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 31, 2004

Boring, unsexy, styleless, sluggish and physically ugly.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2004

Insipid potboiler set against the far more enticing surf and sand of Oahu's North Shore.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2004

Given a choice between shovelling my driveway or going to see The Big Bounce again, I would choose the driveway.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2004

The director, George Armitage, has a good feel for laid-back, hipster black comedy but no impulse whatsoever to keep the narrative moving.

| Jan 30, 2004

For all its twists and turns, Bounce never really goes anywhere.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2004

In every other way, The Big Bounce is a dreadful exercise, with a script full of contradictions and empty gestures and a leading lady who's such a novice it hurts to watch her.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 30, 2004

So utterly inconsequential it fades from memory long before it's even over.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2004

The character of Jack is just a walking attitude, and the movie feels like a slapped-together joke.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2004

There may once have been a real movie rattling inside the empty studio package known as The Big Bounce, but no longer.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2004

Bounce feels as dated and condescending as Blue Hawaii.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 30, 2004

The movie often feels content to be smugly second-rate: sun-stoned, underachieving and proud of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2004

The Big Bounce has all the earmarks of a project that has been laundered more times than the developer's money.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2004