Big: Critic Reviews

For any other full-grown actors who try their hands at fidgeting, squirming, throwing water balloons and wolfing down food in a huge variety of comically disgusting ways, this really is the performance to beat.

What's great about it is that it shows how wonderfully full of toys the world of adults can be. And though this may fall under the heading of tiny, perhaps even fatuous, revelations, it does send you out of the theater with a lighter step.

As far as the movie's message is considered -- if only grown-ups could be more like kids -- Jerry Lewis did an infinitely better job of plugging it in the 50s.

Unspools with enjoyable genuineness and ingenuity.

Wonderful story with some mature material.

One of Hollywood's all-time most appealing magic realist fantasies. [Blu-ray]

The best of the spate of body-switching films in the late 80s.

Once in a blue moon, there are moments of perfect casting that virtually ensure a movie is going to be a piece of class. And that's what you've got here.

Hanks so convincingly played a grown-up with a 12-year-old mind that he transformed instantly in the public eye from a run-of-the-mill comedy star to a respected actor with limitless potential.

It touched me

The picture still stands proud as a comedy easy chair of sorts, but even more vividly as Tom Hanks's finest hour as an actor.

Marshall, Hanks, and his co-stars seldom put a foot wrong.

It is...one of those films that simply cannot be touched, no matter how one pokes and prods at its lapses in logic.

Great performance by Hanks makes this a winner.

Fanciful tearjerker with Hanks in another diverse role