Why Is The Big Year (2011) Good

1. The Big Year (2011): A Review - THE LAHONTAN AUDUBON SOCIETY

  • Nov 24, 2020 · The Big Year is definitely a comedy that lives up to its description “loosely based”. Its three comedian stars, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and ...

  • Written by Parker Flickinger

2. Guys in trees with binoculars movie review (2011) - Roger Ebert

  • An annual award goes to the birder who sees the most different species in a year. They will not conveniently flutter before your eyes.

  • Birders. You call them birders. Calling them "bird-watchers" is insulting, like calling a Trekker a Trekkie. They are aware that some people find birding to

3. The Big Year | Rotten Tomatoes

  • The excellent main and supporting cast handles both the funny parts and the more emotional moments very well, the story is engaging and moves at a brisk pace so ...

  • Three men find that they have come to a turning point. Stu (Steve Martin) faces a late-life crisis, Kenny (Owen Wilson) is in the grip of a midlife crisis, and Brad (Jack Black) is wallowing in a no-life crisis. Determined to kick-start their stagnant lives, Stu, Kenny and Brad decide to enter a prestigious contest. During the course of one calendar year, the three friendly rivals criss-cross North America in a quest to count more species of birds than anyone else.

4. The Big Year movie review - Entertainment Weekly

  • Oct 13, 2011 · The movie, loosely based on a true story, is about three outwardly mild-mannered men, all of whom leave their daily lives behind to engage in ...

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5. Another view on The Big Year | Owen Wilson | The Guardian

  • Dec 12, 2011 · It can certainly take over your life, as it does for the three main characters in this film: they devote an entire year of their lives – a "big ...

  • Getting chuffed over a domestic duck? Any self-respecting birdwatching pedant should be horrified by The Big Year, says David Callahan

6. The Big Year: Our Movie Review | All About Birds

  • Oct 15, 2011 · This film is an enjoyable tramp through America's wilds and through the familial tangles of its three main characters. Peppered with polite ...

  • Last night, about 25 of my coworkers and their family members went to the opening of The Big Year. We had been looking forward to the movie with a mixture of excitement and apprehension: bird watching isn't often treated kindly (or accurately) in movies, and mistakes are so common that sometimes it

7. "The Big Year" | BirdForum

8. Review: 'The Big Year' not for the birds - CNN

  • Oct 14, 2011 · It has a simple but compelling story to which everyone, birders and non-, can relate, great chemistry between Martin and Black, and a heart.

  • Birders define “a big year” as an informal competition to see who can spot the most species of birds in a certain area in a calendar year.

9. The Big Year Is a Terrible, Terrible Movie - The Stranger

  • The Big Year ... Film/TV Oct 12, 2011 at 4: ... People who like birds, people who like funny jokes, people who like women, and people who like good movies are going to be disappointed with The Big Year.

  • The Big Year is a quirky comedy with great actors, lessons about friendship and family and mortality, and… IT IS A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE FILM. Don’t get me wrong, your mother might watch this movie and say, “Oh, it was cute.” People in the screening laughed somewhat-heartedly every so often. It is not the worst movie ever made—not by a long shot—but its particular brand of mediocrity is odious. Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black...

10. The Big Year Movie Review | Common Sense Media

  • Apr 18, 2024 · Parents need to know that this good-natured comedy about birding enthusiasts may initially disappoint fans expecting the usual shtick from ...

  • Sweet travelogue/comedy is tame but not aimed at kids. Read Common Sense Media's The Big Year review, age rating, and parents guide.

11. The Big Year critic reviews - Metacritic

  • Like birding itself, The Big Year rewards patience. It respects both the integrity and the eccentricity of the avian obsession, and it communicates something of ...

  • Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.

12. Review of The Big Year Movie - - Birdfreak.com

  • Oct 25, 2011 · This movie is fiction but for the most part the birds and locations are accurate with liberties taken to portray “odd” birding locations (like ...

  • Stacia and I saw The Big Year movie on opening night, Friday, October 14th, 2011. This movie had received a lot of hype from birders across the country and we were excited to see it. Here is our joint review from a new birder and the self-proclaimed "birdfreak". NOTICE: There are no spoilers so y

13. The Big Year Movie is a flop? Here's Why, but go see it.

  • Oct 18, 2011 · Go see this movie. You will see a variety of people holding binoculars (and cameras, another great way to interact with birds) enjoying birds.

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  • According to The Atlantic Wire "The Big Year Flops for Fox..Nobody turned up to see Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black's birdwatchin...

14. Film Review | The Big Year - The Edwards Edition

  • Jun 9, 2023 · The Big Year is a 2011 comedy film starring Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson as three birders competing to set the record for most ...

  • The Big Year is a very sincere look at the world of competitive birding that lets its humor come from the actual funny things that happen to birders. It's a nice little movie that deserves more love than it's gotten. 8/10

15. The Big Year According to Birders - National Audubon Society

  • Nov 7, 2011 · Adapted from Mark Obmascik's best-selling book, The Big Year is a true story about three singularly obsessed men who compete to see who will ...

  • Our experts offer a very specialized critique of the major motion picture.

16. Yet Another Big Year Review - ABA Blog - American Birding Association

  • Nov 6, 2011 · Thankfully, The Big Year didn't fall back on these old stereotypes. We were neither suspicious-looking characters lurking in bushes nor hapless ...

  • I finally saw it. The Big Year, I mean. I went to one of those “bistro theatres,” where waiters bring you beer as you watch the big screen. I was glad to have the ale to brace myself! You see, afte…

17. The Big Year Review - Pajiba

  • Oct 14, 2011 · The truth is, it's not a bad movie, but neither is it a good one. It's a movie for bird watchers and the elderly (the screening I attended was ...

  • The Big Year is about a bird-watching competition not that you’d know it from the advertising. I’ve seen half a dozen TV spots and trailers, and somehow, the marketing team behind the film has managed to avoid revealing the most crucial piece of information about the movie. From the adverts, I’d have no idea what The Big Year was about; I’d only know that Jack Black, Steve Martin 2.0, and Owen Wilson were in it, and typically, that’s enough to steer most of us away.

18. Book & Movie Review - The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl ...

  • Jan 31, 2021 · Any movie that Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson are in, you know is going to be good. “The Big Year” is a funny, lighthearted movie for ...

  • The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, book review, movie review, based on a book, Marc Obmascik, Jack Black, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Birds, Birding, Big Year, Bird Books

19. The Big Year (2011) Film Review - The Queens of Geekdom

  • Jul 20, 2021 · The Big Year (2011) Film Review ... About Three avid bird-watchers pursue the winner's title to achieve the world record of spotting the highest ...

  • Rating PGLength 1h40Release 2.12.2011Director David FrankelAbout Three avid bird-watchers pursue the winner’s title to achieve the world record of spotting the highest number of birds during …

20. The Big Year Movie Review - Birdchick

  • Oct 14, 2011 · What I loved about the movie was that it's a snapshot of what it's like to be a hardcore birder. They got the essence of it, what drives some of ...

  • Holy cow!  Last night was AMAZING! Showplace Icon is now my favorite place to watch movies: they have Bacon Popcorn (with actual bacon), you can have a nice beverage, not just overpriced soda and the seats are REALLY comfortable.  And the price for the VIP ticket isn't much higher than a regular m

21. The Big Year – review | Comedy films | The Guardian

  • Dec 1, 2011 · Whatever lingering shreds remain of Jack Black's credibility are thoroughly extinguished by this limp, putatively feelgood comedy about ...

  • Jack Black's remaining credibility takes flight in this limp birdwatching comedy, writes Andrew Pulver

22. The Big Year Review - 10,000 Birds

  • Oct 17, 2011 · Sure, they were incredibly unlikely to see that Great Spotted Woodpecker along the road–but the movie doesn't explain that it's usually an ocean ...

  • The Big Year was alright.  It was neither horrible nor outstanding, neither fully factual nor completely made-up, neither completely engaging nor totally alienating.  I would give it a solid "B-" as a birder whether I was grading on a curve or not.  If you are a birder you should, of course, see the movie.  If you are not a birder there is no reason to see it in the theater because [...]

23. Commentary – The Big Year - Tinsel & Tine

  • Oct 14, 2011 · The Big Year is light-hearted, but hardly a comedy. Screenwriter Howard Franklin (based on Mark Obrnascik's book) did not write this movie for ...

  • by Le Anne Lindsay, written for CINEDELPHIA.com The movie’s about a competition, but the competition is really a metaphor for trying to achieve great ambition. It’s about the pursuit of…

24. Birder or not, 'The Big Year' is worth seeing - Farm and Dairy

  • Nov 3, 2011 · The Big Year is a rare film, and not just because of the subject matter. It is a gentle, light-hearted comedy that lacks foul language, bathroom ...

  • About a year ago, when I heard Hollywood was making a movie of Mark Obmascik s 2004 book, The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, I worried. I feared it would make a joke of birders and birding. Remember Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies? When I heard the three stars

25. The Big Year - Terrain.org

  • Oct 29, 2011 · Although a Big Year quest is both grueling and entertaining, in reality, many of the world's best birders work as scientists or as bird guides ...

  • The Big Year: based on a book by Mark Obmascik Directed by David Frankel. Fox 2000 Pictures.   Ever since it was revealed that a movie was being made of Obmascik’s 2004 book, “The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession,” the birding community has eagerly—tempered by some trepidation—awaited the results. Full disclosure: as an avid birder since 1987, I count myself a member of this community. I don’t invoke the term “trepidation” lightly, for within this…

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