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Dom Robinson reviews

Big Nothing

A comedy that gets away with murder.

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Cover In Big Nothing, Charlie (David Schwimmer), is an unpublished author who keeps coming out with odd number-related facts as if he's an autistic savant. Gus (Simon Pegg, right with Schwimmer) is a layabout who later refers to Charlie, due to his delivery of random knowledge, as 'Rainman' and together they meet while the latter is working at the town call centre and the former manages to do such a crap job that he gets sacked on his first day.

Gus' daughter is about to go blind from disease relating to eye-pressure, but he has a plan to blackmail a Reverend for $100,000 for looking at illegal porn sites while at work. However, as the plan gets more complex and one of Pegg's one-night-stands, teen beauty queen and waitress Josie (Alice Eve, below-right) demands to be in on the deal and ups the ante, the situation just goes from bad to worse for the trio. Meanwhile, there's a sadistic killer on the loose called the Oregon Undertaker, and that plays a very intriguing part in the proceedings.

It's difficult to say what follows because a series of events follow that, if I were to describe them, would rob the film of its surprises, but I can confirm that there is great support from Mimi Rogers as the Reverend's wife, and Natascha McElhone as Charlie's wife. Overall, Big Nothing is a comedy/drama with very clever writing that ties everything together with great style and makes for a tale full of lies and deceit where the comedy isn't laugh-out-loud but often nicely underplayed and it's more the black comedy variety, moreso than I was expecting. It's also a relatively short film at 82 minutes and certainly doesn't outstay its welcome.


Cover Presented in the original 2.35:1 anamorphic ratio, there are no problems with the picture and the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound only really comes into its own for the music now and again, plus gunshots.

The extras begin with The Truth About Simon Pegg (2:45), in which David Schwimmer tours the set talking to the crew and asking them, with a video camera - filming in 4:3, why they hate Simon Pegg so much - all in jest, obviously, although perhaps it has something to do with Star Wars? Then, with the Pegg-Cam Diary (10:27), it's the other guy's turn to hold the video camera and more amusing mayhem ensues. Surprisingly, Holy Moley! The Making of Big Nothing (14:03) is shot in 16:9 anamorphic with chat from the cast and crew and from the 16:9 clips of the film it shows that, as it was shot in Super 35, that a decent open-matte print can be struck if one of those TV channels like BBC, ITV or Five continue to be stuck in the dark ages by not broadcasting films in 2.35:1 when they've been filmed that way.

If an Audio Commentary is your bag then there's one here from the director, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, plus Simon Pegg and Alice Eve. If not, or either way, then there's a Photo Gallery with 25 images.

The menu features music from the film with shots of the characters moving about, there are subtitles in English only and the disc contains 16 chapters which fine for a film that only runs 77 minutes before the closing credits arrive.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2008.

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