The Big White, is by far one of the worst black comedies I have seen. Big name actors Robin Williams and Woody Harrelson suck you into seeing the movie, only to wish you could get that hour and forty minutes of your life back.
The first problem is the pacing is incredibly slow, very much like About Schmidt. Humor is spread thin like butter over too much bread, making a great movie to watch if you want to read a book at the same time. Combined with the film's pacing is the terrible soundtrack that is about enough to drive one's neurons into insanity. Lullably-like melodies really work to lull you into a near comatose state, and unfortunately the particularly sedating tracks occur during the very long and slow gaps between the few interesting parts of the movie.
About the only positive aspect I can see in this movie is that the acting is fairly well done, especially by Robins, Harrleson and Ribisi. Though they play their characters very well, the writing and development surrounding these characters is trite, making it impossible for the viewer to relate and form a connection. This leads to the problem with the overall plot not making the point it was after. This movie definitely had great potential to leave you with a great lesson in humanity (enough to fill you up like a steak dinner) combined with a few needed chuckles, but instead there is so little development and purpose that instead you get a bunch of crude and trivial humor and a completely lacking feeling of resolution at the end of the movie (feels like you ate something off a fast food dollar menu).
By all means, do not waste your time on this movie. Read a plot outline and find a far better piece of cinema to spend your hard earned dollars on.
The first problem is the pacing is incredibly slow, very much like About Schmidt. Humor is spread thin like butter over too much bread, making a great movie to watch if you want to read a book at the same time. Combined with the film's pacing is the terrible soundtrack that is about enough to drive one's neurons into insanity. Lullably-like melodies really work to lull you into a near comatose state, and unfortunately the particularly sedating tracks occur during the very long and slow gaps between the few interesting parts of the movie.
About the only positive aspect I can see in this movie is that the acting is fairly well done, especially by Robins, Harrleson and Ribisi. Though they play their characters very well, the writing and development surrounding these characters is trite, making it impossible for the viewer to relate and form a connection. This leads to the problem with the overall plot not making the point it was after. This movie definitely had great potential to leave you with a great lesson in humanity (enough to fill you up like a steak dinner) combined with a few needed chuckles, but instead there is so little development and purpose that instead you get a bunch of crude and trivial humor and a completely lacking feeling of resolution at the end of the movie (feels like you ate something off a fast food dollar menu).
By all means, do not waste your time on this movie. Read a plot outline and find a far better piece of cinema to spend your hard earned dollars on.