Big Stan

Plot synopsis:
A real estate con artist named Stan Minton (Rob Schneider) panics when he learns that he is going to prison for fraud. Stan's fear of jail-house rape leads him to hire the mysterious guru known as "The Master" (David Carradine) who helps transform him into a creative martial-arts expert. During his incarceration, Stan uses his new-found skills to intimidate his fellow prisoners and prevents the prisoners from hitting or raping each other.
He gains the prisoners' respect, and eventually becomes their leader, bringing peace and harmony to the prison yard. But the corrupt warden has a plan to profit by turning the prison into a war zone, forcing its closure, and selling off the property as valuable real estate. Stan helps him with the real estate aspects in exchange for early parole, however his peacemaking efforts threaten the warden's plan for a riot and he is persuaded to bring back violence.
In a last minute attack of conscience he deliberately blows the parole hearing to rush back and prevent the deaths of his fellow inmates, only to discover that his message of peace has sunk in and the prisoners are dancing instead of fighting. The warden orders the guards to open fire on the dancing men and, when they refuse, grabs a gun and shoots wildly. He attempts to shoot Minton but he is stopped by Minton's wife and the Master, who had snuck in. Three years later Minton leaves the prison, which is now run by one of the more sympathetic guards as the original warden is now an inmate, to be met outside by his wife, his young daughter, and the Master.

Tags: humor

Review:
7 out of 10, doesn't stray too far from all the other Schneider movies, if you've loved his previous work, you'll also enjoy seeing this..
And it works for me.One thing will dictate whether you'll like this movie: 1 - Rob Schneider.
Probably, but not surely, because this is one of his best movies.Here he enlists the help of a good ensemble cast AND David Carradine, who steals every scene he's in, by playing a parody of himself straight-faced.
This is essentially a prison comedy movie, and the best one I've seen since "Mean Machine" and "Life".This time, instead of becoming a Stapler as his previous movies would indicate, he becomes a martial arts expert in order to cope with life in prison.
That's pretty much his only agenda, of course until he gets to know the inmates better and the usual clichés unwhirl.The irony in seeing the diminutive actor kicking more ass than Chuck Norris is what makes this movie so entertaining, and in a way, even inspiring (if completely unbelievable).
The only real problem with this film, aside from being deliciously silly and a tad too long, is that is pretty much divided in two extremely different parts, the buildup and the actual prison scenes.
But in the end all is well, because laughter is what Schneider wanted, and that's precisely what he got out of me with "Big Stan".So, good job, Rob, and try to keep it up..
All in all I found this movie pretty damn amusing, with some definite laugh out loud moments (like someone unexpectedly talking with their bellybutton) to be had.
I would say if you want a feel good comedy with no great expectations this one is a keeper.The plot is a bit odd, Rob Schneider plays a corrupt time share salesman who's made millions,gets caught and sent to prison.
There is more to the plot of course, but I don't want to give anymore away.There really are some good parts played by some surprise actors, some unknowns, and a fair share of MMA fighters, and all in all they all play pretty funny roles.
This is a funny movie and more people should see it.Did I mention Rob Schneider totally knows martial arts and kicks ass?
Considering he's done The Animal and Deuce Bigalow 1 and 2, I wasn't expecting much from Schneider's Big Stan, especially since this is his directorial debut.
She looked hot in this movie, but I feel she should make better choices in the future.All in all a decent comedy, a better than expected, but shaky, direction from Schneider.
This film is about a swindler learning to be tough to prepare for gong to prison, and while in prison he creates a series of changes for the better.Stan worries about being raped in prison, so he get a Kung Fu master to teach him martial arts to protect himself.
He manages to promote peace and unity in the prison, which is heartwarming and uplifting.Rob Schneider should be commended for making this human and uplifting comedy.
Just like his previous films, his characters have hilarious adventures, but in the end there is a touching message that brings out the good side of human nature.
Big Stan wasn't really advertised at all and it just sort of came out into the video stores like it was a terrible movie.
I thought that this would probably not even be as funny as those, but it really was a pretty good movie.
Rob Schneider normally works in the most terrible movies of all time, but even though this didn't make it to theaters, it still was enjoyable and worth watching at least one time.8/10.
I've seen many comedy movies in my life, some good and some bad.
This movie makes you wish every prison out there had their own Big Stan!
From people enjoying easy humor found in stoner comedies to those who love Mr. Bean, this movie uses a great blend of humor.This movie will make you laugh beyond a doubt, try it and find your own funny bone..
The fraudulent real state agent Stan (Rob Schneider) is married with his beloved Mindy (Jennifer Morrison) and has a seven million dollar fortune.
Emmet Walsh) negotiates a six month freedom, and the weak Stan, who is afraid of being raped in prison, hires the specialist in martial arts The Master (David Carradine) to teach him self-defense.
However, the dirty Warden Gasque (Scott Wilson) has the intention of transforming the penitentiary in a luxury resort, and uses Big Stan knowledge to improve his project, promising to release him sooner using the corrupt penal system.I have been a big fan of Rob Schneider since "Men Behaving Badly" and I am never disappointed with his funny movies.
"Big Stan" is no exception, and this tribute to "Prison Break" and "Kung Fu" is another hilarious entertainment of this great comedian.
I liked this movie, its interesting, doesn't sound or look silly as most of the Adam Sandler's movies does.Its quite a entertaining movie and Rob should really come up with more number of movies under his direction.
Acting is good by all, good number of laughs.Its not an hilarious comedy like hot chick or animal or deuce bigalo but i would say this is good time pass and worth a watch.I would recommend you to watch it for Rob Schneider.I would give it a sincere 7..
I have no idea what kind of crazy befell movie executives when they decided to bring an old direct-to-video title from the US to German theaters.The 'humor' in the flick (for want of a better word) is almost completely based on icky scenes, violence and crude sexual innuendo.
Kung fu comedy with Schneider and Carradine - a cool mix of prison films and all in all just goofy in places this is a fun film to kick back to.Full of the sort of humor that Sneider fans will know and love from his other movies, Gigolo and the Animal, this is fast, furious, and fun.What is surprising is how good a kung fu pastiche this is - the finding of the Master, the training, the fight sequences are really pretty good kung fu slapstick, we may not be talking Drunken Master here but it certainly isn't pathetic.All in all an underrated and entertaining film - with lots of dumb prison jokes, some smart ideas, and Schneider doing his usual comedy with flair..
Rob Schneider is back in a role that we all enjoy seeing him in (I've been a fan for a while and liked him in Judge Dredd).
I haven't been a big Rob Schneider fan, except for his "You can do it!" appearances in Adam Sandler movies.
Seeing so many MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighters like Randy Couture, Don Fry and Bob Sap all portraying gay characters is a little much (unless they're all really gay and this is some sort of Rob Schnieder coming out of the closet with a bunch of MMA fighters also being gay kinda movie) or R.S. is just using the prison stereotype of prison rape as some sort of twisted way of exploiting violence in prison and the sad state of affairs in the penal system as a way of making a movie that is somehow funny because it's so sad...
During this period, out of fear of being raped in prison, he finds ways to help prepare himself to avoid the harrowing and torturous experience by making himself unrapeable.Taking lessons from Master Cho (Simon Rhee, famed for his role in Best of the Best) Stan gets a good thrashing and kicked out when he wanted to handle more than he was able to.
And then, out of the darkness, like some martial arts cliché , another master known as The Master (David Carradine of Kung Fu series fame) appears.Like many of his other films, there is a heart warming and sweet message that makes the entire movie a wonderful journey.
Schneider is rather good in showing off his kung fu skills in the fight scenes, quite a remarkable feat for a man known for his comedic roles.
His mom, Pilar, also has a cameo appearance like she does in some of his other movies.If you love Rob Schneider you'll love this.
The first half of this movie was the better half and this was due in great part to the training scenes he is in.Praises made, this film has a very great deal of porn jokes, and by porn, I mean rape.
I am really angry because not only did I lose my time watching this film but I've also been disappointed by Schneider since I kinda liked his previous films and performances..
In Big Stan, Rob Schneider's crooked time-share conman Stan got arrested in the opening minutes for fraud (and you might think it's for racism), and spends much of the first act mulling over the fear of getting raped in jail, for not being part of any gang, and a first timer wussy who's easy target for the lonely tough guys behind bars.Thanks to his crooked lawyer Lew Popper (M.
Emmet Walsh) and the crooked system (from the judiciary right down to the prison warden, who as the movie states, are always made to look like dicks anyway), he gets six months off before he has to present himself to the courts to begin his sentence, in in this period of time, tries his best to look "undesirable".
Help comes in the form of The Master, played to good campy effect by David Carradine, star of the 70s Kung Fu series, whom I last saw in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies playing well, yet another stereotyped kung fu master.Thus begins the tried and very tired formula of the kooky training regime with strange food and diet, coupled with near impossible feats like titty-weight training.
It didn't help that supporting characters here were stereotyped into playing stereotypes, conveniently split into the different cliques and clans.Directed by Rob Schneider himself, his films to date has somewhat been of a hit and miss for me.
Big Stan takes on the martial arts genre and prison movies!.
I first started watching his work on SNL like everyone else, but grew to love it when he did "Deuce Bigalow" movies.
Those movies I could watch over and over again and "Big Stan" is no different.For me, it takes true comedic talent to make me actually laugh out loud and Rob Schneider delivers.
Loved watching him in this and only made me sad at his passing all the more.I would really love to see more trivia on this great flick, but more comments as well.I recommend this movie to anyone who just wants to laugh!.
This is not a "based on true events" drama for crying out loud, which is what i did while laughing so hard at several points in this clever and fun Rob Schneider comedy, his best by far.
I mean at least the story was OK enough to make me wonder what is going on, but Rob Schneider was strange for this role.
Do you think he just woke up and was like, I want to learn martial arts and make a movie about me fighting all the time.
If you want some Rob Schneider kind of comedy, then you got it!
I don't see how there's not more of an interest in this movie to be honest.Well the movie definitely plays of Rob Schneider's fear of anal rape, which makes for a hilarious setup.
I don't know how this movie went under the radar but I'm glad I watched it just now.I thought Rob Schnider was finished after the Animal, that movie was just wasn't good.
It had some good skits, but that was all.This movie features two actors I truly like Jennifer Morrison and David Carradine.
Throughout "Big Stan" I was constantly thinking about "Dirty Work", the debut film of Rob Schneider's SNL colleague Norm MacDonald.
Apparently Schneider also watched that scene and figured: hey, why not just do prison rape jokes for 105 minutes, preferably with fewer laughs than in that one minute of "Dirty Work"?
The central joke of this Rob Schneider movie is prison rape.
He plays Stan, a man that gets 3 years in jail, but has 6 months before going to prison.
Rob Schneider doesn't receive a lot of love from critics nor fans of comedy in general and I suppose some of that criticism is warranted...
if you are a fan of raunchy comedy, watch Big Stan.
if you are a fan of Rob Schneider and his movies, if you love to watch comedies, this movie is a great treat for you.
this is for us, who watch movie to have to good & fun time..
Another thing that I liked about in this movie, is Scheinder's character- Big Stan.
This time Rob wasn't a weirdo but he felt like a real person and his acting was pretty good in this.The movie is basically a comedy, revenge theme centering on one man's fear of getting raped in prison.
Big Stan was an okay comedy directed by star Rob Schneider.
Rob Schneider directs himself in this movie adequately and gets some pretty good support from Henry Gibson, M.
This is easily Rob Schneider's best effort and it's beyond belief that this movie was never released in theaters especially since it was ready for release at about the same time as that terrible Adam Sandler "Grown Ups" movie.This is one of those movies you can watch over and over and find new things that you missed because you were laughing.
Rob Schneider's Best Movie.
Better than average Rob Schneider movie....
If you think about a typical Rob Schneider movie, this might not be too different than what you might expect.
However, there are 3 things which really stand out in this film to make it an above average (Rob Schneider) movie:1.
2. The fight scenes in this movie were actually pretty good.
3. Rob Schneider obviously did some bulking up for his role.The story was decent, the script was above average, all the supporting characters did a good job as well.
Rob Schneider, the one who makes you laugh always, is here & also, this one is his directorial debut.
Rob Schneider made the film very entertaining, as the story is very interesting.
Rob Schneider made the film very entertaining, as the story is very interesting.
However, I can't say, I hate this prison comedy directed and produced by Rob Schneider, who also starred in the film.
Written by Josh Lieb, the film tells the story of a real estate con artist named Stan Minton (Rob Schneider) who panics when he learns that he is going to prison for fraud.
It would make this movie stand out from other prison comedies.
Plus, the movie has a cameo of Rob's best friend, Adam Sandler that most people who watch the film, wouldn't probably notice, unless they saw his name on the credits.
The themes in the movie were so very offensive from the fight scenes in the prison to the main character fearing getting raped in prison.
this movie has single handedly put me off going to the cinema forever, and i will not be watching anymore of Rob Schnider's (aka MR can't act, can't direct, isn't funny) films again as long as i'm alive and breathing..
I definitely didn't expect this to be a good comedy...I though this might be like all the other unoriginal, cheap and just plain stupid movies that seem to flood our screens these days.
But Big Stan definitely has some classic moments and most of the jokes are timeless...Rob Schneider fans will not be disappointed.
It is more aimed at the younger audience or the fans of Rob Scheinder/Adam Sandler .(I am surprised Adam does not appear in this comedy)If you just want to laugh this movie is for you!!
It was the first movie directed by rob Schneider (Possibly the worst comedian of the entire history of cinema: He never made a single good film, he is not funny at all, he is not likable, and he always play disgusting and unlikeable characters) and the result is dreadful at best.
From start to finish, the new comedy Big Stan is way more original than most movies out there.
Surprisingly, this great comedy actually stars Rob Schneider, who in this, is surprisingly hilarious.
I must admit that I'm not the biggest Rob Schneider movie fan.
I do find humor in his films but also find they often go way too over the top for MY tastes, and that far too often, the humor goes from funny to ridiculous.Big Stan doesn't take as many risks or go to the extremes of his previous works.
I'm sure there will be a contingent of Schneider fans that loved his previous films and enjoyed his 'no holds barred' approach in that past, but I for one, enjoyed this 'safer' entry.Big Stan is basically a comedy, revenge theme centering on one man's commitment to NOt getting raped in prison.
In this film, while the tide has turned on the way his character is treated, nothing has changed with the light hearted comedy Rob seems very capable of spitting out.Overall, this film is very enjoyable and I recommend if you are bored and feel like catching' a movie this one is very good.
Big Stan (Rob Schneider) is arrested in the opening scene for fraud.
I mean Big Stan is just that - Rob Schneider's version of his good friend Adam Sandler's The Longest Yard.
I Was Not Disappointed With Big Stan It Was Original & It Cracked Prison Jokes.
Stan Minton (Rob Schneider) gets a brief reprieve of 6 months to get his affairs in order before going to prison for fraud.
Sure Rob Schneider hadn't been in anything really good since the first Duece Bigalow film, but The Hot Chick had it's moments.