Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Big Stan (Rob Schneider) is arrested in the opening scene for fraud. He is sentenced to go to prison. Not wanting to be raped in jail, he hires "The Master" (David Carradine) to teach him how to fight. In 6 months our weakling Stan is converted into a fighting machine capable of defeating men several times his size and strength.In prison, Big Stan becomes the top dog and pacifies the inmates to the dismay of the warden. The humor consisted of stale prison jokes and pokes fun at Scientology. I found it rather lame and juvenile.F-bomb, brief nudity, crude sexual content.

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. And they were pretty damn good in this one.You can see when a movie has a heart, it cant be faked with CGI and awesome shots, it just has that something, an X factor I guess.My standards are for movie not to be stupid or insulting to the viewer (like many are unfortunately), and I figure, by now, I can spot what is a movie worth watching. This one, most definitely is.On the side note, best comedy prison movie is Mean Machine (UK movie), this one ranks number 2.

Now before watching this movie and seeing the trailer, I thought it was gonna be another typical unfunny Rob Scheidner movie with a lot of dirty and childish jokes, but then I watched the movie and I was surprised. It was actually pretty good and it had many funny parts. 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. There are not really any 'roll on the floor' moments but the film isn't totally void of its' comedic moments and most will enjoy Rob beating the crap out of everyone. Its also somewhat more serious than his previous films and thats a good thing. It worked in this film. The fight scenes were great.The movie changes is somewhat different in the first half and second half. The first half was him preparing to go to prison (going to court, training with The Master, talking to his wife). The second half deals with a comic prison story. Rob Schneider made the film very entertaining, as the story is very interesting. He also makes you laugh in weird ways. There are quite some of funny moments, the practise sessions, the fights & changes in the prison & lots more. This film didn't make it in the theatres in the and I feel that it should have. IMO it was much better than Deuce Biggolo: European Giggilo. ==== As a rewatch (06/15/18') Big Stan remains an entertaining film. Although the film is very silly and unrealistic, that was mainly the point, At a certain point, we get used to it and it becomes much more engaging. Feeling as if critics were far too harsh on this film and expected something completely different. Years later, this film reminds and is quite similar to 2015's Get Hard starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart.

I used to think that "Wanted" was the worst film ever made, but now, after seeing "Big Stan" I know that this is the worst film ever made, and not even the movies of Uwe Boll and Ed Wood reach the lowest pits achieved by this horrible piece of trash. No words can describe how bad it is this film. 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. The jokes doesn't work, the performances are terrible, and the story is just ugly and disgusting, without any single redeeming value. "Big Stan" is awful beyond words. Avoid this film like plague. The only reason why I'm giving this abomination one star, it's because I can rate it with negatives. "Big Stan" makes "Manos: The Hands of Fate" look like a masterpiece.-1000/10