Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This movie had a lot going for it. The theme of beating the bad guy is always welcome to me. The writing was decent, the characters memorable and the location (state prison) in which Stan prevails is unusual. This movie could have been great had it stayed focused and had something to say (better dialogue, more development of Stan's character). I think there were three major scenes that caused diffusion in the movie, though; One is the scene where Stan re-appears outside the dojo to do combat with the head instructor. This is childish and ridiculous. The instructor had every right to determine what happened or didn't inside his dojo, and Stan's earlier rudeness deserved to be met with some resistance. He ended up being a big cry baby because he was an arrogant punk. The second scene was brief, but showed one of his aggressors in prison wearing a diaper, unable to control his bodily functions and on an I.V. drip. obviously, the movie screenwriter and director wanted to impart the opinion that raping someone is okay as long as they, too, are an aggressor. I found that scene one of the most vulgar and unnecessary I have ever seen. The third scene that I found to be ill-conceived was the ending, when the warden was firing a rifle into the courtyard of prisoners. Stan suggested that he "give it up", and he did. A really lack-luster and disappointing ending to what could have been a decent movie.

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... Either way I'm not here to judge. His abilities as a comedic actor or his career choices are not my focus here. I'm writing to make you aware of a movie that is probably the single most underrated comedy of the past 20 years. Over the years I've recommended this film to friends (none of whom were even aware of its existence) and every single one of them I've followed up with has been amazed at how a comedy with virtually no cultural footprint could be so entertaining to watch. It even holds up to repeated views!Do yourself a favor.. if you are a fan of raunchy comedy, watch Big Stan. You'll thank me later.

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. This movie takes into consideration all the fears that most men have about going to prison and is one of my few 10 out of 10 ratings. Spectacular movie. I hope he makes more outside the Sandler world. I think the more people that see this movie the more popular it will become. I loved seeing David Carradine playing a super bad-ass again and it only makes you miss him even more now that he's gone.

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.