Below is an excerpt from The Dude on the Right’s full review of “The Big Year.” He really wanted it to be funnier, especially with the likes of Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black in it…
…Here’s the thing – I felt like “The Big Year” wanted so much to be like a mockumentary about birders, kind of like the movie “Best in Show,” but sadly it tried to keep things a little too nice, namely the PG rating, to push the funny to the next level, which is too bad because Wilson, Black, and Martin do their best to be their funny best – it’s just the movie can’t get there….