Dave Barry’s first novel for adults, Big Trouble, had everything necessary to prompt a big-screen adaptation: young love, hitmen, unwitting and bumbling fighting families, the threat of nuclear war, and a mid-flight airplane explosion for a climax. A decade after Big Trouble hit the screen as a Tim Allen comedy, Barry is back with a slick, amped-up bookend that outdoes his first effort, but shows no authorial maturation.
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