The Big Year [2011]

Director : David Frankel

Stars      : Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Steve Martin

Genre    : Drama, Comedy

The Big Year is about a competition to spot different kind of birds in North America for a year where a birder with the most count win this competition. Our 3 main characters in this movie are Brad Harris (a programmer played by Jack Black), Kenny Bostick (the world record holder of biggest bird spotter played by Owen Wilson), and Stu Preissler (a CEO for his own company played by Steve Martin). As the new year started, Kenny Bostick afraid that his record will be defeated by another person, so he decided that he would enter The Big Year to ensure that he still be the best birder in the world. As for Brad Harris's motivation was because he thought he never achieve something in his life and his obsession of bird would be his way out when he won The Big Year contest. Stu Preissler also entered The Big Year because he really wanted to do it but never have time for it, so he decided that he would enter the competition.

We will see many kinds of bird species throughout this movie. Some of them are really beautiful. For me who lived in Asia never see those kinds of bird, so it really amuse me. The set is also quite nice with some landscape in America.

For a comedy movie this one is not so funny, I barely laugh while watching this movie, but I still enjoy watching it. And also it's kinda nice to see Jack Black acted like in this movie.

IMDB Rating 5.9/10

My Personal Rating 6.5/10