Just perfect...

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I'm canceling my next bus trip. What with this goofy gang, who knows where I'd end up. As expected, gags fly faster than Kleenex in a windstorm. Frankly, I'm glad the girls' panties save the day, otherwise our highway rocket would take a dive into Lake Oblivion. All in all, I think I liked the disaster spoof better forty years ago, but then the material was a lot fresher, what with all those phony disaster movies. Still, there's plenty to laugh at, including an array of passengers from an out-patient clinic, a driver who can't stay awake, and a lounge singer on permanent leave from reality. So if you don't like this gag, another will follow faster than your next breath. The first part's best while the absurdities are still fresh. But it's darn hard to keep the nuttiness rolling even on a rocket-driven asylum. Kudoes to special effects or however they did the teetering bus that looks real as heck. I'd also like to have been on the set where I'll bet the ad-libs were funnier than even the script. Sure, the results are less memorable than those of the spoof classic Airplane! (1980). But there's enough orchestrated goofiness to make the ride worthwhile.(Meanwhile, can't help noticing the bus company's gag name is Coyote. Surely that's a dig at Greyhound, which is understandable since the adviser on the movie was Trailways, Greyhound's chief competitor.)

I actually saw The Big Bus as a kid in a theatre, because I LOVE Stockard Channing, and I got my mom to take me (she put up with a LOT of stuff from me - Thanks mom!).As a 7 year old, I loved it - I wasn't interested in, nor rally was looking for plot 'holes,' or, anything else, other than just silly fun, and, I do remember - all these years later - I did enjoy myself.My mom... well, I never asked, then,but, when I recently asked her, she was vague, so, I'm gonna say I don't think she liked it.In the mid 70's, we had Earthquake (in 'Sensurround' - a theater-wide effect in which every time the earthquake started to rumble, the 'Sensurround' system (a legit sound amplification, which very simplistically speaking, were bass-heavy, and those frequencies REALLY did a number on those in the theatre at the time. It was VERY wild.We had The Towering Inferno- about a very tall building on fire, and The Poseidon Adventure, as wells some others.Then, about a year or two after these big films, came The Big Bus.As I noted in several other reviews, they noticed the similarities between this film and those of the Zuckers & Abrahams, i.e., Airplane!, Naked Gun, and (my favourite of this genre) Top Secret, as well as others.I don't know if the Zuckers or Abrahams had seen The Big Bus, and said they can 'do it better,' or not, but, one can definitely see The Big Bus as an influence on those later films.I can't recommend The Big Bus, to anyone who is looking for a 'quality' film. But, if you are one of those die-hard fanatics, like myself, who are fans of any of the (large) cast, which contains many well known character performers, like Ms Channing, and really don't care about 'plot holes' ('big enough to drive the 'Big Bus' though,' LOL!), then sit back and enjoy.It is NOT 'side-achingly' funny, but, it is 'chortle' funny.I give it a '6,' because I DO like kitsch such as thisAs an addendum, for those who remember this era, NBC was in LAST place of the 'Big Three' TV networks, and they hired (former) 'wunderkind,' Fred Silverman away from ABC.Whilst not a direct descendant of this genre, the Big …'egg' Silverman laid at NBC was a TV series, which was at the time THE most EXPENSIVE (on a per-episode basis) titled 'SuperTrain.'It was not (intentionally) either a comedy, nor a disaster, but, in the annals of TV, it is both.In the entertainment world, one is supposed to describe their projects in one 'grab ya' sentence,' and the descriptive sentence of Super Train was 'Love Bot on a Train.With SuperTrain, the 'circle' was complete, and it wouldn't be until the Zuckers and Abrahams got together and made 'fun' disasters the 'right' way.

I have seen this film over and over since I was a kid. I love this movie. i can watch it start to finish any time. The acting is great and the lines never get old. I grew up on this movie and it is by far one of my all time top 5 movies. I encourage anyone who has never seen it to watch. Maybe I love it because I liked it as a kid and therefor I loved it as an adult. But, I have watched it very recently and still find it a great movie. Will always be one of my favorite movies of all time. I think anyone who watches this movie with an open mind will enjoy it and it will become one of their favorite as well. My sis and I grew up on this movie and we still, 17 years after the first time we watched it we still quote lines to each other. We never give cheers to each other without the all time "up yours" comment from the bicentennial dinner.

A disaster movie spoof that covers all the bases and goes off on inspired tangents of its own, with some immortal dialogue and gloriously silly sight gags. I can only echo what other reviewers have said: should be better known, should have a much higher rating here, released four years before 'Airplane' and is equally hilarious. As for quoting lines, other people have already bagged 'Where is your God now, old woman?' (which I keep wanting to use in real life conversation) and 'You eat one foot and they call you a cannibal' and the milk carton line, so I won't do that either.I note with interest the suggestion from another reviewer that the Zuckers may actually have had an uncredited involvement. It's unlikely, and a bit insulting to the actual writers. But really, it's so good it wouldn't surprise me to find the Pythons, Woody Allen and the Marx Brothers had helped out too. Tremendously funny.