THE BIG BUS **

This spoof of disaster movies may not be in the same inspired league as "Airplane" but it's a hoot, nevertheless with one of those all-star casts no self-respecting disaster movie or spoof could afford to be without. Even the initial premis is ridiculous; this time what we have isn't a plane in jeopardy or a sinking ship but a bus! Yes, that's right but it's "The Big Bus", the world's first nuclear powered superbus on it's maiden, non-stop drive from New York to Denver. The drivers are Joseph Bologna and John Beck and the passengers include Stockard Channing, Rene Auberjonois, Ruth Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan and Lynn Redgrave while back at base bad guy Jose Ferrer is doing his best to destroy the bus from inside his iron lung hence the disaster side of this disaster spoof. The jokes are beyond corny and yet I laughed at least a couple of times every couple of minutes which isn't a bad batting average. The director was the reliable James Frawley and David Shire did the superb spoof score.