Billy Crystal: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

4. Sam Kamin - My Giant

My Giant assumes the only joke it needs is the sight of tiny Billy Crystal standing next to his seven foot tall co-star; it might be worth a chuckle the first couple of times, but making a feature length movie out of it is sheer madness.

Crystal actually wrote the script himself, having been inspired by working with Andre the Giant on The Princess Bride. Maybe the script would have worked better with the late, great Andre in the role, because the actor who plays the giant here is hopelessly wooden. Crystal himself is playing the kind of role most people dislike him for; the annoying, fast talking idiot who never shuts the hell up. Steven Seagal makes a cameo and €“ shockingly €“ manages to get more laughs than Crystal does.

The script is lacking any decent jokes and is loaded with gooey sentimentality, even going for a tear-jerking ending that it absolutely does not earn.