Big vs Elemental
Elemental has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.2/10 for Big). Elemental is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 44m. Big is the older of the two (1988 against 2023). Both are comedy, family, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Big
Elemental| Big | Elemental | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Penny Marshall | Peter Sohn |
| Main cast | Tom Hanks, John Heard, Jon Lovitz, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins | Leah Lewis, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O'Hara, Mamoudou Athie, Matthew Yang King |
Synopsis
Big
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Elemental
In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.