The motion picture Richard Roeper called "the Citizen Kane of awful" was produced over several
years on a budget of six million dollars - and it somehow earned back five times that amount
when it was released nationwide on January 25, 2013.
This absurd comedy farce is compromised of a dozen, completely separate, disconnected
short films tied together with a loose and irrelevant wraparound plot, that remarks on
the film-within-a-film as "The one movie that can bring down society as we know it."
Don't get me wrong, this picture is a true sideshow of stupidity and obnoxious material...
but it thankfully isn't quite "society-destroying".
The twelve separate live-action shorts each have a unique director, with accomplished
individuals like James Gunn, Brett Ratner, and Peter Farrelly amongst them.
For reasons known but to God, a host of otherwise talented, A-list celebrities signed onto this
despicable excuse for a movie, and the mammoth cast includes: Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear,
Will Sasso, Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Chris
Pratt, J.B.
Smoove, Kieran Culkin, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Kate Bosworth, Aasif Mandvi, Jack McBrayer,
Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, John Hodgman, Uma Thurman, Kirsten Bell, Leslie Bibb, Chlo�
Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Patrick Warburton, Matt Walsh, Johnny Knoxville, Seann
William Scott, Gerad Butler, Stephen Merchant, Halle Berry, Terrence Howard, Elizabeth Banks,
and Josh Duhamel - all of whom receive a small, but equal amount of screentime.
The ratio of capable actors to terrible performances is truly astonishing, with every line sounding
like it was phoned in.
I will spare you the details of this ridiculous disaster, but the entire first segment sees
Jackman with unslightly testicles on his face for some reason... in a seven-minute sketch
that is about eight minutes too long.
Another central joke involves a prop medicine called "poop Viagra", which is precisely when
audiences realize they're in for a particularly crappy time - pun intended.
Indeed, the entire 94-minute experience is a never-ending string of painfully unfunny
sketches that all overstay their welcome.
The fact that actual Oscar winning actresses were employed in this pile of garbage simply
adds insult
to injury.
The R-rated movie is often vulgar, racist, sexist, and embarrassingly immature: seemingly
written by a ten-year-old boy who just discovered 4chan for the first time.
Technically speaking, the movie is put together like a used Ford Pinto... barely functional,
but it gets the job done.
To pad its already drawn-out runtime, the film's credits begin rolling with seventeen
full minutes left on the clock...
only to cutaway to another unnecessary sketch just when you thought it was over, and couldn't
get any worse.
There's never any interesting ideas or resolution, just a collection of immature bullshit that
attempts to suggest famous people are funny just by virtue of their appearance in such
a stupid script.
I fear for those who genuinely enjoyed this picture...
as their intelligence and sense of humor can only be classified as mentally imbalanced.
This is an irredeemable waste of time that is as repugnant as it is pointless.
"Movie 43", "Celebrities wasted in shameful atrocity".
That was my scathing review, now lets read six of yours.
"Movie 43" on the Rate-O-Matic... a double ONE.
Well, "atrocious" seemed to be the word of the day...
with many of you calling this picture bad, tasteless, pathetic, dim-witted, and wasteful
- you ranked it a GARBAGE.
I completely agree...
this picture is truly dreadful in every respect, and given the people involved, especially
painful to watch, I thought it was GARBAGE too.