Movie 43 (2013)
Directed by Steve Carr
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest. In some countries, like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the structure differs. Instead of a pitch, the films are connected by a group of three teenagers searching for the most banned film in the world, Movie 43, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of civilization.
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There are many comedy and film geeks who, at an impressionably young age, managed to see anthologies of lunacy like The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Amazon Women on the Moon.
In England, it seems, this anthology of gross-out skits (sort of like some of the “Funny or Die” website parodies or the 1970s “Kentucky Fried Movie” and “The Groove Tube” flicks) has a different wraparound, or basis: A bunch of teenagers seek the elusive “Movie 43” and discover other movies along the way.
Farrelly was going for a 21st century version of "The Groove Tube" and "Kentucky Fried Movie," two very funny, very raunchy and very influential sketch-comedy flicks of the mid-1970s.
Occasional comedy successes have come with movies like “The Kentucky Fried Movie,” “The Groove Tube” and “Amazon Women on the Moon.”
If he or she is on the younger side, they will no doubt compare it to the skits that can now be found regularly online on sites like "Funny Or Die" while the older ones will no doubt use films like "Kentucky Fried Movie" or its semi-sequel "Amazon Women on the Moon" as their point of reference.
And as if the criminal dearth of even the lowest forms of wit weren't enough, Movie 43 has the cheek to evoke cult anthology comedy classics like Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and Amazon Women On the Moon (1987).
I want it known that I do appreciate the comedy anthology form; I'm a Kentucky Fried Movie fan from way back, and I'm even fond of 1987's bonkers (and spiritually similar) Amazon Women on the Moon.
This collection of bad-taste sketches and movie parodies doesn't come within hailing distance of Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)--or even Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).
There are many comedy and film geeks who, at an impressionably young age, managed to see anthologies of lunacy like The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Amazon Women on the Moon.
Occasional comedy successes have come with movies like “The Kentucky Fried Movie,” “The Groove Tube” and “Amazon Women on the Moon.”
Although sketch comedy has been done with great success over the years on television, it has rarely found much favor on the big screen--even a group of comedic minds as formidable as Monty Python struggled to overcome its limitations with their all-over-the-map 1983 swan song "The Meaning of Life."--and "Movie 43" does little to elevate the reputation of the format.
In response, the producer decides to green-light the project, saying that it’s intended to be the second coming of “Howard the Duck”—in order to sabotage his boss.
Even if you might think that sitting through "Movie 43" would be an adventure along the lines of experiencing " Showgirls " or "Howard the Duck," you'll be filled with regret five minutes into this atrocity.
Well, if you mashed-up the worst parts of the infamous “Howard the Duck,’’ “Gigli,’’ “Ishtar’’ and every other awful movie I’ve seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981, it wouldn’t begin to approach the sheer soul-sucking badness of the cringe-inducing “Movie 43,’’ which has been dumped on an unsuspecting public without advance press screenings.
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There's menstruation, incest, pubic hair jokes, superhero sex jokes (yes, someone actually repeats a line – unwittingly – from Kevin Smith's Mallrats), plastic surgery jokes, and a few racial epithets thrown in for good measure.
The film clearly intends this sequence to be water-cooler fodder à la Cameron Diaz’s infamous ejaculate-hair-gel gag in There’s Something About Mary ; it’s intended as an outrageous provocation made all the more daring by the prestige and recognition of the actors involved.
Movie 43 is the brainchild of Peter Farrelly, one half of the notorious Farrelly Brothers who were, if I must remind you, perhaps the central champions behind the gross-out comedy movement of the 1990s, exemplified by their films There's Something About Mary, Kingpin, and other films that wrung wretched laughs from various flying bodily fluids.
Peter Farrelly (who directed the actually funny raunchfest “There’s Something About Mary’’ with his brother Bobby) has recruited 11 other directors — including such bottom feeders as Brett Ratner — to join him in providing opportunities for some A-list stars (as well as B’s and C’s) to do the most humiliating work of their careers.
Not last but certainly among the least, "Super Hero Speed Dating," with a cast of many, is limply executed from start to finish, complete with recycled hair-gel bit from "There's Something About Mary."
It’s so strikingly, soul-crushingly awful that it could cost Hugh Jackman as Oscar (we’ve seen it happen to Eddie Murphy with “Norbit”) and gifted actors like Winslet and Gere might not be allowed near anything remotely comedic ever again.
Occasional comedy successes have come with movies like “The Kentucky Fried Movie,” “The Groove Tube” and “Amazon Women on the Moon.”
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"Movie 43" is the " Citizen Kane " of awful.
Movie 43 is the brainchild of Peter Farrelly, one half of the notorious Farrelly Brothers who were, if I must remind you, perhaps the central champions behind the gross-out comedy movement of the 1990s, exemplified by their films There's Something About Mary, Kingpin, and other films that wrung wretched laughs from various flying bodily fluids.
From Ben Stiller getting ejaculate in his air and his nuts stuck in his zipper in There’s Something About Mary to the explosive diarrhea sequence in Dumber and Dumber to Hugh Jackman’s neck-testicles in “The Catch” segment of Movie 43 , Peter and Bobby have unabashedly spent the past few decades making inappropriate comedies about kooky characters.