Posted on 01/25/2013 1:41:42 PM PST by SMGFan
Seen those posters on the tube for 'Movie 43', seen its all-star cast? Wondered why aside from those posters that proclaim it hilarious and show us the incredible cast, you haven't heard hide nor hair of it?
Well wonder no more, because the film has been released, and immediately nearly everyone who's seen it is kicking up a stink.
The film consists of various short movies, acted out by its A-List stars, with a tendency towards gross-out humour as is to be expected with Peter Farrelly involved in direction.
The amazing cast includes Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler, Richard Gere, Jason Sudeikis, Liev Schreiber, Seth McFarlane, Kate Winslet, Kate Bosworth, Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Uma Thurman and Anna Faris, but the movie hasn't been press screened, nor promoted and its apparently with very good reason.
Lou Lummenik for The New York Post wrote: "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."
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainmentwise.com ...
It’s amazing, in 31 years of having cable tv, I have never seen that film aired. All I know is that it is an epic Florence Henderson turkey.
Boston Herald said “rude, crude, and often funny” but gave it a C grade
>>The first sketch has a horrified Winslet on a blind date with cheery Jackman who doffs his scarf to reveal a pair of testicles hanging prominently from his throat.
It only gets worse, so to speak, as (real life) couple Watts and Liev Schreiber are dementedly sadistic parents who home-school their son to ensure that this “should be the unhappiest time of his life...A post-credits sequence parodies “Ted” as Elizabeth Banks competes with an animated gay cat for Josh Duhamel’s affection.
No surprise. Porter and Parker are the same character - they're both adapted from two different Donald Westlake novels.
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