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Gigli (2003)

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6

Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 171
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 160

Bizarre and clumsily plotted, Gigli is a mess. As for its stars, Affleck and Lopez lack chemistry.

2

Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 44

Bizarre and clumsily plotted, Gigli is a mess. As for its stars, Affleck and Lopez lack chemistry.

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15

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Average Rating: 1.6/5
User Ratings: 44,600

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Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is a low-level Los Angeles mob enforcer. His volatile boss, Louis (Lenny Venito), hires Gigli to kidnap Brian (newcomer Justin Bartha), the mentally handicapped younger brother of a federal prosecutor who's about to bring Louis' boss to trial in New York. Gigli gets the kid home without a hitch. Then a beautiful woman (Jennifer Lopez) shows up at his door. She says her name is Ricki, and Gigli soon learns that the nervous Louis has hired her to keep an eye on him. "In

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Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Comedy

Martin Brest

Dec 9, 2003

$5.7M

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Critic Reviews for Gigli

All Critics (171) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (160) | DVD (21)

More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension.

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Every bit as unwatchable as the deafening negative chatter would suggest.

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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It's hard to tell who this movie was intended for: those who think that a mentally challenged boy singing dirty rap lyrics is cute and funny? Those who find Ben Affleck's brow to be ineffably mysterious? Students of Stoic philosophy looking for a test?

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
Michael Agger
New Yorker
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Brief but flamboyant cameos by Christopher Walken and Al Pacino helped keep me distracted from the noble intentions and the silliness.

March 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Mitigating factors: a carefully curated sampling of J-Lo butt cleavage, and an arrhythmic Christopher Walken cameo which momentarily diverts the doomed ship from collision with the iceberg.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Jessica Winter
Time Out
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The stars display zip chemistry, but seem to find themselves adorable. They're so taken with each other they don't need an audience.

August 19, 2003
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Here is a film that exists on another plane. It is so insane, so misguided, so Dadaesque, so Kafkaesque, you'll think I'm exaggerating. I'm not.

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Toledo Blade
Christopher Borrelli
Toledo Blade

[A] hopelessly scatterbrained romantic comedy.

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
James Keith La Croix
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

Not only is it a total botch, it's also an unrelentingly boring botch, meaning it doesn't even fit into the "so bad it's hilarious" category alongside Showgirls and Battlefield Earth.

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

Excruciating.

June 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun

Misbegotten mess of a not family-friendly movie.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media

No, it's not the worst film ever made, but it is a sickening exercise in smugness and self-love.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4
Richard Luck
Film4

Writer/director Martin Brest ("Scent of a Woman") combines romance, comedy, and crime in a movie that will forever be blamed for bringing together Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

May 26, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

This is a derivative, cliché awful film...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

I can't call Gigli a misunderstood masterwork, but I'm not ashamed to say I enjoyed it.

February 14, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comments (6)
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Torture. Impossible to imagine how it could've been worse.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Simon Braund
Empire Magazine

Gigli isn't the equivalent of cracking a whippit, but it is irredeemably flawed

March 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Bangitout.com
Jordan Hiller
Bangitout.com

Apart from the notoriety of their relationship, there isn't much else going for this movie.

September 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

I can't say that I enjoyed watching Gigli but it certainly was an instructive lesson in how good ideas can go horribly wrong.

March 5, 2005 Full Review Source: NYC Film Critic
Ethan Alter
NYC Film Critic

Famous rich people can't just go to Glamour Shots to satisfy their appetites for amour-propre...

January 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez ... each spend several shocking minutes expounding upon the wonders of their own nether regions.

September 20, 2004
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
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The reason "Gigli" gets the moniker of "worst movie ever made" (which is a gross exaggeration) is because it was released in the heyday of 'Bennifer'- Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's insanely high profile romantic relationship. Audiences wanted to see their favorite couple in the greatest romantic comedy of all time but instead they got a meaningless, meandering, overly talky gangster picture that tries desperately to be a new age romantic comedy. "Gigli" has very few bright spots and I mean that in all honesty. Jennifer Lopez is the main reason to see the film (if that is much of one at all). Her resume is weak to say the least with only two or three credible performances to speak of- "Gigli" is surprisingly one of them. Her approach to the film is serious but with just enough of a 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge' carelessness to make it credible. She also handles her monologues quite well, something Ben Affleck crashes and burns with at every chance. Christopher Walken and Al Pacino also add a few points as well and like Lopez, do well with their dialogue. But in the end, "Gigli" is just plain bizarre. It has no idea what it wants to be (a romantic comedy, a mob picture), what it wants to say (about people leading violent lives, about sexual ambiguity, about the politics of crime) or what it wants to make you feel and worst of all, it's just plain boring most of the time.
March 21, 2011
stevenecarrier
Steven Carrier

Super Reviewer

This is a bad movie. It is NOT, however, a horrible movie. I have seen far worse films than this. The storyline is ridiculous and the film tries to be too funny where no written humor exists. Surprisingly, Ben Affleck turns in an almost solid performance as a low-level criminal who kldnaps a federal prosecutor's mentally challenged brother and gets "help" in the form of a female lesbian criminal whom he ends up falling in love with. J-Lo's acting in this film is the worst kind of tripe. She phones in her performance so much that the long-distance rates must be outrageous on her part. Al Pacino is equally unbearable as the obnoxious criminal who is setting all this up to avoid prison time. At the time this film was made, "Bennifer" was getting shoved down everyone's throat and that must've been why the film got such bd reviews. NOT the worst film ever made; probably not even in the bottom 100. But...it still sucks, yes.
June 1, 2008
middleeasternfilms
Derek Daniels

Super Reviewer

Gigli Quotes

    1. Ricki: It's turkey time.
    – Submitted by Nathan L (21 months ago)
    1. Det. Stanley Jacobellis: Man, you know what I'd love to do, right now? Go down to Marie Callender's, get me a big bowl, pie, some ice cream on it, mmm-hmm good! Put some on your head! Your tongue would slap your brains out trying to get to it! INTERESTED? SURE?
    – Submitted by David P (2 years ago)
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