The movie tries too hard to be edgy, to work as a sweet romance, yet lacks the courage to push as hard as it needs to.
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07/31/03
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Gigli (2003)
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Reviews Counted:162
Fresh:10
Rotten:152
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: Bizarre and clumsily plotted, Gigli is a mess. As for its stars, Affleck and Lopez lack chemistry.
Theatrical Release:Aug 1, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $5,660,084
Synopsis: In Gigli, Martin Brest’s (Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run) unconventional romantic comedy, Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a low-level hood is given a high-level assignment to kidnap Brian (Justin... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Lainie Kazan
Director: Martin Brest
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Reviews for Gigli
Top CriticEmbalmed in the deadening juices of Affleck and Lopez's throwaway celebrity.
07/31/03
What emerges is desperate -- and occasionally offensive -- salaciousness merged with corny, predictable jokes.
07/31/03
Every generation gets the celebrities they deserve, but what have we done to deserve Gigli?
07/31/03
Nothing in the movie is funny -- aside from giggles provoked by misfired jokes -- or romantic or dramatic.
07/31/03
Top CriticAn inert, toneless clunker... with the stars generating almost as much heat as Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley did in their public makeout sessions.
07/31/03
Hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship.
07/31/03
Top CriticThere's virtually no story, no conflict, no tension and no suspense, just the endless droning of the worst dialogue written in recent memory.
07/31/03
Top CriticI had a brief thought that the mundane inanity might be some Samuel Beckett-style commentary on the existential void. Then I realized that watching the movie put me closer to the existential void than they ever were.
07/31/03
Once you get past the staggering question of who gave this thing the green light, Gigli actually turns into a uniquely bad movie that yields real (albeit unintentional) laughter.
07/31/03
Top CriticNearly as unwatchable as it is unpronounceable.
07/31/03
Brest freights his actors with leaden pacing and a theatrical gangster-speak somewhere to the left of Damon Runyon and the right of Elmore Leonard.
07/31/03
Top CriticOnce word gets out about how painful and laughably bad this film is, it will tank faster than you can say 'Bennifer.'
07/31/03
Jennifer Lopez plays a lesbian in Gigli, and Ben Affleck plays a heterosexual man, which means they have one thing in common: Both of them are in a crummy movie.
07/31/03
A rigli, rigli bad movie.
07/31/03
Top CriticA torpid dud starring the cuddly celebrity twosome of the moment.
07/31/03
It's the sort of bizarre, ill-conceived picture you can't believe exists, but are secretly glad it does.
07/31/03
A film that begins badly and gets worse and worse, like someone who has been knocked unconscious in an accident and then bleeds to death because he gets no attention.
07/31/03
Top CriticPainfully dull and remarkably tasteless.
07/31/03
[Brest's] dialogue is a soup of cliches, profanities and sex talk most of us heard in high school.
07/31/03
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