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Gigli (2003)

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Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 165
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 154

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

3

Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 38

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

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Average Rating: 1.6/5
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Movie Info

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

R, 2 hr. 1 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Comedy

Martin Brest

Dec 9, 2003

$5.7M

Columbia Pictures

Cast

All Critics (165) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (156) | DVD (20)

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 | Comment
Chicago Reader
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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 Comment
Rolling Stone
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Shapeless and without a shred of originality, the movie mimics and copies pieces of a number of old movies, all superior in every way.

August 15, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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The movie is bafflingly boring and ridiculous.

August 9, 2003 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
Slate
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Brest would have to go back to his outline to repair this lemon and give America something akin to what it's told it really wants -- a helping of Lopez-Affleck home movies.

August 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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[O]ne of the worst movies I've ever seen.

August 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comments (2)
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Misbegotten mess of a not family-friendly movie.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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 | Comment

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 | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

This is a derivative, cliché awful film with terrible performances, embarrassing dialogue, and a plot that goes nowhere fast.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
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 (3)
eFilmCritic.com

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

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

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

March 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Bangitout.com | Comment
Bangitout.com

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 | Comment

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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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 Comment
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

The first half is an unfunny drag, with a few uncomfortable laughs provided by a retarded man. The last half is a tragedy.

July 7, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment

Gigli looks like a movie that writer-director Martin Brest made up on the spot.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | Comment

Awe-inspiringly, world-historically awful.

January 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Brest inserts little wrinkles in an attempt to wash away the clichés, but all he achieves is taking an already wretched script to new depths.

January 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Film and Felt | Comment
Film and Felt

If one has to find something positive to say about Gigli, it would have to be this: at least it isn't likely to spawn a sequel.

January 2, 2004 Full Review | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Gigli

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

March 21, 2011
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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

June 1, 2008
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Derek Daniels

Super Reviewer

    1. Ricki: It's turkey time.
    – Submitted by Nathan L (5 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 (10 months ago)

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