Movie 43 Reviews
Slant Magazine
This is barely a movie at all, mostly due to its structural similarities to SNL, but also because it acknowledges the fact that its own premises are inherently unfilmable.
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| Original Score: 0/4
We Got This Covered
Unlike The Kentucky Fried Movie, the brilliant benchmark that came before it, Movie 43 beats already tired scatalogical humor to death before taking another piss on the remains. It's really that bad.
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| Original Score: 2/10
CraveOnline
If testicles and poop... are enough for you, maybe "Movie 43" will be your cup of (*ulp*) tea.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Schmoes Know
There's certainly some surprises that earn genuine laughs, but as a whole the film has the feel of a bunch of SNL sketches in an off year that air after Weekend Update.
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| Original Score: 2.25/5
Schmoes Know
It just doesn't pay off the way it should, mainly because the gags are built on cheap laughs and the shock value of seeing famous people get dirty.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Paste Magazine
As it turns out, watching actors who are otherwise likable, marketable and capable reduce themselves to this ridiculous pabulum isn't funny. It's depressing.
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| Original Score: 0.5/10
The List
If this is the future of film-making then basically we're all doomed.
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| Original Score: 1/5
What Culture
A punishing exercise in brain cell annihilation that shoots for edgy but mostly settles for inane petulance.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Top CriticDespite all the gross-out humor, the most offensive thing about this is the lazy filmmaking; every shot feels like a first take, and the haphazard editing precludes any comic timing.
Flicks.co.nz
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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| Original Score: 0/5
Movie Nation
Well, they didn't name it after the number of big laughs in it.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Birmingham Post
This is nothing more than a chance to watch many of your favourite stars embarrassing themselves like 13-year-olds high on illicit booze.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Screen-Space
The very fact that all gave so willingly of their time and talent to feature in such a grotesque spectacle is sort of endearing.
Boston Phoenix
Don't subject yourself to this crap ...
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
Screen International
A total mess but not without its genuinely funny moments, this Relativity release is one to store away in the how-did-this-ever-happen vault.
NOW Toronto
From the outtakes in the credits, it's obvious the stars are enjoying themselves. Too bad those laughs aren't contagious.
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| Original Score: 1/5
amNewYork
With so many famous people in one movie, you might have thought, 'Gee, how bad could it be?' The answer: Very, very bad.
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| Original Score: 0/4
Daily Telegraph
I was immediately overcome with a sudden rush of emotion: not amusement, anger or even mild irritation, but a profound and faintly tragic sense of pity.
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| Original Score: 1/5
A gaping wound on the side of cinema, a January release that's yearning to be hidden from audiences, the ugly stinking maw of a Hollywood system that thinks you're an idiot.
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| Original Score: F
