Movie 43 is the most unlikely film experience I can imagine. I wish, I wish, I wish I was in the room when the filmmakers got the following actors on board to be a part of such a ridiculous film: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry, Anna Farris, Stephen Merchant, Dennis Quaid, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Elizabeth Banks to mention just a few. How? How did they get those people involved? How did they make Hugh Jackman have a set of testicles on his neck?!? How did they make Anna Farris want to get pooped on? How did they make Halle Berry get her (fake) tit out and make guacamole by smashing it into the avocado? How?!?! HOW?!?!
The filmmakers for this movie must be the best smooth talkers that have ever existed. I mean, think of all the amazing scripts and ideas flying around Hollywood and at the end of the day an exec in a studio somewhere said "sure here is $20 million to go make this film, it sounds great!" I’m gobsmacked. I think 10 or 15 years ago I would have died laughing at this film, sheerly for its crude and disgusting humour and how far it goes. I can imagine myself grinning and chuckling under my breath the whole way through, and talking about it at lunch at school, but the 30 something version of me just found it to be so insanely silly I couldn’t get past that to enjoy it.
The plot, just quickly, is that an older brother wants to get spyware on a younger brothers laptop and needs to come up with a plan to get him off it long enough to install it. He comes up with the idea that a banned movie called Movie 43 exists on the net somewhere. He then cons his younger brother to use his own laptop to find it and runs off with his younger brothers laptop to lookup porn in the toilet in the hope of installing spyware on it. Or something. Then every 'banned' movie with a title like Movie 43 is found by the younger brother and watched by him and you as the real audience. Each 'banned' movie is a skit involving the actors above doing insane things... and your mouth will be open, your eyebrows raised and your head spinning as they play out infront of you.
It’s pretty much up there as one of the worst movies ever made, but if you want to see a set of balls on Hugh Jackmans throat or Halle Berry blow the candles out on a blind boy’s birthday cake, or a naked fembot that plays music from her vagina then check it out for sure. Otherwise, you aren't really missing anything.
SCORE: 2/10
I never thought anything would beat Dumb and Dumberer as the worst movie of all time. How wrong I was. I lasted about 35 minutes and turned it off. Horrid.
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