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Movie 43 is a 2013 American anthology comedy film co-directed and produced by Peter Farrelly, and written by Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko among others. The film features fourteen different storylines, each one by a different director, including Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, Will Graham, and Jonathan van Tulleken. It stars an ensemble cast that is led by Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Leslie Bibb, Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Dennis Quaid, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, and Kate Winslet. Julianne Moore, Tony Shalhoub, and the late Anton Yelchin, and Charlie Saxton are also featured in cut scenes released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Plot
Twelve directors, including Peter Farrelly, Griffin Dunne, and Brett Ratner, contributed to this collection of outrageous spoofs and stories. A seemingly perfect man has an unusual blemish on his neck in "The Catch." Superheroes attend a speed-dating event in "Robin's Big Speed Date." Two people on a blind date try to break the ice by playing "Truth or Dare." Other stories include "iBabe," "The Proposition," "Beezel" and "Victory's Glory."
Why It Has 43 Torture Orgies in 1 Entire Movie
- The movie's title alone makes no sense, and sounds similar to Action 52. It was a result of one of the director's kids talking about an urban legend-sounding made-up movie with the same name, which the director regardlessly "cooked" the movie’s name for the marketers to use.
- VERY unfunny and ridiculous skits. The main problem with the humor is that each skit hinders only one joke and drags throughout the entire segment, meaning you may get one second of laughter, but a few minutes of boredom.
- Very bad acting from an all-star cast even from actors like Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, etc. For example; Richard Gere, who plays the boss in the iBabe segment, clearly looks bored with the film; what's infuriating is that he wanted to get out of the project but was forced to continue.
- In fact, this is the type of movie that is SO bad that even its actors are ashamed of. For example: By the time of its release, no one from the cast promoted this movie and as of today, they haven't spoken about it, mentioned it, or acknowledged the fact that they were in it.
- There were even deleted skits starring actors like Julianne Moore, Tony Shalhoub and the late Anton Yelchin.
- Horrendous dialogue, mostly "Hey, guys! Come check out this kid's weird pubes!".
- Blatant and shoved in product placement, such as Taco Bell, Apple, and a mention of Family Guy from Halle Berry's character.
- The humor relies on gross-out, sex, and even bestiality jokes.
- In particular, Beezel and a guy are seen kissing each other.
- In that same skit starring Beezel, a group of kids brutally MAUL Amy to death (who's played by Elizabeth Banks, if you're wondering), just because they saw her beating Beezel to a pulp. To make things worse, her boyfriend Anson (played by Josh Duhamel) scolds her for this and just walks off with Beezel.
- In one appalling skit titled "The Catch", Hugh Jackman has a ballsack hanging below his neck. This is all played for laughs, and it's not funny at all.
- The "Truth or Dare" skit is full of these crass jokes, such as the one scene in which Donald (Stephen Merchant's character) gets a realistically grotesque penis tattooed on his face, and another in which Emily (Halle Berry's character) inserts hot sauce into her vagina.
- Beezel looks horrifying and not cute. He looks more like a Garfield and Shampoo from Ranma's cat form reject and is incredibly perverted and unlikable.
- The posters are very inappropriate, as the woman in the poster is only in a bikini with the words covered up.
- It wasted many talented directors and actors by giving them terrible and embarrassing material
- Terrible score from Christophe Beck, David J. Hodge, Leo Birenberg, Tyler Bates, Miles Moon, and William Goodrum.
- The trailers are misleading and confusing and they don't tell you what is this movie about.
- According to co-director Peter Farrelly, most of the cast members were so embarrassed by the film that they wanted to quit during production; they even tried to include George Clooney and Colin Farrell.
- The ending is just abysmal.
- This film, alongside the huge failures of Diana, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, and The Book of Henry incredibly derailed Naomi Watts's film career, she has now since then did low budget direct-to-DVD flicks and television roles after her film career started going down the drain in the early 2010s, with Dream House, Diana, Top Cat: The Movie, Movie 43, The Sea of Trees, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, its sequel Allegiant, and Shut In becoming huge critical and commercial failures for Watts's film career during the 2010s, despite her acclaimed performances in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), J. Edgar and The Impossible were both critical and commercial successes, making her in recent years one of the 2000s actors who flopped in the 2010s as a laughing stock.
Redeeming Qualities
- It has some funny moments (such as the Black Basketball skit).
- At least the songs are passable to listen to.
Production
Producer Charlie Wessler first came up with the film's plot in the early 2000s. The film was originally going to have only three skits by three different directing teams: one by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, one by David and Jerry Zucker, and another by Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Of these directors, only Peter Farrelly (who directed three segments) did not drop out of the project.
In 2009, co-director Peter Farrelly and producer John Penotti sold the film pitch to Relativity Media for $6 million. The first sketch to be filmed was "The Catch", starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet.
Wessler would recruit actors for the film at a minimal cost. Some of the actors signed on through word of mouth, without knowing the plot. Other actors were also considered for roles, such as Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and George Clooney, but they all dropped out. Filming was done over several years, working around the actors' schedules.
Farrelly decided on the title after overhearing his son talking about a film titled Movie 43.
Critical Response
Movie 43 was critically panned. Some critics considered it to be one of the worst films ever made. The film received an average score of 18 out of 100 on Metacritic, signifying "overwhelming dislike". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 4% positive rating based on 89 reviews, with an average rating of 2.21/10. The site's consensus states: "A star-studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs." Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a D rating.
Box Office
Movie 43 was predicted to debut to less than $10 million, with the studio expecting $8–9 million. It took in $4.8 million on its opening weekend, opening in seventh place, far below expectations.
At the end of its run, closing in the United States on March 14, 2013, the film had grossed $8,840,453 domestically and $23,598,535 internationally for a worldwide total of $32,438,988.
Relativity stated that they had already covered all costs with international pre-sales deals and a deal with Netflix.
Awards
The film won 3 Golden Raspberry Awards at the 34th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay, and was nominated for six including Worst Actress for Halle Berry (along with The Call) and Naomi Watts (along with Diana).
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