Movie 43
Relativity Media | Release Date: January 25, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 23 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
18
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJan 26, 2013
Movie 43 is a near masterpiece of tastelessness. The anthology of 12 short, interconnected skits elevates the art form of gross-out comedy to a new height. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyMaane KhatchatourianJan 25, 2013
At its best, Movie 43 resembles a risqué episode of Saturday Night Live - a comparison reinforced by the presence of both parody ads and Jason Sudeikis. At its worst? Let's just say that Hugh Jackman fans who want to remember the actor as Jean Valjean and not as a guy with a scrotum sprouting from his neck should make alternate plans this weekend. Read full review
50
The PlaylistGabe ToroJan 25, 2013
An oddity recommended for only the most fervent, undemanding comedy junkies. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 3, 2013
Movie 43 is sketchy, in every sense. It's a collection of short comedy films in the manner of the 70s cult classic "Kentucky Fried Movie," each with a separate director, in which many very famous actors have been persuaded to take part. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJan 26, 2013
It's the kind of thing you feel you should laugh at through a phlegmy, hacking cough-and it does get laughs, if inconsistently, predictable given the circumstances of production. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrJan 31, 2013
The line between gross-out humor that's inspired and the kind that's witless is fine indeed, and Movie 43 obliterates it with poop and movie stars. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJan 30, 2013
About a third of the short films land a few laughs. But even the weakest material is lifted by the actors. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJan 30, 2013
In Movie 43's better-suited afterlife in the home-entertainment market, those sort of quandaries can be hashed out between bong rips and bags of Cheetos. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenJan 29, 2013
How many directors does it take to screw in a star-studded piece of aggressive stupidity and call it a movie? An even dozen, and there is no punch line. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJan 26, 2013
The kindest thing to be said of Movie 43, a star-saturated collection of crude one-joke vignettes made with big-time directors, is that most of the participants seem to relish being naughty. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinDec 24, 2013
After watching Peter Farrelly’s Movie 43, 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. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJan 25, 2013
As sick-making sketch comedies go, this stupefyingly bad one-somehow rife with A-list talent-must rank near the very bottom. Read full review
20
EmpireKim NewmanJan 25, 2013
Just no. Read full review
20
Total FilmJosh WinningJan 25, 2013
Quite why A-listers Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman and Emma Stone (among others) aligned themselves with this excruciatingly moronic compilation of shorts is anybody's guess. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinJan 25, 2013
The sketches aren't united by a half-ignored framing device, so much as by an enduring fascination with bodily functions. Movie 43 is the most star-studded collection of jokes involving menstruation, flatulence, incest, bestiality, Snooki, and nutsacks ever assembled, but the stars don't elevate the material-they just descend to its level. Read full review
0
Film.comLaremy LegelFeb 26, 2013
An epically miserable viewing experience, go ahead and skip this one unless you’re seeking to answer the riddle of what happens when people don’t try at their jobs. Read full review
0
VarietyJoe LeydonJan 26, 2013
An appalling misfire that tries and fails to evoke the anything-goes spirit of such '70s sketch-comedy concoctions as "The Groove Tube" and "Kentucky Fried Movie." Read full review
0
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJan 26, 2013
It's rare to see a piece of sh** that actually looks and sounds like a piece of sh**. It's kind of exciting! Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJan 26, 2013
Despite the filmmakers' desperate attempts to scandalize us, the only real shock is that a movie this disastrous ever managed to get made. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 26, 2013
There's camp-fun bad and interestingly horrible bad, and then there's just awful. Movie 43 is the "Citizen Kane" of awful. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineTina HassanniaJan 25, 2013
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. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickJan 25, 2013
If you mashed-up the worst parts of the infamous "Howard the Duck,'' "Gigli,'' "Ishtar'' and every other awful movie I've seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981, it wouldn't begin to approach the sheer soul-sucking badness of the cringe-inducing Movie 43. Read full review
0
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 25, 2013
Despite the dizzying array of talent involved both in front of and behind the camera, this godawful exercise is so painfully unfunny, so screamingly bad that it immediately qualifies as one of the worst films of all time. Read full review
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