Movie 43 2013

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: 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 more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Once you're attuned to the movie's desperation to shock, you begin to have that jaded, ho-hum feeling. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: [A] gauntlet of smutty, profane awfulness ... Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Despite 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. Read more

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: It is utterly disgusting throughout. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: 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. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: An awesome array of talent doesn't prevent this witlessly profane anthology of comic shorts from being an utter disaster. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: 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 more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Deadly dull, unfunny, offensive, and stultifyingly clumsy. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: As a film critic, I've seen nearly 4,000 movies over the last fifteen years. Right now, I can't think of one worse than Movie 43. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: 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 [Movie 43]. Read more

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: "Movie 43" is the "Citizen Kane" of awful. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Your laugh mileage may vary (God forbid), but we can all agree on one thing: this is the biggest waste of talent in cinema history. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Movie 43 is gross, juvenile, disgusting, scatological, vile, reprehensible and in the worst possible taste. But heaven help me, I laughed. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: You won't believe how tiresome bad taste has become. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Some movies should be reviewed; others should simply be warned about. Movie 43 is now showing at theaters and drive-ins everywhere. Beware. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: I see a bright future ahead for this sui generis work, which will be passed around sixth grade classrooms by odd-smelling kids for years to come. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Farrelly and his brother are two of my low-comedy heroes, but Movie 43 is amateur hour. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: 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 more