A dare is a dare of course! Even with my low hopes, my first text when I left the movie was “Well mum, I think I should quit uni and go into script writing if Movie 43 can get made!” Three people also walked out of the movie in the first 15 minutes.
Movie 43 is a series of 13 short comedy skits framed around a washed-up scriptwriter as he pitches his ideas to a producer. It is hated by nearly every film critic out there, and rightly so, but if you are not easily offended there are a few laughs. The opening scene of Davis (Hugh Jackman) and Beth (Kate Winslet) on a blind date is promising enough. However, when Davis removes his scarf to reveal testicles hanging from his chin, you do start to wonder where this movie is going. As it turns out, mostly downhill! As usual, Anna Faris and Emma Stone were very entertaining in their respective scenes, and an advertisement on how we should not abuse our day-to-day machines because it hurts the little children working inside them was amusing, but still did not set the bar very high for an ensemble comedy.
If there were not so many Hollywood stars, it is doubtful that Movie 43 would have had a theatrical release, but the cast do give it some hope. So long as you are not easily offended, and can enjoy a movie that has no direct point, then this movie does have a few outrageously disturbing moments you have to see to believe, including discovering what the iBabe is! It does not deserve to be a box office hit though, so wait until the $1 rentals are out.
2.5/5
