Movie Review - Movie 43

Movie 43 (2013)

Starring Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Kieran Culkin, Emma Stone, Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Kristen Bell, Bobby Canavale, Leslie Bibb, Richard Gere, Jack McBrayer, Kate Bosworth, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Patrick Warburton, Common, Seth MacFarlane, Johnny Knoxville, Seann WIlliam Scott, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Stephen Merchant, Terrence Howard, Elizabeth Banks, and Josh Duhamel

Directed by Peter Farrelly, Will Graham, Steve Carr, Griffin Dunne, Steven Brill, James Duffy, Jonathan van Tulleken, Elizabeth Banks, Patrik Forsberg, Brett Ratner, Rusty Cundieff, and James Gunn

***This film is currently streaming on Netflix***

Movie 43 isn't the worst movie I've seen in 2013.  And that's about all the praise I can muster for it.  Essentially a series of sketch comedy sequences (most dealing with sex in some way, shape, or form), the film never provides the laughs that it sets out to achieve.  Instead, the "humor" comes from the fact that you're watching a big star like Hugh Jackman play a man who has testicles swinging from his neck with Kate Winslet playing his blind date reacting to the aforementioned swinging testicles.  It's the fact that these are big name stars (too many to even put in the labels section of this post since it's limited to 200 characters) stooping to this level of humor that's the most surprising and is really the only reason the movie kept my interest.  It's not like any of the sketches are overly offensive, but they're really just dirtier versions of the types of crappy skits you'd see during the final thirty minutes of Saturday Night Live -- you know, bits that weren't worthy enough to take up space in the first hour that get relegated to the final third since less people will be watching to see how unfunny they really are.

If seeing Gerard Butler as a nasty leprechaun or Oscar-winner Halle Berry making guacamole with her breasts sounds like the quirkiness you've been longing for, Movie 43 is streaming on Netflix for your viewing pleasure.

The RyMickey Rating:  D