Movie 43

Kmac:

I had no expectations for Movie 43 except that I figured with this many famous people agreeing to be in  the movie, at least something had to stick. And there are a ton of famous faces. From Oscar nominees and winners, such as Kate Winslet and Naomi Watts, to familiar comedy actors, Kristen Bell and Jason Sudeikis, and on and on. I suggest not looking at the Wikipedia page until after you watch the film. Half the fun came from guessing who would show up next in this crazy, raunchy, and entertaining comedy made up of a series of sketches.

Upon checking the credits after the movie I was not surprised to see one of the Farrelly brothers was instrumental in bringing this thing together. Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary both traded in this kind of dirty, absurdist humor. It will not be for the faint of ears or eyes. The whole idea is to shock you with the main plot of the sketch. If, however, you can give yourself over to the filthy and sometimes violent nature of the sketches, you will laugh loud and often.

For those of you who brave this movie, I particularly enjoyed Sean Williams Scott and Johnny Knoxville playing two roommates who catch a leprechaun to steal his gold. Everyone knows you can’t let him go, or he will trick you out of it. In a close second for favorite sketch would be Robin speed dating with pervy Batman making the world’s worst wingman. Nerds everywhere will enjoy.

Overall this is not a movie to watch with kids or the prudish but for the experiment it was, I found most sketches worked.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 “wow it’s that guy” or girl, ladies can be funny too.

Jmac:

Ha....ha ha. In what has been called the “the citizen kane of awful” (Chicago-Sun Times), Movie 43, or what seemed to be an extremely raunchy hour and a half long SNL skit show, actually proves a point..... and that point is that even if you have the most absurd, crazy, messed up scenarios, if you populate your movie with actual actors instead of C or D lists like the Scary Movie franchise, or my personal hatred (which I saw half of on one of the worst dates ever) Date Movie, you can actually get a little bit of funny just from the actors.... or maybe I'm biased because I find it funny when actors step outside their normal roles and just do silly stuff.

This movie is lewd and crude, but still has a lot of laughs in it, if off-color comedy and shock humor is what you are into. It is full of double entendres, poo humor, and extremely awkward scenarios. I think my favorites were the second one when two parents who homeschool their kid haze him so he gets a “real” high school experience, and then of course if you put Sean Williams Scott and Johnny Knoxville together on screen I'm going to watch, as they capture leprechauns, which, as it turns out, are extremely foul mouthed buggers.

All in all, this on is not for the faint of heart, but if loaded with academy award winning actors and actresses, which lends to the funny.

I give it 3.8 balls out of 5.

Oh and Kristen Bell will make nerds everywhere throw off their Spock ears or their official Lord of the Rings cloaks, and nerd-gasm all over the place.