"Movie 43" · 3:26am Feb 1st, 2014
Guys... just...
Don't watch this movie. Just don't.
Yes, freaking everybody is in this movie, and yes, it is kind of funny to see them play this garbage so straight, but the novelty will only amuse your inner six-year-old for about twenty minutes. And then it keeps going. And going. And going. And going...
Look, I like bad movies, and sleaze has its place. I don't ask fiction to do much. When a work of fiction makes a mistake? If I'm being entertained? My reaction, with very rare exception, is just to laugh at it, and then I get over it and move on.
I really dug "Caligula", and there's a few others I've seen and liked that I really should not talk about on this site. Hell, I probably shouldn't even be talking about "Caligula". We all have our guilty pleasures, we all see things just out of curiosity. I saw "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure" just out of curiosity; I'd heard some of the crazy things that happen in it, and I just had to know. And you know what? For the first thirty, forty-five minutes? I'm kind of digging it because it's so flat-out bonkers I'm laughing my ass off. But this? No. Don't.
"Movie 43"? Don't. I understand if you are now curious, but don't; it's not even worth your curiosity. I saw it because a close friend recommended it and, damn it, guy, I love you, but this was a piece of shit, infantile, obnoxious, shrill heap of trash.
Don't.
Just... don't.
Watch "A Cock and Bull Story". Watch "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". Watch "Blackadder". Hell, watch Monty Python! Watch "A Fish Called Wanda"! Listen to the original "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" radio play. Watch "The Happening", which isn't funny on-purpose, but still. Read some Terry Pratchett. Read some Douglas Adams. Since I mentioned "A Cock and Bull Story", read the book it's based on, Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"; IT'S AMAZING. Read James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"; you have to be a language geek, but if you are, it's a riot. Read Carrie Fisher's memoire, "Wishful Drinking". You want dumb-funny? Watch "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist!". Watch "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". Watch a Mel Brooks movie. Watch an Abbott and Costello movie. You want sleazy-funny? Watch "Nudist Colony of the Dead". Watch Penn Jillette's documentary, "The Aristocrats". It's about the world's dirtiest joke. Listen to Gyögy Ligeti's opera, "Grand Macabre"; it's about a demon trying and completely failing to bring about the end of the world. Watch Ingmar Bergman's production of Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute". Not particularly funny, but it's a quick two hours and a freaking joy.
Or, you know what? Just watch your favorite episode of MLP. You will be infinitely more entertained than you will be if you watch "Movie 43". Hell, this blog post is probably more entertaining.
DON'T WATCH "MOVIE 43".
That is all.
Yeah... I keep hearing people say they're amused by some sketches of "Movie 43" but not all. Never all. And everyone has one or two they absolutely hate.
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever heard anyone hate a sketch of Monty Python's Flying Circus. I own seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, and they are amazing. I'm trying to get the box set.
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Yeah. It gets really... I don't know if I'd say repetitive, but it gets really tedious. Like I said, your inner six-year-old will laugh now and then, but it's just way too long and the novelty doesn't make up for it.
But yeah, Monty Python, man. Smart guys being funny. Ditto with "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". You can't go wrong.
Hey, speaking of Stephen Fry and smart people being funny, there's the BBC quiz show "QI". It's amazing and I so wish BBC America could get it.
Or "Jonathan Creek"... or "Mongrels"... or... you know what, just skip "Movie 43" and watch something British
I have heard absolutely nothing good about this movie. The reviews I've seen have been so bad that I've been tempted to watch it because it's on Netflix, but I don't think I will now.
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Don't. It's a waste of time. There are so many other, better things you could do instead. I'd watch the Oogieloves movie again before I gave this another chance.