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Movie 43

Starring, Directed by, and Screenplays by a whole lot of different people

     Let me begin by informing you that this is perhaps the WORST film I've ever seen.  It's supposed to be terrible but I don't know if it's supposed to be this bad.
     Basically, Charlie Wessler (Dennis Quaid), has never made a movie in his life and he's got this crazy idea for a film that's really just a lot of short films put together with a few fake commercial breaks in the middle.  He's trying to pitch this ridiculously bad idea of a movie to the studio, and the whole movie is just these short films that he's though of.  Other than that, there's really no plot at all.
      All of these short films are extremely weird, but quite funny.  I wonder what made all of these famous actors with great careers going for them decide to participate in a movie this bad.  The short plot lines in each short are sometimes completely ridiculous and there are many times when I thought I should just walk out of the theater because of how bad they were.  Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
      One of the fake commercials in the movie that shows up a few times is for a product developed by Apple called the iBabe.  It's an iPod that comes in the form of a full size naked woman.  I ask you, what practicality does this serve in a film this bad?
      If you're looking for complete mindless entertainment, this is still not the movie for you.  It's beyond mindless.  Yes, it's going to have you laughing hysterically for a while, but there are things that will make you simply wonder WTF????????  It will leave some lasting impressions on you.
      A friend and I were talking a few years ago about another movie that I totally hated, and it was about a month after we saw it together, yet we were still talking about it.  He told me that the film is a success because a month later, we were still talking about it.  I think the same is going to go for Movie 43.  In a few months, I'll probably still be complaining about how completely horrible it is.
      But for now, this is one of the few films I would actually tell people to stay away from.  I usually think of myself as a pretty lenient film reviewer, but this time, I have to be harsh.
I give Movie 43 an F- (if there even is such a grade as an F-).

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