Movie 43: Review

Rating: 4/10

Released: January 2013.

Certificate: 15

Directors:  Brett Ratner, Elizabeth Banks, Griffin Dunne, James Duffy, James Gunn, Jonathan van Tulleken, Patrik Forsberg, Peter Farrely, Rusty Cundieff, Steve Carr and Steven Brill.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Faris, Bob Odenkirk, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Gerard Butler , Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Jason Sudeikis, Johnny Knoxville, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Kristen Bell, Leslie Bibb, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Richard Gere, Seann William Scott, Stephen Merchant, Terrence Howard and Uma Thurman.

Summary: Movie 43 is a collection of short comedy films in which different directors have persuaded various well known actors to take part in.

The first short film is about Beth (Kate Winslet) a single businesswoman who goes on a blind date with Davis (Hugh Jackman), Beth is shocked when her blind date removes his scarf, revealing a pair of testicles dangling from his neck. During dinner various awkward situations happen and nobody seems to notice.

Image: Beth.

The second short film is of a home schooled boy whose parents have invited the new neighbours round for a cup of tea. Here the parents reveal how the boy still gets all the life experiences at home as he would have received in high school such as bullying, first kiss, detentions and the high school parties which are all acted out by his parents in comical way.

Image: Samantha and Kevin.

The short films which follow feature:  a couple where the girlfriend asks him to take a dump on her chest to show how much he loves her. A story about a grocery store worker whose ex-girlfriend turns up at his workplace and begins to have a sexually orientated conversation being unaware that it is being broadcast round the store on the intercom. I-Babe a sketch which features a company that produce naked Barbie like dolls that function as music players. A speed dating spoof that contains well known superheroes such as Batman and Robin and Wonder Woman. A date which features Donald (Stephen Merchant) and Emily (Halle Berry) in which they dare each other to carry out the challenges such as blow a blind kids birthday cake candles out, grab a man’s bum and to get plastic surgery. Several more films follow this that have a similar concept.

Image: Emily.

My personal view of this film is that it is just a few poorly thought of short films intending to provide humour to the audience. It fails. The film aimed at the filthy minded teenage-boy market features actors, who in my opinion, must have been desperate for money to feature in this senseless stupidity.