Movie 43
Synopsis
Fifteen directors and an all-star cast created this twisted comedy that follows three teens on the hunt for the world's most banned film.
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Cast
- Emma StoneVeronica (segment "Veronica")
- Stephen MerchantDonald (segment "Truth or Dare")
- Anna FarisVanessa (segment "The Proposition")
- Seann William ScottPete (segment "Happy Birthday")
- Johnny KnoxvillePete (segment "Happy Birthday")
- Chloë Grace MoretzAmanda (segment "Middleschool Date")
- Christopher Mintz-PlasseMikey (segment "Middleschool Date")
- Jeremy Allen WhiteKevin (segment "Homeschooled")
- Terrence HowardCoach Jackson (segment "Victory's Glory")
- Kate BosworthArlene (segment "iBabe")
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Entertainment Weekly
At its best, Movie 43 resembles a risqué episode of Saturday Night Live - a comparison reinforced by the presence of both parody ads and Jason Sudeikis. At its worst? Let's just say that Hugh Jackman fans who want to remember the actor as Jean Valjean and not as a guy with a scrotum sprouting from his neck should make alternate plans this weekend. - 50
The Playlist
An oddity recommended for only the most fervent, undemanding comedy junkies. - 30
The New York Times
The kindest thing to be said of Movie 43, a star-saturated collection of crude one-joke vignettes made with big-time directors, is that most of the participants seem to relish being naughty. - 20
Total Film
Quite why A-listers Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman and Emma Stone (among others) aligned themselves with this excruciatingly moronic compilation of shorts is anybody's guess. - 20
Empire
Just no. - 20
Time Out
As sick-making sketch comedies go, this stupefyingly bad one-somehow rife with A-list talent-must rank near the very bottom. - 16
The A.V. Club
The sketches aren't united by a half-ignored framing device, so much as by an enduring fascination with bodily functions. Movie 43 is the most star-studded collection of jokes involving menstruation, flatulence, incest, bestiality, Snooki, and nutsacks ever assembled, but the stars don't elevate the material-they just descend to its level. - 0
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite the dizzying array of talent involved both in front of and behind the camera, this godawful exercise is so painfully unfunny, so screamingly bad that it immediately qualifies as one of the worst films of all time.