Review of Movie 43

Movie 43 (2013)
1/10
Grotesque, Excruciating Experience, Actually ran out the theater...
19 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Awful Awful Awful. I couldn't watch past 20 minutes. I threw up afterward and left with my date. You are going to see A-List stars do horrible things in this film. You have incest, scrotum, defecation, turkey baster vaginal insertion, and more, occur right before your eyes. This is NOT comedy. This is an example of how you don't need to have a conscience to produce or star in a film. Money can buy anything; it can pay for the appalling acts that happens in Movie 43.

Some of the reviews I read, stated there's speculation that the actors/actresses starring in Movie 43, could have been 'blackmailed' into acting in it. Well, I can't understand anyone who would willingly agree to participating in this film. This has to be the worst movie these actors have ever starred in. I feel bad for Halley Berry. I haven't seen her in a grade A film in awhile (including that forgettable-but-big-budget one she did in 2012)... and what she does in this film.... Out of respect for her, just don't watch it. Don't watch Movie 43, even if you are curious. The actors/actresses you respect...You won't see them the same way after this. It's not funny. It's upsetting/disgusting. I can't do justice to just how sick the film made me feel.

The skit were these parents are home schooling their son and they tell their new neighbors how they want to 'give their son a real high school experience', is were I lost it. This is insulting to those who choose to home school and degrades the parents role of protecting their children from harm. What happens in the skit is two adults abusing their biological son. They humiliate him on a American flag pole and write dung on his body. They sexually abuse him by forcing him to kiss his mother and sex is hinted to happen next('Do you want to go all the way?' 'Do you have a condom?'). They son becomes so disturbed, he tearfully introduces to the new neighbors his mop girlfriend that has a picture of his mother, as her face, at the end of the skit. They green-lit this scenario? Naomi Wyatt, who plays the mother, should be ashamed of herself. The directors and the people who supported this film (financially or otherwise) should be ashamed too.

It's also misogynist! People should understand that the film's so called humor isn't 'boy humor'. That term blankets the problem that ensues with the production of Movie 43. Put blame where blame belongs--- > Screen writers: Greg Pritikin, Patrik Forsberg, Will Carlough, Matt Portenoy, Jeremy Sosenko, Rocky Russo, Steve Baker. Directors: Steve Carr, Elizabeth Banks, James Duffy, Peter Farrelly, James Gunn, Patrik Forsberg, Brett Ratner, Steven Brill, Bob Odenkirk, Griffin Dunne, Rusty Cundieff. These are the people who are responsible for the despicable story-lines. It's what they think is 'funny' ( and ergo profitable to make) not necessarily what we, the audience, think is funny (and should pay to see). This film does not define good humor. Abuse is never funny. Don't let any of them earn a cent of your hard-earned salary, for what they've done.
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