August 01, 2003
no weekend plans?

Why not plop down $10 on "Gigli?" After all, it's getting some great reviews...

In case the Razzie Award announcers have any difficulty with the pronunciation, Gigli rhymes with "really." As in "really bad," or "really offensive," or "really wish I’d remembered my gun so I could just shoot myself now and end the misery." -Premiere
We're talking about a disaster, and not of the fun "Showgirls" variety, either. "Gigli" is 124 minutes long, almost a marathon by romantic-comedy standards. Yet if all the apparently irrelevant, tiresome and flat-out painful moments were cut, the film would consist entirely of two scenes. -SF Chronicle
The worst movie -- all right, the worst allegedly major movie -- of our admittedly young century. More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension. - Wall Street Journal
I've saved the worst for last: Larry and Ricki eventually climb between the sheets in a scene that is insulting to the sexuality of all living creatures, from plankton on up. For what it's worth, Affleck and Lopez do have the screen chemistry of a couple in love -- they seem oblivious to the movie tanking around them -- but even this scene defeats them. How could it not? Quoth Ricki, ''It's time to baste the turkey.'' Respondeth Larry, ''Gobble, gobble.''- Boston Globe
Posted by mikewolf at August 01, 2003 04:24 PM
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