# Giggly? Jiggly? No—Gigli!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 1, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357 "2003-08-01T14:06:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/1 "2003-08-01T14:06:44Z")
I am not planning to see the new starring vehicle of the Special Olympics Gable and Lombard, but I did have to quote the marvelous review from today’s _NY Times_:
“[Jennifer Lopez] also threatens the apparent ringleader with a baroque martial-arts torture, which involves gouging out the eyes and also removing that part of the brain that stores visual information, so that the victim will not only be blind, but will also lose all memory of what he has seen. Having seen _Gigli_, I must say that the idea has a certain appeal.”
—_Har!_ Somewhere, Mrs. Parker is beaming approvingly.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/2 "2003-08-01T15:00:30Z")
That was one of my favorite reviews ever. I’m sure that lesbians everywhere are going to love the “it’s turkey time” line as JLo’s LESBIAN character intiates sex with ol’ Gigli. See, all it takes is the _right_ man …
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/3 "2003-08-01T15:02:53Z")
Second-best movie put down I’ve heard this year.
Best was Ebert’s retort when the director of _The Brown Bunny_ made comments about Ebert’s colon (don’t ask): “I had a colonoscopy; they let me watch on a TV monitor. It was more entertaining than _The Brown Bunny_.”
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### Author:  [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/4 "2003-08-01T15:16:17Z")
I zipped over to the Rotten Tomatoes site & found plenty more hilarious reviews. This excerpt is from the Slant reviewer: “Gigli pretends to be a sophisticated comedy of the sexes yet it’s written with the adolescent gusto of a fifty-year-old who’s finally discovered that a penis goes inside a vagina.”
I don’t think the reviewers are holding back.
There is one good review listed…do you think that reviewer will ever be trusted again?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/5 "2003-08-01T15:26:42Z")
I heard a review on the radio this morning where the guy said it’s the worst movie he’s ever seen. He gave it 0 stars, only because he felt he couldn’t give anything lower than that.
I’m sure an audio clip will be posted [here](http://www.big100.com/murphycash/movie_review.html) eventually.
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/6 "2003-08-01T15:31:13Z")
I think that “one good review” is from one of the people that give good reviews to everything, so they have some quotes to put on the posters and ads, right?
There’s critics who rave about everything, which makes Sony’s fabricated review scandal a while back seem even more stupid.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/7 "2003-08-01T16:02:48Z")
[The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/onion3929/gigli_focus_groups.html) writers didn’t seem to like it either.
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### Author:  [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/8 "2003-08-01T16:19:29Z")
My GF told me she read a review at Rotten Tomatos and the reviewer after watching Gigli had to clean his pallette by watching **Glitter**!
Now that is some funny sh!t!
MtM
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### Author:  [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/9 "2003-08-01T16:33:33Z")
From the Wall Street Journal:
> [@](#):
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> Gigli," which stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, is 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.
Now **that** is a negative review!
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/10 "2003-08-01T16:52:03Z")
I have a quaetion. While I have no doubt that this is a bad movie on the scale of Ishtar and Glitter, does anyone think that there is a kind of pile-on mentality due to the over-exposure of these two in the media. I am not complaining at all, but would there be this much vitriol if it were Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller?
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/11 "2003-08-01T17:05:41Z")
Check back in 20 years. I’ll bet this will be another “Ishtar” or “My Mother, the Car” TV series. Both of those were panned as being unbelievably bad. With the passage of time, and a new look, it’s easier to see that, well, yeah, they were kinda dumb–but the worst of all time? Nope. They just weren’t that bad.
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/12 "2003-08-01T17:12:00Z")
If Ben Stiller did that same crappy accent? Yes.
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### Author:  [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/13 "2003-08-01T17:18:03Z")
Reading the reviews of Gigli, it sounds _way_ worse than Ishtar, which was just blah.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/14 "2003-08-01T17:18:22Z")
Is the movie a musical like GiGi? I wish it was.
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### Author:  [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/15 "2003-08-01T17:46:10Z")
I’m very disappointed that Rotten Tomatoes has now found one good review, out of 59 thus far - of course, it’s from that stellar critic, Chuck the Movieguy of [COMINGSOON.NET](http://COMINGSOON.NET), but still…
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### Author:  [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/16 "2003-08-01T18:20:03Z")
I’m fond of “a rigli, rigli bad movie” myself.
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/17 "2003-08-01T18:30:04Z")
From the Detroit Free Press:
\*“Gigli” is a film that begins badly and gets worse and worse, like someone who has been knocked unconscious in an accident and then bleeds to death because he gets no attention. \*
That’s cooooold.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/18 "2003-08-01T18:39:39Z")
I am reminded of Janet Maslin’s classic review of the Sharon Stone–Sylvester Stallone costarrer _The Specialist_: “A disaster akin to watching the Hindenberg crash into the Titanic.”
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/19 "2003-08-01T18:49:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \*
> \*\*I heard a review on the radio this morning where the guy said it’s the worst movie he’s ever seen. He gave it 0 stars, only because he felt he couldn’t give anything lower than that.
>
> I’m sure an audio clip will be posted [here](http://www.big100.com/murphycash/movie_review.html) eventually. \*\*
Yep, the audio review is there now.
> [@](#):
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> This is the type of movie that usually ends careers. It is that bad. Double Zero
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giggly-jiggly-no-gigli/192357/20 "2003-08-01T18:56:13Z")
Oh, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease . . .
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