# Movie 43 -- all those stars but no redeeming qualities **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480 "2013-01-26T22:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Noodles\_Fellicini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Noodles\_Fellicini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noodles_Fellicini)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/1 "2013-01-26T22:45:10Z")
I saw this movie while partially sedated yet did not find anything remotely funny about it. The listings blurb (which I didn’t read until afterward; the ticket girl had no idea what it was about) said it is “not for the easily offended.” Well, I fit that bill, having worked in law enforcement and counting Archer as one of my favorite shows, but apparently that wasn’t qualification enough as it was without a doubt THE WORST movie I have EVER seen. I honestly cannot understand how the poster of this “film” could have ended up outside a theater with so many well-regarded film stars listed. Are any of them cringing about being in it (Halle Berry, seriously girl, what were you thinking?) or did I totally miss not only the boat but the dock on this? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/2 "2013-01-26T22:53:51Z")
I’m just grateful Halle Berry was in it so that I could see the commercials with her looking awesome to counteract the trailers for her other new movie where she looks awful (relatively speaking). ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/3 "2013-01-26T22:57:00Z")
My two daughters just returned from having seen this and they said it was pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/4 "2013-01-26T23:17:33Z")
What about the trailers made you think it would have any redeeming qualities? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/5 "2013-01-26T23:36:38Z")
I am mystified by the whole thing. I know of movies that attempt to be good and so blow all their budget on stars, but end up failing miserably (Valentine’s Day/New Year’s Eve). I know of movies that don’t even try to be good and hire mostly cheap actors who are unknown or had their heyday in the 80s ([Blank] Movie). I see the trailer for this movie and just wonder who thought this was a good idea, and why these actors signed up for it. I was maybe thinking that the movie might’ve been done okay, but the trailer makers screwed it up. Guess not. What the hell does the title mean? Is it like WD-40, there were 42 other scripts that were deemed shittier? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/6 "2013-01-27T00:00:04Z")
I never heard of this movie until this thread, so I searched for reviews. The first two I pulled up agree – it is the worst film either of them has ever seen. That’s pretty remarkable. [And for a more complete list of actors](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/1320233--movie-43-review-the-worst-film-ever-gets-zero-stars) who’ve apparently humiliated themselves by being in it: > [@](#): > > Movie 43’s gigantic cast features two Oscar winners (Kate Winslet and Halle Berry) and two current nominees (Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts), plus a host of other people who should have known better, and who should now fire their agents. > > Take a deep breath for a roll call that also includes, amongst many others: Emma Stone, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gerard Butler, Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Josh Duhamel, Greg Kinnear, Uma Thurman, Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Kate Bosworth, Jason Sudeikis, Terrence Howard, Jack McBrayer and Dennis Quaid. Some other names I recognize from the IMDB listing: Will Sasso, Seth MacFarlane, Kieran Culkin, Aasif Mandvi, John Hodgman,Tony Shalhoub ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/7 "2013-01-27T00:05:37Z")
How bad it is? It made the [front page of the New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/archives/covers/) as “The Worst Movie I’ve Ever Seen” minus 4 stars. Slowest news day ever. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/8 "2013-01-27T00:09:24Z")
[Roger Ebert claims he tried to take a pill to wipe it from his brain](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130123/REVIEWS/130129973), but the pill didn’t work, and calls it, “the _Citizen Kane_ of awful.” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/9 "2013-01-27T02:43:26Z")
Note that although that review is on Ebert’s website, it’s by Richard Roeper, not by Ebert. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/10 "2013-01-27T04:22:12Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Note that although that review is on Ebert’s website, it’s by Richard Roeper, not by Ebert. Thanks, I didn’t see that. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/11 "2013-01-27T04:25:53Z")
OP, can you post spoilers on the format? Is it a bunch of skits, or an ongoing movie…? ---
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/12 "2013-01-27T04:29:53Z")
Isn’t Citizen Kane of awful already claimed by the Tommy Wisseau cinematic masterpiece simply titled “The Room”? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/13 "2013-01-27T12:09:26Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I see the trailer for this movie and just wonder who thought this was a good idea, and why these actors signed up for it. Will the check clear? It did? That’s your answer. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/14 "2013-01-27T12:26:33Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Note that although that review is on Ebert’s website, it’s by Richard Roeper, not by Ebert. Hilarious review. Among its highlights: “… Farrelly would bring in a director, and they’d shoot a scene. Unfortunately, the shooting was never fatal.” Thank you, Roeper, for suffering so the rest of us wouldn’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/15 "2013-01-27T16:27:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Will the check clear? It did? That’s your answer. Well, not exactly, if Peter Farrelly is to be believed: > [@](#): > > All different writers, tons of different directors, and new guys who had never had a movie made. You should write a story about Charlie Wessler because he knows everybody. He was a PA on “The Empire Strikes Back.” He’s been around forever and he knows all of these people: Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry . . . Their managers and agents didn’t have a lot of interest in this because they weren’t getting paid. So Charlie just called everyone personally and said, “Hey, do you want to do this?” And they were all, like, “Sure, man.” They all like Charlie … Clooney told us to [expletive] off, but in a nicer way. Of course, there were tons of people who said no. Whenever you cast a movie, some people want to do it and some people don’t. It’s not for everybody. But, I must say, when we got Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman to do the first one, suddenly people were thinking “Oh, they’re in it? Yeah, I’ll do this.” [Link](http://bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/01/24/peter-farrelly-has-all-star-lineup-movie/2ffbcbTAimoPTlIQJxax3N/story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/16 "2013-01-27T16:27:53Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > OP, can you post spoilers on the format? Is it a bunch of skits, or an ongoing movie…? Just read the Roeper review linked above. It’s a bunch of skits, supposedly funny and raunchy. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/17 "2013-01-27T17:35:49Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I never heard of this movie until this thread, so I searched for reviews. The first two I pulled up agree – it is the worst film either of them has ever seen. That’s pretty remarkable. > > [And for a more complete list of actors](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/1320233--movie-43-review-the-worst-film-ever-gets-zero-stars) who’ve apparently humiliated themselves by being in it That puts the grand total of Oscar nominees to 8 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/18 "2013-01-28T03:12:51Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just read the Roeper review linked above. It’s a bunch of skits, supposedly funny and raunchy. Thanks – I avoid reviews because I want to know as little as possible. In this case it’s hard to tell even the basic purpose so I just wanted to know that, so thanks. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/19 "2013-01-28T03:49:37Z")
Unlike the OP, I am now forewarned that Seth McFarland (sp- who gives a fuck) touched this project. No wonder it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/20 "2013-01-28T05:26:07Z")
The Washington Post’s critic [loved](http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/movie-43,1208186/critic-review.html) it. Seriously. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480.md?page=2)