# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/41 "2013-01-29T17:24:56Z")
I remember loving Kentucky Fried Movie when it came out. But I was around 12 or 13 at the time, so that’ll give you an idea of what my tastes were at the time. I wil make a point of watching Movie 43 when it comes out on cable. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/42 "2013-01-29T17:29:53Z")
Yeah, for those who watched Kentucky Fried Movie as a kid and loved it, I challenge you to re-watch it now and still call it a great movie. I suspect Movie 43 is much the same. I can easily imagine 12-year-old me watching the movie and finding it hilarious. Grown-up me, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/43 "2013-01-29T18:22:14Z")
I watched (well, zipped thru on the DVR) similar movie not too long ago: [National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107812/) (2011). Sketches loosely held together around making a movie. That had Christopher Meloni as the best known actor. So not nearly in the same class as Oscar Winner/Nominee, but he was fresh off _SUV_ and was doing _True Blood_. His career was hardly in the toilet enough to warrant being saddled doing crap like that. Absolutely awful. A lot of racist stereotype stuff. Straight to video apparently, no reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. I just don’t get it. What makes these actors do these kinds of movies? (Meloni has _42_ coming out soon where he plays Leo Durocher. Can _42_ be better than _Movie 43_?) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/44 "2013-01-29T18:35:08Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > This thread is making me want to see it even more. Well, exactly! I know just the goofball friend I think I can talk into going. ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/45 "2013-01-29T21:41:49Z")
> [@Noodles\_Fellicini](#): > > Also, my coworker won’t even consider discussing it but we did get a laugh out of the fact that of the 24 hours of my life that included gastroscopy/colonoscopy, the prep that goes along with it, and Movie 43, Movie 43 was the worst of it. I’m with Ebert, there are parts I would really like to get out of my head. You doing ok? With the health stuff, I mean. I’m sure you’ll recover from bad movieitis eventually. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/46 "2013-01-30T00:47:18Z")
The Room is bad, but the Rifftrax was fairly hilarious. Maybe I’ll check this one out if it gets riffed. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/47 "2013-01-30T01:29:18Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > The Room is bad, but the Rifftrax was fairly hilarious. Maybe I’ll check this one out if it gets riffed. That would be a near-impossible task. Subjecting a bad movie to the Rifftrax or MST3K treatment generally works best if the film is a drama since those movies take themselves seriously. Cheesy special effects, clunky dialogue, and histrionic or wooden acting are always prime fodder for funny. A bad _comedy_, on the other hand, is a special kind of hell because your source of humor is the filmmaker’s failed attempts at humor. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/48 "2013-01-30T01:56:34Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Is that a fancy way of saying Randy Quaid? That I would pay to see. > [@Spoke](#): > > Yeah, for those who watched Kentucky Fried Movie as a kid and loved it, I challenge you to re-watch it now and still call it a great movie. > > I suspect Movie 43 is much the same. I can easily imagine 12-year-old me watching the movie and finding it hilarious. Grown-up me, not so much. I think parts of Kentucky Fried Movie still hold up. Particularly Fist Full of Yen. And I was an adult when I saw Amazon Women on the Moon and I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/49 "2013-01-30T02:15:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I think parts of Kentucky Fried Movie still hold up. Particularly Fist Full of Yen. \*This is not a chawade. We need total concentwation. \* ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/50 "2013-01-30T02:49:34Z")
It was absolutely horrible. Not that I was expecting something award-worthy, but…ugh. I originally wanted to see it but backed down after the reviews started coming in. The boyfriend still wanted to see it anyway, so off we went. Let’s just say, I’m glad he paid and not me. Here’s what I wrote on another sitet- “I saw it, unfortunately…It’s as bad as the critics say. A bunch of shorts tied together by a weak plot, it tries to push the envelope with its vulgarity and awkwardness. Eventually you just get desensitized to the vulgarity and can predict what’s going to happen next. Each short starts off with potential but after a few you realize that the huge laugh you’ve been waiting for is never going to happen. The only good thing I can say about this movie is that it’s relatively short. Definitely not worth seeing in the movie theater…or ever, really.” ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/51 "2013-01-30T03:21:17Z")
> [@nikonikosuru](#): > > It was absolutely horrible. Not that I was expecting something award-worthy, but…ugh. I originally wanted to see it but backed down after the reviews started coming in. The boyfriend still wanted to see it anyway, so off we went. Let’s just say, I’m glad he paid and not me. Here’s what I wrote on another sitet- Hate to force this on any man, but he owes you a chick flick or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/52 "2013-01-30T03:25:31Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Hate to force this on any man, but he owes you a chick flick or something like that. Haha lucky for him I hate chick flicks. 🙂 But there will come a time where the “Hey, remember when you made me go see Movie 43?..” card will be used. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/53 "2013-01-30T16:32:41Z")
While it was a patently terrible movie, I did laugh at this movie quite a bit. The opening sketch with Winslet and Jackman was actually funny/awkward, if very juvenile. I also liked the last sketch, it reminded me of something from **Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation**. For demographics sake, I’m 40, and I loved **KFM** and **Amazon Women** , though I know they are ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/54 "2013-01-30T16:50:56Z")
> [@nikonikosuru](#): > > Each short starts off with potential but after a few you realize that the huge laugh you’ve been waiting for is never going to happen. So basically its like watching Saturday Night Live. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/55 "2013-01-30T17:01:57Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > So basically its like watching Saturday Night Live. Or like\* paying\* to watch SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/56 "2013-01-30T17:10:14Z")
Really bad movies, the reviews have a special butthurt tone that I have learned to recognize means that the movie is a black hole that will suck your time and money away and leave you with nothing but a screaming void. The reviews I have read here and elsewhere of Movie 43 have EXACTLY that quality. ---
**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 30, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/57 "2013-01-30T22:22:03Z")
Yes, **Evil Captor** that is exactly it – “This just HAS to get better, doesn’t it?” One of my biggest regrets is my friend actually said, “Should we leave?” and I drunkenly waited too many seconds to respond and we went back to cautious hopefulness. And yes, **randiwill** and **jlzania** I got the report yesterday and will not have to risk a movie under sedation for another decade. I was afraid my elderly-ness was part of my problem with this movie and I’m glad to see it wasn’t so I’ll just pick a more comedic comedy next time. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/58 "2013-01-31T02:48:15Z")
Yeah, it was pretty much like paying to watch SNL. I think it even had someone from SNL in it, for the last skit in the middle of the credits (why even put a skit there? 😕) that one was by far the grossest, most unfunny skit within the movie. Luckily, my brain was already in the process of deleting the movie from my memory as I was watching it. ---
**Author:** ![AlohaBear32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@AlohaBear32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlohaBear32)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/59 "2013-01-31T05:59:09Z")
I had a theory about this movie once I heard about it and read the Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes entries about it… I figure it’s something like the plot of “The Producers” but in real life? I don’t understand the economy of Hollywood well enough, but is there some kind of way to get a bunch of money off of making a horrible movie that you WANT to flop on purpose…like taking the money from investors/a big budget studio (in this case, Virgin/Relativity Media) putting it into a swiss bank account for later and filming the movie on a shoe string, considering that it will fail on purpose? > [@Spoke](#): > > Interestingly, [IMDb describes the “plot” this way](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333125/?ref_=sr_1): > > Actually, there are no three kids. I guess the producers abandoned that idea for tying the shorts together. Instead, the shorts are presented as scenes from a movie being pitched by a crazed Dennis Quaid. > > Guess we’ll have to buy the DVD to find out what happened! The three kids looking for the movie that will end civilization, according to Wikipedia, was the premise/opening skit for the UK version instead of the Dennis Quaid as Randy Quaid skit we got here in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480/60 "2013-01-31T06:55:22Z")
If you are absolutely sure you’re not going to go see it, [here is a link to a complete spoiler.](http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/movie43.html) Read it, and you will feel good about your decision, guaranteed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-43-all-those-stars-but-no-redeeming-qualities/648480.md?page=4)