Movie 43

You’re looking at the star ratings and going “IS HE OUT OF HIS FUCKING MIND?!?”. I get that. You’re thinking I have no sense of humor. You’re considering not only unfriendling me, but coming to my funeral to piss in my coffin. I get it. Hear me out. Movie 43 is not a good movie. Not by a long shot. I won’t go into every sketch, because that would be prosecutable in The Hague. Just know that almost all the sketches fall into one of a few buckets: 1) The kind of “edgy” “humor” that stopped being funny 20 years ago, when South Park jumped the shark (yeah, I said it, come at me). 2) A meandering one-joke scenario that just keeps repeating itself. 3) Scenes without jokes. That’s about it. The Emma Stone/Kieran Culkin sketch is actually funny, mostly because of how absurd and committed they are to it. The shark gag came out of nowhere and got a giggle from me. And up until the incest, the homeschool sketch was alright … but the incest derails it, and the final punchline works against what they’ve been building towards. But really, Movie 43 isn’t the most offensive thing I’ve seen (Sausage Party). It isn’t the unfunniest (Sausage Party). It’s reputation has grown exponentially, and it’s really undeserved, because it’s not that bad. It’s mostly just … dull. A series of uncensored SNL sketches that went on a minute or two too long. That’s it. It’s just dull. I’d never sit through this again, God no. But it’ll also leave no impression on me. It’s just bland and unfunny.