10 Movies That Instantly Told You They Were Garbage
5. Movie 43
Movie 43 is one of the most fascinatingly terrible films ever made - an anthology comedy boasting an insanely over-qualified cast, all because producer Charles B. Wessler chose to shoot the film over many years and guilt as many of his A-lister friends as possible into appear in it.
Movie 43 contains over a dozen shorts connected together by a wraparound story, and the wraparound is evidence enough that you're going to be in for a rough ride. Depending on where you live, though, the opening story you get is actually different.
In the U.S., it involved an insane screenwriter (Dennis Quaid) holding a film executive (Greg Kinnear) hostage and forcing him to listen to his zany movie ideas, while internationally it saw a group of teenagers seeking out the titular Movie 43 - the most banned film in the world.
Which ever version you watch, though, they're about the same degree of terrible, and lead into a stultifyingly bad opening skit starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet, where Jackman plays a man with a pair of testicles attached to his neck. Yup.
If it's incredible that this film ever actually got made, with such a bevy of talented actors no less, that curiosity isn't enough to disguise the fact that Movie 43 is one of the worst films of the last decade - if not ever.