10 Worst Film Comedies Since 2000

4. Movie 43

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Here’s irony for you: a movie whose plot involves a picture that may (or may not) bring about the end of the World results in a picture so lame that it may (or may not) end the careers of everyone involved.

Destined to become a punchline among Bad Movie fans, Movie 43 casts too many Oscar nominees to count and hands the reins to directors including James Gunn (Guardians Of The Galaxy), Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2) and Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary), but the results are so embarrassing that the film looks more like a shooting gallery than a comedy.

Among the segments: Hugh Jackman as a blind date whose scrotum is located under his chin (“The Catch”); Anna Faris does a coprophilia routine (“The Proposition”); Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant have plastic surgery to appear Oriental (“Truth Or Dare”); and Gerard Butler has a dual role as 2 potty-mouthed leprechauns (“Happy Birthday”). Most nauseating is “Middle School Date” where alpha males laugh at a girl experiencing her first period. The girl is played by Chloe Grace Moretz (Carrie), so someone suggests she use cotton wool to “plug it up”.

Contributor

Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'