Movie 43 is an urban legend, a picture that may (or may not) bring about the end of the World, so while a group of teenagers attempt to track it down online, their exploits are intercut with the short films that comprise Movie 43, a picture that may (or may not) end the careers of everyone involved. 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 appears in a dual role as 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 Carrie herself, Chloe Grace Moretz, so someone suggests she use cotton wool to plug it up. With so many talented, award-calibre performers (plus Seth Macfarlane), this shouldve been Kentucky Fried Movie for our times, but it isnt even fit to mow Amazon Women On The Moons front lawn.
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.'
