[You] realise that having your skin flayed by a potato peeler would be less painful.
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09/24/03
Gigli (2003)
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Reviews Counted:162
Fresh:10
Rotten:152
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: Bizarre and clumsily plotted, Gigli is a mess. As for its stars, Affleck and Lopez lack chemistry.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In Gigli, Martin Brest’s (Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run) unconventional romantic comedy, Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a low-level hood is given a high-level assignment to kidnap Brian (Justin... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Lainie Kazan
Director: Martin Brest
Reviews for Gigli
Top CriticNo, it's not the worst film ever made, but it is a sickening exercise in smugness and self-love.
07/21/09
Top CriticTorture. Impossible to imagine how it could've been worse.
12/30/06
Top CriticAwe-inspiringly, world-historically awful.
01/15/04
Top CriticIt's seriously terrible, and it'll teach everyone involved to read the script before they agree to make a film.
08/19/03
Mitigating factors: a carefully curated sampling of J-Lo butt cleavage, and an arrhythmic Christopher Walken cameo which momentarily diverts the doomed ship from collision with the iceberg.
02/09/06
Top CriticIt tries a valiant effort to be smart and edgy, and feels like something that's always edging at greatness but never quite managing to break on through.
10/12/03
The rumours are true, this is one of the worst films of the year.
09/20/03
The vow Jen and Ben should exchange is to promise to never step foot in front of a movie camera together again as long as they both shall live.
07/31/03
There were tons of worse movies this year. Maybe this is like comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler, but Gigli isn't just the lesser of two evils, or three, or four.
08/11/03
The truth of the matter is that Gigli is not a good movie, but it also isn’t any worse than a lot of movies that Hollywood puts out in any given year.
08/03/03
Now we know why Martin Brest didn’t have a screenplay produced since the 1970s.
08/08/03
Its few moments of hilarity aren't enough to overcome a badly miscaculated premise and mostly horrid dialogue.
08/03/03
There's virtually no story, no conflict, no tension and no suspense, just the endless droning of the worst dialogue written in recent memory.
07/31/03
Famous rich people can't just go to Glamour Shots to satisfy their appetites for amour-propre...
01/27/05
It's the stuff Mystery Science Theater 3000s are made of.
07/31/03
In perhaps the cruelest bit of all, [Brest] hasn’t even delivered a film so ludicrously, gloriously bad that it may be fun to watch
08/03/03
Neither a loud, bloody cameo from Al Pacino nor the obviously tacked-on ending come close to redeeming the tedium, and the unfulfilled promise of a second scene from Walken doesn't help.
07/30/03
Gigli isn't the equivalent of cracking a whippit, but it is irredeemably flawed
03/16/06
Affleck and Lopez arelike a couple of well-groomed pets, two reasonably talented superstars from modest roots who enjoy the limelight so much, they've wagged their tails into a sea of overexposure.
08/08/03
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