Gigli

Rating:
Summary: Pleasantly Surprised
Review: Whether you like this movie depends strongly on your expectations. I admit mine were pretty low, but both my wife and I actually enjoyed this movie. Are we crazy? Nah, I don't think so.

POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW.
This is a subtle movie. No, there are not many explosions in the movie. It is a highly ironic story about relationships and the role of sex and gender. It is a clever juxtaposition of the heterosexual Larry who exhibits an apparently high machismo factor. You think that Larry wins over the lesbian Ricky. What you could fail to notice is how feminized Larry's character becomes without his conscsious awareness of the transformation.

Fascinating!
How many movies have subtleties this deep??

The dialogue is witty (not Kevin Smith-clever, but clever enough) and the movie plays like a series of vignettes with supporting characters coming in and quickly out of focus. Many have criticized this movie for dropping characters -- yet they do not see the cinematic conceit intended by the director/writer. Yes it is improbable -- but no more so than Pulp Fiction. The situations are SUPPOSED to be comic/surreal, and they are entertaining to say the least.

Look, if you want cookie cutter movies, keep looking. If you appreciate diversity in your films, rent it and make up your own mind. I would have given this 3.5 stars if I could, but went with 3. Not an Oscar winner but an intriguing diversion. I think Affleck's acting could have been better which resulted in a lower rating.

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Rating:
Summary: Don't watch this movie!!!!
Review: And I thought Battleship Earth and Pluto Nash were bad, until this. This movie was painful to watch. I'm glad I didn't have to shell out any money to see this atrocity or I would have been outraged. I am still upset that I wasted 2 hours of my life viewing something that I wish I could un-see. Do yourself a favor and stick needles under your fingernails instead of watching this movie, it'll be less annoying. And by the way, there should be a "zero star" rating for things of this class.

Rating:
Summary: Not as bad...
Review: I can certainly understand the bad reviews this movie got, but after all the negative press I went in expecting to see possibly the worst movie ever. Yes the script is very weak, and I couldn't stomach Affleck in this role at all. His character annoyed me, it was grating. I agree with the reviewer who said he never really commits to the Brooklyn accent. Jennifer Lopez makes the best of this role, but it's not enough to save the movie. I enjoy her acting so I enjoyed her character in this movie. The movie moves at a snail's pace it seems, it doesn't really go anywhere until the last part of the movie, when it seems the scriptwriters were trying to tie up loose ends quickly. The previews that aired in the summer of 2003 promoting the movie were misleading, they made this out to be a comedy. GIGLI is funny in some parts, not hilarious, but some parts are quirky. It's hard to say what it is, you just have to see it and decide. Or listen to the reviews, because in all honesty they are all right on - this is not a good movie, but it's not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

Rating:
Summary: one of the worst movies of 2003
Review: I agree it doesnt make sense. maybe if they got a good writer they couldve pulled a better one out of their asses but this was horribly bad..I mean like bad bad..like it was like the stuff you clean off from teh inside of your toilet bad. sat there in theaters..not laughing just being bored and checking my watch every minute..thinking "ok, when is this thing over"...who cares if its a movie with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in it..their relationship in hollywood is a joke..this movie is just trying to make them look like bigger stars then they are..Affleck..come on..this and Paycheck...you've done better stuff then this in your life..think of Dogma, Glory Daze..come on frickin Good Will Hunting...J. Lo had some pretty good movies..Angel Eyes...The Cell and what the hell are Christopher Walken and Al Pacino doing in this movie..goddamnit..I'm not gonna say anything about that. stick to the facts..if your a fan of this movie..theres something wrong with you...in your brain

Rating:
Summary: What was J'lo and ben thinking?!?!
Review: How did these two get convinced to do this movie. Alot of people say Bad Boys 2 was the worst movie of 2003 but I beg to differ. This movie has a horrible plot, the characters are not believeable at all. I mean Ricki (j'lo) claims she's a lesbian and says she is a tough girl but her character doesn't prove any of these statements to be true. Gigli (Affleck) doesn't make us believe that he is a hard core gangster. Why do they take a mentally challenged kid hostage? Why were they asked to chop off his thumb? Did Gigli boss believe that he is so pathetic that he can't watch over this kid? Just look a another reviewer wrote, why were they hiding him if he was constantly riding in a convertable with the top down? The writers try to make us laugh in some scenes but the scenes that kind of make you smirk are the scences that were not intended to be funny. If you still want to see this movie, please rent it before you make a decision. You could end up saving $20 bucks.

Rating:
Summary: i dont get it....
Review: Ok I did see this movie, and yes it has it problems, but one questions: if Ricki (J.Lo) is supposed to be a lesbian (and a VERY HOT ONE at that), then why in the hell she is sleeping with Larry Gigli? Lesbians dont find men attractive, I know because I tried to score with a lesbian, but thats another story.
I felt this movie is just bad, bad in many ways, first they are enemies, and they are friends, what the hell is going on here? The director and the screenplay writer must of been on crack when they did this movie, J.Lo and Ben? Heroin, and their agents must of been on crack, and heroin at the sametime when they offered them these roles.
The only guy I found funny was the disabled guy Larry kidnapped. If Larry was supposed to be hiding him, then why in the hell does he have him in a convertable with the top down if he is SUPPOSED TO BE HIDING HIM? This movie made it take back the DVD to the store and get my $20 bucks back. Dont get this movie, I dont have anything against J.Lo or Ben, but they could of done better, I just hope Jersey Girl turns out better, but when you have Kevin Smith directing, how could it be bad? We just have to wait and see.

Rating:
Summary: Painful.
Review: Blood came spewing out of my ears and eyes about three minutes into this movie. I'm sorry I don't want to offend anyone but this movie was absolutely embarrasing. Cannot believe this was released theatrically. Ben Affleck is so bad that I wonder if he has any talent at all. He plays this tough guy from Brooklyn, sort of but never fully commits to the accent. But the worst performance is by far by Justin Bartha, who in playing a mentally retarded character seems to be making fun of mentally disabled people instead of being one. A Dustin Hoffman "Rainman" rip off or a Leo Dicaprio "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" impression would have been better than what he does. Also, I can only hope that Al Pacino felt he owed director Martin Brest for getting him the Best Actor Oscar for "Scent of a Woman". Otherwise I cannot imagine why he went near this script. Knowing that there are hundreds of amazing films out there that could have been made instead if this, irritates me to no end. Save yourself the trouble, unless you want to know how good every other movie is and how bad they can actually get.

Rating:
Summary: It looks like... burning
Review: never see this film. ever. Ever!

Rating:
Summary: Wow.....
Review: You gotta know something was wrong even if the hunk Ben Affleck and the most-famous Jennifer Lopez didn't even help the film. The movie is more about conversations and morals than their task that they made people think was filled with action. But it was actually more filled with romance, and a bunch of nonsense. It's pretty sad when the only thing that was funny in the movie was a little autistic boy, but he has to show his humor with sexuality and curses. And the only thing that brightened up the film is at the end with Al Pacino screaming at Larry (Ben Affleck) because he noticed that he had given him a fake thumb from a dead person's body which was supposed to come from the autistic boy. What I didn't understand is the parts that were supposed to be funny. Like when Ricki's (J-Lo) little pcycho ex-girlfriend went to go and slit her hand because she saw Ricki with a man. How in the world was that funny?? Maybe it would've been if they had put some more lines in it and a better way of setting it but otherwise the way they had it wasn't funny at all! Two hours isn't worth wasting other this crap, play with your dog or something to keep you entertained but you won't be entertained this way.

Rating:
Summary: Gigli isn't REALLY that bad (not as bad as this pun in fact)
Review: Okay, lets be real about something: Gigli isn't that bad of a movie.

Compared to The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan, and a whole bunch of other J-Lo flicks, Gigli ain't that bad. It has an "indie" film feel to it, maybe due to so few characters (4 main, 2 surprise), and the film is a "talkie" (not much action, just a lot of conversations).

What bought down this average movie was JLo and Ben Affleck; they never should have pimped their "love" so much that a Beniffer backlash occured to coincide with the movie's openning.

Bless JLo, but even on her best days, her transparent orchestrations to grab fame and fortune are a turn off. And then she lost points for dragging "Good Ben Hunting" into her morass, thus turning him into a publicity hungry vamp.

There was so much press around them, of course the movie had to fail. But it ain't a bad movie. Not great, of course, but plenty of laughs, sexual tension (JLo makes Ben her mental bottom), and a few tears. Also, just to give a bit of clarification, JLo's character is bi-sexual, not just a lesbian, as is revealed in the conversation with Ben's mother. This is important because if she had been a lesbian, their romance would have been inconceivable.

Yes, the script could have been clearer and a little more intelligent, but we're talking Beniffer here, not Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson (Howards End/Remains of the Day)!

Rent the movie. Don't follow the herd because Beniffer is an easy target.Its funnier than folks remember to mention. You won't feel stupid for renting it.