Comedy usually works better in short bursts (brevity, soul of wit, etc.), and it’s incredibly hard to maintain the funny over the course of a standard, 90-minute plus, single-narrative movie format. Which raises the question, why do we keep trying to make it fit? The Kentucky Fried Movie-style Movie 43, produced by Peter Farrelly, takes the opposite approach, weaving a pastiche of comedy vignettes starring a broad ensemble of famous actors swearing liberally and playing against type, directed by a whole flock (murder? herd?) of directors, including:
Peter Farrelly, Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk and Brett Ratner.
Oh right, I’m supposed to believe “Rusty Cundieff” is a real person? Is that Chad Farthouse’s handyman? Harry Beefcurtain’s publicist? Anyway, check out the red-band trailer below if you want to hear Angela Lansbury repeatedly use the N-word.
(brief nudity at the 1:09 – 1:11 mark)
Okay, I lied about Angela Lansbury being in it, but not about how much she loves the N-word. Movie stars:
Kate Winslet, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Jason Sudeikis, Anna Ferris, Kieran Culkin, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Josh Duhamel, Chris Pratt, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Kristen Bell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Chloe Moretz, Leslie Bibb, Patrick Warburton, Tony Shalhoub, Jack McBrayer, Aasif Mandvi, Bobby Cannavale, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts and Uma Thurman.
I like the idea, and I’d like to see more of these. Also, have you noticed that every time there’s a movie with an ensemble of directors, Brett Ratner is one of them? He’s like the directing equivalent of a B-girl in porn, where she’s not cute enough to work a one-on-one scene, but gets called in any time there’s a threesome or a gangbang. Who wants to bet Ratner directed the part with the hacky leprechaun?
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I bet they let Brett Ratner direct the end credits. But not all of the end credits, only the tiny-print ones where the list the caterers and the driver of the honeywagon.
“Good job, Brett!” they said, condescendingly.
Misquotation is the soul of Internet.
“Begs the question” =/= “raises the question”
Damn, all these years I’ve been using it incorrectly. Though I’d argue that if you split the phrase into its individual parts (modular, the way language is meant to be used), it can mean what I intended it to – ie, a question that begs to be asked.
I think we’re near the point where the ‘wrong’ usage is so prevalent that it becomes the correct one. It still makes me flinch a bit, though.
The problem is that the “unintended” usage isn’t oxymoronic, as in something like “could care less” when you really mean “couldn’t care less.” You’re not allowed to define a phrase, that’s not how language works. You get to define individual words, and then people build those words into their own phrases. You can’t base an argument on correct usage on historical precedent – the whole point of language is that you’re able to communicate with people with whom you don’t share a history. You can’t argue a phrase is “incorrect” without proving that it somehow contradicts itself. That’s basically saying “this phrase usage is incorrect because it’s different from correct usage,” which is actually a perfect example of an argument that begs a question.
I hate myself for typing all of this.
Here’s my input.
You boys brought this upon yourself.
This week in SEMANTICS
No, the problem is that everybody sucks but me.
I don’t think your distinction between words and phrases is valid, but don’t worry, I hate all of us.
While we’re bullshittin, brevity is the *soul* of wit. That’s from Hamlet son. Of course, “hamlet” always makes me think of an omelette with ham, so you can stop listening to me whenever.
Well yeah, if you’re reading what I typed, and not what I meant to type. Dumbass.
The easy way to deal with the whole “begs the question” thing, is to remember – it doesn’t beg A question, it begs for THE question. THE QUESTION is always: What support do have for the premise upon which your argument is based? If you can’t put that in place of “begs the question” then you are doing it wrong. I would also have accepted improper predicate or assumes facts not in evidence.
This is the polar, but equally annoying, opposite of a YouTube comment thread.
That actually looks hillarious.
God damn it. Gerard Butler went full-leprechaun.
I hate defending the king of shrimp cocktail masturbation, but his short in ‘I Love You, New York’ was my favorite.
Looks destined to be a cult favorite on DVD; I don’t know how many people they can convince to pay $12 for what boils down to “Funny or Die: The Movie”.
Though this looks pretty funny, I want 90 minutes of Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant daring each other to do things.
Chris Pratt is an automatic “must watch” for me. He’s like the non-masterbatory Taylor Bow.
Anyone know who that kid is @1:02? I remember him from some movie that may or may not have been good or on TV. You’re welcome!
The Terrence Howard scene was hilarious, I actually just saw this while “working” from home. Actually made me laugh out loud.
Brevity is the soul of wit, Lince.
The video is unavailable. That’s it. I’m putting in a bid to annex the USA so we can get their shit when posted on snarky movie blogs.
Yes Anna Ferris, I will poop on you.
Based on the cast this might just be a Garry Marshall movie in disguise. You’ve been warned!
This movie has my interest. So many people, and I like a few of them. So that Chloe Moretz, is she eighteen yet or what?
860 days and counting.
I like what I see. Especially the weird pubes.
where do you see bob odenkirk?
Rusty Cundieff directed and starred in the criminally underrated “Fear of a Black Hat”. Just saying.
Fear of a Black Hat > CB4
Indeed.
This DOES look awesome, but you know what else looked awesome and had an arguably awesomer cast? ‘The Ten’ – did anyone see that? I heard it was shit, which made me sad. It’s from way back in the day, like 2007.
I thought of The Ten while watching this, too, and it got me psyched because I don’t think I’ve actually LOLed more in a theater than the time I saw the Ten. It rules.
The Ten was fantastic. But I’m a huge State fan, and if you don’t like any of the State/Wain stuff, it might not resonate.
I’ve seen more cuts of trailers for this one, and I don’t know…. it gets a lot out of “really famous cameos of people who don’t usually comedies, doing raunchy comedy.” It could go either way. But I applaud them for taking the Kentucky Fried route and going for sketches. And speaking of The Ten, Liev Schreiber is surprisingly good at comedy. I’ll watch his part if nothing else.
If this is half as good as Kentucky Fried Movie, it’ll be…uh, Amazon Women on the Moon.
Anyway, high hopes.
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Rusty Cundeiff made ” Fear of a Black Hat”.. Really funny spoof of mid 90′s rap.. check it out
“Movie 43″ is way less ambiguous than it’s original title: “Fart Sound Je T’aime”
I believe Rusty Cundieff is Mitch Cumstein’s nom de plume.