Movie 43 director Peter Farrelly, has recently took to Twitter to fire back at critics who ripped his star-studded comedy as ‘the worst film of all time.’ The film stars big-time Hollywood actors like Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Gerard Butler and Terrance Howard but it has been labeled “the Citizen Kane of awful” by a reviewer.
Farrelly, furious about the critics bashing, took to Twitter to get his riff off his chest saying, “To the critics: Movie 43 is not the end of the world. It’s just a $6-million movie where we tried to do something different. Now back off.”
The director added, “To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up!”
Movie 43 is an American comedy film which features 12 different story lines, each one done by a different director including Farrelly, Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken.
Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called it simply “the Citizen Kane of awful”, and Vulture’s David Edelstein questioned the decisions of the cast members. “Was someone holding Kate Winslet’s children hostage? Threatening to release compromising pictures of Emma Stone? Did Richard Gere or Hugh Jackman have gambling debts?” he asked. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star dubbed Movie 43 the “worst film ever”, saying it was the “biggest waste of talent in cinema history.”
Movie 43 was released January 25, it only took in a meagre $4.8m on its first weekend.
