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2003
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Gigli
Positive Reviews
13
Negative reviews
61
Average Rating
1.6
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2.0
But it would be a lot easier to appreciate what the film works toward if it ever came close to getting there.
Av Club
2.8
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa R runtime 124 minutes Wide Release Date 08/01/03 performer Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Al Pac ..
EW
3.1
Its just that theres too much time between the good scenes.Too much repetitive dialogue.
Rogerebert
1.0
But it is not a good movie, and it is a terrible waste of talent.
Common Sense Media
0.5
Its not like its worse than all theres a bunch of horrible movies and in terms of losing money, Ive had five movies at least!
We Got This Covered
1.5
When the camera turns away from him, the film falters; unfortunately, thats exactly what happens in the films final third, in which the tone veers to ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
It arrives with the reputation of being one of the most irredeemably awful movies ever made, but its not as distinctive as that.
The Guardian
1.3
I admire the films curiosity and weirdo tone, but Brest has nothing genuinely profound to say about the sexes.
2.5
This is meant to be one of those offers a prosecutor cant refuse.
1.0
But the skittish script jumps from absurdity to absurdity without enough comedy to distract audiences from the absence of dramatic development.
Screen Daily
0.5
In perhaps the cruelest bit of all, hasnt even delivered a film so ludicrously, gloriously bad that it may be fun to watch
2.0
For an hour or so it promises to contain everything you could want from a Rodriguez movie: ridiculous stunts, even more ridiculous stunts, and Danny T ..
Telegraph
0.0
The most thoroughly joyless and inept film of the year, and one of the worst of the decade.
San Francisco Chronicle
1.0
Beyond what we know of rampant narcissism and naked opportunism, it will remain a mystery.Impossible to imagine how it couldve been worse.
2.5
Gigli fails in the same vein as another star studded flop, The Bonfire of the Vanities, so that it wears the guise of a perfectly normal film while th ..
Cinema Blend
1.3
The impending nuptials of Lopez and Affleck lead the public to expect a romantic comedy with a happily ever after ending.However, the script, by write ..
Ny Daily News
2.5
There are some films that are able to successfully balance stupid, funny moments with tender emotional ones, but this movie isnt one of them.Some of t ..
JoBlo
1.3
Quite apart from anyones feelings about their blandness, wealth, good looks and questionable acting gifts, Affleck and Lopez have made a truly awful m ..
The Globe And Mail
5.0
Having the simple advantage of being a dialogue dependent film in a summer ocean of monosyllabitis, Gigli would simply be mild potato au gratin if it ..
Village Voice
2.5
But Ben Affleck is charming and Jennifer Lopez is beguiling, and the film is by no means a complete dud.
Sover
2.5
Brest has made a romantic comedy.Although there are plenty of unintentional laughs, some of the deliberate humor also works.
ReelViews
0.0
Martin Brest began making snappy little comedies like Going in Style and Midnight Run and managed not to mess up Beverly Hills Cop too badly.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.1
Worse than that, the film takes about 20 minutes longer to end than it really should.
Reel Film Reviews
1.0
Whether you finish your popcorn in time to use the bucket is the Krypton Factor challenge of this film.
The Times
1.5
The plot is minimal, leaving us to watch the characters just sit around being themselves a bad thing, since theyre all either dull or unlikable.
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Lopez and Afflecks personal chemistry remains largely off screen, and poor Bartha, though excellent, is stuck in a tasteless, demeaning role (the half ..
News Review
1.0
Ultimately, Brests feature has absolutely no redeeming qualities at all, yet it remains blinded by its own vanity.
Radio Times
1.3
Finally theres a movie as jaw droppingly awful as their Swept Away.
Rolling Stone
1.0
The film veers wildly between lame romantic comedy and brutal crime drama, never even trying to bridge the gap.
Shadows On The Wall
3.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
1.0
Frankly, its hard to care.Painful, Awful, StupidThose Are The Good Bits There is so much wrong with Gigli that its hard to know where to start, though ..
View London
0.0
Once word gets out about how painful and laughably bad this film is, it will tank faster than you can say Bennifer.
Cs Monitor
1.3
In the end, its too trite to be moving, but it casts a depressing shadow on the romance and the comedy.
New York Post
3.5
However, all things considered, and in spite of nearly every potential cinematic pitfall you can think of, the film delivers a satisfying, endearing r ..
Film Journal International ..
1.3
None of it is nearly as funny or as shocking as Brest intends it to be.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.0
(At least it proves harder to get a thumb out of the morgue than it does to get a patient out of a mental hospital.).All of this leads to an encounter ..
Mountain X
1.5
So misbegotten youll laugh, youll cry, youll scream, youll sigh, respectively, with derision, in agony, with terror, and in exasperation.
1.0
People used to move to the suburbs to save money.Now, nearly every corner of Toronto has downtown rent Data shows the search for reasonable rentals is ..
Toronto Star
1.0
Unless you count the few laughs from Bartha, theres absolutely no reason to see this film.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.9
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l ..
Q Network
1.0
Now we can see why the Jennifer Lopez Ben Affleck marriage was called off. It was on grounds of unreasonable cruelty to audiences.
Daily Mail
0.0
Anyway, the two engage in a lot of forced, trite, and overly analytical dialogue with one another as an attempt to get the audience either dazzled or ..
Cinema Crazed
2.0
The tension between Gigli and Ricki comes from the fact that he cant believe this gorgeous woman is immune to his swaggering.Its fun to watch Lopez di ..
Salon
1.0
Its not the stuff of great screen pairings, which tend to thrive on tension more than harmony.
Slate
3.5
Shapeless and without a shred of originality, the movie mimics and copies pieces of a number of old movies, all superior in every way.
Observer
1.0
Gigli is so horrendous, youll start to wonder if such wounds can be successfully self inflicted in the darkness of the cinema auditorium.
Bbc
2.5
Since its unlikely Brests original will ever see the light of day again, I feel a need to describe the differences in this cut to prove that it once a ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.8
At its center is a relationship between two charactersaand two actorsathat ignites more steamy chemistry than any movie romance this year.
The Movie Boy
0.6
Maybe they all deserve more credit for enduring such utterly banal garbage.
Hollywood
1.5
Anyone expecting a cinematic train wreck on the scale of Showgirls will be disappointed.
Seattle Pi
2.0
Coming from the bland orifice of Ben Affleck, it raises little more than an eyebrow.Full marks for political incorrectness, nil points for delivery.
Standard
2.2
Rickis feigned lesbianism merely stokes the fires of Larrys dim witted heart, and the rest is all about what makes Larry a bull and Ricki a cow.
Coles Mithey
4.2
There is little action, a very hard to believe love story, and an even harder to believe crime.The one good thing about the movie is that when it come ..
1.0
Review: Gigli is really, really bad Its better than Swept Away, for what its worth By Paul Clinton CNN Reviewer Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigl ..
Cnn
1.3
But its not the line all by itself that makes this moment the cherry atop this dung heap sundae of a movie that is nothing but bad moments.
Spliced Wire
2.5
While its not a total train wreck, this Bennifer comedy is bad for many reasons.
E Online
1.3
Its hard to imagine the cast that could have made this smarmy, cringe inducing material play, but Lopez and Affleck actively accentuate its creepy def ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.9
So in watching this movie I was able to look beyond the actors and see the movie itself.
Three Movie Buffs
1.0
Even more remarkable than the confused tone (the un funniest comedy, the most un involving love story, the shallowest character study take your pick) ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.1
Gigli is no masterpiece, but its not the worst film of all time either.
Montreal Film Journal
1.0
Surely no movie could be that bad.As it turns out, Gigli is not as wretched as Madonna and Guy Ritchies Swept Away, but after the schadenfreudian thri ..
News Week
2.2
Separately, Affleck and Lopez have rarely given better than passable performances.
Chron
2.0
Throughout the strained repartee, the jokes keep coming and bombing, but its not as if the movie is devoid of humor.
La Times
3.5
This portrait of a failing marriage is one of the summers great discoveries, and a marvel of mercurial intimacy.
Wsj
1.3
Why this Detroit business decided to stay and expand in the city This 27 year old from Waterford wants people to know small businesses like his can ma ..
Freep
1.3
But you never lose awareness that youre watching something written as opposed to something that actually happened.Nary a note rings true.
Articles Chicago Tribune
1.0
Believe all youve heard about Gigli, it is a truly dreadful film.
Future Movies
1.9
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Movie Eye
3.5
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Tulsa World
1.3
Some movies look bad and are great and some movies look great and are bad, and some movies look bad and are bad.
Toledo Blade
1.0
Much to the audiences surprise, Pacinos speech pretty much draws out all of the dumb logic of the movie itself.
Films Nobs
1.0
Thats not the case here; this is just lame and bad and woefully executed in its finality.
Films Nobs
3.8
Because of its humble proficiency, seriousness of intent and sexual adventurousness, its become the unfortunate pariah of a film culture that expects ..
Movie Martyr
1.0
Affleck rises to the dim wit soft hearted tough guy occasion once.
Articles Orlando Sentinel
0.6
Gigli certainly isnt the worst film of the year, as it has been made out to be, but it does make one wonder if the lynch mob mentality against certain ..
Cinema Phile
0.6
The more I contemplate Giglis schizophrenic mess of a plot, the harder my head hurts.
Articles Sun Sentinel
1.9
Short of a barely burgeoning romance, nothing of significance transpires.
Paloalto Online
1.0
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Nyc Film Critic
2.0
Afflecks eminently qualified for the role, actually that of a low level hood pretending to be more important and talented than he truly is.
Dallas Observer
1.0
Gigli which spawned the phenomenon the gossip pages and celebrity magazines so lovingly refer to as Bennifer is every bit as unwatchable as the deafen ..
Tuscaloosa News
2.0
There are moments that shine in Gigli, so lets save the crucifixion for another production down the road.
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