Selick proves a clumsy director of live - action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half - baked script or
the scatological gags.
Critics Consensus: A star - studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often
scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs.
Critic Consensus: A star - studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often
scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs.
Not exact matches
Worst - case scenario: The initial trailer for the film relies more on
scatological humor — one prominent
gag involves a music box being stuck in a supporting character's butt — than sparkling dialogue, raising the question of whether Fey and Poehler's chemistry is enough to overcome even the dumbest script.
For all its plugged - toilet jokes, blind - ferret
gags, and crazy foreigner / homosexual song - and - dance, it isn't at all offensive nor, save the explicit definition of the word, particularly
scatological.
Mild
scatological humor including flatulence and a sight
gag involving a urinal deodorizer.
The
gag chicken becomes a grimy, forgotten toy, or, even more ominously, road kill; comedic sidekick Vicki Lawrence appears to be weeping; a girlish Goldie Hawn's lips are extended into a moist grimace; and even the whoopee cushion now evokes the usually repressed
scatological.