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Gigli
Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures


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MPAA RATING: R for sexual content, pervasive language and brief strong violence

Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Justin Bartha, Lainie Kazan, and Missy Crider

In this unconventional romantic comedy, low-level hood Larry Gigli (Affleck) is given an assignment that gets him in way over his head and Ricki (Lopez), a gorgeous free spirited female enforcer is sent in to assist him. (Sony)

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Martin Brest
DIRECTED BY:	Martin Brest
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 9, 2003 Video: December 9, 2003 Theatrical: August 1, 2003
RUNNING TIME:	minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Lopez and Affleck are sweet and appealing in their performances; the buzz said they didn't have chemistry, but the buzz was wrong. What they don't have is conviction.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A watchable bad movie, but it's far from your typical cookie-cutter blockbuster. There are no shoot-outs or car chases, and there isn't much romantic suspense, either.

Variety Amy Dawes

Arrives carrying more baggage than a Greyhound bus, which may distract moviegoers from what is a silly but still an enjoyably written and performed romantic comedy.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Some of the dialogue is astonishingly awful. Sex and relationships are constantly likened to animal interaction.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

For the most part I was able to accept this thesis and enjoy Lopez in her usual superwoman role, but the script does get awfully preachy in spots.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

Turns out to be merely bad -- not a train wreck, not the crime against humanity it's been rumored to be.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Writer-director Martin Brest lends the film a professional sheen, and his stars (who some rumors suggest may have become romantically involved) have charisma to spare, but the film has all the charge and momentum of a Paxil ad.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

After five minutes, Christopher Walken vanishes. We wait vainly for the next 90 minutes for someone, anyone to bring that kind of danger, unpredictability and vitality to a story as drab as army fatigues.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

Has a curious train-wreck quality to it that keeps you watching and thinking. (Even if you are thinking things like, Why were these lines ever written? When you hear the "turkey" line, your jaw will drop.)

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Gigli berates, insults, dismisses, throttles, and bellows at Bartha's meticulously aped retard, and then turns sensitive and warm—it's hard to decide which attitude is more insulting.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

So how bad, in the final analysis, is Gigli? The best that can be said is that it doesn't beat out "The Ladies Man" as the most abrasively awful film of the past five years, nor does it top "Battlefield Earth" for sheer misguided lunacy.

USA Today Claudia Puig

An embarrassing debacle...the rare movie that never seems to take off, but also never seems to end. It tries hard to titillate, but ends up making audiences want to avert their eyes.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

Put together enough pointless, random details, and you get Gigli, a movie that's less incompetent than bewildering.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Affleck, for his part, behaves as if a Zero from "Pearl Harbor" dropped one too close to his noggin. He looks permanently shell-shocked.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

A hypnotic, black hole of a movie that sucks reputations, careers and goodwill down its vortex. Rarely has a movie that doesn't star Madonna achieved such a skin-crawling mixture of deluded preening and bungled humour.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

The problem with Gigli is that it is an inept attempt to do Elmore Leonard by Martin Brest, a filmmaker whose coarse sensibility makes him catastrophically unqualified to the task.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Excruciating...The movie proves to be singularly unfunny and static almost from the non-get-go. Virtually nothing happens; the movie is all premise.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Gigli is a disaster.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The only people likely to get a kick out of Gigli -- the first screen teaming of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez -- are Madonna and her director hubby Guy Ritchie. Finally there's a movie as jaw-droppingly awful as their "Swept Away."

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Gigli's awfulness is of a rarer, more precious variety. It's the sort of bizarre, ill-conceived picture you can't believe exists, but are secretly glad it does.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

There is no histrionic excess or crackpot camp, only hoary sentiment, the puppy-dog cuteness of the mentally handicapped, and the proposition that the "cure" for lesbianism is one good man brave enough to get in touch with his inner cow.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The spectacle of the near-naked Ricki (Lopez) striking sexually provocative yoga poses while floridly extolling the virtues of female genitalia is particularly mortifying, but it's only one of many horribly miscalculated scenes.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Buried in the slow, talky, inanities that the two stars exchange are some potentially interesting ideas about female sexual self-assertion and male surrender, but neither the actors nor the filmmakers have any notion about how to explore them.

Film Threat David Grove

Has no story, no redeeming characters that anyone could care about, and the actors are all on autopilot, completely soaked with their own vanity.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Guys, I'm telling you: Don't go to this movie! It's "Chasing Amy" with guns! You're walking into a trap! This is for fans of the holy couple, but they already know that.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

How fortunate that the J. Lo bod, majestic butt and all, finds itself in excellent working order in Gigli: There is precious little other consolation in this formless windbag of a romantic comedy.

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

Nearly as unwatchable as it is unpronounceable.

Slate David Edelstein

The movie is bafflingly boring and ridiculous. Its loginess is exacerbated by the pacing of the writer-director, Martin Brest.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The film lacks a controlling point of view to guide an audience through so improbable a tale. Nothing in the movie is funny -- aside from giggles provoked by misfired jokes -- or romantic or dramatic.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Wretched. And while the dirtiest, low-rottenest part of me wouldn’t mind watching the institution of Ben/Jen get reamed, the heft of the blame should be shouldered by Hollywood vet Martin Brest, who wrote an incoherent, incompetent script and further mangled it with his direction.

Newsweek Jeff Giles

After the schadenfreudian thrill of watching beautiful people humiliate themselves wears off, it has the same annihilating effect on your will to live.

Film Threat Kevin Carr

It’s just a mess.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

The worst movie -- all right, the worst allegedly major movie -- of our admittedly young century. More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The most thoroughly joyless and inept film of the year, and one of the worst of the decade. We're talking about a disaster, and not of the fun "Showgirls" variety, either.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

An overlong, joyless, and inconsequential affair, full of dead air, and possessing only a few moments of jaw-dropping bad taste. It's a dull disaster.

Premiere Laine Ewen

Uncomfortable, offensive, and boring.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Enervated, torpid, slack, dreary and, oh yes, nasty, brutish and long.

The average user rating for this movie is 2.2 (out of 10) based on 86 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Xianghua gave it a10:
I love the performance between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.Pretty cute!!

Beast gave it a1:
Livia, you have no brain. Indian humor? Doesn't change the fact that the acting was horrific, the cameramen were absent, and the dialogue was nothing short of insulting. I mean, come on, she hits on him, then she's lesbian, and then she has sex with him? WHAT?

Mikel J. gave it a10:
This is great film, Affleck gives stunning performance as wise man with fluffed pillow. Lopez matches him in the outstanding department, with great scenes on giant couch and with balloon simulators. The storyline is very much clever and filled with twists and turns that would make M. Night Shamylan blush. How Martino Breaszt failed to win the Academy Oscar Award for this film is beyond me, it is reminding me of the fellow Rob Reiner's best film movies. Also Pacino gives excellent performance, almost as good as his Corleone character but darker and with more conviction. Genius film. Big 10/10.

clay gave it a1:
Pointless. Apparently there were script-rewrites during the movie to feed on the whole ben/jennifer thing. bad sign. the acting is awful, the plot goes into oblivion, and the dialogue is painful. many moments in the film are just the actors staring at each other, as if they forgot their lines. stupid.

Livia S. gave it a10:
I like this movie very interesting The only reason why this movie might not appeal to someone is because Indian culture is very unique and if the audience is totally unaware of the culture, the movie might come as a bit of a shock, and they might find it impossible to relate to. Also, some of the jokes or puns-intended could be termed as “Indian humor” as those could be things that happen only in India . Though these jokes are probably not something that everyone will understand and might only be appreciated by Indians or people who are familiar with Indian culture, I don't think the director could do without those jokes as it is these small things that sets the movie apart from others and puts it in its own class with its authenticity and realism.

Harry J gave it a10:
This movie has made an impact on my life. I truly do not understand why people have given this movie such a negative response. To me it is genius. Affleck is erfect of this role.

Dylan H. gave it a0:
As horrible as it gets.No more gossip for them.

Gigli Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures

Gigli
Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures