Movie 43 (2013)

MOVIE 43  (2013)  ¢ ¢
    D: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, James Gunn,
    Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Grifffin Dunne,
    Peter Farrelly, Jonathan van Tulleken, Steve Carr,
    Patrick Forsberg, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner,
    C: Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman,
    Kate Winslet, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts,
    Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Emma Stone, 
    Kate Bosworth, Chloë Grace Moretz, Common,
    Seth McFarlane, Kieran Culkin, Justin Long,
    Bobby Cannavale, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry,
    Elizabeth Banks, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris,
    Terrence Howard, Patrick Warburton, Kristen Bell
An A-list cast slums its way through a raunchy comedy cooked up and co-directed by one of the Farrelly Brothers. It opens with a desperate filmmaker (Dennis Quaid) pitching a story idea to a producer played by Greg Kinnear. That sets up a series of sketches that mostly take one joke each and hammer it into the ground. "Highlight" is probably the wrong word to use with something like this, when the options include Chloë Grace Moretz suffering through her first period, a guy having an explosive bowel movement that covers an entire city street, and Elizabeth Banks being massively sprayed by an angry cartoon cat. But I'm guessing the image you'll remember, whether you want to or not, has to do with Hugh Jackman's  neck. If you see it, you'll know what I mean.