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2	* AllStarCast: One of the film's main selling points. The cast has (in order of appearance) Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/GregKinnear, Creator/SethMacFarlane, [[Series/MadTV1995 Will Sasso]], Creator/HughJackman, Creator/KateWinslet, Creator/LievSchreiber, Creator/NaomiWatts, Creator/ChrisPratt, Creator/AnnaFaris, Creator/KieranCulkin, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/RichardGere, [[Series/ThirtyRock Jack McBrayer]], Creator/KateBosworth, Creator/AasifMandvi, Creator/JustinLong, [[Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise John Hodgeman]], Creator/KristenBell, Creator/UmaThurman, [[Film/AntMan1 Bobby Cannavale]], Creator/JasonSudeikis, [[Film/IronMan1 Leslie Bibb]], Creator/KatrinaBowden, Creator/ChloeMoretz, Creator/ChristopherMintzPlasse, Creator/PatrickWarburton, [[Series/{{Veep}} Matt Walsh]], Creator/JohnnyKnoxville, Creator/SeannWilliamScott, Creator/GerardButler, Creator/HalleBerry, Creator/StephenMerchant, [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki]], Creator/TerrenceHoward, [[WesternAnimation/TheReplacements Josh Duhamel]], and Creator/ElizabethBanks. Creator/JulianneMoore, Creator/TonyShalhoub, Creator/BobOdenkirk, and Creator/AntonYelchin star in deleted sketches. The Blu-ray cover was just the film's title with photos of the film's most famous actors on it.
3	* AwesomeDearBoy: Played straight with Creator/StephenMerchant, who makes no apologies for the film and stated he signed on mainly to be around Creator/HalleBerry.
4	* CreatorBacklash: With the exception of Farrelly, ''no one'' involved seems particularly proud of the finished product. At the film's premiere, the only actors who showed up were Seann William Scott, Chloe Moretz, Common, and Jimmy Bennett. Others, like Elizabeth Banks and Kristen Bell were going to attend, but dropped out at the last minute, with one magazine claiming they were "too scared". And if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRbIT0Jcl88 Scott's red carpet interview]] was any indication, it sounds like the only reason he went was because he was hoping to see Halle Berry. Creator/HughJackman [[http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/KingPatel/news/?a=99524 even went back in time to tell his younger self to not do this movie]]; and finally, Creator/JamesGunn only did his segment because Elizabeth Banks convinced him to, and he didn't even get to edit his segment.
5	* DeletedRole: Several (see WhatCouldHaveBeen). Also, Bob Odenkirk directed two segments that didn't make it into the US cut of the final movie, but is nonetheless still listed in the credits.
6	* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/ElizabethBanks directed one of the segments, though the one she herself appeared in was directed by Creator/JamesGunn.
7	* DuelingMovies: Another AnthologyFilm filled with VulgarHumor, Creator/VinceOffer's ''[=InAPPropriate=] Comedy'', came out shortly after this. The few who actually saw both films claim that [=InAPPropriate=] Comedy was somehow '''worse''' than this.
8	* MissingTrailerScene: Several. The trailer shows more footage of ''The Catch'' (see above), as well as an entirely new scene involving a man motorboating a dead woman's breasts in the morgue (cut out from the film but occasionally shown at film festivals, the director doesn't show it much anymore after Anton Yelchen's death).
9	* NoBudget: Despite an impressive AllStarCast, ''Movie 43'' was filmed on a $6 million budget.
10	* NotScreenedForCritics: Though they panned it regardless, with Richard Roeper, in a review on Creator/RogerEbert's website, calling it "the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of awful". He has mentioned in previous reviews that he had a special "memory erasing pill" he saved in case [[BrainBleach he saw a movie that was REALLY bad]]; this movie made him take it, and it didn't work.
11	* PlayingAgainstType: This may be the only time you'll get to see Naomi Watts dress up like a high school teenager and calling some kid "fuckface".
12	* RealLifeRelative: Two real life couples (at the time), Creator/ChrisPratt and Creator/AnnaFaris, and Creator/LievSchreiber and Creator/NaomiWatts.
13	* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film began production in 2009 and was intended to ready for a 2010 release. Then original distributor Overture Films sold the rights (and later had everything at the studio but the name sold) to Creator/RelativityMedia, who continued to keep it in-and-out of production (missing a planned Spring 2012 date) until finally releasing it in 2013.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** Farrelly wanted Creator/GeorgeClooney to do a cameo as himself in a segment where he would be shown to be bad at picking up women. Clooney's response, reportedly, was "[[PrecisionFStrike No fucking way]]".
16	** Colin Farrell was originally cast as the Leprechaun's brother.
17	** Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone were initially set to direct a segment, but later dropped out.
18	** The framing device was initially supposed to involve three teenagers going on a treasure hunt to find the mysterious ''Movie 43'' of the plot and the rest of the segments would be featured as what the characters thought was it but wasn't. It was eventually used in the international version of the film, while the U.S. version used the 'movie producer' version.
19	** Creator/SamRockwell was originally attached to reprise Batman in the superhero segment (which was intended to be a sequel to the short film ''Robin's Big Date'') but pulled out to do ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'' instead.
20	** Creator/AntonYelchin had a sketch as a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac mortician]], a role that somehow got even more HarsherInHindsight a few years later when he died in a freak accident. The sketch was later uploaded online a few years after Yelchin had died.

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