Line #10 YMMV/Gigli


1	* AngstWhatAngst: Ricki thinks that Larry starts fights with people as a means to avoid dealing with his emotional issues such as sadness.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The score, by AwesomeMusic/JohnPowell, is one of the few things about the movie many people will admit they like. It's a great easy-listening album and nice to break out at Valentine's Day. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mav011rxysI Here's a nice sample.]]
3	** "[[https://youtu.be/QQZGINShLWI?si=WweyB2EwDm1ZThQl Demagogue]]" by Music/UrbanDanceSquad appears in the restaurant scene.
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
5	** Many Creator/ChristopherWalken cameos can come off this way, but this takes the cake (er, pie … whatever). His scene begins unassumingly enough with him playing a detective there to ask Gigli some questions, but then he starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jnx4H4LZTU talking about pie for no apparent reason]], leaves, and is never alluded to again.
6	** Another strange bit is when Robin, Ricki's ex-girlfriend, shows up at the apartment. She gets upset when she thinks that Ricki and Larry are now a thing, she slits her wrists, gets taken to the hospital, and is never mentioned again.
7	* BileFascination: Its reputation definitely garners this. Although by the following decade, reviews noted that while badly made, it was not as bad as when the film was preceded by [[CoupleBomb the romance between its stars suffering media overexposure]] to paint the critical reaction, as detailed in the next entry.
8	* CriticalBacklash:
9	** An interesting case. Many of the reviews it got at the time it was released ran the gamut from calling it SoOkayItsAverage to garden-variety bad, but the combination of that and the Bennifer-oriented direction the film took caused it to be labeled as one of the worst films ever by the general public and warranted the film six UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s at the 24th such ceremony.[[note]]At the next year's ceremony, it also got a special award for "Worst Comedy of Our First 25 Years," beating the likes of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'', ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'', and ''Film/LeonardPart6''.[[/note]] Creator/RogerEbert actually took time out of a different review to argue that it wasn't '''that''' bad.
10	** Affleck and Lopez's rekindling their relationship in 2021 motivated more people into checking out the film, with many finding it to be more boring and aimlessly-plotted than outright bad, with the most common criticisms -- the insensitive depiction of Brian's disability, and the film's usage of CureYourGays -- being things that generally weren't picked up on so much when it was originally released.
11	* EndingFatigue: Among other things, this movie misses multiple logical endpoints in its last half-hour, beginning with the protagonists leaving Starkman's home.
12	* EnsembleDarkHorse: Creator/ChristopherWalken shows up, talks about pie for some reason, and leaves. For many viewers, there are no other interesting scenes in the movie.
13	* FetishRetardant: The scene where Ricki lies seductively on Larry's bed is supposed to be erotic, but her infamous "turkey time" line completely kills the mood.
14	* HamAndCheese: Creator/AlPacino's scene runs on this. Given that ''Gigli'' was directed by Creator/MartinBrest, who kickstarted Pacino's overacting phase with ''Film/ScentOfAWoman'', totally justified.
15	* HarsherInHindsight: Re-written to cash in on the "Bennifer" craze, Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/JenniferLopez would end their relationship not so long after this film's release, leading many to speculate if their experiences with this movie played a hand in that, though [[HeartwarmingInHindsight they rekindled their relationship in 2021 and later married the following year]].
16	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Despite the extremely negative reception, many of the cast still have fond memories of working with Martin Brest and praised his skills and how he created an environment designed to help them do their best work. Despite his well-documented dislike of the film, Ben Affleck even said he learned to direct from observing Brest and even thanked him in his acceptance speech at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s when ''Film/{{Argo}}'' won the Oscar for Best Picture of 2012.
17	* {{Narm}}: Ricki laying seductively on Larry's bed and whispering, "It's turkey time. Gobble-gobble." Not only does it completely fail to be [[FetishRetardant romantic or arousing in any way]], but it's such a strange and nonsensical line that it crops up on many a list of the worst movie quotes ever.
18	* NeverLiveItDown: The film made no secret of its painful attempts to cash in on the Bennifer craze dominating the tabloids at the time of its release, even being explicitly ''rewritten'' against the director's wishes for this purpose. The end result was received about as well as one can imagine. Even worse, many speculate that its disastrous performance was in part responsible for the stars deciding to break it off not long after it bombed in theaters.
19	* OneSceneWonder: Walken's and Pacino's respective scenes -- the former is his usual weird self, while the latter gives a hammy performance while providing a man with a bloody death.
20	* QuestionableCasting: Creator/BenAffleck and Music/JenniferLopez as mob goons, who are completely unconvincing in the part and give some of the most awkward performances of their careers.
21	* RetroactiveRecognition: That's Creator/JustinBartha giving such a terrible performance as Brian in his film debut. Everyone has to start somewhere.
22	* RomanticPlotTumor: In the eyes of many people, the film would have been a lot more bearable as a straight-up mobster movie instead of a cheesy Ben & J.Lo romance. You can blame [[ExecutiveMeddling executives wanting to cash in on the "Bennifer" story]] for that one.
23	* SoBadItsGood: There was one premium movie channel that got stuck with this film's broadcasting rights and tried to bill it as this. Their ad campaign literally included the phrase, "See what's so bad about what people called the worst movie ever!"
24	* {{Squick}}: Louis getting his head blown off into a fish tank and the fish eating pieces of his brains.
25	* UncertainAudience: The film can't decide if it wants to be a romantic comedy or a serious crime film.
26	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-look-back-at-gigli-the-infamous-bennifer-starring-film-on-its-10th-anniversary A retrospective]] by ''The Daily Beast'' first published on the movie's tenth anniversary named Larry "one of the most unlikable, absurd protagonists in recent memory." While it's true that he's meant to be a criminal and therefore somewhat morally edgy, he's also [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic, homophobic, and ableist]], which causes him to come across mostly as a huge asshole rather than a LovableRogue.

Context YMMV / Gigli