Release: Jun 5, 2019
Focus: Movie 43
Since it's release it's been called "the Citizen Kane of awful." With a huge celebrity cast, can Nostalgia Critic find anything of value in this gross-out stinker?
Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: The Critic does find the occasional moment that makes him genuinely chuckle, such as the skit with Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin. Somewhere around breaking five times something got a laugh from him after minutes on end of nothing enjoyable, he allows that the movie has maybe "3 percent" laughs and he's seen ones that didn't manage that.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The Critic's response to seeing Supergirl strapped to a bomb, similar to his reasons why male pregnancy shouldn't happen: note
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Harsher in Hindsight: The Critic's reaction to seeing Chris Pratt and Anna Faris together in a sketch. Pratt even remarried that same week. - "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The Critic points out that George Clooney actually said "No fucking way" after being offered to appear in said movie.
- Product Placement: After Halle Berry, of all people, talked about watching Family Guy, the Critic is somewhat puzzled.Critic: ...Sundays on Fox, check your local listings.
- Rapid-Fire Comedy: Although the "rapid" is debatable, one of the Critic's main issues with the film is that every skit focuses on a singular gag, and the film cuts to a new skit before whatever shown concept is given a chance to properly develop.
- Recut: Discussed. When he starts developing interest in the movie's Framing Device (a boy makes his younger brother search through the dark web for an illegal movie while infecting his laptop with viruses in revenge for a prank), the Critic pauses the review to mention that it is not the same framing device as the one featured in the original American release of the movie (in which a scriptwriter is trying to pitch his movie to a film executive).Critic: ...Really? Movie 43 needed to be altered so it'd be more accepted in other countries? Okay. There's one alteration that can be made that everybody could agree on. (cutaway showing the movie exploding and the theater offering refunds) I'd leave happy. I-I'd leave happy.
- Something We Forgot: When the Critic reaches the movie's credits:Critic: Hold on. There can't be 17 minutes of credits, that makes no sense. Even if it has bloopers or deleted scenes, that's still 17 minutes! In fact, wait — where's the James Gunn one? (that one plays) Oh. They're... showing it now? In the credits? 'Kay.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In-Universe, the Critic considers it disappointing that the main sketch supporting the smaller sketches - involving Baxter trying to find the mysterious "Movie 43" turning into him becoming a supposed leader of the group in the apocalypse - wasn't a Hot Tub Time Machine meets The Terminator hybrid instead.
