From
CNN.com:
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Call it one of the biggest turkeys of all time.
The romance between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez has captivated the American public, but their first movie together is already being called a low point of cinema history.
If early reviews are anything to go by, the pairing of the real-life love birds in the movie "Gigli" looks set to bomb when it opens at the U.S. box office on Friday.
Among its biggest problems is a love scene in which Lopez spreads her legs and tells a smoldering Affleck, "It's turkey time. Gobble, gobble."
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall it ain't.
The movie is familiar fare for Affleck, since "much of the movie features Affleck's efforts to change Lopez' character from being a lesbian into a straight woman. Needless to say, by the time she's saying, 'Gobble, gobble,' she's changed sides." How does Kevin Smith spell law suit? C-H-A-S-I-N-G A-M-Y.
But wait, there's more!
While their romance was said to have been originally sparked with the shooting of "Gigli," critics see little of that spark in the movie. Critics have compared the film to such box office flops as Madonna's "Swept Away," Mariah Carey's "Glitter" and Britney Spears vehicle "Crossroads."
"From 'Gigli's' first test screenings, where writer-director Martin Brest clashed with Revolution studio chief Joe Roth over the film's final act and pace, to the film's poster, which allegedly featured a retouched version of Lopez's famous derriere [which the studio denies], nearly every step of the film's path to the screen has been chronicled by the Internet, the tabloids and, eventually, the mainstream media," the Los Angeles Times wrote.
"Taken together, 'Gigli' has single-handedly disproved the maxim that there's no such thing as bad publicity."
That, folks, is a seriously bad review. Mmmwahahaa.... Maybe this will speed production for Daredevil 2?
