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2/10
By God they were right!!!
cbalogh-353-86978419 November 2018
I couldn't believe that this movie was as bad as people were saying it was. Surely there must be some redeeming quality. Surely it could not be as cringe worthy, vomit inducing as they said...I was wrong. Way wrong. Almost every scene and line is painful. I love Lisa Kudrow. She gives it her all, but that's all I can say. What a sad time for our country.
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3/10
add this one to the list of the year's worst
perfectsystem21 August 2003
since i was fortunate enough to avoid both gigli and from justin to kelly, i thought i would be able to go all summer without seeing how truly horrible some of the movies are that hollywood continues to churn out each week, but then i saw marci x.

while obviously this one wasn't going to win any oscars, i thought it would at least be somewhat humorous, but i couldn't have been more wrong. while i realize that writer paul rudnick was trying to parody a few other things/people throughout the story, this film is choked full of more stereotypes than i cared to count. the story line was ridiculously stupid and the acting was mediocre at best. i was honestly ready to walk out less than 15 minutes into the film.

overall, the most laughs my friends and i got out of this movie was making fun of how bad it was, after it was over.

if there are any questions about why hollywood isn't making any money, movies like this are your answer.
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3/10
Flat-footed satire of music business
Sees All27 August 2003
There's probably an entertaining comedy buried somewhere in this mess, but this whole movie appears to be a first draft that was rushed into production. There was potential, considering it has a screenplay by the impish Paul Rudd, a musical score of funny songs by the team that did Broadway's HAIRSPRAY, as well as some of Broadway's brightest acting talent. But the whole thing is just too farfetched. I didn't buy the movie's central premise that a music company was in financial trouble because the public was boycotting its products on account of its tasteless and obscene products. Please. The American public laps up tastelessness and obscenity. But even assuming you are able to accept that, the movie is so heavy-handed that it's only occasionally funny. The best parts are the musical numbers, especially `Let's Date.' I wish the rest of the movie had been as funny. I think the movie's appeal is to a very small audience – gay male Jewish New Yorkers in show business. Other people are going to be squirming throughout the film's brief duration.
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1/10
This is like, the WORST movie ... EVER!
mojo-obp23 August 2004
yeah, it's that bad. it's horrible. i can't even waste the words to explain it.

don't watch it, don't even consider watching it. if your hair's caught on fire and you go screaming through your building, and your neighbour with a bucket of water, says "watch Marci X or you're not getting this on your head" tell him to sod off. if you fall from an 8 story building break both your legs and have your ribs stuck in your heart, and the doctors in the hospital tell you "watch Marci X or no surgery" tell them to kiss your butt, because it's less painful. Believe me. And if you get abducted by aliens and they "watch Marci X or it's probin' time" tell them to watch it themselves, cause it's the worst thing you could wish for somebody.

You DON'T want to see this tasteless, mindless, pointless, substanceless piece of s**t.
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I didn't think it was so bad...
Furb29 February 2004
For what it purported to be, a musical comedy, it did ok. I'm no great fan of rap, so this had to be light. Of course, the courtroom scene was way over the top, but if you go back and look at some of those old Jane Powell musicals, they burst into song in the strangest places and any "spontaneous" dance is choreographed and well rehearsed, as are all the "numbers" in this one.

Of course, it's much easier and the motivation is stronger [I spent money for that!]to write a bad review than a good one, so trashing it is expected. Too bad the-powers-that-be at IMDB can't sort these into two headings instead of one generic because usually the bad reviews get in first. This'll be #29 and probably will never be read. "Que sera sera, y'all, I reckon," as they say in southern Italy.
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1/10
Why Lord Why Must this movie exist
mikeridges17 July 2006
When I saw this movie 3 years ago I was surprised at how awful it really was. I mean why the hell would you make this movie into a musical when none of the actors in it can sing? I thought this movie would be about Lisa Kudrow trying to act black, which would have been funny since she is the whitest girl I have ever seen, but the director decided not to go that route, like the title entails, and decided to make it into a romance musical which had a total of ONE funny moment. When Wayne's character starts singing "I wanna love you IN THE BUTT, IN THE BUTT, IN THE BUTT!!!" and all the backup singers had red targets painted on their rear ends. Thats about the only funny part of the movie, and you only laugh for a few seconds. Anyone who rated this movie a 10 either is a HUGE Waynes brother fan, or they love the smooth, sensual voice of Lisa Kudrow when she sings (FUBAR!)
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1/10
We all took a job we didn't like just to pay the rent....
lambiepie-24 July 2005
...but usually in that circumstance we didn't subject the world to that knowledge.

This film has known folks in it who just did not have to do this film - for the rent or otherwise. I think there was an idea...over an apple martini or something...that someone said, "Hey - we can make a real funny movie about that!" They were wrong.

First of all....you could tell this is yet another Wayan's "inside joke". Here's some advice for the Wayans - stop joking and just be serious and or honest about it. Come out with it - whatever you want to say. Maybe your "ironic" days are over and its time to go right in and do what is exactly on your minds.

Then you have to ask what possessed Richard Benjamin, Christine Baranski and Lisa Kudrow to do this...? Rent? Taxes? A new stuffed animal they saw at Wal-Mart? Let me not trash the film - for a minute - and look at what the INTENT could have been...what this seemed to want to be was an expose of the music industry stereotypes. Okay, done not trashing and here's my truth: I've had just about enough of stereotypes in feature films to last decades. Don't get me wrong, there can be a way to do something of this nature which can be entertaining, thought provoking..maybe even satirical...the bottom line is that this is NOT the film - not the script - not the actors - not worth the time of anyone.
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1/10
Arguably the Worst Movie ever
metbronc8824 April 2004
"this is the funniest movie starring lisa kudrow yet. damon wayans and her are the perfect match. its a wonderful off beat comedy with some great hip-hop jokes :"i know tai-boi"-"six bills on the white chick" I THINK PEOPLE WILL FIND THIS MORE ENJOYABLE THAN ANY OTHER DAMON WAYANS MOVIE. a summer comedy that actually works.I WOULD COMPARE IT TO "AMERICAN PIE!"

Who ever wrote this is seriously distrubed or making a joke, this movie could not have satisfied me less. There was not one funny part, it was steriotipical crap. From start to finish there was nothing entertaining. IT was a little unbelievalbe that Lisa Kudrow could be A paris hilton type, because shes twice her age! Worst movie ever, don't waste your time.
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1/10
This is one of the worst films of all time
biggdogg17323 August 2003
Saw this yesterday after work because I thought the story had a chance to be funny, boy how wrong I was. I have NO IDEA how Paramount actaully thought this was a good movie. I've seen better films at work about safety training. If you think about going to see this movie don't waste your time take the 90 minutes and go down to a local charity and volunteer your time. Mark this down this film will be on the list as one of the worst films of 2003, if not at the top of the list. Terrible, unfunny movie.
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1/10
Worst of 2003?
vivalarsx3 March 2004
I inserted a question mark because I really can't recall if I saw a worse movie last year. Probably not. This is dull, illogical, and stupid--no, worse than that, it's stoopid. Lisa Kudrow's Marci says that she can't rap, yet almost immediately launches into a (very bad) rap about handbags. Uptight Senator Christine Baranski hears about 5 seconds of a hip hop beat and is instantly transformed into fabulous dancer with stripper potential. Instead of the comedy arising from the situation and/or the characters' quirks, screenwriter Paul Rudnick (hope he loves whatever the money from this crap bought!) just throws any gag he can at us, and nothing sticks. I laughed ONCE: when the obviously-meant-to-be-J.Lo Yolanda says, "I'm bleeding, I need a photographer." That's the only time in 84 (seems longer) minutes that a "comic" line was directly related to a character's personality. The rest is just stoopid.
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1/10
This is the worst movie I've ever seen.
gobbiclassic13 November 2004
All I have to say is that this movie sucked beyond belief. Damon Wayans was absolutely brutal as a believable rap superstar. I can't tell if he was actually trying to act like a specific rapper or just playing a character. It was so lame! Plus it is very unrealistic that he would be so popular in real life. I am surprised that I actually finished the movie but I kept expecting it to get better. Well, it doesn't get any better. In fact, it only gets worse. Don't see this movie because I have never been so disgusted in my entire life. It is the very worst movie I've ever seen! Oh, and I can't get that Lisa Kudrow song out of my head. Ahhhhhh.... I wanna stab myself in the ear with a pen!
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8/10
I laughed out loud often and smiled a lot while watching.
JBesman21 May 2005
This movie was a delight and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn't surprised at the negative comments about it, however, because in order to fully appreciate the satire and wonderful humor of this movie,you have to have a close association and awareness of the cultures involved. Without that understanding, the picture would not be funny. I am Jewish and work as a social worker in a middle school in Central Harlem. With these credentials this movie is hilarious. Also, who can resist Damon Wayans and Lisa Kudrow? The rap satires were pointed and hilarious and cutting edge. Damon was surprisingly believable as a rapper, while rapping and very sexy and charming. Lisa was able to hold her own as a comedian and as a "rapper" also. She is the ultimate entertainer, as is Damon. Lisa's backup girlfriends were perfect as a bit joining in with the whole ensemble. Richard Benjamin as the businessman father was hilarious. This movie is not meant to be realistic, but a creative, fun twist on reality.
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6/10
It really wasn't so bad
CLewis980028 March 2006
I read the comments before watching the movie, and just like with the "famous critics" who critique movies, that was the wrong move. I think it really depends on the mindset of the person who is watching and also it depends on the type of movie the person is looking for. So if you are looking for fun, this is a fun movie, it is not to be taken in all seriousness, just take it for what is - just plain fun. I can't complain about the language, because although I don't like rap for all of the disrespectful language, I knew this movie would have aspects of it but it was funny in spots. Everyone should form their own opinions as everyone would find different things funny.
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1/10
I want my 2 hours back!
Miss_MiChiMi6 February 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I wasted two hours of my precious time on this flake of a film. (That is an estimate. I didn't factor in all the time I spent rolling on the floor in cerebral pain while moaning and clutching my head.) This film was pointless. Damon Wayans and Lisa Kudrow are very talented and funny, except with each other. This is what happens when good actors take on bad scripts. The two leads had absolutely no chemistry, yet they fall in love and get married? Damon Wayans portrays a stereotypical rapper while Kudrow is the typical spoiled, rich Jewish girl.

I hope the people responsible for this have had there faces slapped until their heads were swollen to the size of pumpkins!
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1/10
...........
muddawg213821 January 2004
Just like the vote i gave it.....1. AWFUL!!!! I can't even comment on this terrible movie. The so called "HARDCORE GANSTA RAP" sounded like some Hardcore Justin Timberlake.

Mike
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A travesty--and very painful to watch
daubreywhite6 September 2003
I think that, at some point, there was a good script behind this film. In the process of producing it, though, things went wrong. Hideously wrong.

There are some extremely biting jokes in this film, and that is the best I can say about it.

If, indeed, the film did start out with a good script, then shame on the filmmakers for ruining it.

If this film started out nearly as bad as it ended up being, then the actors must have been desperate; Wayans and Krakowski, for publicity, Baranski, for money, and Kudrow, for....

You really have to wonder why Lisa Kudrow was in this film. She doesn't need the money, and she doesn't need the fame. What she needs is to break into the movies (something certain "Friends" stars can't seem to manage), and you can see from a mile away that this is not going to help her do that.

Don't pay to watch this. Don't even spend your time on it.
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1/10
junk, waste of time...
pinballlarry12 September 2003
Worst movie I've seen this year. Anal sex jokes get tiresome quickly. Seemed that all actors just in it for a paycheck. Definitely a bottom 100 contender.........
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1/10
An abomination that I got trapped into seeing because of Scott Rudin
thesundance1424 August 2003
Rarely are we treated to a new class of cinema. Most things done in Hollywood are rather easy to classify. Most of the "stuff" made in Hollywood these days is garbage, dreamed up by lord knows who, to meet some formula that is supposed to make money. Making movies as art has been dead for decades but we old timers still hope.

And that is how I got trapped into going to a...I really hate to call this a movie but I will for clarity...a movie called Marci-X.

Scott Rudin has produced over the years many things I thought were not much but for the most part his name associated with an effort usually meant the effort, be it off center or misguided, would still deserve an honest look. It would in the end be well presented work with a touch of class.

Well folks, this..."abomination" fits a mold but not that mold. Marci-X is so bad it needs a class all of its own. To call it simply bad is a desecration to some really all time Hollywood stinkers. This...gross theft of any viewers time and money ought to be banned forever!! That is the new class. The banned forever to a nuclear waste site so no unsuspecting fool like me might accidentally see it.

But I'm on the case here so let me mention a few things.

Lisa Kudrow is better than this kind of role. Or at least I think she is. She isn't funny, she isn't even a good stereo-type. Come to think of it she hasn't done anything good since "Friends" and that is a decade ago. Maybe the biology degree will come in handy after all?

Daymon Wayans as Doctor S. is about as funny as a train wreck. I think the guy actually has some talent but he is always portrayed as an idiot of some sort. And even as an idiot he seems to reflect a unused ability that in a proper director's hands and the right part might shine through.

Richard Benjamin is not that director and as the director of this "thing" he could justifiably be stood against the wall and given his last cigarette. He also has a supporting role and is very much like Margaret Rutherford in drag.

But the true villain in this is Scott Rudin. He put up the money and as such gave the go ahead to this garbage heap and we who have trusted his work in the past will be much more careful in the future.

Want to know what is wrong in Hollywood, go see this thing. It has all the bad in what will seem like several days of torture for one to see, but perhaps it might have value as a test of one's grit. Stand this and you can stand anything!
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1/10
These films never ends or at least STOP?
bahz892 October 2010
As a sort of arts, films,beside all the movies stuff like script, acting, ...etc,films have a message otherwise we can't say it as an art. We are so bored of this kind of movies which always keep telling us Jewish people are so kind and so aggrieved by others even in US! We find Marci and her Jewish family are so kind and have a charity organization to help poor people in US and everywhere else in our world (see how her mother died in South Africa during a charity event there!). In return American society is so bad and doesn't only give them what they deserve but also make them bustard, scamp, rude and ....etc by the savage black people! (see when Marci have been arrested in the club, holding a pistol in the end of fighting with a black woman who in the first place she had the gun! oh, what a poor Marci! she became her little daddy criminal!). Please stop making such films 'cause we are all growing up people.
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2/10
Truly a Work of Crap
cool-bhargava3 May 2009
Remember ..how actors say that some movies have ' not been their best work', well..this is nothing like that. This couldn't have been worse for Lisa Kudrow who I absolutely adore in F.R.I.E.N.D.S and Damon Wayans who I really like in 'My Wife And Kids'. This is a perfect example of a movie that is senseless, hopeless, meaningless, non enjoyable and a bad attempt to comedy. Any one who finds this funny and enjoyable or can entertain this film for a whole 2 hours can be only for two reasons : One- Awful Taste in almost all things and Second - Probably a bet involving a huge amount for who can actually survive the film. The only thing worth appreciating in how the actors manage to find jobs after the film was released.
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1/10
$20-Million for this Movie?
dwacon-227 November 2007
I was looking on the business tab and it was weird. This film cost $20-million?

Where did the money go?

Was it for the crack that the writers smoked when putting this script together?

That makes sense... given Chris Rock saying that he would just have soon had received an envelope full of crack than this script (on the fun facts tab).

Looking at the business, it seems the film made under $5-million. That means it lost $15-million. Yikes!

From the entertainment perspective, it took a lot of suspension of disbelief and ignoring blatant stereotypes and lapses in logic in order to try and extract the few drops of humor out of this film.
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1/10
i respect damon but this wasn't good
shahryarnwa8 October 2008
you know i respect damon a lot and all the wayans bros they've got a lot of game to offer..that's why i picked up the movie and watched it at the first place ....when i watched it,i really regretted the 1.5 dollar that i paid for it...because the story is so wick...and there is no new joke to laugh at and no comedy material that could give u the energy and will to watch the rest of the movie....i really don't know why damon and lisa accepted the script at the first place...because they've done some good work and people expect to see their good work like always...you know at first they wanted to give dr.s part to chris rock but he didn't accept and said it was the worst script he ever got...and i really don't know why damon accepted it,it didn't sell any good,i guess those people that went to the theaters thought they're going' catch the same enthusiastic from damon and lisa like before...anyway i guess someday this movie would be on their regret list like any other actors,like will smith that regrets wild wild west...
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10/10
And I really wanted to hate this one
icechalkhands10 May 2005
I'm sorry but I can't hate this movie. I mean I kid you not when I say that I really hate black comedies movies. Not to be racist or anything(because I'm black myself. It's just that every time I see a black comedy, it's always showing black people being very stereotypical.Plus I know that lot of what's happening in this movie has already been done. But it's not been done by Damon Waynes. If it was just about any other black actor screaming bi**h or any of the other curse words used in this movie, I would have turn the channel. But like I said, it's Damon and that's my dog. So big ups to what the movie tried to do. Plus I love the fact that he's countering someone who no one would have ever imagined him to do a movie with. I love this movie.
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6/10
In the What? Bottom 100? Very Unfair Rating!
claudio_carvalho25 January 2008
While delivering an award to her humanitarian father Ben Feld (Richard Benjamin), the stylish wealthy Jewish Caucasian Marci Feld (Lisa Kudrow) is surprised by the attack of the conservative senator Mary Ellen Spinkle (Christine Baranski) to her father in the media. The motive is the lyrics of the rap "Shoot Ya' Teacha " sing by Dr. S (Damon Wayans) and released by the hip-hop record label Felony Assault that belongs to Ben. He has a heart attack, and his daughter decides to assume the problem and negotiate a public excuse of Dr. S in the MTV Award. However, the bad boy sings a polemic song on television to humiliate Merci that gives senator Sprinkle the chance to promote the "Buttgate".

"Marci X" is a silly but hilarious movie with the charming, elegant and gorgeous Lisa Kudrow. Surprisingly it is ranked in the "Bottom 100#73", in my opinion a tremendously unfair position. Lisa Kudrow is an excellent comedian, and I am still laughing with her rap challenge on the stage with "The Power is in the Purse". The rude Damon Wayans is also funny with no surprises in his role, and Christine Baranski is specialized in performing villains and is also great. This is another movie that will never be nominated to the Oscar that some intellectuals spend their precious time seeing it to write bad reviews in IMDb, misleading those that expect to see an entertaining light and silly comedy. Fortunately I do not read reviews before watching movies. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Marci X – Uma Loura Muito Louca" ("Marci X – A Very Crazy Blondie")
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1/10
Wayans hit? That's a good joke!
godblessit20015 August 2008
What can I say...

I was suckered into buying this piece of crap that featured a Wayan brother, naturally I should've guessed it would be awful. First off, it's price tag was 1 Euro which is awfully cheap and to be honest the advertisements on the casing was... OH MY GOD. Secondly when I bought it, the store clerk and his friend told me that it's better I bought another movie instead of this one... I refused. Now for the third part which we're finally going to talk about the movie, it's like watching a man pointlessly talking to himself. The acting was fake, the highlight of the humor was about homosexual boybands, the plot is such a knock-off and I felt empty at the end. It's like waiting for a joke that's never gonna show up only to realize the joke's on you, the ranting about rappers or color of skin or where you come from makes this movie nothing more than a big lecture. I was fooled and I believe many others were too, anyone believing this to be a reasonable movie should really need to understand one thing.

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A COMEDY MOVIE!

I have so much more to say why this movie is so bad that I wouldn't mind killing moi if I had to see it again another 50 times. If you use crack or any other drugs buy this crap, otherwise avoid it like the plague, poke your eyes or throw it out in the trash can.
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