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  Gigli (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gigli (pronounced "zhee-lee") is a film released in 2003 which was written and directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
In the final version of the film, Larry Gigli (Affleck) is a lowly thug who is tasked with the kidnapping of the mentally retarded, Baywatch obsessed younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor, in an attempt to save his mobster boss from prison.
The movie was considered a spectacular failure, having grossed less than $4 million in its opening weekend after costing $54 million to make, and earning nearly universally negative reviews.
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 Gigli (movie) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Larry Gigli (Affleck) is a lowly thug who is tasked with the kidnapping of the younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor, in an attempt to save his mobster boss from prison.
The movie was considered a spectacular failure, having grossed only $4 million in its opening weekend after costing $52 million to make, and earning nearly universally poor reviews.
Although the film itself is widely seen as shockingly bad, the media attention over Affleck and Lopez's engagement may have hampered the movie's reputation further.
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 Encyclopedia: Gigli (movie)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Larry Gigli (Affleck) is a lowly thug who is tasked with the kidnapping of the mentally retarded, Baywatch obsessed younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor, in an attempt to save his mobster boss from prison.
Mental retardation (also called mental handicap and, as defined by the UK Mental Health Act (1983), mental impairment and severe mental impairment) is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills (milestones) during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as...
An engagement is an agreement by a couple to enter into marriage at some future time, usually accompanied by a formal or informal announcement to friends and family.
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 Gigli Movie Review (Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez) By Brendan Cullin Empire Movies
Gigli is the story of Larry Gigli (B-Lo), a Californian gangster who is assigned to kidnap the retarded brother of a federal prosecutor.
Gigli might be the least anticipated movie of the year.
By the end of the movie I was so far to the right in my seat trying to be as far away from the perv as I possibly could be, that I was practically watching the movie from the aisle.
www.empiremovies.com /reviews/brendan/gigli.shtml   (768 words)

  
 Jennifer Lopez stars in Gigli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gigli (pronounced "jeally" and rhymes with really), is a new romantic gangster comedy from director Martin Brest, (Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run, Beverly Hills Cop) about a lowly thug who lets love get in the way of a high-risk mob assignment.
Gigli (Affleck) is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor.
But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.
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 Gigli Movie: Gigli DVD is available from Bestprices.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Small-time gangster Larry Gigli (Affleck) is assigned to kidnap Brian (Justin Bartha), the mentally handicapped younger brother of a federal prosecutor, as a favor to his mob boss Louis (Lenny Venito).
Soon after Gigli kidnaps the boy and takes him home to his Los Angeles bachelor pad, he has an unexpected visitor, Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), a sexy street-wise mob enforcer who also happens to be a lesbian.
With witty banter and jokes, Gigli attempts to seduce the uninterested Ricki--and in the process the two share an hysterical conversation in which they compare the merits of male and female sex organs.
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 Movie Spoiler for the film - GIGLI
Gigli goes to a home for mentally challenged persons, and meets his target, a young man named Brian (Justin Bartha) who suffers from what appears to be a medium case of Tourette's Syndrome and slight mental retardation.
Gigli's introduction to his watchdog colleague Ricki is a foul-mouthed encounter as she reduces him from strutting peacock to roasted fowl.
Gigli has a heartfelt talk with Brian, and sends Brian on his way down to see the Baywatch (they are actually filming some form of "Beach Dance Fever") He then calls the US Attorneys office, telling Brian's brother where to find Brian.
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 Modamag.com | Gigli (Movie Review)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is a low-rent mob enforcer working for a crime boss who is uncertain of Gigli’s worth.
Gigli is tough, assured, but dim, and to help him out another enforcer, Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), is sent to make sure Gigli doesn’t screw anything up.
Larry Gigli is a loner, dimwit, and lothario, and Affleck manages to make all of these qualities fit into one man with minimal sweat, even when Brest can’t quite find Gigli’s pulse in the writing.
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 Lee's Movie Info - Gigli Review
Before Gigli debuted, everyone across the nation had been getting tired of all the Ben and J. Lo gossip, with even their wedding proposal having been blown up into a big media event as if everyone should be holding their breath.
Partway through the movie I realized I was attached to Brian, and surprisingly tolerating Affleck’s Gigli performance, let alone Lopez, who I didn’t think was "that" bad, though she was bordering the red zone on a few occasions.
A lot of Gigli revolves around the three main characters getting to know each other, and while there are a share of not so good jokes, I actually chuckled several times (as did some of the other 8 people in the crowd).
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 "Gigli" Movie Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
Depending on where you see a trailer, “Gigli” is a light comedy, a romantic comedy, a gangster thriller, a gangster comedy or an uplifting drama.
Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is L.A. mob muscle hired to “protect” (read as “kidnap,” although you don’t find this out until at least an hour into the movie) a mentally handicapped kid for a few days.
When she first mentions her sexual preference to Gigli, I thought it was a joke to keep away his advances for a night or two.
www.7mpictures.com /inside/reviews/gigli_review.htm   (715 words)

  
 Gigli Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Gigli is a slight, inconsequential story that Brest inflates by having the characters wax poetic, sometimes interminably.
Affleck and Lopez will survive Gigli, the latest and very least addition to that peculiar sub-genre known as the "mob comedy." The same cannot be said for Gigli's writer/director Brest, whose script would never have made it past the first elimination round of Affleck's HBO series Project Greenlight.
Currently dying a slow, painful death on the nation's movie screens, Gigli will nonetheless be remembered at year's end—not by the Motion Picture Academy, but by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, purveyors of the "Razzies" for the year's worst films.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=134823   (985 words)

  
 Gigli (2003) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Gigli, is promoted as a new romantic gangster comedy about a lowly thug who lets love get in the way of a high-risk mob assignment.
Gigli has no imagination and it is a wonder this movie was made before the Affleck and Lopez romance because it seems like a flick designed to play off America's infatuation with the two superstars.
www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?varRevID=65   (418 words)

  
 GIGLI - Main Movie Page...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor.
Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a low-level hood is given a high-level assignment to kidnap Brian (Justin Bartha), the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor to help save a mob boss from going to prison.
Gigli finds himself falling in love with the unavailable Ricki and goes to extreme lengths to win her affection.
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 Gigli - Movie Tome
Small-time gangster Larry Gigli is given the assignment of kidnapping and watching over Brian, the mentally handicapped brother of someone who is creating trouble for a friend of Gigli's boss.
Gigli is instantly smitten with the woman (who calls herself Ricki and refuses to reveal her real name for security reasons), but she shoots him down and says she is a lesbian.
The two deal with their bizarre mutual attraction as they try to complete their assignment, which they soon learn is much more complicated--and dangerous--than they had been led to believe.
www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-48826/Gigli   (112 words)

  
 Movie Review - Gigli - eFilmCritic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Amazingly, Gigli manages not to be as bad as all the hype - but at the same time, it's still a truly awful movie.
Unconscionably, Gigli runs 121 minutes, mostly due to a lot of repeated lines and entire scenes that appear to be improvised (and if they weren't, they might as well have been).
Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is assigned to kidnap Brian (Justin Bartha), the mentally challenged brother of a federal prosecutor.
efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=8023   (442 words)

  
 TNMC Movie Reviews: Gigli
Gigli is a movie that has some good ideas but mostly manages to miss on the execution, leaving us a film that is occasionally good but usually feels awkward.
Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is a small time hood in LA, working as an enforcer for a mid-level boss Louis (Lenny Vito).
Gigli quickly nabs the mentally handicapped kid Brian (Justin Bartha), only to discover he's been assigned a partner, Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), because Louis doesn't have much faith in Gigli.
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 Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Gigli
Gigli could have worked with a bit of minor tuning...Is Gigli the worst movie of the year...
Gigli is the worst movie ever made and trust me there has been a lot of bad films that have been made since the start of movies.
Gigli has no plot at all and what was the director and producer on when they put this movie together.
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You know things aren't going well for J. Lo and Ben when the highlight of their first movie together is a surprise, histrionic appearance by that old yeller, Al Pacino.
Gigli is the rare movie that never seems to take off, but also never seems to end.
Gigli aspires to the comic noir style of the Elmore Leonard adaptations Get Shorty and Out of Sight.
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 Gigli (movie)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gigli (pronounced "zhee-lee") is a film released in 2003 which was written and directed by Martin Brest, staring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
Although the film itself is widely seen as shockingly bad, the media attention over Affleck and Lopez's engagment may have hampered the movie's reputation further.
A common criticism of Gigli is that it too closely follows the modern era film industry practice of reusing unoriginal plots, clichéd dialog, and significant filler material.
www.portaljuice.com /gigli__movie_.html   (215 words)

  
 Gigli Review :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
A lowly hit man, Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), is hired to kidnap the mentally handicapped little brother (Justin Bartha) of a federal prosecutor for Mob purposes.
Holed up in Gigli's apartment, the duo clashes at first but gradually form a bond, even though Gigli is a chauvinistic jughead and Ricki a tough-nut lesbian.
www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1723770   (651 words)

  
 Gigli - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
Gigli stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez as two over-hyped celebrities who've fallen in love and who enjoy telling all of America about their dewy-eyed romance.
Of Gigli's many problems, the biggest is that we don't believe these characters, Though the film opens with Ben Affleck shaking someone down, we never for a second trust that he's working for the mob.
If I had to choose between Gigli and Bad Boys II (what circle of Hell would I be in?!), I'd choose Gigli every time.
www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/gigli.html   (658 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Gigli : Plot
She says her name is Ricki, and Gigli soon learns that the nervous Louis has hired her to keep an eye on him.
"In every relationship," Gigli soon finds himself expounding to his unwanted partner, "there's a bull and a cow." His efforts to maintain control of the situation are further hampered by the brief appearance of the insane Detective Stanley Jacobellis (Christopher Walken) and a forced visit to his overbearing mother's (Lainie Kazan) house.
She, meanwhile, proves herself considerably more capable than the lunkheaded Gigli, winning their war of words and even scaring off a rowdy group of high school kids.
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 Gigli movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
Gigli immediately tries to be sweet to the tough Ricki, but she tells him he is not her type.
Gigli is given an assignment by his connection to the mob, Louis (Lenny Venito), to kidnap Brian (Justin Bartha), the younger brother of a significant District Attorney.
Gigli is ecstatic about his new job and snags the younger brother only to find out that he is psychologically challenged.
www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/g/gigli.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Gigli (2003): Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gigli berates, insults, dismisses, throttles, and bellows at Bartha's meticulously aped retard, and then turns sensitive and warm—it's hard to decide which attitude is more insulting.
I cant really say this movie sticks because most of the movie out at the moment are a lot like this movie but i am relly proud to say at lessed they looked at another angle.
"Gigli" sure has its problems, mainly that it suffers from the fact that the plot isn't particularly interesting, but the movie is completely harmless - nothing special in any direction, but works as a way of killing time.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/gigli   (1444 words)

  
 Movie Photos: Gigli
The movie pairs real-life lovers, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, as Larry Gigli and Ricki.
The movie's script stoops to abuse of the handicapped as one way to try to get some laughs.
From the very start the movie flatlines like a heart monitor on a dead man. And it never improves.
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 Gigli - Movie Review
Having heard all of the anti-hype surrounding the film upon its big screen release, I watched it on DVD strongly expecting it to be the worst movie ever made.
Unfortunately, a flick's always going to be in trouble when the only positive thing to be said about it is "it's not the worst film ever made." After all, had the infuriatingly slimy Matthew McConaughey been added to the concoction, it probably would be.
The strange brand of engrossment that comes from watching the man act is akin to the urge to slow down when driving past a car wreck - only the latter tends to be less gruesome.
www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/628   (640 words)

  
 Movie Review: Gigli / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
He also got paid for coming up with the movie's improbable story, which must have been pitched as "kind of like Chasing Amy with gangsters – only we throw in a bit of Rain Man and a dash of The Mexican and some Tarantino-esque violence and dialogue" (I've seen racehorses with less-convoluted genealogies).
The result is an inane story that has Larry Gigli (Affleck) hired to kidnap Brian (Justin Barth), the mentally challenged brother of a U.S. prosecutor, to pressure the attorney to drop the case against a gangster named Starkman (Al "I Owed Brest a Favor for Scent of a Woman" Pacino).
But since the film doesn't want to suggest that all "Ricki" needed to go straight was a good basting by Larry, their getting fowl-ed up is followed by reels and reels and reels of "Ricki" espousing her sexuality and questioning Larry's own (while also suggesting various eye makeups).
www.mountainx.com /movies/g/gigli.php   (857 words)

  
 Gigli: Movie-Source.com Gigli Movie, Gigli Preview, Gigli Review
Gigli is one of the most infamous movies ever made, but not in the way it would like.
No, Gigli is a bad movie, but don't let peer pressure get the best of you - there have been far worse movies over the years, including this year...
None of this really matters, as the movie is plagued by some really hideous dialogue and a performance from Affleck that should have remained behind locked doors.
www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1197   (801 words)

  
 Gigli Review (DVD Movie/Film)
The plot follows as such: Gigli (Affleck) is a hitman hired to kidnap ‘psychologically challenged’ Brian (played very convincingly by Justin Bartha), the younger brother of a federal prosecutor who is about to put away a mob boss.
Meathead type Gigli is the ringleader in calling Brian a retard and generally abusing the defenceless boy.
In Gigli it is merely as an excuse to show that all lesbians need is Ben Affleck.
www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=102   (515 words)

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