Can Gigli Be As Bad As They Say?

There's nothing film critics enjoy more than mauling a turkey carcass and this week's US opening of Ben Affleck and real-life gal pal J-Lo's film Gigli has offered them a golden opportunity to do just that. The romantic comedy, which by all accounts has the spark and zip of a wet Wednesday in Warrington, has been universally panned by the American critics. More importantly, it also tanked at the box office, scraping a poorly $3.8 million For your delectation we offer a schadenfreude-inducing selection of them here: 'Hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship.' The New York Times 'It's worth knowing how to pronounce Gigli because it will enter the vocabulary as a word meaning 'massive box-office flop; an embarrassment caused by Hollywood's inability to say no to powerful creative types. See also: Ishtar.' Northwest Herald Rarely has a movie that doesn't star Madonna achieved such a skin-crawling mixture of deluded preening and bungled humour.' Globe and Mail 'As unwatchable as it is unpronounceable.' Los Angeles Times The sheer level of vitriol levelled at this movie has had an unexpected effect on the team here in the Empire Online office. We actually want to see this. Really