Ishtar Lives!

Rating: 1/10 (7 November 2009)

Quite possibly the worst movie of the decade. The only explanation for its production some in the know sick joke on remaking Ishtar and replacing it as number one on anyone's bad movie list. Same major-star buddy plot wandering aimlessly in the desert. Turgid, not funny, not remotely interesting, appealing in a masochistic way in the bad dye jobs worn by aging stars playing young soldiers. Desperation plot devices cobbled into the incoherent script to distract from the awfulness: the always popular among movie critics references to Abu Ghraib, and a lysergic acid subplot that does play as if a bad trip. My audience sat in stunned silence. Not a laugh in the group. What were they thinking?