Rotten
This low-budget effort lacks the wit necessary to sustain its brief 80-minute running time.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
My Big Fat Independent Movie
The Hitmen. The Swinger. The Not So Good Girl. Together they'll discover Action, Culture, Mystery, Romance (and Lesbians?) in the most Pretentious, Artsy, Violent, Botched Heist film EVER MADE! Taking the highbrow world of Independent Film to all new lows!
2005 · 1h 20m · R
Comedy
Directed by
Philip Zlotorynski
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My Big Fat Independent Movie
Overview
This hilariously smart satire tells the story of Johnny Vince, a swingin' hepcat who meets hitman Sam and Harvey on a road trip to pull a "botched robbery" in Las Vegas. Along the way they take a deeply unfulfilled not-so-good-girl hostage, encounter the mysterious Mechanic, get harassed by a foul-mouthed answering machine... and did we mention the lesbians? The result - hilarity ensues!
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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23%
Tomatometer
Rotten
My Big Fat Independent Movie is a frenetic attempt to spoof every major art-house film of the last decade.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
This painfully unfunny spoof promises to do for independent movies what Airplane! did for disaster movies, but mostly what My Big Fat Independent Movie does is demonstrate the ineptitude of its makers.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
It's a sour, petty act of mockery that values its own ineptitude over genuine cleverness, travestying Quentin Tarantino and others simply for dreaming up gimmicks that worked.
Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice
Rotten
If you've seen all the above films, this will all sound just as silly as it is. If you haven't, it will just sound cuckoo.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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