I wouldn't go as far as comparing it to infamous box office disasters like "Ishtar" and "Hudson Hawk". For me I compare it to the sci-fi crumbler "Battlefield: Earth". Why? Well let's talk about what the film is really about first.

Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is your typical run-of-the-mill Mafia thug. He's full of himself, a player with the ladies and loves his job. 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. Gigli has no patience with this. If that wasn't bad enough for Gigli, his boss sticks him with Rikki (Jennifer Lopez), a fellow Mafia thug who also happens to be a lesbian. Can Gigli get through this assignment without screwin' up? Who knows?

"Gigli" was destined to be a train-wreck even if super couple Ben and Jen hadn't been in the movie. With jokes involving the Gigli character screaming at Brian to shut-up or a come-hither scene that opens with the line, "It's turkey time", you know you have hit rock bottom in the romantic comedy field.

Let's place the script aside and focus on the story for a moment. You have a Mafia thug seducing a much disciplined lesbian. For one thing, neither character has anything in common. Another thing: if you are going to have a lesbian in a movie, why do you always have to dumb her down. Why make her a lesbian at all?

One of the better scenes in the film does involve lesbian Lopez putting street-thug Affleck in his place after he proclaims that men are the world's center of passion. The second and final better scene is at the film's conclusion when Brian's dream comes true. I guess I liked Brian enough to want to see him be happy.

Justin Bartha's Brian is a good solid performance and he shows how literally dull a movie with heavy-weights like Affleck, Lopez, Al Pacino and Christopher Walken can be. The cameos by Pacino and Walken are utterly forgettable and a waste of time in their esteemed careers. Pacino rants and fires a gun; well, gee, been there done that how many times?