Ben & Arthur (2002)

what a movie. if you consider it one. the sky is red. the sun is green. visiting your family after years is your greatest mistake ever. I kid you not!. this movie is "so bad it got out of control" XDthere is nothing much to say about it. except that if you for whatever reason liked the room. this is definitely suits you. from ultra terrible acting to no script and "YOU'RE TEARING APART LISA" equivalent. also if you like the effects of birdimic. this has worse sound cuts. it feels like it was recorded with a cheap home camera. the only thing you will miss are the birds. there aren't any.so "the Room" married "Birdimic" and gave birth to another abomination called "Ben and Arthur" read "Bird And A room"

This movie is truly awful. When one of the reviewers wrote that this film was shot with a Nokia 3200. I thought that this was joke but after watching it, I wouldn't be surprise. I know that it is more than 12 years old and technology has improved a lot, but even with my really cheap Chinese smart phone I could film a better movie then this. The editing is terrible, the sound is terrible, the acting is terrible (the actor that played Ben was okay) the script is terrible, the story is terrible and our "hero" Arthur is just so annoying.However, I would still recommend that you watch this movie, as it is really funny. It is so bad its good material. Also if you want to become a filmmaker, this is an example of how not to do it.

I love movies, but I have also seen some bad ones as well as bottom of the barrel worthy ones. Ben & Arthur was a movie I stumbled on by chance, and unaware of its dubious reputation I went ahead and watched it. And I regret it, while something MIGHT find some novelty value in it, it is really bottom of the barrel stuff.The story is thinner than a needle thread, and is little more than a series of disconnected scenes, and I probably have got "cringetitis" from the countless number of times I cringed at the terrible dialogue here.Ben & Arthur is also rather badly made, the editing is slapdash and if I was paid £10 for each continuity error and goof I spotted I'd probably be one of the richest women in England by now. The characters are annoying and unlikeable, and the acting is horrendous, of all the acting I've seen in a movie the past month or so only The Room comes close to the atrociousness of the acting here.In conclusion, a terrible film with no redeeming qualities. 0/10 Bethany Cox

A friend showed me this last night and I think I'm mainly writing here as a means of therapy, a way to come to terms with what I saw. We watched it on Youtube and, even alongside all the thousands of videos of teenagers singing karaoke and cats riding around on vacuum cleaners, it must be one of the most dire things I have ever witnessed on that website. The fact that this has been sold on DVD, and that some poor, unfortunate souls have paid money for it, is deeply troubling.The first 10 minutes are taken up with the name Sam Mraovich flashing up repeatedly over what appears to be an image of a sceptic tank - this is in many ways a metaphor for the rest of the film - absolute sewage, made all the worse by the fact that ever element of the production has been controlled by one strange, talentless oaf who even plays the lead character. Paradoxically, despite being possibly the most poorly made film in the history of the universe, Ben and Arthur is somehow extremely entertaining, and it has been a long while since I've laughed so much at anything. The plot is some nonsensical story about two guys who go off to somewhere in the US where gay marriage is legal and get wed - but one of them has a nutty, camp, wannabe Bond-style villain for a brother who happens to be part of some loony Christian sect that hates gays and loves violence. The film degenerates further and further into a great big farcical mess as the Christians kill off the gays and their friends, and the gays kill off the Christians, until it arrives at one of the oddest finales ever - the director/lead character (a vigorously unattractive man) gets naked, gets forcibly baptised and then starts pleading with the psycho-brother to have sex with him. Basically there is no real sense in trying to explain the plot, as it is just far too strange for words.The acting is abysmal. Like, really, really, really bad. You hear "actors" blatantly mess up their lines and see them stare directly into the camera. The film is absolutely full of mistakes, too numerous to mention and the entire thing looks as if it was filmed on someone's mobile phone by a Parkinson's sufferer. I mean, surely it can't be too difficult to find someone capable of at least holding a camera vaguely still, can it? Then there's the music - the opening credits are accompanied by a plinky-plonky version of The Entertainer, whilst the rest of the score was created by a mentally-deficient chimp using a keyboard. There is nothing good about this film, literally NOTHING - well, apart from the fact that a lot of it is unintentionally hilarious. Watching it will fill you with a deep sense of loathing and pity towards anybody who had anything to do with it's production, the fact that there are films ranked lower than this on here astounds me. It truly is the antithesis off all that is good in this world.