Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

SnoopyStyle Paul Provenza and producer Penn Jillette bring an inside joke among comedians to the outside world. There's a family who performs a disgusting outlandish offensive act with their dog in front of a person. After the act, the persons ask what the act is called. They reply "The Aristocrats".It is essentially a bad joke. The reason for the love is that the performer is allowed to come up with the most outrageous inappropriate ideas. Honestly most of the jokes are not funny although it's probably funny for these comedians who have heard it all before. It is insane material that would never be used in any actual act. It's an insight into the world of comedians. The best one is probably Sarah Silverman who incorporates her family as the actual performers. She does it as a naive innocent girl although her punchline is "Joe Franklin raped me". Carrie Fisher does it with her famous parents. Gilbert Gottfried doing the roast after 9/11 is the most compelling piece of story. The DVD commentary adds more background to the comedy and the various comedians.

framptonhollis "The Aristocrats" is the most obscene film I've ever seen! You'll never see another documentary as horribly graphic in its language, yet so enjoyable to watch! It is a celebration of obscenity, comedy, and free speech. It is edgy, insensitive in every possible way, but that's what the joke is all about.To most people, making a whole film about one joke sounds idiotic, and with almost every other joke, it really is. However, the aristocrats joke is so interesting, and has been told so many times and in so many different ways that you mine as well make a film about it! And they did make a film about it, this film, 2005's "The Aristocrats".We watch comedian after comedian talk on and on about the history of this joke, their own variation of the joke, the joke's possible meaning, etc. And this joke just so happens to be the most ugly, disgusting, and unbelievable joke you've ever heard. It is the ultimate masterpiece of shock value!As you watch the film, listening to these comedians spewing offensive filth after offensive filth, and after a while, I just became desensitized by this filth, and the shock value of these obscenities began to fade away. The same thing happened to me during Stan Brakhage's experimental horror doc "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes".In that film, we are shown over 30 minutes worth of autopsy footage that Brakhage, himself, filmed. While watching that film I, at first, was disgusted and disturbed by the graphic imagery, but this disturbance eventually turned into the desensitizing of the graphic material being exposed to the viewer.As I said, I had a similar experience with "The Aristocrats", it starts off as being the most disgusting junk you've ever heard in your entire life, but then you just become used to it and accept it. It just becomes...funny. That's what jokes are supposed to be, right! Well, this film is REALLY funny. It is the funniest documentary in recent years, and I'd highly recommend it to anybody interested in comedy. Even if you don't like the joke, you might love the film!

kadencole Um, wow, I feel sort of like the last sane man, I'm reading tons and tons of praise for a movie that essentially is the equivalent of thinking it's funny that penis, rape and incest are clearly defined in a dictionary, tee he, seriously? And for 90 minutes! I couldn't get through it, I was bored! My appreciation for my own time was very offended but jeez, from a political viewpoint, by most, I would be considered an extreme liberal with borderline heathen and hedonistic ideals on freedom and the use thereof, but this?! I'm glad we live in a society where even this garbage can be widely produced, great, fine, but I wouldn't want to watch this at length any more than I would want to watch scenes of staged violence and brutality over and over and over again. The level of immaturity to me and the whole composition of the movie would be like making a movie about a brutal child rape scene and having different directors and different actors portraying it in different ways throughout, if you think that's funny, you'll love this movie. I think the jokes on the public at large, if you like this sort of thing, that's disturbing, if you don't like it, you're a snob? If that's the case I've never been more proud to be a snob, wow, what a great waste of time, surely these talented individuals can find something better to do with their time. This seems like a failed attempt at high art and if there's anything I hate more than high art it's a failed attempt at it.

alex-crisp It's not a funny movie, it's a waste of your time, and the worlds funniest joke is $hit.If you like to laugh, don't watch this, you never hear anything amusing, it's terrible. If you like to be bored, then this is the movie for you, the KKK enjoyed Boyz In The Hood and Juice more than I enjoyed this, i'm shocked that anyone like this movie, its $hit! Only w@nk£rs will disagree with me.Q :Please can someone tell me why this movie is funny? A :It's funny because the viewer has to waste 90 minutes of their time watching it.