Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It was nice to see all the older comedians that aren't on TV so much anymore(not to mention the several who have died since this was made), but the way it jumps from person to person quickly isn't so great. I would have preferred to see one comedian at a time, then not see that person again. But I guess this guy was going for an Oscar or something. I thought it was quite lame the way they zoomed in on a copy of the Onion to let you know this group of nobodies is the Onion staff. Honestly, just go on YouTube and watch a video of Gilbert Gottfried telling the joke and that's all you really need. The only reason to watch this is to see things like Paul Reiser's hair and wonder if he has a mirror. Or marvel at Larry Storch's lampshade with the plastic still on it. My favorite is the interview of a complete nobody on the set of Yes, Dear.

"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!

Perhaps it would help to be an actual comic with both raunchy tastes and an insider's appreciation for the underlying 'joke' to have a genuine understanding of this film, but that can hardly explain its relatively high rating here by a much broader audience. I guess there's no shortage of people who enjoy filth, and there are even those who like wallowing in it outright. Just to be clear, I like lowbrow humor; I'm a fan of 'Norbit' and 'Superbad' and all comedy in those veins. 'The Aristocrats' is something of a very different nature, though: it contains the foulest content imaginable – literally, as that's the whole point of the 'joke' – and in a documentary format that immediately becomes repetitive and tedious. There's no accounting for taste, but anyone should approach this time-killer with due caution; you may be exposed to a lot of stuff you'll wish you could un-hear.

You know how it really takes value off a joke when the teller laughs at the joke him/herself? Well, imagine looking at this for one and a half hours? Try to include the fact that the joke is really bad and that half of the content is people commenting their reactions to other people telling this lousy joke? Well, that's what this movie is all about, and that results in the most boring and least thought-provoking piece of crap I've ever seen on a DVD.If you like to see Hollywood people talking true obscenities, you might get something out of this, but otherwise I suggest skipping this. In any case a couple of minutes from the beginning (or in fact from any part) of the film already show what it's all about.I've rated 280 films on IMDb so far, and this is the only one I've ever given a 1/10.