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13.07.11 # Top Ten # 22 Comments
One thing’s for sure, feature films aren’t getting any better. Every year has its sprinkling of truly bad movies, and 2011 is no different. So let’s grab our surf board and tackle this year’s turd tidal wave.
Here’s our round-up/preview of the top 10 worst movies, 2011.
Season Of The Witch
I wish this was a remake of Halloween 3, but instead it’s Nicolas Cage trying to claw himself out of bankruptcy and helping another undeserving movie get green-lit by his involvement. This one is a medieval action-horror which has more in common with Monty Python’s Holy Grail than it would like.
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
The trilogy is complete. The actress who played Martin Lawrence’s wife in the first two refused come back so she could “hold her head up high.” Brandon T. Jackson is supposed to be 17 in the movie, but looks every bit of his 27 years. It has a 5% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sucker Punch
After taking terrific source material and turning it into average movies, Zack Snyder chooses to direct the first movie based on his own ideas. Turns out he has the unfocused, undisciplined mind of a 14 year old boy.
Zookeeper
Adam Sandler’s production house turns out another beaut. One of the most uninspired, deliberately calculated, soulless comedies in human history. Originally titled ‘Talking animals and Kevin James pratfalls equals cash for a bigger house’, Kevin James plays an overweight zookeeper inexplicably almost wooing one hottie and ending up with another. On screen he has more chemistry with the ape he takes to TGI Fridays, the purpose of which is to plug the restaurant. Dr. Doolittle is turning in his fictional grave.
The Dilemma
What beggars belief is how many comedies must have passed across director Ron Howard’s desk in the last 40 years. Demonstrating absolutely appalling judgement he goes for this, a tonally extremely awkward comedy that’s trying to get laughs out of someone cheating on their husband and a script with no jokes. Even Vince Vaughn can’t improv his way out of this one.
Judy Moody And The NOT Bummer Summer
Super hyperactively juvenile kids movie that’s hated by anyone over the age of six. Total bummer.
Battle: Los Angeles
A trailer without character dialogue should have been the clue, this brain-dead invasion movie plays like a dull recruitment video for the US army with moronic storytelling, yawn inducing gun battles and characters leaping to all sorts of unlikely conclusions. Roger Ebert called it a step backwards for cinema.
Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
Six years ago the first Hoodwinked had rubbish animation but a witty, charming script. Somebody wanted to cash in so this lamely written sequel was made, with animation that’s seemingly even worse than the first time round. Think dull videogame cutscene from a lame platformer. Worst ‘vs.’ movie since Ecks vs. Sever.
Setup
I’m not sure what the story is behind this film existing, but someone was threatened, bribed or backed into a corner. Bruce Willis hits rock bottom starring in a lethargically low-budget-looking action thriller opposite 50 ‘never seems to get any better at acting’ Cent. Ryan Phillippe can’t yell away the shame.
Jack And Jill
It’s a tranny holiday treat for Adam Sandler fans. This is the laziest man-playing-a-woman-for-real act I’ve ever seen, at least Big Momma’s House made some effort to transform the guy and he was only meant to be in disguise. A new career low for Pacino.
Honourable Mention: Mars Needs Moms
What do you think are the worst movies of 2011? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Thanks to the MSN video embed at the end THOR is technically on this list, much to my happiness!
What an abysmal lot.
I’ve never seen a more predictable film than Battle LA. “tell my my wife I love her”, indeed.
I found Sucker Punch much more entertaining than Inception. Both had the minds of teenage boys. The difference was that one was self important. predictable, and pretentious like the dullest old science fiction story. The other was pretentious but full of the crass imagery, the silly ideas and the saucy young madams from the book covers, which was the main reason you purchased these things in the first place. But more importantly, I’ve developed a real aversion to Chris Nolan fans and their belief that the entire history of film has been transformed by a couple of Batman reboots. The bizarre conviction that anyone winning an award, or even being nominated for an award, who isn’t Mr Nolan must be part of a conspiracy is not very endearing either.
Smite the unbeliever! Hail Nolan, mighty Nolan! Cut down one Nolanite and two Nolanites will take his place! (Always his…)
have you see memento or insomnia, both are before the batman movies, they are both great, memento is incredable. also prestige is a excellent movie which was done inbetween batmans.
I’ve seen all of Nolan’s films and with the exception of Inception, which nearly bored me into a coma, I think they’re OK. I do think some of his fans are overly earnest and seem intent on elevating his work beyond anything the films can actually sustain and possibly beyond anything any film can sustain!
I do not believe in objective greatness. I like playful, meaning:funny,gory, sexy, silly or in some other way brimming with life. Or I like films I find touching. It;s an instinctual level thing. My problem with some of Nolan fanbase is that it is trying to prove that he is objectively great and measure him against directors he has nothing in common with in either style or historical context. Basically I think Nolan is a bit of a humourless teenage-boy hobby horse, which is fine. But I’m not a teenage boy and when I was one I wasn’t that kind of teenager anyway.
Why isn’t Green Lantern on this list? Worst movie I’ve seen in a while.
I totally agree with every movie in the list, except Sucker Punch. If you actually take a look at the story by itself and at the idea behind it, you will love the movie… This is a good explanation that the cover doesn’t make the book, because behind the flashy fights and CGI there is a cool twist about the concept of being free. Watch it again I say.
Good list, but I’m not a fan of the “Snyder taking good source material and making it average” comment. If you’ve seen Watchmen, you’d know its anything but average.
I was a bit harsh, but here’s the thing, a couple of weeks before Watchmen came out I got hold of the graphic novel for the first time, it was one of the best reading experiences I’ve ever had. The movie nailed the look (which is no small achievement) and Snyder got an excellent performance out of Jackie Earle Haley, but the intellectual weight of the graphic novel was lost. eg Compare the fantastic scene on Mars in the comic, to the version on screen, it could have been translated fine, but it loses so much in the movie. I enjoyed watching the film, but that’s why I believe it was average.
Sucker Punch was a mess, but for me Scream 4 wins out (loses out?) as worst film of 2011 so far. Trying far too hard to be on-the-pulse smart, it collapsed into a smug, messy swamp of self-parody.
Scream 4 was disappointing, creaky and unscary, but at the same time it could have been worse. The idea behind the twist was decent and I still enjoy the Gale-Dewey exchanges. Ultimately it was a movie whose writer who had nothing else left to say and a killer who was miscast (they were totally unconvincing after the reveal). It should have rebooted the Ghostface design too.
Scream 4 really wasn’t very good.
The Green Lantern is the most aptly titled and most pedantic movie I ever see. It looked exactly like it was lit with green lanterns.
“Ice Age 2012″ is by FAR the worst film of 2011, I mean by FAAAR!
The special effects are made by a 4 year old, and the whole story just doesn’t add up.
“Bridesmaids”. Worst movie EVER. First time I walked out in the middle of a movie.
Apollo 18
The rocks have legs, the movie doesn’t.
Didn’t see mentioned Transformers: Dark of the Moon. 2011′s worst movie. OMG just a mess. You could practically hear the filmmakers: “Let’s put a star in here, maybe it will save the scene. Let’s put another star in here….etc.” I heard Shia LeBoof was beat up in Vancouver. Sorry dude.
Looks like I missed out on so much. Only film on this list I watched was Battle.
Red State annoyed me. Think it was because it felt like 3 films compressed into one.
That’s not to say it was the worst, just that it was one that I noticed could have been better when I wanted it to be better.
I still haven’t seen Rubber yet. It not being on this list gives me some hope (ok. I never do this but . . .LOL?).
I need to add Bucky Larson to this list.
I get the feeling Red State will annoy me too. I’ve found Kevin Smith increasingly annoying in recent years. I liked him back in the Mallrats days.
You’ve been putting off seeing Rubber for ages, it’s clearly your destiny, it’s time to get it done. What could make you hesitate about a movie that stars a tyre?
Breaking Dawn…hands down
I love “Battle:Los Angeles!” I first saw it in the movie theater and it was so awesome! I don’t even remember how many times I’ve seen it on DVD! It is really one knock em,rock em,sock em fabulous movie! Right on Hollywood!!
I have to give the honor to The Dilemma. Maybe not the worst movie but I actually expected this one to be good. Lots of talent went to waste here.
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