2000s
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Battlefield Earth is based on the first half of L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel of the same name, and stars John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker. Although a sequel covering the second half of the book was planned, the panning from critics, poor box-office performance, and financial ruin of Franchise Pictures killed off such plans. It was criticized for a poor script, hammy acting, overuse of Dutch angles, repetitive dialogue, and several inconsistencies and plot holes. The movie's producer, Franchise Pictures, was later forced out of business after it emerged that it had fraudulently overstated the film's budget by $31 million. It has a 3% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, [1] where it is included in the top 100 worst-reviewed movies of all time. [2] [3] Roger Ebert predicted that the film, "for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies". [4] Ebert also wrote, "The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why". [4] It is also on his "most hated" list. [5] Nathan Rabin covered the film as part of his My World of Flops column for The A.V. Club , calling it "a fiasco that occupies a distinguished place high atop the pantheon of widely reviled crap" and said, "A legendary disaster well before it finished completion, Battlefield Earth hit theaters with a "Kick Me" sign on it so massive it could be detected from outer space." [6]
It won seven Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Screen Couple (John Travolta and "anyone on the screen with him"). In 2005, an eighth Razzie (for Worst "Drama" of Our First 25 Years) was awarded to the film, [7] [ better source needed ] and in 2010 it won a ninth Razzie at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture of the Decade. [8] Listing the film as one of the worst decisions in movie history, Rolling Stone quipped that, "If Earth sticks around long enough for the Golden Raspberry Awards to hand out a "worst movie of the century" at their 2100 ceremony, it'll probably win that, too." [9] It won more Razzies than any film in the history of the awards at the time, [10] until Jack and Jill surpassed its record with 10 wins in 2012. [11]
The movie appeared on Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] and is on the Movie Review Query Engine's (MRQE) 50 Worst Movies list, [13] as well as worst film lists from Screen Rant, Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, Digital Trends and the New York Daily News. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] Empire named it the second worst movie ever made after Batman & Robin and The Register listed it as the worst movie ever made. [19] [20] Pepper and Whitaker both expressed regret for their involvement in Battlefield Earth, while film screenwriter J. David Shapiro later apologized for making "the suckiest movie ever". [21] [20]
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (also known as Titanic, mille e una storia, Titanic: La leggenda continua and Titanic: The Animated Movie) is an Italian animated mockbuster about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It features a similar romantic storyline to James Cameron's 1997 Titanic film, but also has a number of talking animals (most notably, a rapping dog). [22] Reviews condemned the quality of the animation and criticized the plot for being insensitive to the memory of the victims of the Titanic. [22]
Total Film named Titanic: The Legend Goes On as "officially the worst film ever made", after it topped a list of the 66 worst films ever. [23] An article from Collider also described it as one of the worst films ever made, but notes that it "[lacks] the cult following that other bad films often acquire," stating: "Titanic: The Legend Goes On is too heinous for such fond pleasures." [24] Critic Tim Brayton said that "It is one of the most surreally bad films I have ever encountered", adding: "For sheer mesmerising grotesqueness, there's almost nothing I can name that beats it, and no fan of bad movies can say that their life is complete till they've been exposed to it." [25] [26] Total Film also included the film on a list of the worst kids' movies, describing it as being "widely considered one of the worst animated films ever made", [27] while Spanish film magazine Fotogramas selected it as one of the 20 worst films ever made. [28] Screen Rant included it on a list of the 12 worst animated films of all time, and it topped a Showbiz Cheat Sheet list of the top 10 worst animated films ever, with author Will Roberts commenting that "[any] list of the worst animated films of all time begins with ... Titanic: The Legend Goes On". [22] [29] In 2012, Titanic: The Legend Goes On became the lowest-rated film on IMDb's Bottom 100 list. [30]
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
The comedy film Freddy Got Fingered stars Tom Green, who also wrote and directed it, featuring largely gross-out and shock humor similar to that featured in The Tom Green Show . In the film, Green stars as a 28-year-old slacker and cartoonist who falsely accuses his father of child molestation when he questions his son's life goals. Freddy Got Fingered received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with CNN critic Paul Clinton declaring it "quite simply the worst movie ever released by a major studio in Hollywood history." [31] Warren Epstein of The Gazette described Freddy Got Fingered as "the worst movie ever made". [32] A review in The Washington Post said: "If ever a movie testified to the utter creative bankruptcy of the Hollywood film industry, it is the abomination known as Freddy Got Fingered." [33] Roger Ebert included the film on his "most hated" list, [5] gave it zero out of four stars and wrote: "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." [34]
Freddy Got Fingered was nominated for eight awards at the 2001 Razzies, and won for Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst On-Screen Couple. [35] [36] Razzies founder John J. B. Wilson called it "offensive, stupid and obnoxious" and said it had "no redeeming value". [35] Green accepted his awards in person, traveling to the ceremony in a white Cadillac, wearing a tuxedo and rolling out his own red carpet to the presentation. The movie has an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [37] In 2010, the film was nominated at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture of the Decade, [8] though it lost to Battlefield Earth. [38] Freddy Got Fingered also appeared on Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] was featured in Empire's list of the 50 Worst Movies Ever poll, [19] and is on the MRQE's 50 Worst Movies list. [13]
Glitter (2001)
Starring Mariah Carey [41] in the lead role as an aspiring singer in 1980s New York City, the romantic musical drama Glitter was intended to be her breakthrough role but was a critical failure and a box-office bomb. Hindustan Times claimed that Glitter "was slammed by almost all critics for being the worst film ever". [42] Fade In stated that "Glitter isn't just one of the worst music-themed films ever — it's one of the worst films ever made, period." [43] Author Bob McCann wrote in Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television that it's "rightfully in the running as one of the worst films ever made". [44] News.com.au, [45] Hi , [46] Flavorwire, [14] Screen Rant, [15] Vanity Fair, [16] Metacritic, [12] and Empire are amongst those who have listed it as one of the worst films ever made. [19]
Glitter received six Razzie nominations, and Carey won for Worst Actress. [47] It was also featured in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, and in 2005, it was nominated for "Worst Musical of Our First 25 Years", but lost to From Justin to Kelly . In an interview in 2010, Carey stated that she believed that the film's failure at the box office was largely due to the soundtrack being released the same day as the September 11 attacks. [48] It has a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 87 reviews. [49]
Swept Away (2002)
A remake of a 1974 Italian film of the same name, the romantic comedy film Swept Away was directed by Guy Ritchie and starred his then-wife Madonna and Adriano Giannini. It received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with most of the criticism going towards Madonna's bad acting, the original film being considered superior and the remake being considered just a star vehicle for Madonna. [51] Rex Reed of The New York Observer said: "If there is one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie movie, it's a Guy Ritchie movie with Madonna in it." [52] Newsday critic John Anderson said, "New ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is." [53] Joe Queenan of The Guardian discussed the movie in an article on what makes a movie the worst of all time and said, "[...] Showgirls has a certain campy allure that grows a bit each time I see it. Madonna's Swept Away doesn't; it seems more amateurish on each viewing, like a morass that starts out as a quagmire, then morphs into a cesspool and finally turns into a slime pit on the road to its ultimate destination in the bowels of Hell." [54] Julie Burchill, also from The Guardian, selected it as her pick for the worst film ever made. [55]
Swept Away was also a box-office bomb; against a $10 million budget, it grossed $598,645 in the United States and around $437,875 from foreign territories for a worldwide total gross of $1,036,520. [56] It received five awards at the 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards and became the first film to win both Worst Picture and Worst Remake or Sequel. At the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards, it was nominated for Worst "Drama" of Our First 25 Years, and at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards, it was nominated for Worst Picture of the Decade, but 'lost' to Battlefield Earth at both ceremonies. Empire ranked it #20 in its list of "The 50 Worst Movies Ever", [19] and After Ellen ranked it #7 in its list of "The worst movies ever to grace the screen". [57]
The Master of Disguise (2002)
The comedy film The Master of Disguise was produced in part by Adam Sandler and stars Dana Carvey as Pistachio Disguisey, an undercover Italian waiter who must save his father Fabbrizio (James Brolin) from the evil Devlin Bowman (Brent Spiner) by using his inherent skills in disguise. Although the film was a box office success, it received scathing reviews from critics upon its release, many of which pointed out its sophomoric plot, unfunny humor (in particular, its flatulence gags) and disguises that would clearly not be recognized by children (such as Tony Montana from Scarface ). Many critics also pointed out the short running time, consisting of 72 minutes of the film itself and over ten minutes of end credits juxtaposed with outtakes, including two post credit scenes. Roger Ebert gave it one star out of four, claiming, "The movie is a desperate miscalculation. It gives poor Dana Carvey nothing to do that is really funny, and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time." [58] Alan Morrison, writing for Empire, proclaimed that The Master of Disguise was "the worst film ever made: a film about idiots, made by idiots, for idiots", [19] while Matthew Turner of ViewLondon remarked, "This is a serious contender for the title of The Worst Film Ever Made." [59] The film holds a 1% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 104 reviews, [60] and is featured on the site's list of the top 100 worst-reviewed films of all time. [2] It also appears on Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] and is on the MRQE's 50 Worst Movies list. [13] A cameo appearance by Bo Derek landed her a nomination for Worst Supporting Actress at the 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards, but she lost to Madonna for Die Another Day .
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
The action film Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever stars Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu as opposing secret agents. Critics panned it, generally regarding it as having no redeeming features, not even the unintentional comedic value normally associated with bad films. They variously described the film as "A picture for idiots", "Boring to an amazing degree", "A fine achievement in stupidity and dullness", "Dreadful", "[Giving] new meaning to the word incoherent", and "bad on just about every level". One critic suggested an alternative title as "Simplistic: Bullets Vs. Humans". [61]
Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post wrote, "You could run this film backward, soundtrack included, and it would make no less sense." [62] Roger Ebert called the movie "a chaotic mess, overloaded with special effects and explosions, light on continuity, sanity and coherence." [63] In addition to being lambasted by critics, it was a disaster financially, recouping just over $19.9 million of its $70 million budget. In March 2007, Rotten Tomatoes ranked it #1 among "The Worst of the Worst" movie list, with 108 "rotten" reviews and no "fresh" ones. [64] Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever remains the worst reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes, as it is at the top of their 100 Worst Films of All time list. [2] Mental Floss has also nominated it as the worst movie ever made and Ebert included it in his "most hated" list. [65] [5]
Ben and Arthur (2002)
A low-budget 2002 American romantic drama film about the titular gay couple who come into conflict with Arthur's religious brother, Ben and Arthur was written, directed, produced, edited, and scored by Sam Mraovich, who also played the character Arthur. Ben and Arthur received strong criticism (especially from the LGBT community) for its low budget and poor plotting. BuzzFeed described it as the "worst gay movie of all time". [66] The gay popular culture site Queerty described Ben and Arthur as "unintelligible" and ended its review by calling it the "Worst. Movie. Ever." [67] The gay movie review site Cinemaqueer likewise stated: "Ben and Arthur is so terrible that it has awoken the dormant Bette Davis in me. It is so painfully bad that it wouldn't even make good fodder on Mystery Science Theater 3000 . This just might possibly be the worst movie I have ever seen ... Unless you get a kick out of mocking bad films, avoid this one at all costs." [68] Michael Adams, reviewing the film for his book Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, describes it thus: "Ben & Arthur is as over-the-top insane as it is ludicrously executed ... the production values, from biscuits on plates comprising the main course of a candlelit dinner to a church literally having a cardboard cross and a cartoon Jesus on the wall, are as bad as anything I've seen." [69] A Rotten Tomatoes article placed Ben and Arthur on their list of "Films So Bad They're Unmissable", saying "If Tommy Wiseau's The Room is the over-wrought, melodramatic and self-pitying heterosexual camp classic of choice, then Sam Mraovich's Ben & Arthur is its gay equivalent." Rotten Tomatoes also stated "Every scene, every line, every hissy fit is simultaneously hilariously amateur and hysterically fever-pitched." [70] Total Film ranked Ben and Arthur at No. 58 in their list of the 66 worst films of all time. [23] Mraovich finds Ben and Arthur's placement among the canon of worst films to be a blessing as the film has received more attention than he ever anticipated. [66]
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
The romantic-comedy musical From Justin to Kelly stars Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, [71] the winner and runner-up, respectively, of the first season of American Idol . The film was a critical and commercial disaster, earning only $4.9 million at the North American box office and achieving a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 63 reviews. [72] Josh Tyrangiel of Time Magazine described From Justin to Kelly as "a monstrous Idol movie musical that in the most generous light is the worst film so far this century", [73] while The Free Lance–Star referred to it as "the world's worst movie". [74] Nathan Rabin, reviewing the film for his "My Year of Flops" series, stated, "All films require suspension of disbelief. From Justin To Kelly requires something more like a temporary lobotomy. Nothing about the main characters or their relationships makes sense." [75] It won a special Razzie—"Governor's Award – Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography"—at the 24th Golden Raspberry Awards. [76] It was nominated for eight additional Razzies (including a second special award, "Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie"), and a year later it won for Worst "Musical" of Our First 25 Years. Total Film, Screen Rant and Digital Trends included From Justin to Kelly on their worst film lists. [17] [15] [23] In a later interview, Clarkson expressed regret over From Justin to Kelly, stating she only did it because she was contractually obligated to do so: "I knew when I read the script it was going to be real, real bad, but when I won, I signed that piece of paper, and I could not get out of it." [73]
The Room (2003)
The independently produced The Room, about an amiable banker whose friends betray him one by one, has been called "the Citizen Kane of bad movies" by some critics. [77] [78] [79] The Guardian , Vox , The Washington Post , ABC Australia, and Süddeutsche Zeitung called it the worst film ever made. [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club called it "the greatest bad movie of our time" and said, "The Room is nearly an anti-film—an inane and unintentionally surreal soap opera, filled with non-sequiturs, confused characters, and gratuitous, anatomically incorrect sex." [85] Though the film's star, writer, producer, and director Tommy Wiseau has claimed it is a black comedy and its numerous flaws are intentional, other actors involved in the production have denied this, saying that Wiseau intended it as a melodramatic romance. [86]
The Room has been noted for its bizarre and non-sequiturial dialogue, protracted sex scenes, various subplots that are inadequately resolved or simply disappear altogether (such as a character announcing that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer which is never mentioned again throughout the entire film), and infamous use of green-screen for "outdoor" rooftop scenes. It made its broadcast premiere as an April Fools' Day special in 2009 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, edited down from its original R rating to a TV-14/DSLV rating; it would prove so popular the network continued to air the film on April 1 as a tradition for several years, to the point the 2012 prank for the network consisted of playing the first few minutes before suddenly cutting off for an unannounced one-night revival of their Toonami block, with block host T.O.M first greeting the audience as Wiseau's character does, declaring "Oh, hai, Adult Swim". The day after its appearance, its DVD became the top-selling independent film on Amazon.com. In June 2010, The Room started playing at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. [87] Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett produced an audio commentary track to accompany the movie through their site RiffTrax.com. In 2013, the book The Disaster Artist , written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, was published; the book is Sestero's memoir of his involvement in the production of the movie. The book was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film of the same name, [88] [89] directed by and starring James Franco as Wiseau (winning a Best Actor Golden Globe Award for his performance) [90] [91] and his brother Dave Franco as Sestero. A remake starring Bob Odenkirk was set to be released in June 2023 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film's release, but was delayed.
Gigli (2003)
The Martin Brest movie Gigli features Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, with appearances by Al Pacino and Christopher Walken. [92] Gigli was originally a black comedy with no romantic subplot, but the producers demanded script rewrites throughout filming, hoping to cash in on the Lopez–Affleck romance that was then big news in celebrity-watching publications such as Us and People . This film cost $54 million to make but grossed only $6 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time. The Times gave the film a zero, making Gigli the lowest-scored film review in the publication's history at that time. The Wall Street Journal stated that it was "[t]he worst movie—all right, the worst allegedly major movie—of our admittedly young century", [93] while Roger Friedman of Fox News claimed it was "[t]he worst movie ever made". [94] It was also the winner of seven Razzies (including 2005's Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years), [95] and in 2010 the film was nominated at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards for "Worst Picture of the Decade". [8] It is in Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 worst-reviewed movies of the 2000s, [3] where it has a 6% rating. [96] AfterEllen ranked Gigli number 1 in its list of the worst films of all time. [57] Empire, Screen Rant, and Digital Trends also listed it as one of the worst films ever made. [17] [19] [15]
Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004)
The 2004 British sex comedy Sex Lives of the Potato Men is about the sex lives of a group of potato delivery men in Birmingham. The film received strongly hostile reviews from the British media. Reviews claimed Sex Lives of the Potato Men was unfunny, disgusting, and depressing. [97] Writing in the Daily Mirror , film critic Kevin O'Sullivan called Sex Lives of the Potato Men "one of the worst films ever made". [98] Novelist Will Self, in his review for The Evening Standard , called Sex Lives of the Potato Men "mirthless, worthless, toothless, useless". [97] The Times reviewer James Christopher dubbed Sex Lives of the Potato Men "one of the two most nauseous films ever made ... a masterclass in film-making ineptitude". [97] The Sunday Express film critic, Henry Fitzherbert, also strongly condemned the film: "Sex Lives is so awful it left me slack-jawed in disbelief ... it must be one of the worst British comedies." [99] Catherine Shoard, in a critique in The Sunday Telegraph , stated "It's hard to know what to say to this – it's like finding the right words at a nasty accident ... Sex Lives of the Potato Men is probably the lewdest Brit-com since Confessions of a Window Cleaner , and certainly the worst." Shoard also described the film as "Less a film than an appetite suppressant." [100] Alan Morrison in the Scottish Daily Record described it as "puerile smut of the very worst kind ... Sex Lives of the Potato Men should never have been made". [101] The Irish Times later noted that "Sex Lives of the Potato Men attracted some of the worst reviews in living memory." [102] The Birmingham Post described Sex Lives of the Potato Men as "quite possibly the worst film ever made", [103] while The Independent on Sunday stated that the film was "a strong contender for the title of worst film of all time". [104] It was also featured in Empire's 50 Worst Movies Ever poll. [19] The film has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews. [105]
Catwoman (2004)
Nominally based on the DC Comics character, Catwoman stars Halle Berry as the title character. The film was the result of various rewrites by a total of 28 different screenwriters, though only four were credited after arbitration with the Writers Guild of America. It has a 9% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, [107] and was declared "arguably the worst superhero film ever made" by the Orlando Sentinel . Jean Lowerison of the San Diego Metropolitan said in her review that Catwoman "goes on my 'worst' list for the year, and quite possibly for all time". [108] Sadaf Ahsan of the National Post went further, calling it the worst movie ever made. [109] The Village Voice summed up reviews of the film under the title "Me-Ouch". [110] The movie was the winner of four Razzies for Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director (Pitof) and Worst Screenplay. [95] Berry arrived at the ceremony to accept her Razzie in person (with her Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball in hand), saying: "First of all, I want to thank Warner Bros. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie ... It was just what my career needed." [106] Roger Ebert included it in his "most hated" list, [5] being joined by Screen Rant and Flavorwire, who also included it in their worst film lists. [15] [14]
Daniel – Der Zauberer (Daniel – The Wizard) (2004)
The German film Daniel – Der Zauberer was directed by Ulli Lommel and stars pop singer and ex- Deutschland sucht den Superstar contestant Daniel Küblböck, who appeared as a fictionalized version of himself. The Daily Dot wrote that it is considered to be the worst German film, [111] while n-tv said it was "possibly the worst movie ever made". [112] Nordbayern.de wrote: "Shot almost entirely with a shaky handheld camera, the film defies any kind of evaluation with its rudimentary storyline and dialogue that doesn't even reach porn film standards." [113] The website filmstarts.de states that Daniel – Der Zauberer was "unbearable for non-fans of Küblböck", adding that "the performances of the actors were some of the worst in the history of German cinema", and alleging that Ulli Lommel and producer Peter Schamoni had "damaged their reputation". [114] Years after its release, Küblböck admitted that, in retrospect, "[Y]ou have to say this is the worst movie of all time really". [115]
The film also performed extremely poorly at the box office, having only 13,834 viewers altogether, which led to it being withdrawn from screening at most cinemas within the first week, [116] with RP Online referring to it as a "super-flop". [117] It is consistently listed at IMDb's Bottom 100 list and became the lowest-rated film at one point. [18] Total Film listed it as the third worst film of all time, after Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 and the direct-to-video animated mockbuster Titanic: The Legend Goes On , [23] while Fotogramas and New York Daily News included it on their worst film lists. [18] [28] Filmstarts.de ranked it number 4 in its list of the 25 worst movies ever made, [118] and on the German movie rating site Moviepilot.de , it is the lowest-rated film with an average rating of 0.4/10. [119] In 2016, it was showcased on SchleFaZ , a German television show featuring the worst films ever made. [120]
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
The family-oriented comedy Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 was the last film directed by Bob Clark (of A Christmas Story fame) before his death. It is a sequel to the 1999 film Baby Geniuses and like its predecessor, it received negative reviews from film critics. [2] Following the plot of the first film, four babies can communicate with each other using 'baby talk', and have knowledge of many secrets. The "baby geniuses" become involved in a scheme by media mogul Bill Biscane (Jon Voight), a notorious kidnapper of children, who intends to use a satellite system to brainwash the world's population and force them to watch TV for the rest of their lives.
The film was a box-office bomb, only receiving $9 million from its $20 million budget. MovieWeb writer B. Alan Orange considers it the worst movie ever made, [121] Entertainment Weekly writer Joshua Rivera stated that it was the worst movie he had ever sat through, [122] and Tom Long of The Deseret News said "It is perhaps the most incompetent and least funny comic film ever made." [123] It was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Director (Bob Clark), Worst Supporting Actor (Jon Voight) and Worst Screenplay (Steven Paul (story) & Gregory Poppen). [124] Total Film named it the runner-up to Titanic: The Legend Goes On in its list of the worst films ever made, [23] and Mental Floss selected it as the second worst movie ever made after Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. [65] It was ranked as the worst sequel of all time by Rotten Tomatoes and, with a score of 0%, it is included in their list of the 100 Worst Movies of All Time. [2] [125]
Alone in the Dark (2005)
Loosely based on a series of video games by Infogrames and directed by Uwe Boll, the German-Canadian-American film Alone in the Dark was panned by critics for a multitude of reasons, including poor script and production values, quick cuts to optimize the gory content, almost no connection to the game, and bad acting. [127] The movie received a 1% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, was the second worst reviewed movie of the 2000s, [3] and appears in their top 100 worst-reviewed movies list. [2] It appeared on Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] which they gave a 9/100 to, [128] is on the MRQE's 50 Worst Movies list, [13] and is one of the few films to have received an F rating on CinemaScore. [129]
Roger Moore of The Orlando Sentinel stated: "Alone in the Dark shows just how tenuous Plan 9 from Outer Space's hold on that 'worst movie ever' title really is." [130] Likewise, Peter Hartlaub, the San Francisco Chronicle 's pop culture critic, called the film "the best Ed Wood movie ever made ... a film so mind-blowingly horrible that it teeters on the edge of cinematic immortality." [131] In 2009, he named it the worst film of the decade. [132] Jeffrey Lyles of The Gazette considered it so bad that "other legendary bad films ... await a film of this magnitude because it gets awfully lonely on the island of misfit movies", [133] while Scott Nash of Three Movie Buffs dubbed it "one of the worst movies ever made." [127]
Screenwriter Blair Erickson wrote about his experience dealing with Boll and his original script, which was closer to the actual game itself, and Boll's script change demands on the comedy website Something Awful . [134] It received two 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards nominations for Worst Director (Uwe Boll) and Worst Actress (Tara Reid), and won three 2005 Stinkers Awards, for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Special Effects. [135] Empire, Flavorwire, and Screen Rant all later included the film on their respective lists for the worst films ever made. [15] [14] [19]
Aag (2007)
Aag is a remake of one of the most successful Hindi films, Sholay , directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Rajeev Masand gave it a zero out of five. [136] Times of India stated that Aag "destroyed Bollywood's greatest film" and acknowledged that some "consider it the world's worst film". [137] Hindustan Times awarded it the "Lifetime's Worst Ever Movie Award". [138] It came in first in a FHM India list of the 57 worst movies ever made. [139] Total Film included it in their list of the 66 worst films of all time. [23] Amitabh Bachchan, who appeared in the original film and returned for the remake, later admitted that the film was "a mistake". [140]
Epic Movie (2007)
Epic Movie is a parody film by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer that mainly parodies epic and fantasy movies, most notably The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the Harry Potter films, but also contains references to all kinds of other then-popular films. Like most works by Friedberg and Seltzer, it received extremely negative reviews, holding an approval rating of 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, [2] and a Metacritic score of 17/100, indicating "overwhelming dislike". [141]
Harry Fletcher of The Standard said: "Filmmakers and trash-peddlers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have been responsible for some of the most pointless, lazy and unforgivable movies of the past decade and frankly, they need to be stopped. Disaster Movie , 300 spoof Meet the Spartans and awful Hunger Games mickey-take The Starving Games could easily have made this list of the worst movies ever made, but Epic Movie might be the worst of the lot." [142] Meanwhile, Jamie Russell of the BBC called it "the most excruciating, unfunny film you'll see this year... if not your entire lifetime." [143] Likewise, Nathan Rabin gave it an F score and said, "Epic Movie [...] strays so far from the solid fundamentals of filmmaking that it calls the very foundation of humor into question." [144]
At the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards, it received three nominations, for Worst Remake or Rip-off, Worst Screenplay and Worst Supporting Actress (Carmen Electra). It is included in Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 100 Worst Movies of All time, [2] Empire's and Flavorwire's lists of the 50 worst movies ever made, [19] [14] Standard 's list of the 12 worst films ever made, MRQE's 50 worst movies list [13] and Newsweek 's list of the 50 worst comedy movies of all time. [145]
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
I Know Who Killed Me is a psychological thriller film directed by Chris Sivertson and starring Lindsay Lohan as identical twins, one of whom insists her identity is that of another woman after being abducted by a serial killer. At the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards, it set a record for most awards won in a single year by winning eight awards and it received two further nominations at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards. [146]
The How Did This Get Made? podcast questioned, "Is this the worst movie Lindsay Lohan has ever been in or flat out the worst movie ever?" [147] Richard Roeper selected the film as the worst of the 2000s. [148] Gabe Delahaye of Stereogum reviewed I Know Who Killed Me as part of his search for the worst movie ever made, writing that: "Out of all the possible Worst Movies of All Time so far, none has been as painful to actually watch as I Know Who Killed Me". [149] It was named the 34th worst movie ever made in Empire's 50 Worst Movies Ever poll [19] and After Ellen named it the second worst ever made, after Gigli. [57] MRQE includes it on its 50 Worst Movies list, [13] and it has a rare F rating on CinemaScore. [129]
Disaster Movie (2008)
Disaster Movie is a parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, spoofing films in the disaster film genre. The film, like most films by Friedberg and Seltzer, received extremely negative reviews and has a 1% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 73 reviews. The site's consensus states: "Returning to their seemingly bottomless well of flatulence humor, racial stereotypes, and stale pop culture gags, Friedberg and Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst Movie yet." [150] It was ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as one of the worst-reviewed films of all time. [2] Jason Solomons of The Guardian stated that "Nothing can convey the grimness of Disaster Movie, which would be the Worst Movie Ever Made were it actually a movie at all." [151] Adam Tobias of Watertown Daily Times claimed that "I just don't see how anyone could not find Disaster Movie one of the worst films of all time." Tobias went on to write that the title was appropriate because the film is "a disaster." [152] It was featured in Empire's 50 Worst Movies Ever poll, [19] Total Film's 66 Worst Movies Ever list, [23] Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] and the MRQE's 50 Worst Movies list (where it holds a score of 17, the lowest score on the site). [13] Disaster Movie also received a rare F rating on CinemaScore. [129] The film is also notable for being the motion picture debut of Kim Kardashian, whose performance garnered a nomination for Worst Supporting Actress at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards alongside five additional nominations. [153]
Meet the Spartans (2008)
Another 2008 parody movie by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Meet the Spartans mainly parodied the movie 300 , but references to numerous other films as well. Like most Friedberg and Seltzer projects, it received extremely negative reviews, holding an approval rating of 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus reading: "A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time, Meet the Spartans scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel.", [154] and a Metacritic score of 9/100, indicating "overwhelming dislike". [155] Josh Levin of Slate called it the worst movie he had ever seen. [156] It is included in Empire's [19] and Flavorwire's [14] lists of the 50 worst movies ever made, News.com.au 's list of the 15 worst films of all time, [45] Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] and MRQE's 50 Worst Movies list. [13] At the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards, it received five nominations, including Worst Picture.
The Hottie and the Nottie (2008)
The romantic comedy The Hottie and the Nottie starring Paris Hilton, Joel Moore, Christine Lakin, and The Greg Wilson opened to poor box-office takings and strongly negative reviews with a 5% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [157] The British newspaper The People , reviewing The Hottie and the Nottie, claimed "Paris Hilton is the world's worst actress and she's starring in the worst movie ever made." [158] Nathan Lee of The Village Voice called it "crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash, half-assed, and very, very unfunny". [159] Online film critic James Berardinelli described the film's comedy as "about as funny as the anal rape scene in The War Zone ". [160] Richard Roeper called it "excruciatingly, painfully, horribly, terribly awful", and argued that "nobody in this movie really should have a career in movies". [161] Connie Ogle in the Miami Herald described The Hottie and the Nottie thus: "Imagine the worst movie you've ever seen. Got it? Now try to think of something worse. That something is this movie – wretched, embarrassing and a waste of the time and energy of everyone involved." [161] The film appears on Metacritic's list of the all-time lowest-scoring films, [12] and the MRQE's 50 Worst Movies list. [13]
Álom.net (2009)
Álom.net (also known as Dream Well or Dream.net) is a Hungarian film that emulates tropes found in American teen films. 444.hu wrote that it is "the worst movie of all time, and that's why it became a cult film". [162] Furthermore, 24.hu and Index.hu each named it the worst Hungarian film ever made and The Irish Times reported its status as "the worst film of all time" when it became the lowest-rated film on IMDb. [163] [164] [165] Total Film named it the fourth worst film ever made and FMC.hu included it on their list of the ten worst films ever made. [23] [166]
