Random Worst Live-Action Movies Based on Cartoons (22 items)

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  (#1) Dragonball Evolution

  • Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, James Marsters, Chow Yun-Fat, Ernie Hudson, Justin Chatwin, Joon Park, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim, Julian Sedgwick, Eriko Tamura, Shavon Kirksey, Jon Valera, Megumi Seki, Mike Wilson, Luis Arrieta, Freddy Bouciegues, Rafael Valdez, Richard Blake

  Dragonball is a cartoon so stylized that making it in live-action is a fool's errand to begin with, and the moment anybody even attempted to style Justin Chatwin's hair into a Goku 'do, it should have been a red flag.

  By the time he turns into a giant were-ape at the movie's climax (yes, seriously), the accumulated red flags ought to have summoned a herd of angry bulls. The video above sums it up best.
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  (#2) The Last Airbender

  • Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Seychelle Gabriel, John Noble, Summer Bishil, Dee Bradley Baker, Aasif Mandvi, Cliff Curtis, Dev Patel, Shaun Toub, Noah Ringer, Francis Guinan, Katharine Houghton, Damon Gupton, Randall Duk Kim, Ernest E. Brown, Roberto Lombardi, Gilbert Soto, J.W. Cortes, Manu Narayan, Doua Moua, Keong Sim, Erica LaRose, Jae Greene, Brian M. Martin, Mohammed J. Ali, Jordan Romero, Frank Apollonio, London Summers, Philip J Silvera, Tom Delconte, Georgie DeNoto, Jon Trosky, Matt von Siegel, Kevin Yamada, Mihir Pathak, Isaac Jin Solstein, Chris Brewster, Jeffrey Zubernis, Robert Lenzi, Ted Oyama, Stephen Oyoung, Hasan Bivings, Ken Myers, Alexander Baliev, John D'Alonzo, Edmund Ikeda, Thomas Walton, Bob Lewandowski, Alex Alessi, Michael J. Kraycik, Kirk Kelly, Sam Ibram, Matthew Nadu, Mike Tyler, Brian D. Johnson, Joe Polito, Morgan Spector, James Sayess, Kristian Francis Falkenstein, Tamiko Brownlee, Zackary Kresser, Steven Carey, Ryan Shams, George Coward, Joe Krieg, Ali Khan, Eddie Noone, Sean Crisden, Tino D. Valentino, Jackson Zachariah Vaughn, Jona Kessler, J. Center, Valentino Rudi, Danny Donnelly, Ritesh Rajan, Akira Fitton, Manuel Kanian, Karim Sioud, David L. Powell III, Robert Eckard

  From racial miscasting to barely coherent storytelling to bad 3D post-conversion to The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi as an unconvincing arch-villain, The Last Airbender is like a perfect storm of badness, especially when compared to its hugely popular animated source material.

  And everyone knows it except director M. Night Shyamalan, who still insists his trainwreck is and was popular with children.
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  (#3) Inspector Gadget 2

  • D. L. Hughley, Jeff Bennett, French Stewart, Bruce Spence, Elaine Hendrix, Caitlin Wachs, Sigrid Thornton, Tony Martin, John Batchelor, Mark Mitchell, Remi Broadway, Brian McDermott, Mungo McKay, Alethea McGrath, Evert McQueen, Todd Levi, Nick Lawson, Tim Boyle, Chris Cruickshanks, Louise Boothby, Jacy Lewis, Mary Hendrix, James Wardlaw, Monette Lee, Nick Backstrom, Mick Roughlan, Jan Nary, Siros Niaros, Kate Peters

  In the first live-action Inspector Gadget, Matthew Broderick makes for an okay substitute for the Don Adams-voiced incompetent detective.

  French Stewart is NOT an okay substitute for Matthew Broderick in the straight to DVD sequel.
  
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  (#4) Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins

  • Frank Welker, Robbie Amell, Hayley Kiyoko, Garry Chalk, Lorena Gale, C. Ernst Harth, Cassandra Sawtell, Benita Ha, Dee Jay Jackson, Kurt Evans, Kira Clavell, Christopher Attadia, Kate Melton, Al Rodrigo, Shawn MacDonald, Josh Goring, Daniel Riordan, Mark Gash, Wendy Morrow Donaldson, Nick Palatas, Dave Hurtubise, Leah James, Devon Thomas, Tony Der Jr., Kristina Barr, Brian J. Sutton, Courtney Schott, Jordana Largy

  The Scooby-Doo movies written by James Gunn are surprisingly not terrible. So of course some studio executive somewhere had to say, "We're not screwing it up enough! Fire everybody and start again with a prequel!"

  At least, you can assume that's what was said. It's the only explanation for the clip above.
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  (#5) Jem and the Holograms

  • Juliette Lewis, Molly Ringwald, Stefanie Scott, Ryan Guzman, Aubrey Peeples, Hayley Kiyoko, Nathan Moore, Aurora Perrineau, Alisha Heng

  If you  can't give properties the budget they deserve, maybe don't do them at all. That's the lesson behind the Jem movie, in which a hi-tech sci-fi drama is translated into a low-budget faux-musical, with holograms provided by a cheap robot that lacks all the key character traits of the cartoon show's Synergy.

  Using YouTube submissions and Google Maps for scene transitions, Jem and the Holograms is embarrassingly cheap and ridiculously eager to update the material for modern audiences. Fans can only hope a reboot is not too far behind.
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  (#6) The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

  • Kristen Stewart, Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Collins, Alan Cumming, Jane Krakowski, Stephen Baldwin, Harvey Korman, Alex Meneses, Thomas Gibson, Kristen Johnston, John Cho, Nigel John Taylor, Mark Addy, Taylor Negron, Danny Woodburn, Jack McGee, Tony Longo, David Jean Thomas

  The first live-action Flintstones movie, starring John Goodman and Rick Moranis, is at least an entertaining restaging of Hanna-Barbera's classic Honeymooners riff. Replacing them with Mark Addy and Stephen Baldwin for a prequel is just blatant downsizing that disappointed most fans, though Alan Cumming's Great Gazoo is a minor highlight in an otherwise dull and cost-cutting follow-up.
  
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  (#7) Boris and Natasha: The Movie

  • John Travolta, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Jim Cummings, Sally Kellerman, Dave Thomas, Alex Rocco, Anthony Newley, Larry Cedar, Paxton Whitehead, John Calvin

  The Rocky and Bullwinkle movie with Robert De Niro was awkward enough. But it pales into insignificance when compared to Boris and Natasha, a Rocky and Bullwinkle movie that didn't actually have the rights to use Rocky or Bullwinkle.

  It's almost like if Disney were to make a Sorcerer's Apprentice movie without Mickey Mouse, and... Oh wait. Disney actually did that, didn't they?
  
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  (#8) Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bill Murray, Tim Curry, Sharon Osbourne, Bob Hoskins, Billy Connolly, Vinnie Jones, Rhys Ifans, Jane Leeves, Richard E. Grant, Breckin Meyer, Lucy Davis, Roger Rees, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joe Pasquale, Ian Abercrombie, Jane Horrocks, Robin Atkin Downes, Judi Shekoni, Jim Piddock, Greg Ellis, Veronica Alicino, Jane Carr, Martin Tyler, J. B. Blanc, Justin Shenkarow, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Oliver Muirhead, Hope Levy, Ben Falcone, Lena Cardwell, Susan Leslie, Jean Gilpin, Neil Dickson, Kenneth Danziger, Bryce Lenon, Andy Kreiss, David Kallaway, Russell Milton, Johnny Gidcomb, Mark Sussman, Joe Towne, Paula J. Newman, Marie Del Marco, Ed Pearce, Diz White, Melanie Tolbert, Brian Manis, Peter Lavin, Larissa Anes, Tricia Rockman

  Bill Murray narrowly saves the first Garfield by making the lasagna-loving fat cat into a version of the actor's Saturday Night Live lounge singer persona. The sequel rips off The Prince and the Pauper, and pettily names its villain after a film critic who was mean to the first movie (Billy Connolly's Lord Dargis is named for New York Times writer Manohla Dargis).

  Sadly, that's the funniest joke in the movie.
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  (#9) Mr. Magoo

  • Jennifer Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Ernie Hudson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Miguel Ferrer, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund

  Leslie Nielsen was, at one time, a master of deadpan humor, gleefully sending up all the straight-arrow hero roles he used to have. Then he became self-aware, and started mugging excessively, and by the time somebody gave him a paycheck to talk like Jim Backus, it was just too late.
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  (#10) The Smurfs

  • Katy Perry, Sofía Vergara, Joan Rivers, Neil Patrick Harris, Hank Azaria, Alan Cumming, Paul Reubens, Jayma Mays, George Lopez, Anton Yelchin, Jeff Foxworthy, John Oliver, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, Jonathan Winters, Frank Welker, Olivia Palermo, Tim Gunn, Tom Colicchio, Wolfgang Puck, B. J. Novak, Skai Jackson, John Kassir, Tom Kane, Liz Smith, Gary Basaraba, Julie Chang, Mark Doherty, Madison McKinley Garton, Cosondra Sjostrom, Michael Musto, Joel McCrary, John Speredakos, Scott Dillin, Jacob Bertrand, Joe Urban, Meg Phillips, Mario D'Leon, Heidi Armbruster, Finnerty Steeves, Marc I. Daniels, Sean Ringgold, Nicholas Martorell Jr., Mike Murga, Jojo Gonzalez, Victor Pagan, Barbara Vincent, Alex Hall, Tyree Michael Simpson, Bradley Gosnell, Andrew Sellon, Julianna Rigoglioso, Paula Pizzi, Mahadeo Shivraj, Sean Kenin, Roger Clark, Eric Redgate, Clint Headley, Daria Rae Figlo, Mr. Krinkle, Adria Baratta, Ryan E. Kelly, Julia Enescu, Hank, Jalen William Desmond, Lauren Waggoner, Minglie Chen

  Peyo's Smurfs comics are set in a medieval time and a distant forest, something Sony Animation might just return to after two live-action duds that skim right over that and instead place the characters in contemporary New York.

  Just watch the clip above, if you dare. The Smurfs singing their Hanna-Barbera theme song to the strains of "Walk This Way" on Guitar Hero might just mark the epitome of modern-day bastardization of childhood favorites. Yes, it's that bad.
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  (#11) Dudley Do-Right

  • Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Fraser, Alfred Molina, Kathie Lee Gifford, Eric Idle, Alex Rocco, Robert Prosky, Corey Burton, Jack Kehler, Louis Mustillo, Jed Rees, Don Yesso, Dyllan Christopher, Brant von Hoffman

  Brendan Fraser is perfect casting for Jay Ward's George of the Jungle, a Tarzan riff in which a moronic white savior kept swinging on vines into trees. Lightning doesn't strike twice, however, as Fraser's portrayal of Mountie Dudley Do-Right falls completely flat.

  Worst of all, though, is how terrible Alfred Molina comes across as arch-villain Snidely Whiplash. A great actor and a great character, both Molina and Whiplash deserve better.
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  (#12) Underdog

  • Amy Adams, Taylor Momsen, Jay Leno, Peter Dinklage, Jim Belushi, Jason Lee, John Slattery, Brad Garrett, Patrick Warburton, Samantha Bee, John DiMaggio, Susie Castillo, Jess Harnell, Cam Clarke, Phil Morris, Michael Massee, Eric Bruno Borgman, Ezra Buzzington, Anthony Estrella, Walter Covell, Tony Moreira, Kaitlyn Bouchard, Albert M. Chan, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Joe Bucaro, John M. Deluca, Ellen Becker Gray, Larry Vigus, Frank D'Agostino, Lonnie Farmer, Bates Wilder, Donald Warnock, Armen Garo, Grady Justice, Alex Neuberger, Michael Tyler Henry, Frank Ridley, Rebekah Aramini, Dahiana Torres, Jon Pierce, Mike Wendt, D.W. Cormier, Tacuma Vanterpool, Tim Crowe, Alexander Garde, Mackenzie Hawe, David Struffolino, Billy Silvia, Vincent J. Earnshaw, Alan Resnic, Michael J. Peluso, Scott Dittman, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Tom Paolino, Stuart F. Wilson, Lewis D. Wheeler, Joe Stapleton, Kevin M. Simon, Donna Wong, William Alva, Rena Maliszweski, Joseph Siriani, Ellen Withrow, Susan Garibotto, Aaron Dorsey, Sujoy De, Harry L. Thomas, Daniel Kirby, Adam McCarthy, Diana Shneider, Michele Proude, Gabriel Field, Stephen James Kidd, Tom Gilligan, Bob Boehm, Roy Souza, Amy Tanner, Lincoln P. Sisson, Nicole Kopka, Richney Fischer, Christopher Francis Byrnes, Mario Mariani, Bob Jaffe, Rebecca Warnock, Courtney O'Regan, Barry Blair, Malik McMullen, Kate Lohman

  Underdog is meant to be a cartoon dog in a world where anthropomorphic animals aren't unusual. Making him live-action? You might as well do a live-action Mickey Mouse with an actual rodent.

  A pre-Tyrion Lannister Peter Dinklage plays a decent Simon Barsinister, though.
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  (#13) Josie and the Pussycats

  • Rosario Dawson, Tara Reid, Alan Cumming, Seth Green, Rachael Leigh Cook, Parker Posey, Carson Daly, Eugene Levy, Missi Pyle, Babyface, Katharine Isabelle, Donald Faison, Justin Chatwin, Breckin Meyer, Aries Spears, Gabriel Mann, Enuka Okuma, Serena Altschul, J. R. Bourne, Paulo Costanzo, Hiro Kanagawa, Zak Santiago, Marnie Alton, Tom Butler, Sally Hershberger, David Kopp, Harry Elfont, Erin Fitzgerald, Paul Becker, Shayn Solberg, Jann Carl, Colin Foo, Dion Johnstone, Kevin Blatch, Taryn O'Neill, Kris Pope, Kurt Max Runte, Mark Seliger, Balinder Johal, Heather Robertson, Tamara Taggart, Craig Taylor, Corinne Reilly, Linda Ko, Alexander Martin, Darren Daurie, Clay St. Thomas, Kennith Overbey, Jessica Murdoch, Russ Leatherman, Nicole Fraissinet, Claude de Martino, Aeja Goldsmith, Todd Talbot, Colette Squires, Sean J. Dory, Chris Lovick, Juliana Wimbles, Kevin Bergsma, Anthony Creery, Kimberly Rimer, Stuart Lilley, Marites Pineda, Jay Williams, Karalee Paterson, Natalye Vivian, Harmoni Everett, Faedragh Carpenter

  In an effort to capitalize on the girl group success of the '90s, film producers quickly doled out Josie and the Pussycats. Relatively unrecognizable lined up against its cartoon inspiration, the film polarized audiences. The movie, satire of consumer culture, ironically leaned on an already successful cartoon franchise to produce an "original" film. However, it's hard to fully hate on Josie and the Pussycats, especially when it was accompanied with some major bops like "Three Small Words," sung by a very 2001 Rachel Leigh Cook.
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  (#14) Transformers: Dark of the Moon

  • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Hugo Weaving, Leonard Nimoy, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Frances McDormand, Alan Tudyk, John Turturro, Ken Jeong, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, George Coe, James Remar, John DiMaggio, Meredith Monroe, Andy Daly, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Kevin Dunn, Charlie Adler, Mindy Sterling, Maile Flanagan, Keiko Agena, Elya Baskin, Robert Foxworth, Jim Meskimen, Julie White, Glenn Morshower, Keith Szarabajka, Iqbal Theba, Ravil Isyanov, Reno Wilson, Sammy Sheik, Tom Virtue, Lester Speight, Mark Ryan, Scott Krinsky, Francesco Quinn, Chris Sheffield, David Hill, Anthony Azizi, David St. James, John Turk, Liam Ferguson, Jesse Heiman, Thomas Crawford, John H. Tobin, Jack Axelrod, Kathleen Gati, Matthew James Gulbranson, Greg Berg, Annie O'Donnell, Ron Bottitta, Danny McCarthy, Peter Murnik, Stephen Taylor, Elena Kolpachikova, Keith Middlebrook, John Farrer, Jennifer Williams, William Haze, Darren O'Hare, Larry Clarke, Markiss McFadden, Inna Korobkina, Lindsey Ginter, Kevin Sizemore, Eugene Alper, Kef Lee, Alan Pietruszewski, Abi McKenzie, Joel Thingvall, Erik Kowalski, James D. Weston II, WBBrown II, Yasen Peyankov, Michael Daniel Cassady, Patrick Pankhursts, Rich Hutchman, Dustin Dennard, Brett Stimely, Katherine Sigismund, Ian Bonner, Kristoffer Kjornes, Ken Takemoto, Zoran Radanovich, Kaitlan Welton, Jeremy McLain, Niko El Santo Zavero, Bob Kaye, Josh Kelly, Scott C. Roe, Drew Pillsbury, Robert Herrick, Karen E. Wright, Jim Nieciecki, LaMonica Garrett, Zander Gerhardt, Don Jeanes, Luis Echagarruga, Christian Baha, Larry Carter, Lawrence G. Lozano, Michael Saglimbeni, Jake Won Lee, Daniel Okeefe, Derek Miller, Taylor McCluskey, Mikal Vega, Matt Cinquanta, Eva Marie Lardani, Christopher Mur, Matt McVay, Danielle Fornarelli, Chris A. Robinson, Jay Gates, Mark Golden, Ajay James, Brett Lynch, John S. McAfee, Jillana Laufer, Mitch Bromwell, Leidy Mazo, Rebecca Cooper, Aaron Garrido, Sean Murphy, Nick Bickle, Joshua Farcone, Kenny Sheard, Cory Tucker, Pete Kelly, Charlotte Labadie, Michael Loeffelholz, Bonecrusher the Mastiff, Scott Paulson, Brian Call, Vincent Conti, Eric Berlynn, Victor Saigh, Amal Torich, Michael Paul, Jason Neisewander, Jason Endicott, Alicia Hamilton, Tony Cronin, Rodney Luis Aquino, Gena Ellis, Andrew Biesen, Adam Critchlow, Jennifer Gorka, William H. Worden, Dean Napolitano, David Michael Williamson, Jordan Michael Coulson, Mike Ciannilli, Christina Putnam, Ina Lereine, Gracie Zane, Mino Mackic

  A lot of people hate all the Transformers movies, but Dark of the Moon deserves special attention for neglect of the show's core premise: it forgets it's supposed to be about robots that transform, and in robot form look somewhat like the thing they become. New villain Shockwave never transforms into anything, nor does the giant robo-snake he rides around Chicago. Laserbeak, meanwhile, can become anything at any time. Other robots fly around in vehicles rather than simply becoming them.

  Most damning is that every transformation in the movie, beginning to end, adds up to just over three minutes of footage. In a movie that runs 154 minutes.
  
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  (#15) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

  • Sienna Miller, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Nichols, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Eccleston, Karolína Kurková, Marlon Wayans, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Park, Arnold Vosloo, Lee Byung-hun, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gerald Okamura, Kevin J. O'Connor, Saïd Taghmaoui, Leo Howard, Grégory Fitoussi, Jerald Garner, Michael Benyaer, David Jean Thomas, Americus Abesamis, David Murray, Larry Hama, Tom Ohmer, Charles Howerton, Fahim Fazli, Gunner Wright, Jacques Frantz, Brandon Soo Hoo, Westley Nguyen, Jason Castle, Kaleti Williams, Lock Lee, James Howarth, Bob Rumnock, Robert Russell, Liana Mendoza, David Michael Fordham, Peter Breitmayer, Michael Broderick, Burton Perez, Michael Bretten, Joseph Stephens Jr., Jessica Lynn Sadowski, Melissa S. Markess, Damien Moreno, Jabbaar George, Ken Thomas, Duncan Bravo, Ashley Sommers, Markell Andrew, Caleb Campbell, Wayne Lopez, Kellie Matteson, Jacare Calhoun, Greg James, Michael Foster, Frederic Doss, Elena Evangelo, Martin Dew, Tj Austin, Robert Almodovar, Cristofer Sanders, Zaayan Lala, Mary Scanlon, Chris Akers, Buzz Covington, Mark Hames, Allison Moore, Fabrice Baral, Daniel Josev, Michael Sommers, Sean Velie, Ron Thompson

  G.I. Joe! A real American hero! "It's G.I. Joe, against Cobra the enemy, fighting to save the daaaay..."

  Except in the movie, G.I. Joe is an international task force, and Cobra doesn't exist yet. Maybe next there can be a Thundercats movie without thunder, or cats.
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  (#16) Alvin and the Chipmunks

  • Jane Lynch, David Cross, Jesse McCartney, Cameron Richardson, Beth Riesgraf, Justin Long, Jason Lee, Matthew Gray Gubler, Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., Oliver Muirhead, Don Tiffany

  Alvin and the Chipmunks is one of those classics you hoped the world would forget about. Somehow the story of three high pitched mice, screeching top 40 hits doesn't sound all that enjoyable, especially for the parents who begrudgingly take their children to see these wailing rodents.

  Although most parents would settle for a Kidz Bop album on repeat any day of the week, Alvin and the Chipmunks has somehow warranted mutiple sequels. Even worse, the Chipmunks choose equally upsetting songs, including a single from one-hit wonder Daniel Powter.
  
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  (#17) Æon Flux

  • Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Jonny Lee Miller, Pete Postlethwaite, Sophie Okonedo, Stuart Townsend, Marton Csokas, Amelia Warner, Yangzom Brauen, Anatole Taubman, Caroline Chikezie, Paterson Joseph, Billy Morts, Milton Welsh, Wolfgang Stegemann, Betty Okino, Lavinia Wilson, Mickey Nedimovic, Timmi Trinks, Peggy Flood, Narges Rashidi, Wil Röttgen, Nikolai Kinski, Bruno Bruni Jr., Joost Siedhoff, Megan Gay, Terry Bartlett, Thomas Huber, Ralph Herforth, Jannik Büddig, Shaun Lawton, Axel Schreiber, Mehmet Yilmaz, Maverick Quek, Claudine Biswas, Claas Würfel, Weijian Liu, Karolin Peiter, Lilja Löffler, Michael Pink, Joachim Schoenfeld, Mirko Lang, Alexander Flache, Natacza Boon, Marianne Sonneck, Martha Fessehatzion, Bojan Heyn, Rainer Will, Charlie Beall, Robin Gooch, Phil Hay, Ronald Marx, Anna De Carlo, Nils Dommning, Aoibheann O'Hara, Kim Pfeiffer, Tamara Röhl, Justin Schierlo, Clio Burggraeve, Khira Lilli Pobanz, Alex Benjamin, Katie Mullins

  Aeon Flux probably could never have worked. The show is just too avant-garde, too cavalier about disregarding continuity and the whole good vs. evil paradigm. And it's all set in a future world that would require a massive budget to recreate onscreen.

  Director Karyn Kusama tried, and caught between studio regimes, wound up making a film even more compromised than she imagined, one that tied Aeon's world to our modern world in an awkward and obnoxious way that felt like a betrayal of the source material. Also, they couldn't get the basics right - Aeon's costume was all wrong, and love-hate interest Trevor Goodchild didn't even have his signature blond hair.

  Still, a cartoon-accurate Aeon Flux would allow for any number of reboots, so maybe someone will try again someday. Maybe.
  
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  (#18) Richie Rich

  • Macaulay Culkin, Claudia Schiffer, Reggie Jackson, Ben Stein, Frank Welker, Christine Ebersole, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Rory Culkin, Jonathan Hyde, Rick Worthy, Chelcie Ross, Eddie J. Fernandez, Mike Bacarella, Michael McShane, Eddie Bo Smith Jr., Nydia Rodriguez Terracina, Kevin Mukherji, Joanne Pankow, Diann Burns, James Deuter, Keith Schrader, Wanda Christine, John Thurner, Dawn Maxey, Marilyn Dodds Frank, James Deeth, Stephi Lineburg, Matt DeCaro, Mariangela Pino, Jan Jackson, Robert Oliver, Sam Sanders, Joel Robinson, Peter Lampley, Rachel Stephens, Bruce Green, Michael Maccarone, Jonathan Hilario, C. Michael Haynes, John Drury, Mindy Bell, Sean A. Tate, Justin Zaremby, Stacy Logan, Dustin Drapkin, David Fawcett, Joel Ellegant, Rush Pearson, Jim Blandford, Lily Semel, Bob Riley, Michael Godleski, Kent Logsdon

  Richie Rich is a product of a bygone era, really. If we want to see people who have more money than we'd know what to do with nowadays, just turn on E! any hour of any day. But here's the thing: the vast majority of viewers watch the Kardashians because they hate them.

  If Richie Rich were a real kid, we'd be tuning into his reality show to watch him get drunk and be an asshole. Nobody wants the rich to actually be better than them.
  
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  (#19) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

  • Kevin Nash, Frank Welker, David Warner, Paige Turco, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Kevin Clash, François Chau, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, Mark Caso

  Look, everybody loves the Turtles, and everybody looks back fondly at that Vanilla Ice song (some people unironically). What nobody loves is the way this movie cheaps out of giving fans Bebop and Rocksteady in favor of Muppety knock-offs. Not only that, but the sequel makes the TMNT pull their punches into more slapstick antics, all because parents complained about the violence in the first film.

  It's just about watchable, but it's the least of the original series of movies.
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  (#20) Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

  • Jim Carrey, Anthony Hopkins, Bryce Dallas Howard, Taylor Momsen, Ron Howard, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard, Christine Baranski, Jeffrey Tambor, Frank Welker, Verne Troyer, Rance Howard, Josh Ryan Evans, Deep Roy, Rain Pryor, Bill Irwin, Mindy Sterling, Q'orianka Kilcher, Jim Meskimen, Lillias White, T. J. Thyne, Rick Baker, Tim Blaney, Caroline Williams, John Alexander, David Costabile, Suzanne Krull, Jeremy Howard, Mary Stein, Bonnie Morgan, Frankie Ray, Linda Harmon, Gavin Grazer, Lacey Kohl, Sloane Momsen, Jurgen Heimann, Ann Mills, James Ritz, Steve Kehela, Jessica Sara, Mark Setrakian, John Short, Landry Allbright, Tommy Karlsen, Heather Lea Gerdes, Rachel Winfree, Mason Lucero, Kevin Isola, Walter Franks, Christopher Metas, Dean Chambers, Clayton Martinez, Nadja Pionilla, Charles Croughwell, Robin Kaye Shaw, Michael Dahlen, Bill Sturgeon, Reid Kirchenbauer, Seth Adam Jones, Michaela Gallo, Allie McCall, Ben Bookbinder, Rebecca Chace, Rachel Bailit, Eva Burkley, Grainger Esch, Mindy Ferguson, Kelley

  Yes, it's partially based on a book, but many of the inventions of the animated version - the "Mean One" song, the Grinch being green, and the more humanoid look of Cindy Lou Who - come straight from the cartoon, only to be bastardized in a movie that makes the Grinch the good guy and the Whos mindless sheeple in thrall to commercialism.

  Worst of all, though, is the new song the movie added. Watch and listen, if you can bear it.
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  (#21) Casper

  • Christina Ricci, Dan Aykroyd, Rodney Dangerfield, Amy Brenneman, Ben Stein, Eric Idle, Brad Garrett, Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Cathy Moriarty, Fred Rogers, John Kassir, Joe Alaskey, Terry Murphy, Joe Nipote, Malachi Pearson

  It used to be a playground joke among kids who had grown old enough to be cynical: Casper was obviously a dead kid. Nobody ever thought, however, that a major motion picture would emphasize that fact.

  Yet when director Brad Silberling came aboard the movie version, it was probably inevitable. Following the 1989 murder of his girlfriend Rebecca Schaeffer at the hands of a deranged fan, many of his films fixated on the possibility of an afterlife for the virtuous. For the Wings of Desire remake City of Angels, that's appropriate. For Casper, not so much.
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  (#22) Space Jam

  • Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Danny DeVito, Patrick Ewing, Patricia Heaton, Alonzo Mourning, Vlade Divac, Mel Blanc, Charles Oakley, Danny Ainge, Larry Johnson, Shawn Bradley, Frank Welker, Muggsy Bogues, Paul Westphal, Billy West, Dan Castellaneta, Wayne Knight, A. C. Green, Cedric Ceballos, Derek Harper, Jeff Malone, Dee Bradley Baker, June Foray, Kath Soucie, Ahmad Rashād, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Rome, Dorian Harewood, Catherine Reitman, Bob Bergen, Bill Farmer, Jim Wise, Thom Barry, T. K. Carter, Connie Ray, Brad William Henke, Albert Hague, Theresa Randle, Brandon Hammond, Del Harris, Bebe Drake, Andre Rosey Brown, John Roselius, Penny Bae Bridges, Sharone Wright, David Ursin, William G. Schilling, Joe Bays, Charity James, Steve Kehela, Michael Rothhaar, Charles Hoyes, Kent Kasper, Anthony Miller, Amy Chance, Barbara Anne Klein, Michael Ray Clark, Eric Gordon, Joey Camen, Steve Shenbaum, Colleen Wainwright, Michael Alaimo, Darnell Suttles, Kelly Boone, Douglas Robert Jackson, Manner Washington, Bean Miller, Dylan Tucker, Jocelyn Blue, Luke Torres, Nicky McCrimmon, Linda Lutz, June Melby, James O'Donnell

  Bugs Bunny deserves better than a basketball movie based on shoe commercials, don't you think?

  So did Bill Murray and Wayne Knight, come to think of it. And even though Michael Jordan's not really an actor, he was good on Saturday Night Live once. Less so here. Everybody deserves better, including the audience. And yet there's a sequel in the works, because nostalgia has clouded just how bad Space Jam actually is and has always been.

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