I’ve got kids and kid movies usually suck worse than a crackwhore in withdrawal. Yet even the worst of these can throw out a good line or two. One of my favorite good lines in a bad movie comes from a terrible, terrible movie called Cats & Dogs. It went something like this:
Dog: I want you to stay in here.
Cat: Why?
Dog: Because I hate you!
It was the way he said it. Cracks me up every time.
Another terrible, terrible kid movie was Good Burger even though I thought Kel Mitchell was a stitch with lines like:
Ed: You’re a chicken— moooooo! moooooo!
and
Heather: D’you think I’m cute?
Ed: Sure.
Heather: What’s cute about me?
Ed: Uh…your head.
Heather: You have a cute head too!
Ed: Well, I try to keep it nice.
and
Dexter: I could’ve sworn I’ve seen you somewhere before.
Ed: Maybe I’m someone famous like a baseball player or a pretty nurse.
Dexter: What? What are you talking about?
Ed: Okay, I give up. Who am I?
Dexter: I don’t know who you are or where I’ve seen you before or why you think you’re an attractive nurse.
And finally, from Dude, Where’s My Car-- one of the stupidest movies ever made:
Jesse:I refuse to play your Chinese food mind games!
I wanna put a serious movie in here, but the only one I can think of is Battlefield Earth and the line was good only because it was so stupid.
From the Cat In The Hat:
Sally: Where did you come from?
The Cat: Hmm, How do I put this… When a mommy cat and a daddy cat love each other very much, they decide to…
Conrad: No, no, no, no, no. Where did you come from?
The Cat: My place, what do you think?
From “Anaconda” a 1997 howler featuring two bulimic giant snakes. Honestly, how else could they eat an adult human and come back a day later ready for second helpings?
A fellow passenger konks the crazed ‘great white hunter’ with a golf club, then utters the only intentionally funny line in the movie: "Asshole in one."
I’m sure a few people will disagree with me over the merits of Peter Jackson’s early work, but I hated Brain Dead (or Dead Alive as I think it’s known in the States). It does contain one of the greatest lines of any movies though - as the (IIRC) Irish priest is about to wade into battle with the zombies:
From “Black Dog” starring Patrick Swayze (I think, correct me if I’m not remembering this right), and Chris Rock (again, I think, it’s been a long time).
Scene is, Chris Rock is a rather nervous hitchhiker turned sidekick to Patrick Swayze’s rough talkin’ Big Rig Drivin’ character.
The truck hits a large bump creating a lot of noise and commotion.
Chris Rock’s character nervously says " What was THAT"???
in “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” (1974, Peter Fonda and Susan George) the sidekick guy, whose name I forget, has just fixed the car and it’s running better than ever. Fonda asks him what he did to it. The reply -
And how could you forget the classic line, as our hero presents a cross to a vampire…
Vamp :“Sorry, sport, I’m an atheist.” Click! A silver dagger sprouts from the bottom of the cross.
Hero : “God loves you anyway.” Stab!
My nomination for best line in a bad movie is from Batman Returns.
Catwoman and Bats are fighting in what seems to be an abandoned building, and she comments on being hungry or some such, and Batman retorts: “Eat floor. High fiber.” as he slams her face into the floor. Classic.
Ok, just have to chime in! I took my kids (ages 6 and 4) to see Scooby Doo 2, which I was prepared to sleep through. However, early on Velma utters this priceless line:
“Mystery is my mistress, and I must heed her call.”
It just cracked me up, and I kept repeating it all night. My 6 year old, Kat, said “Mommy, why do you keep saying that?”
“Because it’s funny!” says me.
She looked at me for a moment, then says “It wasn’t that funny” My daughter, queen of deadpan.
In Ten to Midnight, an amazingly bad movie, my boy Charlie Bronson deals with a nasty, disgusting serial killer. At the end of the movie, the killer is apprehended and starts ranting about being insane, and how he’ll be back on the street in time. Finally he shrieks: “You’ll all be hearing from me.”
Charlie sez “No, we won’t,” in a conversational tone and drills him between the eyes with a .38.
I laffed til I peed on myself. Then I laffed some more.