I was going to mention Nothing But Trouble, but then I looked it up on imdb and found the cast wasn’t nearly as big as I thought. Maybe since John Candy and Dan Aykroyd played multiple characters, I got thrown off. But, whew! That movie is a true stinker.
You want Bad with Big casts filled with Big Stars?
Look at 1978’s The Swarm:
Michael Caine
Henry Fonda (!!)
Fred Mac Murray
Richard Widmark
Richard Chamberlin
Olivia de Havilland (!!)
Jose Ferrer
Katharine Ross
Slim Pickens
Patty Duke
Lee Grant
Alejandro Rey
Cameron Mitchell
Bradford Dillman
There’s bad, and then there’s truly unforgivable.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Johnny Depp
Benicio Del Toro
Tobey Maguire
Ellen Barkin
Gary Busey
Christina Ricci
Mark Harmon
Cameron Diaz
Katherine Helmond
Michael Jeter
Penn Jillette
Craig Bierko
Lyle Lovett
Flea
Laraine Newman
Harry Dean Stanton
Debbie Reynolds
Steve Schirripa
Verne Troyer
Christopher Meloni
I loved Mars Attacks! and I liked Fear and Loathing… and Mystery Men.
but what about Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?
(way too much for me to type up)
I also think you guys are conflating bad movies that were serious attempts with movies where they just got a bunch of pals to do cameos because it was fun. Sort of like how it was ‘cool’ in Hollywood to do a guest appearance on ‘Batman’ way back when (or The Simpsons today, for that matter).
Things like ‘Cannonball Run’ or ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ have the ‘fun to make’ factor thrown in. Reading Kevin Smith’s journal about JASBSB can be hilarious. Like they knew they could get Mark Hamill but only for like a day and a half so that had to be scheduled four months in advance and it had BETTER work type of thing.
And the ultimate ‘this’ll be fun what the hell’ flick:
The Muppet Movie
Discounting all the regular muppet performers…
Charles Durning
Edgar Bergen (with Charlie, of course)
Milton Berle
Mel Brooks
James Coburn
Dom Deluise
Elliot Gould
Bob Hope
Madeline Kahn
Carol Kane (uncredited)
Cloris Leachman
Steve Martin
Richard Pryor
Telly Savalas (uncredited)
Orson Welles (!!!)
Paul Williams
Carroll Spinney (BIG BIRD!)
IMDB also lists Tim Burton and John Landis as uncredited Muppet performers but I don’t know the truth of that.
Face it, that’s the king. The Muppet Movie rocks.
Going over the list, it’s clear Won Ton Ton, the Dog that Saved Hollywood is the winner. A truly awful film by any standard, with a cast list almost as long as The Player (which doesn’t qualify, since it’s a good movie). Walter Pidgeon, Dean Stockwell, The Ritz Brothers, Jesse “Maytag Repairman” White, Johnny Weismuller . . . the list goes on.
Movers & Shakers. This movie features Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Gilda Radner, Bill Macy and Steve Martin, yet is screamingly unfunny to the point of being unwatchable. It was written by Charles Grodin. Avoid.
Wow, great choices by everyone. You’d think that the list was complete. Nope … far from it.
Hard to Beleive Hollywood has cranked out so many of these unbelivable clunkers:
The Conqueror (1956)
John Wayne
Susan Hayward
Pedro Armendáriz
Agnes Moorehead
Thomas Gomez
John Hoyt
William Conrad
Ted de Corsia
Leslie Bradley
Lee Van Cleef
Peter Mamakos
Leo Gordon
Richard Loo
Meteor (1979)
Sean Connery
Natalie Wood
Karl Malden
Brian Keith
Martin Landau
Trevor Howard
Richard A. Dysart
Henry Fonda (again !!!)
Joseph Campanella
For more in the same vein, see this thread from three weeks ago…
Rat Race was * not* a bad movie.
Any movie that could set up gags like John Lovitz-as-Hitler thing or the cow hitting the bus windshield is a work of comedy genius.
Geez, I thought Mad Mad World or Cannonball Run II were at the top, but Won Ton Ton beats them both put together. Has anyone actually seen that movie?
I’ve never seen “Prêt-à-Porter,” but I’ve heard it’s one of Robert Altman’s relative stinkers:
Marcello Mastroianni
Sophia Loren
Kim Basinger
Stephen Rea
Anouk Aimée
Rupert Everett
Lili Taylor
Ute Lemper
Forest Whitaker
Richard E. Grant
Julia Roberts
Tim Robbins
Laren Bacall
Lyle Lovett
Tracey Ullman
Sally Kellerman
Linda Hunt
Teri Garr
Danny Aiello
Sam Robards
Hary Belafonte
Cher
Elsa Klensch
Thierry Mugler
Sonia Rykiel
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Christian Lacroix
Issey Miyake
Gianfranco Ferré
Naomi Campbell
Christy Turlington
Björk
David Copperfield
Linda Evangelista
Claudia Schiffer
Alot of them playing themselves in cameos, but still.
Roadside Prophets was packed with cameos. I suppose I shouldn’t include it here, because I really enjoyed the movie, but since I have yet to find a positive review of it, I guess it’ll count as a bad movie.
It’s cameo-laced, too! It stars John Doe, the lead man from X, but there are others:
Adam Horovitz
John Cusack
Timothy Leary
Arlo Guthrie
David Carradine
It seems like there are more cameos than that, but it could be that that’s all, and it just seemed like there were more. The movie came out in 1992 and I saw it a couple of times when it was new, but I haven’t seen it since. I’m trying to track down a copy of it. I found a VHS tape selling on line for sixty bucks once, but I can’t say I’m that much of a fan of this movie! Still, I’d like to find it.
Here’s a New York Times review that implies that I’m a pretentious jerk:
How about The Greatest Story Ever Told:
Max von Sydow, Carroll Baker, Pat Boone, Victor (“King Tut”) Buono, José Ferrer, Van Heflin, Charlton Heston, Martin Landau, Angela Lansbury, Janet Margolin, David (“Illya Kuryakin”) McCallum, Roddy McDowall, Dorothy McGuire, Sal Mineo, Nehemiah Persoff, Donald Pleasence, Sidney Poitier, Claude Rains, Telly Savalas, Joseph Schildkraut, John Wayne, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Michael (“Cochise”) Ansara, Robert Blake, Jamie (“Klinger”) Farr, David Hedison, Russell (“The Professor”) Johnson, Mark (“Sarak”) Lenard, Robert Loggia.
I count seven Oscar winners in the list (Ferrer, Heston, Landau, Poitier, Schildkraut, Wayne, and Winters).
Pauly Shore is Dead had a ton of em:
Ben Stiller
Sean Penn
Fred Durst
Tom Sizemore
Chris Rock
Whoopi Goldberg
Heidi Fleiss
Ellen DeGeneres
Kurt Loder
Pamela Anderson
Todd Bridges
Tommy Chong
Andy Dick
Snoop Dogg
Perry Farrell
Isaac Hanson
Taylor Hanson
Zac Hanson
Nicky Hilton
Paris Hilton
Kato Kaelin
Tommy Lee
Michael Madsen
Mark McGrath
Matt Pinfield
Sally Jessy Raphael
Sam Rubin
Adam Sandler
Britney Spears
Jerry Springer
Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson
Vince Vaughn
Montel Williams
Then there’s “Amazon Women on the Moon” which I loved, but since it got a 5.5 star rating on IMDB, I’m throwing it in:
Arsenio Hall
Phil Hartman
Michelle Pfeiffer
Griffin Dunne
Joe Pantoliano
Sybil Danning
David Alan Grier
BB King
Roxie Roker
Rosanna Arquette
Steve Guttenberg
Henry Silva
Rip Taylor
Slappy White
Jackie Vernon
Henny Youngman
Charlie Callas
Steve Allen
Ed Begley Jr
Kelly Preston
Howard Hesseman
Andrew Dice Clay
Carrie Fisher
and the USC Trojan Marching Band
Wait there’s more !!!
The Silver Chalice (1954)
Virginia Mayo
Pier Angeli
Jack Palance
Paul Newman
Joseph Wiseman
Alexander Scourby
Lorne Greene
Jacques Aubuchon
E.G. Marshall
Michael Pate
Natalie Wood
Booth Colman
Robert Middleton
Ian Wolfe
Lawrence Dobkin
Albert Dekker
Strother Martin
Arthur Space
Going back many years for this one:
Alice In Wonderland (1933)
Its cast included:
Gary Cooper
W.C. Fields
Cary Grant
Edward Everett Horton
**Cleopatra **(1963)
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Rex Harrison
Hume Cronyn
Cesare Danova
Kenneth Haigh
Andrew Keir
Martin Landau
Roddy McDowall
Francesca Annis
John Doucette
John Hoyt
Carroll O’Connor
Jacqui Chan
Wow that must have been Jacqui Chan’s first movie !!!
Were there are fight sequences in Cleopatra ??? 
I just saw Frank Miller’s Sin City and it qualifies. Yecch!