I thought Adam Sandler had the title locked up with Eight Crazy Nights, but yet another of his equally untalented and even more unfunny former Saturday Night Live co-stars has risen to the occasion and thus I bring you the /Comic Book Guy/ Worst Movie Of The Year!! /Comic Book Guy/:
The Hot Chick starring Rob Schneider.
What the F*** were the execs who greenlighted this steaming pile of S*** thinking!??
Even the previews aren’t funny and that’s a sure sign that the movie is appalingly horrid.
What could Schneider possibly have over movie execs to use as blackmail to allow him to continue to make movies?
I know he and sandler are tight, so Sandler probably twists a few arms but still.
His last movie (the Animal) made 55 million at the box office and just over 20 million in DVD rentals and such. I imagine this is why his movies get made.
Eight Crazy Nights wasn’t too bad either. If you don’t like Adam Sandler, you won’t like this though.
The worst movie this year is, by a wide margin, The Master of Disguise. I think The Hot Chick might come in second (although I haven’t seen it) but there is no way it can be worse than The Master of Disguise.
The worst part of the previews is that they show clips from other Rob Schneider movies. The man is apparently some sort of catalyst for making and releasing appallingly disgusting films.
I’m not sure if this is what you were getting at, but Pluto Nash was released to theatres this year…it was, however, shelved for at least one (maybe 2?) years after it was filmed.
It was bad, they should have left it on the shelf.
Swept Away is the one everyone mentions, but I’ll just throw in the worst one I actually saw: K19: The Widowmaker. Cliched, dull, a disappointment and a waste of time, money and film on so many other levels.
I nominate the gender-bending trifecta of Juwanna Mann, The Hot Chick, and Sorority Boys. Apparently this is a banner year for transgender plotlines in crappy movies. Not that I’ve seen any of those, just going from promo spots and the late-night interview circuit.
It might be more “disappointing” than “worst”, but Austin Powers: Goldmember really pissed me off. Aside from the first 10 minutes (the celebrity cameo part), and maybe the very end which was more of the same, I just didn’t think it was funny at all. Rehashed toilet humor and totally destroying the characters background, a la “The Principal and the Pauper” or “Viva Ned Flanders”? Pass.
I liked that episode I was never one of those Simpsons fans who cursed the name of Mike Scully…though I’m certainly glad that his TV show got the axe before it even aired, in favor of more Andy Richter.
As for Goldmember, I agree. The defining moment of un-funniness in that picture was when they learned the name of the Japanese guy was Roboto. Anybody who didn’t see a lame Styx joke coming when they heard that must have had their brains shut down…though that would be understandable considering the level of “humor” in the film before that. There were certainly some funny bits, but the movie was so surreallistically disjointed that it really couldn’t stand up as a coherent comedy film. It was just a handful of sometimes funny jokes and a few really funny sequences, interspersed with crap. Disappointing, though still better than alot of movies that never had a chance to be funny from the get-go. Van Wilder, can you hear me? <shudder>
Well, Rotten Tomatoes gives Master of Disguise a rating of 1%, and Swept Away a rating of 7%. Enough got 23% and Eight-Legged Freaks got 47% (!). I haven’t seen any of these, but let’s just say I’m not waiting eagerly for the video releases.
I’m shocked, shocked to hear that there was one reviewer in a hundred who liked this crap! Or was the person a developmentally stunted five-year-old? That might explain it.
I was never one of those Simpsons fans who cursed the name of Mike Scully…though I’m certainly glad that his TV show got the axe before it even aired, in favor of more Andy Richter.