We always talk about bad sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and similiar films. However, I have noticed there is one genre of film we don't normally seem to cover and that is comedies. I figure I start a topic on the genre. So, what do you guys think are the worst comedies?
Personally, I say the worst comedy in my view is Disaster Movie. There is nothing funny about it at all. Everything is completely pointless and all the parodies are of really films that didn't even come out during the film's production. Heck, only 4 movies are parodied during the entire film that are actual disaster movies. It is just a sad excuse for a movie.
Wacky Taxi (1972)
Looks and feels like sleazy gutter porn but its supposed to be a family comedy. There are actually a few attempts at "comedy" but executed very poorly. Another thing, using silly goofy music won't enhance the bad funny.
I felt Super Fuzz was pretty dire.. the only saving grace was the Super Snooper song!
Scavenger Hunt was pretty bad too.
Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie went beneath my already rock-bottom expectations.
It's not REALLY the worst, but one formula that I've come to really dislike are the films about basically good but flawed characters, who get continuously screwed over and badly hurt, in physical, financial and emotional ways, OVER AND OVER, only to have a miraculous and obnoxious happy ending that doesn't ring true. Often times, their experience is in some way supposed to be for their own good.
A couple examples of this: Anger Management and Meet the Parents (and to a lesser extent, Meet the Fockers). It's kind of like watching a serious depressing drama, only it is supposed to be funny and isn't, and doesn't have the catharsis a tragedy would have because of the crappy ending. So it fails on every level.
But, probably the worst comedy I can recall and have watched all the way through is Drop Dead Fred. I hate that film, just about every second of it from beginning to end.
Quote from: Jim H on May 23, 2010, 03:26:49 AM
But, probably the worst comedy I can recall and have watched all the way through is Drop Dead Fred. I hate that film, just about every second of it from beginning to end.
Woah! How could I forget? Phoebe, Rik; WHY???
Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Rubbish.
I don't think I laughed once.
ISHTAR.
There. I said it. :buggedout:
Dukes of Hazzard. "Hey, we put loud obnoxious morons on the screen - isn't this hilarious!?!?" No. It just makes me wonder how we ever figured out how to walk upright.
Quote from: InformationGeek on May 22, 2010, 09:38:41 PM
Personally, I say the worst comedy in my view is Disaster Movie.
The "movie", if you even CALL it a movie, is just outdated jokes and puns. it was funny for Scary Movie, but now it is just old.
the worst for me is Superbabies 2.
*Bull shudders at the remembrance of the s**t movie*
I loved Super Fuzz and garbage pail kids the movie! Supa supaaaah
The worst comedy is Night Patrol featuring The unknown comic and a bunch of other LA losers of that era (80's)
THE CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA. Not funny, just a chore to get through to see the incredibly silly monster at the end.
NIGHT PATROL wasn't that good, but I thought it was memorably bad in a "I can't believe Jackie Kong actually thought we'd laugh at that stupid gag" way. Plus, it has Billy Barty farting, that's worth a half star alone.
IT'S PAT! (1994) is a notoriously bad comedy.
I've seen it, and it richly deserves that reputation.
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BONUS!
Here's a even more disturbing poster:
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RV with Robin Williams... ughh.
Talladega Nights and Bewitched.
It is very rare I turn a movie off because it sucks so bad - this one was I could not finish and actually threw it away to try and save others.
Freddy Got Fingered
Also, the seventh Police Academy.
Scary Movie 1 - 2 - 3 -4
Quote from: vik on May 23, 2010, 12:59:09 PM
Scary Movie 1 - 2 - 3 -4
1 had its moments, 2 was god awful. 3 and 4 had director David Zucker on board who did the Naked Gun movies, Police Squad, Top Secret and Ruthless People. His trademark quality slapstick type of humor shows in 3 and 4, and made those more enjoyable than 1 and 2. But that's just my opinion :wink:
There's Something About Mary. Tedious, unfunny and boring.
Quote from: claws on May 23, 2010, 02:45:06 PM
Quote from: vik on May 23, 2010, 12:59:09 PM
Scary Movie 1 - 2 - 3 -4
1 had its moments, 2 was god awful. 3 and 4 had director David Zucker on board who did the Naked Gun movies, Police Squad, Top Secret and Ruthless People. His trademark quality slapstick type of humor shows in 3 and 4, and made those more enjoyable than 1 and 2. But that's just my opinion :wink:
I hate all of them, they would be better off making short internet sketches. They're not feature length material IMO
I didn't watch the entire thing, but I feel confident in saying that 2001: A Space Travesty is not funny AT ALL.
Witless Protection ranks as a crime against humanity. It's not funny in any way, it's stupid and offensive. The only positive element is that Jenny McCarthy looks good in it in a trashy sort of way:
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2001: A Space Travesty is the worst comedy ever made, even for parody standards.
I just saw the Land of the Lost movie a few days ago.
That moive is the prime example of everything wrong with modern movie making.
Banking on nostalgia (which I'm not nesecarrily against if done wright) that has no respect for the original, and in fact seems to make a real effort of pointing out what was stupid with the original.
Poor attempts at quotability
all around poor direction
Over emphasis on toilet and/or sex humor
It takes a lot to make me hate a movie with dinosuars, but that movie did it.
99% of them. Im just not a comedy kinda gal. I might watch 3 a year and at least 2 of those will be comedy/horror. Most of the time they are just dumb. All the movies making fun of other movies... yeah, that is sooo original. :lookingup:
In the last few years I can honestly say I have seen 2 that I liked.. Tropic thunder and The hangover.
Agreed on There's Something About Mary. I'd add Night At The Museum, and anything else with Ben Stiller. Will somebody please tell him he's not funny? In "Museum", he got upstaged by a CGI dinosaur skeleton and a senile Mickey Rooney.
I like to add another to this list. Envy with Jack Black. I remember wanting to see this a long time ago and I thought it would be very funny. I liked the idea behind it, but after watching it, I found it extremely unfunny. I might have chuckled once or twice, but the humor was just uninteresting and not funny at all.
Also, I'll throw in North as well. While not a complete comedy and more of just a family film, the jokes in that film were terrible, offensive, and a bit racist at times. I think the Nostalgia Critic put it best when he said, "This movie is pure evil."
Microwave Massacre was pretty bad, but in a good way. Most newer comedies are pretty much s**t.
Quote from: InformationGeek on May 24, 2010, 05:41:37 PM
Also, I'll throw in North as well. While not a complete comedy and more of just a family film, the jokes in that film were terrible, offensive, and a bit racist at times. I think the Nostalgia Critic put it best when he said, "This movie is pure evil."
I've always like Roger Ebert's famous review of NORTH:
I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.
The worst ones are the horribly cliched wacky RomComs that Hollywood cranks out on a regular basis. My wife and mother-in-law forced me into watching The Ugly Truth the other night. Or how about What Happens in Vegas? Or 27 Dresses? Katherine Heigl, with the exception of Knocked Up, seems destined for a career of these awful abortions. Between these types of movies and CGI-driven hack remakes, I can't figure out which I hate more.
Quote from: InformationGeek on May 24, 2010, 05:41:37 PM
I like to add another to this list. Envy with Jack Black. I remember wanting to see this a long time ago and I thought it would be very funny. I liked the idea behind it, but after watching it, I found it extremely unfunny. I might have chuckled once or twice, but the humor was just uninteresting and not funny at all.
The only time I really hate a comedy is when it has unrealized potential, and that movie just seemed to miss the mark at every turn. The question through the whole movie is "where does the poo go?" and in the end, it just gets into the soil and contaminates the food chain. Honestly, how lame is that? You've got a product that evaporates poo, the plot requires it has a fatal flaw, and you're trying to be funny. How about having it condense and return as rain? A climactic s**t storm would have fit the bill perfectly. It's as if they weren't even trying.
I think comedy is just very tough to do well, requiring natural talent akin to being an NFL quarterback. Unless you're one of the rare geniuses, might as well forget it. The problem is, as usual, greed. Hollywood sees a fast buck to be made and makes it. They churn out more and more brainless offal which substitutes sex and potty jokes for real talent. It's pretty sad that this seems to still turn a profit. For those who are young enough to have missed them, go watch any of the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies if you want some real belly laughs. He really was a genius.
I'm gonna have to say that Sturgeon's Law is very much alive for comedies (90% of anything is crap, after all). I'll be the first to admit that I'm just not as easily amused by jokes as most people are (heck, my sister still believes that I don't have a sense of humour), but I'm still quite capable of recognizing what's supposed to be a joke in a movie and deciding whether or not it was actually a decent joke or just flat-out weak. Unfortunately, most movies rely on predictable, incredibly easy jokes. I'm sorry, but if I can see the punchline coming a mile off or I've heard the joke a million times before, I won't laugh.
Quite a few movies also seem to be completely unaware of one of something of a rule of comedy: the difference between comedy and tragedy is that the audience has little to no sympathy for the victim. If you're doing a slapstick where bad things keep happening to someone, you may come off as pointlessly cruel if your main character is a nice (or at least decent) person.
I also can't stand most comedies that try to have a moral. Case in point: Shallow Hal.
The thing I've always hated is that belief that no matter what kind of comedy you're making, it needs a serious subplot. That has ruined more than a few movies for me. The perpetually immature hero is forced to grow up, some tragedy forces the wisecracker to be serious for once. You need some conflict and some character development, but if I just want to see some comedian doing his schtick in a movie made as a vehicle for him to do his schtick, I don't want the movie to deflate three quarters of the way through, so his character can do some soul-searching before resuming the comedy.
Not that a comedy can't have a little more weighty subject matter, but it should be appropriate to the style of comedy and the people doing it.
The serious subplot/moral dilemma gets used waaaayyyy too much in comedy. The Jud Apatow flicks, while far from the worst, are especially guilty of this. Sometimes it can enhance the humor just by presenting a contrast (i.e, Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, In Bruges); or if it's really well done and actually relates to the main story (i.e. Galaxy Quest, When Harry Met Sallyl). But it usually isn't.
Most grating example I've ever seen? A little nothing of a movie called LIFE OF THE PARTY. The basic narrative: Alcoholism isn't a serious problem; oh, wait, yeah it is.
I really hated the SEX & THE CITY movie. Took everything I enjoyed about the show and just hurled it out the window. And the second one looks even worse.
not to be a pretentious bastard but it's liek ALL movies are bad comedies now! ever since Scream
The Scary Movie series deserves to be named among, not only as one of the worst comedies, but also as one of the worst franchises. Stupid, immature toilet humer with crude sex jokes and random violence DO NOT make a movie funny. The writers should be condemned for creating such stupidity.
I thought "Disorderlies" starring the Fat Boys was pretty dire.
I walked out of one of the scary movies and i have only walked out of a theater twice (the other was "little women")
the scary movie franchise is horrible and so are any of those spoof movies, like superhero movie also. i keep thinking based on the preview that it might be funny and each time i feel like i have wasted my time
the last seth rogan movie "observe and report" annoyed me. there were hardly any jokes and the movie was about mall cops! the mall is so much fodder for comedy. i came up with a bunch of jokes while watching it, and normally seth rogan is somewhat funny
"stepbrothers" wasn't funny either and normally will ferrel is
and i haven't seen it but i imagine "patch adams" or any other movie focusing on robin williams' antics leave an unfunny taste in the mouth
WALK LIKE A MAN a dreadful JUNGLE BOOK rip-off,TOYS a stupid antiwar toy peice of junk,HYSTERICAL, the HUDSON BROTHERS lame movie,THE FISH THAT SAVE PITTSBURG a waste of the talents of JONATHAN WINTERS,WON TON TON a dog of a movie,and ISHTAR consittred to be the all time worse movie ever made
Ozzymandias speaks: Has anyone mentioned Surgikill? Andy Milligan's attempt at a hospital comedy. There is a compilation of clips from it on You Tube. Ugh.
Ozzymandias has spoken!!!
Quote from: Flick James on May 26, 2010, 01:48:06 PM
The worst ones are the horribly cliched wacky RomComs that Hollywood cranks out on a regular basis. My wife and mother-in-law forced me into watching The Ugly Truth the other night. Or how about What Happens in Vegas? Or 27 Dresses? Katherine Heigl, with the exception of Knocked Up, seems destined for a career of these awful abortions. Between these types of movies and CGI-driven hack remakes, I can't figure out which I hate more.
Oh crap, I'd like to add
Failure to Launch. An unbelievably terrible film that may cause brain damage. I try to find some good in everything though, and that movie at least had the lovely Zooey Deschanel in an entertaining role:
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Quote from: bionica on June 22, 2010, 02:59:34 PM
the scary movie franchise is horrible and so are any of those spoof movies, like superhero movie also. i keep thinking based on the preview that it might be funny and each time i feel like i have wasted my time
I actually didn't mind Scary Movie 4. I think that was because David Zucker, of Airplane!, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun movies, was at the helm. Really, the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams are pretty much the only people who have made good movies in that style of comedy, although they've each been responsible for their share of atrocities as well. The Wayans family had one good parody - I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. I can't say anything else they've done on the big screen has impressed me.