[quote="Lauren"]Looking back at my first response almost two years ago, I still consider The Ant Bully to be the worst one for me. It's just awful in so many aspects.
Has anyone else seen this film besides me?
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Yeah, I saw it... like, years ago. I dunno. I kind of liked it as a kid, but as I've said, I haven't seen it in a long time, my opinion might change now since I liked nearly everything then. (EDIT: In fact, now that I'm really thinking about it and typing out my thoughts, I'm starting to realize why people don't like it... o___o). I know my brother went through a phase where he *loved* it (he's autistic, so no hate on him please
), but I never really felt anything particular towards it other than 'meh'. I liked the Nick Cage-sorcerer ant dude, but other than that it's just a generally flat movie. Aside from the gross scenes - yes, I'm starting to remember what you're talking about - and corny jokes... and that one really annoying bug character who always said 'HI!!! WAT'S UR NAME!?' to everyone
...it's really kind of silly, not to mention... why the hell did Lucas sign that contract from that creepy exterminator dude? And speaking of which, why was that guy so hell-bent on destroying the ants in his yard? What's his deal? Did he have ant-related trauma as a kid? Did they
both have ant-related trauma as a kid? The mysteries go on.
Let's see, other movies to add to this list... hmm... I grew up mostly watching Disney movies, so I haven't seen that many
terrible ones. Most of the ones I have seen that are bad or look like they were made by high/drunk kids in the 5th grade have already been added to this list, but just for clarification, I'll continue.
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The Wild. This one has been mentioned a few times. To this day I've only seen it once (I was about 8 and I think it was a free movie or something, so we ended up going), but I still remember just sitting there like "... this is bad. It's a like a cheap rip-off of Madagascar
". If you've seen it, then you know what I'm talking about. The story is pretty generic and the characters are bland. All in all, it's easily forgettable.
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Barnyard. This was another once I watched at 7 or 8 and thought was only 'okay' (which, since I liked most movies I watched back then, says something). I've only seen it twice, but having seen clips and reviews of it on Youtube since then... I can honestly say that the fact male cows in this movie have udders really disturbs me.
I'm not all that impressed by the animation, either.
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Space Chimps. Watched this one once, don't really remember it (aside from the LSD-esque scene where he warps through a wormhole and, instead of getting ripped to shreds, sees his dead grandfather's face talking to him
) ... but seriously, didn't they use like a volcano to boost their rocket ship off the weird alien planet? How does that make sense? Seriously, someone had to write that.
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Open Season II and
III. If you hated
Open Season (which, in my opinion, wasn't that bad, only really silly and kind of cliche), then you can have the comfort of knowing that these two movies make the first one look like a classic masterpiece. Perhaps it's still not something that deserves a sequel, though... at least, not
these sequels.
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Planet 51. Another one I watched when I was maybe 10 and thought 'meh'. Again, my brother liked it, but we were the only people in the movie theater instead of at the new
Twilight film, so obviously it didn't attract a lot of attention. The astronaut in the film was... well, not
terribly unlikeable, but the aliens just look... disturbing. John Cleese actually agreed to voice a character in the movie apparently... and I still don't know how
that came about (his character was still forgettable). I mean, do actors not read scripts anymore?? Lastly, the plot also relied
way too heavily on references to other classic movies and jokes about 'oh, look, on this planet the roles of alien and human are swapped around! Here the
aliens are afraid of the
people!! That's so
funny!! Har, har, har!!'
(EDIT: Oh, and I nearly forgot
Pocahontas II and
Mulan II! I watched them both with my friend on Netflix after watching the originals. Now, generally I think that Disney is like the paragon of animation, bar-none, but they don't seem to always put effort into their sequels, do they? Considering how much I liked
Mulan and, to a degree,
Pocahontas, I was disappointed by these. Here's some reasons why.
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Mulan II. Well... it's not as bad as
Pocahontas II at least. But still it suffers from OOC-Disney-Sequel-Syndrome. I mean, where's the free-spirited, unconventional Mulan from the original? And when did Mushu become a total a-hole that purposefully destroyed everything? Ughh... that pretty much sums up my thoughts on that. The characters just... got canon-raped or something, I feel like they need help. They ought to give Disney characters rape-whistles for stuff like this.
Aside from that, the story was a bit far-fetched and silly, but hey... at least the animation wasn't terrible.
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Pocahontas II. Seriously, what is the deal with this movie?? The animation isn't even
close to what I would expect from Disney... I mean come on, you guys can do so,
so much better.
Again it seems the characters were all raped terribly before being cast in this movie, words just cannot describe... but yes, as if being treated to the low-quality, often eye-sorish animation wasn't a blunt slap in the face, we get to enjoy watching John Smith fall off a building into the water in the first five minutes and then disappear for the other 99% of the movie.
Yeah. I'm being serious. Of course, if they're killing off one of their main characters like that, they should have an incredibly good, well-thought-out reason for doing so, right? Turns out, no, not at all. As far as I know, it's just so Pocahontas can fall for someone else. Lazy writing, much?? Also, her personality is like 180-degrees opposite from before, now she's like this tame, civilized maiden going over to England, for reasons I don't remember but were probably pretty contrived. The whole thing just... doesn't seem to have a point.
And I don't think she gets angry through like the whole film, even though they all gawk at her like she's some freak show. Oh, wait. I take that back. She does get angry, but only after they start stabbing a bear repeatedly in front of her as some sort of... court jester game. Apparently this was a real thing. So thanks, Disney, for at least doing your research... but does this whole movie have to be so silly?)
Another one that seems to be a popular one on here is
Alpha and Omega, a movie I have seen only partway. I can't really offer my opinion aside from the fact that it seems more like a cartoon show and the wolves do look kind of creepy. I mean... what's with the hair? Also, am I supposed to believe that--you know what, nevermind. x___x
Lastly, I will say that I liked
Chicken Little as a kid. Yes. It is true. However, be aware that this is probably biased because I was f-ing obsessed with anything with birds in it for... like... my entire childhood.
I think it goes without saying that the plot is overblown and completely ridiculous. However, I wouldn't necessarily go as far as to say that it's in the bin of the worst of the worst. The animation and just overall story/characters were by no means the best Disney had to offer by a long shot, and it kind of represents the slump that Disney faced after the 90's. But, like I said, it's still not as bad as some of these other ones in here.
PS As a bonus I watched the Nostalgia Critic reviews of
Felix the Cat and both the
Titanic movies. I would be surprised if I came out of that without some form of eye cancer.
Dammit Niña, this is all your fault. D:PPS What's with people putting Disney/Pixar films on this list? o____o Have there really been movies from
Disney that were... I dunno... worse than these? Highly, highly doubtful in my opinion. (EDIT: Okay, I will admit some of the sequels are terrible, now that I start thinking about
Pocahontas II and
Mulan II... but barring sequels, what I said still stands, I think). I mean, I get if you don't
like the particular movie, but you have to admit that all Disney/Pixar movies have a very, very high standard of artwork and animation. Particularly disappointing to see on this list is
Frozen and
TLK1.5. I mean, I can see if you don't like the particular story or characters, or if you think that
Frozen is overrated - which I have to agree with a bit, even though I liked it a lot - but saying that it's worse than, for example, those
Titanic movies (haven't seen them, don't really want to... except maybe to laugh at them) seems a bit unfair to the talented artists who obviously put a lot of time and effort into it. As I said, I can understand not liking the characters, and I myself am not a fan of
TLK3 since it kind of ruins the mood of the franchise, but I don't see how the animation/voice acting/score/technical aspects/music of either movie are lacking.
PPPS Brave beat out Wreck-It Ralph for the Academy Awards? ... Ouch. Just ouch.