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There ’s a timeless state that dying is easy while comedy is hard . Perhaps no one see this as much as those funniness filmmakers who over the decades have pour out all their blood , lather , and sunshine into their cinematic endeavors , only to die a petty inside as their propose laugh fests are rejected outright by looker .
The very first motion picture comedy made quite the splash — literally . Released in 1895 , the French shortThe Watered Waterer(akaThe Sprinkler Sprinkled ) depicted a gardener getting spray in the human face with piss after a mischievous boy wad with his hosepipe . Running a mere 45 irregular , the picture show was also the first to relate a novelize news report — a landmark development that supported another age - old proverb : comedy is Billie Jean King .
They say everyone ’s a critic , and that ’s specially reliable when it comes to something as immanent as comedy . But in the character of professional film critics , the reception can often be downright unfriendly . On the critical compiling siteRotten Tomatoes , approximately 100 comedies can currently be found nurse a 0 % military rating .
Combining some of the 0 % flop with the high-pitched identification number of negative reviews with others notorious for their rankness , here are the20 Worst Comedies Ever Made , accord To Rotten Tomatoes .
ED
If even President Ronald Reagan could n’t completely scat the indignity of co - star with a imp in 1951’sBedtime for Bonzo , then what hope was there for a idiot box adept in his first major covert outing ?
The raging achiever ofFriendsemboldened most of the central cast appendage to strain their luck in the motion picture . For Matt LeBlanc , this meant taking the leading role in 1996’sEd , a comedy about the friendship between a venial league baseball thespian bring up Jack “ Deuce ” Cooper and his unlikely teammate , a chimpanzee known as Ed Sullivan .
Edmight have had a fighting fortune if its claim monkey had been played by an literal creature – after all , audience respond favorably when Clint Eastwood team up with a magnetic orang on early function . But the decision was made that Ed would be played by alternate stunt performers donning a mechanical suit . The result was creepy rather than cuddly , and the movie terminate up appeal to dead no one .
BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR
Like Rob Schneider , Nick Swardson is one of those performer who would likely never have had an represent life history were it not for the benevolence ofAdam Sandler . Indeed , it was Sandler who produced and co - wrote Swardson ’s headlining vehicle , 2011’sBucky Larson : Born to Be a Star .
Swardson act Bucky , a small - Ithiel Town imbecile who channelise to Los Angeles in the hopes of becoming an adult film star . Despite birth a tiny package , he receive the support of adult flick theatre director Miles Deep ( Don Johnson ) , a union that frays once Bucky falls for a angelic waitress ( Christina Ricci ) .
Even with a relatively modest budget of $ 10 million , Bucky Larsonproved to be such a monumental bomb upon release that it was jerk from house after a mere two hebdomad - and a paltry $ 2 million gross . Yet its commercial walloping paled in comparison to its critical mauling , which was so hard that Rotten Tomatoes later on track it the worst - reviewed celluloid of 2011 .
For his part , Swardson can the critic as “ morons ” for attacking this fine piece of artistry .
SURFER, DUDE
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson portray brothers in 1999’sEDtvand partners on 2014’sTrue Detective . In the meantime , they also teamed up for 2008’sSurfer , Dude , a critically lecture comedy that scarce played theatre and sank without a trace .
Viewed mostly as a vanity task for McConaughey ( who also serve up as manufacturer ) , the film finds the thespian cast as Steve “ Addman ” Addington , a surfer enthusiast who rick his back on remunerative endorsements to spend more time overhear the sodding wave . But once the waters calm down and the waves go MIA , the philosophic lapidator is forced to resolve whether to sell out or stay to embrace his inner buster .
Harrelson turns up as Addman ’s handler , and , because this is a pic full of reefer madness , there ’s also the requisite cameo by Willie Nelson . Nevertheless , critics were left dazed and confused by the picture show ’s rambling nature .
IT’S PAT: THE MOVIE
To date , there have been roughly 12 characteristic motion picture found onSaturday Night Liveskits . In almost all cases , the survival of the fittest made sensory faculty — The Blues BrothersandWayne ’s Worldwere no - brainers , and evenMacGruberprobably looked serious on newspaper . But the determination to construct an entire pic around the character of Pat Riley continues to baffle the greatest mind of our time .
The androgynous number make and played by Julia Sweeney onSNLwas certainly groundbreaking , and most audience did n’t mind spending metre with Pat for the continuance of a 5- or 10 - minute skit . But 1994’sIt ’s Pat : The Movierequired audience to wallow in the character ’s front for 77 straight minute . compound the problem was that this big - screen Pat was more aggressively obnoxious than the rather benignant Pat encounter on TV .
The outcome was a film that performed so poorly in limited release , it was yanked after just a calendar week and never give a extensive exit .
TOP DOG
Chuck Norris might have the power to work up a snowman out of rain , bowl a perfect plot with a marble , and look to infinity ( doubly ! ) , but the one matter he ca n’t do is foreclose his two worst try at comedy from scoring 0 % on Rotten Tomatoes .
The 1986 dangerous undertaking yarnFirewalkerwas an torment rip - off ofRomancing the StoneandRaiders of the Lost Ark , with Norris and Lou Gossett Jr. cast as a couplet of treasure Hunter . Norris displayed all the comic instinct of a goldfish , but he nevertheless was afterward deemed to be the perfect actor to headline 1995’sTop Dog . In this one , he plays a hard - nosed cop who team up up with a police dog to take down an US Army of white supremacist .
With plot similarities to the venomous Oklahoma City bombardment , it did n’t assist thatTop Dogopened less than two week after that devastating tragedy . But even on its own terms , the picture was trashed as an inferior written matter of previous pal - cop - dog picturesTurner & HoochandK-9 .
THE STARVING GAMES
If there ’s one constant when it comes to lists of the worst movies of late vintage , it ’s that a title by the author - director team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will invariably be included . The duet behindDisaster MovieandEpic Movie masterminded yet another decisive underperformer with 2013’sThe Starving Games .
The title of respect suggest a spoof ofThe Hunger Games , but as is always the case with joint Friedberg - Seltzer efforts , parodies of other enterprise come tight and infuriated . Here , Kantmiss Evershot ( Maiara Walsh ) hope to survive the life - or - last tournament instigated by President Snowballs ( Diedrich Bader ) , face resistance from the Expendables but receiving living from the Avengers . Along the direction , there are also drear nod toAvatar , Taylor Swift , theHarry Potterfranchise , and even The Annoying Orange .
JURY DUTY
Pauly Shoreheadlined a cosmic string of terrible movies during the 1990s ( Bio - DomeandEncino Manamong them ) , yet 1995’sJury Dutyis the only one that has managed to get a perfect 0 % on Rotten Tomatoes .
The perpetually annoying Pauly play a slacker who ’s only too happy to serve on the panel of a lengthy slaying trial since his sequestered state means he now has liberal room and board . The film is fashion as a parody of 1957’s12 Angry Men , and the dense appropriation of some of the fabric sure enough had Henry Fonda flap in his grave accent .
Yet the most cringe - worthy aspect ofJury Dutywas its attempt to milk comedy out of the O.J. Simpson slaying tribulation that was unfolding during output and continued after the film ’s firing . “ Run , O.J. , footrace ! ” Pauly ’s fictitious character even bleats at one point .
LOOSE CANNONS
There ’s something peculiarly sore about watching a genuinely cracking doer perform cloth that ’s far beneath them . One such example can be found in 1990 ’s horrendousLoose Cannons , in which two - time Oscar victor Gene Hackman glumly goes through the move .
Hackman is drop as rebel cop Mac Stern , whose new better half Ellis Fielding ( Dan Aykroyd ) sustain from multiple personality upset . When face with violence , this derange policeman subconsciously takes on the personas of fabricated type — cue Aykroyd ’s torturous caricature of the Road Runner , the Cowardly Lion , Captain Kirk , and Dirty Harry Callahan .
Incidentally , the plot ofLoose Cannonscenters on the efforts of Mac and Ellis to track down a time of origin , World War II - earned run average grownup film that ’s also being sought by neo - national socialist sympathizers . The star of that film ? None other than Adolf Hitler !
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S GOLD DIGGERS
It ’s been pretty much downhill for theNational Lampoonfilm partitioning since the Alcyone day ofAnimal HouseandVacation , but 2003’sNational Lampoon ’s Gold Diggersmight represent the low-water mark of the entire enfranchisement .
Despite the confines of a PG-13 rating , this is foul stuff , as two dork ( Will Friedle and Chris Owen ) decide they should marry two elderly sisters ( Louise Lasser and Renee Taylor ) in the Leslie Townes Hope that the women will die soon and pass on behind a enceinte fortune . What the clods do n’t know is that the sis are broke and planning to murderthemfor the policy money .
When it come to awful comedies , the merciless reviews are often more interesting ( and for certain comic ) than anything seen on silver screen . That ’s sure enough the case here — perhaps the most challenging archeological site comes from critic Peter Hartlaub , who asked readers to “ ideate a horrible parallel creation where Pauly Shore is allowed to direct a remaking ofHarold and Maude . ” The mind boggles .
PINOCCHIO
Aside from Disney ’s 1940 masterpiece , Carlos Collodi’sPinocchiohas been the source of many dubious film version , including 1964 ’s animatedPinocchio In Outer Spaceand 1971 ’s X - ratedThe Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio(advertised with the tagline " It ’s Not His Nose That Grows ! " ) . In the annals of bad cinema , though , no version will ever approach writer - conductor - star Roberto Benigni ’s 2002 take on the tale .
This Italian attempt is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , ludicrous , annoying , heavy - handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . The 50 - year - old Benigni wander himself as the wooden puppet who longs to become a tangible son , and his operation is both tiresome and terrifying .
As the rancid cerise on top , the dubbing by English - speak actor ( among them Regis Philbin , Kevin James , and Breckin Meyer as Pinocchio ) is particularly poor , with the words matching the rim move about as well as in those imported kung fu flicks from the 1970s .
