10 Animated Films That Are Terrible From Begin to End

It’s a unhappy actuality about life that for each winner, there should even be losers. Films are not any exception: although filmmakers hardly ever got down to deliberately create a foul film, they will nonetheless come about attributable to quite a lot of causes, reminiscent of studio meddling, lack of funds, hostility on set, or unexpected circumstances. Generally these finds enter into the class of so bad it’s good, however different occasions they sap all enjoyment from the viewing expertise and depart audiences indignant about their misplaced time.

Animated movies are particularly notable once they prove rotten as a result of effort and time wanted to finish them. Most of the time, they don’t seem to be even enjoyable to sit down via due to backside of the barrel scripts and low high quality CGI that produces the stuff of nightmares.

10

‘Fortunately N’Ever After’ (2006)

Directed by Paul Bolger

As soon as upon a time, a robust wizard (George Carlin) dominated over Fairy Story Land, tasked with making certain all fairy tales attain their fortunately ever after, and protecting the Scales of Good and Evil in stability. Sooner or later, he goes on a visit to Scotland and leaves his assistants, Munk (Wallace Shawn) and Mambo (Andy Dick), in command of his duties. Sadly, whereas observing the story of Cinderella, they permit the evil stepmother, Freida (Sigourney Weaver), to unbalance the scales, smash all of the completely satisfied endings, and summon a military of fairy story monsters.

Fortunately N’Ever After ranks among the many worst animated films of the 2000s attributable to its premise and lackluster comedy feeling like a dated try to repeat Shrek and Hoodwinked’s type of fractured fairy tales. Nonetheless, what makes the movie really insufferable is how boring it’s. Each character, joke, and story beat has been completed higher elsewhere, and whereas the solid is filled with proficient actors, they find yourself feeling wasted.

9

‘Elf Bowling the Film: The Nice North Pole Elf Strike’

Directed by Dave Kim and Rex Piano

In the course of the Golden Age of Piracy, Santa (Joe Alaskey) directed his crew to steal toys whereas secretly sending them to kids. When he and his half-brother, Dingle Kringle (Tom Kenny), are thrown overboard by the crew, they in some way make their strategy to the North Pole and are rescued by elves who consider Santa is destined to steer them. Santa and Dingle are each given immortality, however when Santa forces Dingle to maneuver out, he decides to problem Santa to a recreation of Elf Bowling to determine who can be in command of Christmas.

Primarily based on the pc recreation of the identical title, Elf Bowling the Film pads out its runtime with one complicated resolution after one other. Santa’s pirate origins are distinctive, however the movie does not discover them exterior the opening, as an alternative choosing rest room humor and a complicated plot that re-uses the identical story beats quite a few occasions. It is also stuffed with pointless and poorly constructed musical numbers, together with one the place Dingle sings an upbeat tune about slavery.

8

‘The Christmas Tree’ (1991)

Directed by Flamarion Ferreira

When Judy (Karen Drygas) and her household transfer to a brand new city, the mayor assigns her to work with Mrs. Mavilda (Helen Quirk), who runs the native orphanage. When she arrives along with her two kids, she learns that Mavilda is a merciless and grasping lady who neglects the youngsters, inflicting them to show to a pine tree named Mrs. Hopewell for emotional help. As Judy does what she will to higher the kids’s lives, Mrs. Mavilda turns into jealous and makes an attempt to get her fired.

Whereas The Christmas Tree has moments that may fall into so bad it’s good territory, what makes it so painful to sit down via is the audio high quality. Casting kids who clearly have not acted earlier than is already tough, however when mixed with fluctuating microphone high quality and horrible enhancing, it turns into a relentless assault on the ears. The creepy animation, cliché story, and insulting ethical of “you at all times win when you find yourself good,” do not do the movie any favors both.

7

‘Leo the Lion’ (2005)

Directed by Mario Cambi

After seeing his mom fall over a waterfall whereas searching, Leo (Neri Marcorè/Daniel Amerman) swears off meat and develops a worry of water, which alienates him from different lions. Sooner or later, he meets a pregnant elephant named Savannah (Simona Marchini/Amanda Allan) and helps ship her infants. To maintain the elephants secure from an evil elephant named Maximus Elefante (Carlo Conti/Matthew Mercer), Leo makes an attempt to cause them to the fabled Coronary heart of the Jungle and gathers extra animals alongside the way in which.

Leo the Lion is a confusing movie that solely will get extra so the longer you watch it. Although the movie tries to painting Leo’s vegetarian life-style as legitimate and one thing he ought to be happy with, the animators make him appear to be he is ravenous to demise, which sends combined messages and forces an unpleasant design onto the viewers. The remainder of the movie is bloated with annoying facet characters, Mexican hyenas, and random songs. The worst shock comes on the finish when audiences are handled to the nightmare gas that’s Leo and Savannah’s hybrid kids.

6

‘Mars Wants Mothers’ (2011)

Directed by Simon Wells

When younger Milo (Seth Inexperienced and Seth Dusky) is shipped to his room for misbehaving, he tells his mom (Joan Cusack) that he’d be higher off with out her. Later, he feels dangerous and goes to apologize, solely to observe as aliens from Mars abduct his mom. Milo stows away on the ship and shortly meets a man-child named Gribble (Dan Fogler), who explains that the Martians kill human moms to energy their mom-roobots.

Mars Wants Mothers is among the worst films to come from Disney, and time has solely made it tougher to abdomen. The motion-capture expertise ends in uncomfortable ranges of uncanny valley, particularly on the Martians attributable to their ugly design and exaggerated human-like anatomy. The narrative can also be quite confused: its title means that the movie is mild hearted and enjoyable, however it really comprises a whole lot of darkish imagery, from totalitarian states to kids watching their moms die.

5

‘Norm of the North’ (2016)

Directed by Trevor Wall

Norm (Rob Schneider) is a polar bear who’s each prince of the Arctic but in addition ostracized as a result of he has the uncommon means to speak to people. Sooner or later, people start constructing homes within the Arctic, and Norm makes it his mission to eliminate them. Norm travels to New York Metropolis along with his three lemming mates (Trevor Wall) and turns into the mascot for Mr. Greene (Ken Jeong), the person constructing the homes, and who secretly captured Norm’s grandfather (Colm Meaney).

Norm of the North appears like a low-budget straight-to-DVD knock off of extra profitable movies like Madagascar and Despicable Me. Watching the film is an endurance test; the viewers is bombarded by fixed dance numbers, prolonged sequences of the lemmings urinating, and mounting frustration as Norm does not notice that his actions are serving to the villain as an alternative of saving his residence. Talking of the villain, Mr. Greene might be the strangest facet of the movie attributable to his fixed motion, sped-up animation, and Jeong’s over-the-top efficiency.

4

‘The Emoji Film’

Directed by Tony Leondis

Inside the telephone of a younger boy named Alex (Jake T. Austin) is Textopolis, a metropolis inhabited by emojis whose job is to make a single expression each time Alex makes use of them to ship texts. Nonetheless, Gene (T.J. Miller), the son of two meh emojis, can in some way make a number of expressions, which causes him to mess up considered one of Alex’s texts to his crush, Addie (Tati Gabrielle). Now deemed a malfunction and on the run from the lead emoji, Smiler (Maya Rudolph), Gene groups up with the forgotten Hello-5 (James Corden) and a hacker named Jailbreak (Anna Faris) to achieve the cloud in order that Gene may be mounted.

The Emoji Film is a textbook instance of how to not make an animated household movie. The movie’s predictable and paper-thin story appears like a Disney and Pixar clone however with not one of the identical coronary heart or creativity present in Toy Story or Wreck-it Ralph. As a substitute, we get Sir Patrick Stewart voicing the poop emoji who speaks solely in rest room puns, horrible product placement via the usage of Simply Dance and Sweet Crush as vital plot factors, and total unfulfilling character arcs completed higher in every other movie.

3

‘Titanic: The Legend Goes On’ (2000)

Directed by Camillo Teti

Because the RMS Titanic prepares for her maiden voyage from England to America, quite a few eccentric passengers board the ship. Probably the most outstanding embody Angelica (Francesca Guadagno/Lisa Russo), a younger lady abused by her step-family who longs to seek out her mom, and William (Francesco Pezzulli/Mark Thompson-Ashworth), an upper-class man touring along with his aged maid. Because the human passengers mingle, speaking animals additionally board the ship, together with a household of Yiddish mice, a trio of mariachi mice, and a rapping canine.

If any of that sounded acquainted, that is as a result of Titanic: The Legend Goes On made a daring alternative in combining quite a few Disney and Don Bluth movies with probably the most well-known tragedies of the twentieth century. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t work out: this movie will not be solely insensitive to the reminiscence of those that died, however it insults the viewers by bombarding them with low-cost animation and dozens of facet characters combating to see who can waste essentially the most time. The animal characters are the worst, as their plot does not hook up with the human storyline and appears like an excuse to shove racial stereotypes into the movie.

2

‘The Legend of the Titanic’ (1999)

Directed by Orlando Corradi and Kim J. Okay

An aged mouse named High Connor’s (Stefano Crescentini/Sean Patrick Lovett) tells his grandchildren the true story of what occurred on the Titanic. Whereas engaged on the ship, Connor befriends a Brazilian mouse named Ronnie (Maria Teresa Cella/Anna Mazzotti) and Elizabeth (Emanuela Rossi/Jane Alexander), a human lady whose father and stepmother organized for her to marry the grasping whaler Everard Maltravers (Luca Ward/Gregory Snegoff). When Elizabeth falls for a Romani man named Don Juan (Vittorio Guerrieri/Francis Pardeilhan), Connor and Ronnie attempt to assist her in her love quest, whereas Maltravers makes a plan to achieve worldwide whaling entry and sink the ship along with his speaking shark allies.

Titanic: The Legend Goes On was dangerous, however not less than it remembered that the Titanic’s sinking was a tragedy, and confirmed that not everybody survived. The identical can’t be stated for The Legend of the Titanic, which sanitizes the occasion by making the whole lot as a result of machinations of an evil whaler and his shark allies, who trick a pleasant big octopus named Tentacles (Oliviero Dinelli/Jane Alexander) into throwing the iceberg on the ship. The cherry on high of this disrespectful sundae is that it ends with Tentacles and a legion of whales working collectively to make sure no one dies.

1

‘Foodfight!’ (2012)

Directed by Lawrence Kasanoff

When the lights exit in Marketropolis, the mascots of the varied merchandise come to life and mingle. Their most beloved mascot is Dex Dogtective (Charlie Sheen), a cereal mascot who works to maintain the aisles secure from crime. Sooner or later, his girlfriend, raisin mascot Sunshine Goodness (Hilary Duff), goes lacking, and when Dex is unable to seek out her, he quits being a detective. Nonetheless, he is pulled again in when extra mascots go lacking following the arrival of Girl X (Eva Longoria), the mascot of the brand new Model X generic merchandise which can be flooding the grocery store.

Foodfight! reportedly value round fifty million {dollars}, however you would not consider that primarily based on the ultimate product. The animation is ugly, with grotesque characters and unnatural actions attributable to an arbitrary resolution by the director to modify to movement seize. If the visuals weren’t sufficient to depart you uncomfortable, the movie is filled with vulgar jokes that vary from racial stereotypes to gross-out humor, and a disturbing quantity of sexualized imagery. As a substitute of even essentially the most fundamental respect for the medium of animation, Foodfight! is little greater than an unpleasant product placement, making it maybe the worst animated film.

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