History Horrible / AnimatedFilmsStandaloneExamples

* '''''WesternAnimation/SunshineBarryAndTheDiscoWorms''''', something that could be considered on par with ''Elf Bowling: The Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike'' in its terribleness. The animation? Horrible. The characters? [[FlatCharacter One-note and uninteresting.]] A plot that [[IdiotBall literally starts because of stupidity]], with clichés galore, ugly and [[UnintentionalUncannyValley scary-looking]] character designs (most notably including ''[[NonMammalMammaries human-like breasts on limbless invertebrates]]''), unfortunate implications abound (especially with regards to the unintentionally-[[HaveIMentionedIAmGay homophobic attitude]] towards the ArmouredClosetGay worm, who is a [[BritishRockStar punk-rocker]], and the villiain, who is not only a CorruptCorporateExecutive and DirtyOldMan (and heavily implied to be a ''[[PaedoHunt paedophile]]''), but also [[KarmaHoudini gets away with everything he does at the end]], including [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney blatantly paying off the judges]] in full view of everyone, with [[ApatheticCitizens no one saying a thing]], just [[DiabolusExMachina to ensure the heroes lose the contest]]) and downright nightmare-inducing scenes. All in all, it's no wonder Archer said it's worse than ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}''. See Archer and ''WebVideo/MusicalHell'' take it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKez5n5pPgg here.]]

* '''''Caroline and the Magic Potion''''', or as it's known in its home country of Spain, '''''[[MarketBasedTitle Meigallos]]''''', is a film that tries to [[TheMockbuster disguise itself as]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} a much more well-known film]] by virtue of a retitling and a GagDub taking advantage of a passing resemblance between the main character, called Malva in the original, and that of the 2009 film. The distributors should be ashamed of themselves just for attempting to do so, for it can't even hold a candle to the original in ''any'' regard. The first problem we see is the animation. The models themselves aren't so bad, even if they look kind of weird due to stylistic choices, but the real problem comes in once you see them in motion. The film uses an intentionally low framerate, likely in [[StopFauxtion an attempt to mimic]] the [[StopMotion medium]] of the film it's allegedly trying to copy (director Virginia Curiá has a background in claymation, and this was her first CGI venture), but the result is that everything looks disjointed and choppy, and the characters' movements are sometimes really jittery as a result. Besides this, the mouths of characters are obviously just textures, which itself results in a HongKongDub, models look like they're superimposed onto 2-D backgrounds, and they oftentimes aren't lit correctly. The voice acting makes it no less tolerable, as the delivery of lines are often stilted and strange, and DullSurprise is commonplace, most notably the BigBad, who positively ''oozes'' all three. But the writing and plot are what ''really'' drag the film into garbage fire territory. For example, the main character's love interest is [[{{Squick}} a full-grown young adult while she's still a]] KidHero; he also stalks her caravan ([[ContrivedCoincidence which comes in handy when he has to catch up with them.]]) The BigBad is also really stupid; she utilizes mind control and forces one of her victims to ask Caroline's kidnapped grandmother for her secret potion recipe instead of just mind-controlling the grandmother into giving it up. There are several plot threads are introduced and then left hanging. For example, it's said that magic exists; that's it, it just exists, seemingly [[AWizardDidIt as a way to justify the main characters being able to use magic.]] Besides that, there's a juvenile BrickJoke about a cat peeing on the floor, an aggressively TotallyRadical paraglider who only exists to [[DeusExMachina pop in and solve stuff]], an {{Anvilicious}} GreenAesop that comes right out of nowhere, and a stupid RunningGag about a police officer's chief asking about food every time he's called. Mix all of this up, plus the fact that it's trying to trick people into thinking that it's related to ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', and you get a catastrophic train wreck of a film that can't decide what it wants to be besides a third-rate simulacrum. See WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}'s review of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6kPeM-KydQ here.]]

* '''''Dwegons and Leprechauns''''',[[note]]Also known as ''Dwegons and Lepurcans''[[/note]] a 2014 CGI-animated kids film, is a failed attempt at an indie animated film, with cheaply done, janky-looking animation, crappy voice acting that wastes the talents of Creator/MelissaLeo, character designs that range from cheap-looking to outright hideous and is especially bad with the animal characters, and a nonsensical plot involving descendants of leprechauns and fairies who live in an old house that a family inherits and moves into to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, a pair of jewel thieves wanting to steal Dwegonland's riches, and a conflict and battle with an imprisoned villain named Darvagan and his cronies that is introduced at the last minute. Not only that, but despite the movie being titled ''Dwegons and '''Leprechauns''''', Leprechauns serve a very minimal role in the story, only appearing in a brief flashback scene that explains the origin story of the Dwegons. The second scene of the movie also has a surprisingly dark scene showing one of the characters dying from a heart attack. It received a [[https://commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/dwegons-and-leprechauns 1/5]] by Common Sense Media. Watch Ace Backspace pick it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7zOIH-bYIU here]].
* '''''WesternAnimation/ElfBowlingTheMovieTheGreatNorthPoleElfStrike''''' is a DirectToVideo AnimatedAdaptation of [[VideoGame/ElfBowling the supposedly-popular online Flash game of the same name]]. Some consider [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7SvCRO0SMU it]] to be twenty times worse than ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}''. The characters are unpleasant to look at, the plot is near-nonexistent, and ''SantaClaus'' is an unlikable asshole throughout to the point where his brother [[BigBad Dingle]] (voiced by Creator/TomKenny) seems much more reasonable (well, until he starts singing a VillainSong about how great slavery is). The movie also uses childish humor that falls flat, as well as racial stereotypes, and worst of all, the whole thing just [[RandomEventsPlot makes no sense]]. To add insult to injury, [[SequelHook a sequel titled]] ''[[HalloweenEpisode Elf Bowling 2: The Great Halloween Pumpkin Heist]]'' was advertised at the end of the film and was slated for a Fall 2007 release, [[StillbornFranchise but it was presumably canned due to the failure of this film]]. Webvideo/TheCartoonHero has put this movie on [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com/2014/12/top-10-worst-animated-holiday-specials.html the #3 spot of his Worst Holiday Specials Video]]. Whyboy has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uucnSITtL-A few things to say about it]], as does WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbcZ8Z3rXM here]], [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSuvokSszc here]], [[WebVideo/ReactionAndReview Emer Prevost]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9e15yqAlvw here]], WebVideo/PhantomStrider [[http://youtu.be/9J0vXvrdSc4 here]], WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} [[https://youtu.be/IyGeY035B5I here]], WebVideo/MusicalHell [[https://youtu.be/NAk1zunXzxw here]], and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka5pYUSkgHI here]].

* '''''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}''''' has a very interesting story behind its production. Originally intended for a 2003 release, the discs containing its assets were stolen in what was supposedly an act of "industrial espionage". After spending ''six years'' in DevelopmentHell (being completed in late 2009), it was finally released in 2012 and soon became infamous for how spectacularly awful it was. It was made on a budget of 45 million dollars and none of it shows. The animation is horrendous, with designs deep in the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]] and some of the wonkiest movement you'll ever see on an animated character, and the writing's not much better, being largely ripped off from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and having the last third of the film being almost entirely {{Padding}}. The film is also infamous for blatant ProductPlacement, [[DoubleEntendre sexual innuendo]] that is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids incredibly inappropriate for a movie aimed at children]], and the questionable message of [[spoiler:[[BeautyEqualsGoodness ugly people being bad]]]]. All of this combines into a movie that was critically panned and has an abysmal [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249516/?ref_=chtbtm_t_97 1.3]] on {{Website/IMDb}}. Watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGql8sKjJwA JonTron]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQawtEXwuPg I Hate Everything]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1FdVSMZHA the Nostalgia Critic]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UYcR0JYI_4 Animat]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RDP_XREmRI Cynical Reviews]] rip this monstrosity of a film apart. Phelous, The Cinema Snob, and Obscurus Lupa also review it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5dZjXVR45s two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLZqLP3ECg&t=1789s parts]]. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgyCHDTU5-E looked at the film when ranking the worst of the 2010's decade's animated movies (at least those that he's seen),]] and he placed it at the absolute worst category, with only other animated movies created by The Asylum joining it.

* September 11, 2020, saw the release of a direct-to-Netflix film known as '''''Pets United'''''. Despite the deluge of middling to bad animated films on the platform, this one quite well proves it's a ''very'' special case among those examples. The animation is okay, but it occasionally looks really cheap or weird due to certain corner cuts. The voice acting is awful, with the voice actors (the voice cast includes Creator/NatalieDormer and Creator/EddieMarsan) sounding [[DullSurprise consistently bored]] and, rather ironically, more robotic than the actual robots in the film. But the writing is absolutely ''atrocious''. The best way to describe it would be as if ''Animation/NextGen'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' were haphazardly thrown into a blender with some [[ClicheStorm assorted other films,]] and the resultant...thing is a confounding ''mess.'' Characters get introduced to the plot and disappear with almost no explanation, the main characters get almost no development, the plot takes all sorts of nonsensical twists and turns, and is generally incomprehensible. One could walk out of the room, come back, and still be just as confused as they were before. It also makes liberal use of offensive stereotypes; the "heroic" animals all have British accents, while the "villainous" animals all have European accents, a red panda [[UnexplainedRecovery (who was presumed dead at the hands of the robots at the beginning of the film)]] has an Irish accent just because he has red fur, and a tarsier is depicted as a Chinese OldMaster...for some reason. Interestingly, the film had a brief stint in Netflix's Trending list for a day or two after release. One can only assume that it was kept up there by BileFascination, judging by [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11276598/externalreviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt the]] [[https://parentpreviews.com/movie-reviews/pets-united reviews,]] earning a 3.4 on Website/IMDb. Watch Stoned Gremlin Productions chip in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYYl1dzBeWg here]], and WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} gives his two cents [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7KvjgkuXU here.]]