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of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Cinematronicsnote is an openly shameless attempt to capitalize on Tim Burton's version that came out the same year. The audio is lifted straight from a radio drama that aired in 1948, and its overall artstyle (which appears to have been designed with MS Paint) that seemingly only uses one model per character and tries manipulating them in 3D space, resulting in everyone moving unnaturally and looking like cardboard cut-outsnote . The designs are loaded with blatant Artistic License (the Griffin looks like a dragon, the Dodo looks more like a pelican, and the Eaglet barely resembles a bird at all), are sometimes problematic (the Duchess, for example, is an overweight African-American woman with large lips), and unintentionally creepy. The Cartoon Hero happened upon this... thing in his marathon of reviews of works listed on this page and claims it to be the worst thing he has ever or will ever review. PhantomStrider put this on his Worst Forgotten Cartoons list. - At the height of their popularity, Silly Bandz had an unauthorized feature film. Bands on the Run is a very cheaply produced, Direct to Video soulless mess of a film. In a blatant rip-off of Toy Story, a group of rubber bands, including one regular rubber band, come to life (while most of the others in the same film don’t come alive) and desire to be played with by children and seek to get to a toy store so they can do that. No small part of its failure owes to C.Y.UNS Information Technologies, Co Ltd., "quite possibly the cheapest, shoddiest, most fly-by-night animation studio in all of China," in the art director's words. The end product is ugly, badly animated, and has no sense of scale, with a Cliché Storm plot and talent hired from Craigslist (including Cristina Valenzuela, somehow). It was the first and only film made by Elastic Productions, who shut down immediately after releasing the film to a barely-there, unappreciative audience. Watch RebelTaxi and Digiman tear the film a new one right over here and here, respectively. To add insult to injury, the DVD includes free bands and a warning to keep these bands away from little kids who could be harmed by eating them. But in the movie, you can see a baby playing with one of the rubber bands and becoming her new owner.
- Bobbleheads: The Movie is once again proof that Netflix still remains a fertile breeding ground for this kind of bottom-of-the-barrel drivel. The characters' rough, unpolished, and rather ugly-looking designs and lackluster animation (even for a Direct-to-DVD movie) are only the beginning of this movie's many issues. In a plot you've likely heard a million times before, the eponymous bobbleheads come to life when nobody's looking and vie to protect their family's home from the dad character's trailer-trash brother. The movie initially seems like it's going to follow the equally worn-out "kid gets workaholic parents to pay attention to them" plot, but this is dropped quite early in and only given a brief nod later. The rest of the movie is a nonsensical, incoherent, and boring mess that tries to do entirely too much at once without making an effort to tie any of it together. The eponymous bobbleheads are either annoying or just flat-out unlikeable, and the movie's main antagonist comes off more as hapless than actually mean or nasty. The movie also mentions several supplementary materials and characters the bobbleheads were based on, but none of these elements are explained to the viewers in any way, only serving to make the plot even more confusing (and makes the out-of-nowhere appearance of a bobblehead version of Cher a flat-out Big-Lipped Alligator Moment). Put this multitude of shortcomings into a food processor, set to "puree" for a few minutes, and you get this bobbling, bubbling sludge pile of a movie as a result. Interestingly, several Disney alumni and the art director of Foodfight! were involved with this film. Tab Murphy, despite getting a "story by" credit, admitted that he had next to no creative control over the film. Watch Saberspark take it to task here, and watch Stoned Gremlin Productions suffer through it here. Alex of I Hate Everything talks about it in his Search for the Worst here, along with his Trying to Watch here, The Nostalgia Critic also gives his thoughts on the movie here.
- Bolívar, el Héroe ("Bolívar the Hero"), a 2003 Colombian "animated" movie about the 19th-Century South American freedom fighter Simón Bolívar (who would most likely be spinning in his grave if Hugo Chavez hadn't had him exhumed), featuring barely animated, terribly drawn Animesque versions of Bolívar and his allies and enemies that look like they were drawn by a middle schooler, MS Paint-worthy special effects, ridiculously bombastic acting, and generally pathetically low production "values." It's allegedly for kids but adds far too much violence occasionally and feels too heavy to engage children. You can look at the trailer for this thing yourself... or just look at the IMDb reviews.
- Caroline and the Magic Potion, or as it's known in its home country of Spain, Meigallos, is a film that tries to disguise itself as a much more well-known film by virtue of a retitling and a Gag Dub 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 an attempt to mimic the 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 Hong Kong Dub, 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 Dull Surprise is commonplace, most notably the Big Bad, 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 a full-grown young adult while she's still a Kid Hero; he also stalks her caravan (which comes in handy when he has to catch up with them.) The Big Bad 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 as a way to justify the main characters being able to use magic. Besides that, there's a juvenile Brick Joke about a cat peeing on the floor, an aggressively Totally Radical paraglider who only exists to pop in and solve stuff, an Anvilicious Green Aesop that comes right out of nowhere, and a stupid Running Gag 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 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 Saberspark's review of it here.
- While the Cheech & Chong films are far from high art, they have a cult following and are usually considered funny movies. However, not even the highest stoner can praise their 2013 film Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie. The film is designed as a "best of" for their albums with animation even The Nutshack would make fun of and audio so bad the microphone unintentionally distorts at some points. Stoner website Mary Jane called it the worst Cheech & Chong film, telling its readers "Don't puff, just pass." Emer Prevost watched it here and regretted doing so.
- Children VS Wizards (Дети против волшебников) is a 2016 Russian Orthodox Christian propaganda film based on a book of the same name written by obscure author Nikos Zervas, offered as a religious alternative and at the same time a jab to the Harry Potter books. It goes out of its way to teach children that Orthodox Christians are pure and have superior souls and that everyone else is Always Chaotic Evil. Other than that, it states that women should be completely loyal to their husbands and not have sex before marriage, and claims that the deaths of Serbian civilians during The Yugoslav Wars were their own fault. Its account of World War II is woefully inaccurate thanks to a mixture of Christian supremacism and Russian nationalism: the wizards are headquartered in a Scottish Nazi base,note and one claim about Russia defeating Nazi Germany completely ignores not only the other allied countries' involvement in the war, but the fact that Russia was part of the Soviet Union at that time. In addition, the military academy the main protagonists are attending in the present is praised to no end, raising suspicions that the whole thing was made to promote said academy in the first place. The animation in this film is utterly atrocious,note making Video Brinquedo look good by comparison. The voice acting is awful, with the voice actors sounding uninterested with their delivery. It was panned by every critic in Russia and received a 1.1 on Kinopoisk (the Russian equivalent to IMDB), and not even Orthodox Christians liked it. Here is a review made by Russian movie critic BadComedian (video contains English subtitles). Youtuber, Strange Aeons also criticized the English dub here.
- The Christmas Tree is a 1991 animated TV Christmas Special with abysmal Limited Animation that falls head-first into the Uncanny Valley, filled with ugly character designs, awkward voice acting with voice actors who sound like they're half brain-dead (one of the characters is a little girl who's very clearly voiced by an 18-year-old woman and one of the little girls slurred and mumbled her lines, and there's also one who has an inexplicably pitch-shifted, almost artificial-sounding voice), and bad timing (at times there is no pause between sentences, leading to awkward tone-shifts when characters speak). And then there's the editing, which includes scenes that cut into other scenes randomly and without warning. Top it off with an Idiot Plot, various Plot Holes, and a botched black-and-white moral at the end, and you have one of the worst Christmas specials ever. The Nostalgia Critic, in his review, even labeled it as such. Phelous had a similar (if not quite as extreme) opinion in his own review, while Best of the Worst gets some mileage out of it. PeanutButterGamer has also reviewed this film and so did Saberspark.
- Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone, the In Name Only Animated Adaptation of the Dinotopia books. While the live-action miniseries is typically seen as So Okay, It's Average at best, even its fans won't defend this prehistoric mess. It is full of clichéd characters and Artistic License – Paleontology (including the shedded skin of an Iguanodon, which never shed its skin), and a disgusting amount of Toilet Humor. It has an All-Star Cast that includes Alyssa Milano, Jamie Kennedy, Michael Clarke Duncan, Malcolm McDowell, Kathy Griffin, Wayne Knight, and George Segal, and wastes the talents of all these stars. Diamanda Hagan takes a look at it here.
- Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment, at first, sounded very promising judging by its trailer...that is until you end up watching it for yourself anyway. A large portion consists of older Disney shorts, which don't involve any of the princesses at all, only one of which — the Melody Time segment "Once Upon a Wintertime" — is both set during Christmastime, and presented uncut (except for the title card); the feature also includes a Recut of the Silly Symphonies telling of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, the uncensorednote version of "The Cookie Carnival," apparently just because it has a gingerbread man, and a Pan and Scan, re-scored presentation of the Fantasia 2000 adaptation of The Steadfast Tin Soldier, apparently just because a certain Christmas legend also has a toy soldier.note The Disney Princesses' segments include a musical sequence consisting of Stock Footage from Sleeping Beauty to the tune of "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies", a watered-down version of Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, another musical sequence with clips of the princess' movies to the tune of a princess-themed "The 12 Days of Christmas", a short with Ariel reading an old Christmas book she starred in to the audience with the illustrations of the book instead of being actually animated, and a music video with the princesses singing a new and actually catchy song, but with horrible animation and more reused clips. You know you botched your movie up when Ariel's read-along and the princesses' new song were the highlights of this mess and the Framing Device is no better, as it also has very cheap animation and poor lip syncing... stuff that's not really expected out of Disney. (It also creates some Fridge Logic in depicting the Beast as a beast, even though at least one year has supposedly passed since The Enchanted Christmas.) Apparently, the DVD bombed so bad that the next three Disney Princess DVDs were also the very last in the lineup, with Enchanted Tales being a Troubled Production with low sales - you can check out the negative reviews on Ultimate Disney or Amazon regarding this pretty pink cash-grab.
- Dorbees: Making Decisions, a 1998 Christian kids' video that was meant to be the first in a series of Dorbees videos and reeks of desperately wanting to be the next VeggieTales. You know there's something wrong when the show's own theme song implies the characters are annoying and repulsive by saying "Why don't they go away?" (which is immediately followed by "We really mean it!"). The whole video is filled with abysmal CGI animation (even for the late 1990s) that somehow looks even worse than Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour (whose animation style is entirely intentional), Parental Bonus jokes that make no sense, undeveloped characters, idiotic pacing mostly resulting from a framing device within another framing device, the six-minute Disney Acid Sequence that is Mr. Poe and Yogul (which amounts to nothing more than a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment that drags on for way too long), and every story the video features undermines the intended moral about making wise decisions in some way. This is what Mr. Enter thought about the video. PhantomStrider thought this was the second-ugliest cartoon of all time behind Angela Anaconda.
- Dwegons and Leprechauns,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 Melissa Leo, 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 1/5 by Common Sense Media. Watch Ace Backspace pick it apart here.
- Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike is a Direct to Video Animated Adaptation of the supposedly-popular online Flash game of the same name. Some consider it to be twenty times worse than Foodfight!. The characters are unpleasant to look at, the plot is near-nonexistent, and Santa Claus is an unlikable asshole throughout to the point where his brother Dingle (voiced by Tom Kenny) seems much more reasonable (well, until he starts singing a Villain Song 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 makes no sense. To add insult to injury, a sequel titled Elf Bowling 2: The Great Halloween Pumpkin Heist was advertised at the end of the film and was slated for a Fall 2007 release, but it was presumably canned due to the failure of this film. The Cartoon Hero has put this movie on the #3 spot of his Worst Holiday Specials Video. Whyboy has a few things to say about it, as does Bobsheaux here, Mr. Enter here, Emer Prevost here, PhantomStrider here, Saberspark here, Musical Hell here, and The Nostalgia Critic here.
- Hardly any discussion of awful animated films is complete without mention of The Emoji Movie. Mercilessly panned from the very instant it was announced, the film went on to prove all of its critics right. The story is ridiculously clichéd, insultingly predictable, embarrassingly unsubtle, Totally Radical, painfully unfunny, and it contradicts every one of its own messages. The subplot is barely even there, to begin with. The characters are all one-note at best — more effort seems to have gone towards the relentless Product Placement, and even that's muddied by the main conflict (an emoji is vilified for showing more than one emotion when in use) going against the selling point of the represented product (emojis quickly and clearly representing one thing). Other aspects of the worldbuilding representing technology in a confusing way even by kids' movie standards (such as internet trolls being treated like viruses that live in the phone). While Sony was absolutely certain it would win an Oscar, it instead became the first-ever animated film to get nominated for and win Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screen Combo, and Worst Screenplay at the Razzies. The film continued to be torn apart online by critic after critic, for months on end uninterrupted.note About two years later, Possum Reviews gave his thoughts. Even Saberspark, who considered the hate for the film throughout 2017 to be way overblown, stated here that he considered it mediocre at best. Fun fact: The studio offered to cast Jordan Peele as the Poop Emoji — he cites this as a reason he retired from acting to direct. Its only saving grace is, unlike the other poorly-animated entries on this list, its beautiful animation and backgrounds, but that also goes to show that a film can't succeed on spellbinding visuals alone if everything else about it stinks. Thankfully, Sony Pictures Animation would later save its reputation from further decay by releasing the critically acclaimed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018, which was not only seen by many to be a massive improvement over the former, but also served as a major paradigm shift for film animation.
- 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 Development Hell (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 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 Casablanca and having the last third of the film being almost entirely Padding. The film is also infamous for blatant Product Placement, sexual innuendo that is incredibly inappropriate for a movie aimed at children, and the questionable message of ugly people being bad. All of this combines into a movie that was critically panned and has an abysmal 1.3 on IMDb. Watch JonTron, I Hate Everything, the Nostalgia Critic, Animat, and Cynical Reviews rip this monstrosity of a film apart. Phelous, The Cinema Snob, and Obscurus Lupa also review it in two parts. Saberspark also 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.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Golden Films is almost certainly their worst work. While the majority of their films tend to be watchable if mediocre, this film has almost no redeeming qualities. It lacks a real plot or sense of conflict and the characters fail to be engaging. The story has no connection to Victor Hugo's book whatsoever aside from the Notre Dame Cathedral and a few In Name Only characters, and sometimes even the names are different (Esmeralda is changed to Melody and reduced to a witch; meanwhile, Frollo becomes Jean-Claude, who looks less like Frollo and more like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast with a curly mustache). The comic-relief instrument characters are even more annoying than the Gargoyles of the Disney version since they delay the "story" with their pointless chit-chat and their hijacking of the spotlight despite their irrelevance to most of the movie. It's almost as if the Golden Films staff wanted to adapt this story, but didn't read the book due to its length and resorted to either a shallow read or skimming through the index. The animation of Golden Films tends to be rather flawed, but it's especially poorly edited here, even comparing it to other films in the collection. A scene of gypsies dancing and Melody shaking her hands is repeated countless times regardless of if it really fits. The worst part of this film is that Quasimodo is made handsome (for some inexplicable reason) and later spontaneously turns even more good-looking, which goes against the spirit of True Beauty Is on the Inside that this movie intends to teach and is an insult to handicapped people with the implications that a morale boost will be enough to heal them. If the staff wanted to avoid frightening children with a deformed man, their attempt to bowdlerize the story backfired greatly. Phelous adds his two cents to this movie, calling it the absolute worst adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ever made and that he's confident saying such even without having seen every single adaptation of Hunchback. The Hunchblog also described everything wrong with this movie. Saberspark reviewed the movie, and he is left completely gobsmacked at how awful of an adaptation the movie is in almost every aspect. Musical Hell also takes a look at it here. CodedLockFilms also looked at the film himself, with him saying it's the worst film he's ever covered here.
- This animated adaptation of the story of Joshua, Moses' apprentice, titled Joshua and the Promised Land. The character designs, which are supposed to be bipedal lions, are stiff and uninspired (and include a female lion with a mane), the animation looks like it was done by a 6th grader using Autodesk Maya for the first time (the faces hardly show good expression, mouth movements are nonexistent, it's impossible to tell what various objects are at times due to horrid texturing, etc.), and the voices sound bored and sometimes fail to grasp the concept of audio levels (the kid who plays Joshua sometimes shouts his lines to the point of distortion). And then there's the story itself, which has its own slew of problems, including one of the most annoying examples of Mr. Exposition ever put to film. Voltalia gives her two cents about this abomination here, CuteFuzzyWeasel destroyed it here, Kyle Norty gave his take on it here, and Cr1TiKaL, who's known for doing Let's Plays, had a few things to say about it. Saberspark ended up taking back what he said about Leo the Lion and declared this film the worst film he's ever seen here (at least before the aforementioned Trolland came along). The creator of the film, Jim Lion, admits that it wasn't very good and that the criticisms are very valid, but he doesn't regret making it as it allowed him to practice his animation skills.
- Kis Vuk, titled A Fox's Tale for the English release, is a dreadful CGI-animated sequel to and cash-in on the classic 1981 Hungarian animated film Vuk the Little Fox. The CGI work with its awkward, choppy animation, bizarre character designs and amateurish rendering would have looked, let's say, passable in a cheap-o, late-1990s TV cartoon, but this was made in 2008;note and screened in cinemas. The staggeringly cliché- and Plot Hole-ridden plot, utter lack of likable or original characters, gruesome scenes of animal cruelty, an anticlimactic Ass Pull of a climax, and a total shift in tone compared to the original led to the movie becoming a failure that screened to almost empty theaters (a major Schedule Slip also helped in this). Fans of the original work, critics, and reportedly even some little kids left screenings disgusted and disappointed, and upon release, it went straight to the bottom of IMDb's movie list, where it lingered on for a good couple of weeks. Currently holds a rating of 2.3 as the third-worst animated movie with at least 1,000 votes. Read Duckyworth's unflattering thoughts on the film here.
- The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree, a 2004 animated movie made by Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, might be the turn of the millennium's equivalent to The Christmas Tree in terms of how low Christmas specials can really go. The plot is extremely schmaltzy in its attempts to get viewers to care about both its main human characters and a broken Christmas tree light, and that's assuming there's much of a plot, to begin with (for instance, both the "Maggie dolls" and the effects of the family's father dying in a war are barely referenced after the opening narration; the only reason they're there at all is to try and get viewers to feel sorry for them). The animation is dreadful for 2004 (a year when movies like The Incredibles and Shrek 2 were in theaters), with characters moving like the town's water supply was laced with copious amounts of alcohol and mushrooms, made all the worse by the downright hideous character designs, with Timothy and the titular lightbulb being the worst offenders. Worse, there's a blank frame during the scene where Girthmore tosses away the broken light. Speaking of which, the movie's main villain, Girthmore, straddles the line between being so transparently and cartoonishly greedy that Lord Business would tell him to scale it back a bit and being a Designated Villain who's just trying to keep his business going and whose "evil" acts feel less like actual malice and more like small, petty attempts to reinforce his greed, all of which adds up to a nonsensical Heel–Face Turn that makes his position as the movie's Big Bad completely meaningless. The rest of the characters are barely fleshed out and so irrelevant to the plot that you could remove most of them from the story and little, if anything, would change. What little "humor" there is, is based around Girthmore referencing how fat he is during his Villain Songs (yes, he has more than one), but apart from that, the movie is completely devoid of any humor (or anything memorable, for that matter). The only saving grace is that it's mercifully short at forty-four minutes, but it's still torturous to sit through. Add in a completely pointless storybook version on the DVD version (which is just screenshots of the movie with narration), and you've got an absolutely terrible Christmas movie that can't even be enjoyed as a So Bad, It's Good hate-watch. The movie currently sits at a 3.1 rating on IMDb and seems to have all but completely killed Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, as they haven't made anything since. This movie most likely would've gone unnoticed by the public if Bobsheaux hadn't drug this Yuletide garbage up from the abyss, and given it, it's just dues. Phelous also takes a crack at it.
- Despite being a modest success with audiences in its home country, the 1992 German animated movie Die Abenteuer von Pico und Columbus ("The Adventures of Pico and Columbus") received a Gag Dub for American audiences by Hemdale Film Corporations under the name The Magic Voyage, which dragged an already odd fictionalized take on the voyage of Christopher Columbus way down into the depths of this trope. The movie is meant to be a retelling of how Christopher Columbus discovered that the Earth was round. Unfortunately, this abomination of a dub stacks awful voice acting (despite the cast having Dom De Luise as Christopher Columbus) and constant noise (the latter of which wasn't present in the original German version) on top of the already present mediocre animation and strange plot. That's not even mentioning the horrible inconsistencies, such as Columbus thinking the world was square when he always thought it was round (like people, in general, did at this time in Europe). The other main character, Pico (voiced by Corey Feldman), is nothing more than an annoying little woodworm who is shoehorned into the story to make this film appeal more to kids and talks constantly. Overall, much like Doogal, The Magic Voyage is a shining example of what happens when a Gag Dub goes horribly wrong. The Nostalgia Critic reviewed it here, as did The Hardcore Kid here, and so did Animated Anarchy.
- The comic strip Marmaduke has had two film adaptations, but while the 2010 live-action/CGI film was negatively received, the 2022 animated adaptation of Marmaduke, premiering on Netflix in 2022 after a three-year delay, had even fewer positive reviews from audiences and critics, with a 0% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes and a barely-better 19% audience score. The animation is cheap and overly exaggerated (such as characters having toothpick-thin legs and arms), most of the jokes rely on cheap slapstick and Toilet Humor, and the story is bland. The titular character (voiced by Pete Davidson) is meant to be a charming oaf but instead comes across as entitled and rude. Saberspark reviewed it here, and Danny Gonzalez discussed it here.
- Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate was first marketed by DreamWorks as a direct sequel to the Cult Classic Megamind, released fourteen years after the original. The resulting film, however, has fans wishing they hadn't bothered. This "sequel" turned out to be a direct-to-streaming Pilot Movie for the slightly less reviled Megamind Rules! TV series, made on about the same budget. Unsurprisingly, it has none of the wit, satire, or voice talent of the original. The entire cast is Flanderized beyond recognition, Megamind himself is handed the world's stickiest and most ironic Idiot Ball, and the clever lampooning of superhero tropes is swapped out for a bog-standard "comedic" take on the genre that leaves little to entice new viewers while alienating older viewers. The plot frequently contradicts the original movie's lore, which might get a pass if it didn't also rely on Contrived Coincidences and ignoring the characters' established abilities. The writing isn't the only thing that suffered either, as the animation is incredibly wooden and lifeless even in comparison to other TV cartoons, let alone the original movie. Special Effect Failure runs rampant, from a character's metal chestplate stretching as if made of rubber to a prominent background extra not being properly tweened, causing him to snap between keyframes as he dances. The scene direction is also as lazy as possible, with everything shot in flat, static angles more suited for a TV sitcom than a superhero romp that do little to hide the ugly animation. The backlash was immediate, earning the movie 2.3 on IMDb, a 1.2 user score on Metacritic, and a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. It seems even DreamWorks knew the movie was a stinker, since they tried to bury its release by dropping it at almost the same time as Kung Fu Panda 4 went into theaters. Schaffrillas Productions considered it painful to sit through.
- Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins, which came out around the time the first live-action movie hit theaters. It was meant as some sort of prequel/retelling/side-story of the video game and the movie (the film has No Ending, instead telling viewers to go see the movie). Chances are, you're better off enjoying the Gorn of the video games, the impressive stuntwork and exciting techno of the live-action movie, or the laughable stupidity of the Saturday-morning cartoon series; even Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Mortal Kombat: Special Forces, or Mortal Kombat Advance, which have all gotten entries for this trope, would be easier to enjoy than this. This trainwreck had horrible, repetitive, and downright ugly animation haphazardly set against conspicuous outdated CGI backgrounds. The behind-the-scenes look at the movie at the end is interesting, but it's not worth watching the whole tape for. In fact, the only part of the animated movie alone worth watching is the "Meet the Mortal Kombatants" segment. The main reason to watch that was for the "hidden clues" for Mortal Kombat 3 at the end. Even then, the code was something of a fraud because one of the symbols used isn't in any version of the game. The Retsupurae duo give it their usual riffing treatment here, whilst Tooncrap, as part of Game Show Garbage, tears it apart here. Phelan gave his two cents on it in this video, citing it for having the very worst of 2D and 3D together, and Hardcore Gaming 101 gives it a Fatality here.
- Our Masha and the Magic Nut (Наша Маша и Волшебный Орех) is a 2009 Russian film advertised as a cute children's fairy tale story, but in practice it's anything but. While originally intended as an adaptation of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, it went through extensive Development Hell: the film changed hand between several studios, and new management demanded to retool it for different audiences each time resulting in a story going from a cute Nutcracker adaptation for children, to a romantic story meant to appeal to adolescents, to a much more racy adult animated movie, before management ultimately decided to try and appeal to all three of these demographics. The result? The story became nonsensical and silly, and the 3D CGI is not only primitive and grotesque with poor lip-syncing, but everyone is animated cheaply compared to the fourteen year old heroine Masha, who is modeled to look like a sexualized adult woman (complete with a revealing outfit and unnecessarily perky nipples with Jiggle Physics), which also had the effect of making the villain and his obsession with Masha come off as a creepy Stalker with a Crush preying on a teenage girl. Out of every demographic this movie tried to target, it appealed to no one, and it sits at a very low 2.0/10 score on IMDB.
- 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 Natalie Dormer and Eddie Marsan) sounding 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 Next Gen and The Secret Life of Pets were haphazardly thrown into a blender with some 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 (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 Old Master...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 Bile Fascination, judging by the reviews, earning a 3.4 on IMDb. Watch Stoned Gremlin Productions chip in here, and Saberspark gives his two cents here.
- Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw features crappy musical numbers that are lame covers of songs such as "At the Hop" and "Duke of Earl", unexplained design changes to characters from the TV series,note atrocious animation, a Cliché Storm plot that starts due to the Idiot Ball, and sub-par voice-acting. The main villain's name is Marvin McNasty (who absolutely cannot sing). It also features noticeable animation errors - for example, a scene where a character's nose disappears while he's talking. There's also a weird scene/musical number where the Pound Puppies wander through a forest filled with monsters. The Nostalgia Critic tore it apart here.
- This movie was such a huge flop at the box office that TriStar would not produce their next animated feature until 2001, 13 years after this movie was released, and it was the final installment of the Pound Puppies franchise up until the much more beloved 2010 series. It was also the only animated feature produced by Carolco Pictures.
- On a side note, George Rose, the voice of McNasty, was actually an accomplished singer and stage performer who played (among many other roles) the Major General in The Pirates of Penzance, which makes his terrible singing in this film very hard to explain. This was his last screen role before he was murdered by his adopted son.
- Silver Circle is a 2013 dystopian future film that was lost media until late 2021, and it probably would have been better if it stayed lost. The animation shows none of the estimated $1,600,000 budget and looks like something out of a bad PlayStation 2 game, with ugly character models and clunky movements that do the action scenes no favors. The political commentary has the subtlety of a hammer to the face, with the dystopian future of 2019 featuring rising price displays and the characters constantly giving speeches decrying paper money. Combined with a nonsensical plot, the film earned a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and 21 on Metacritic, grossing only $4,080 worldwide.
- Sir Billi is Scotland's first CGI feature film (it was originally promoted as Scotland's first animated feature in general but ended up stuck in Development Hell for so long that The Illusionist managed to steal that title from it) and stars Sir Sean Connery (in his final role!) as the titular character, an elderly, Totally Radical veterinarian who enjoys skateboarding in his spare time. Despite being worked on for seven years, it has bad animation, atrocious character designs, an uninteresting story about the title character saving Scotland's last beaver, and plenty of unnecessary violent and sexual innuendos despite being marketed for children. This led to a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the combination of terrible animation, inappropriate humor, Troubled Production, and horrific reception has led to it being labeled the Scottish version of Foodfight!. On top of all that, this turned out to be Connery's final role. Notably, the directors were angry that the Scottish National Party promoted the American Brave instead of their movie. As is usual, Saberspark has you covered if you want a review of how thoroughly bad it is. Double Toasted has a disbelieving go at it here. Dazz calls it the worst film he’s seen yet.
- Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms, 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? One-note and uninteresting. A
stupid plot with clichés galore, ugly and scary-looking character designs (most notably including human-like breasts on limbless invertebrates), unfortunate implications abound (especially with regards to the unintentionally-homophobic attitude towards the Armoured Closet Gay worm, who is a punk-rocker, and the villiain, who is not only a Corrupt Corporate Executive and Dirty Old Man (and heavily implied to be a paedophile), but also gets away with everything he does at the end, including blatantly paying off the judges in full view of everyone, with no one saying a thing, just 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 Foodfight!. See Archer and Musical Hell take it apart here. - Just slightly ahead of Delgo in terms of box office is an animated version of The Ten Commandments. With outdated CGI, art designs that would look at home on the original PlayStation, and dull voice acting from a talented cast that somehow includes Ben Kingsley and Christian Slater, one would have to wonder how this film made more money than Delgo. Compared to the 1956 live-action classic (91% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.8 on IMDb) and the far better animated version of the Book of Exodus, 1998's The Prince of Egypt (7.2 on IMDb and 79% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 90% audience score), this 2007 animated movie bombed critically as well, earning a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes and a paltry 2.8 on IMDb. You can see Infamous Animation rip this film to shreds here. PhantomStrider picks this apart on his Top 6 Worst Religious Animated Movies list.
- Tentacolino, released in the English-speaking market as In Search of the Titanic in 2005. Much like its predecessor, the domestic success La Leggenda Del Titanic, the film is a badly-animated, pandering Cliché Storm driven by Artistic License – History, Disneyfication, condescension, and a disrespect for the victims of the Titanic's sinking, but all of these qualities are taken to new heights in this film. On top of that, it's a gigantic Anachronism Stew with a ton of Protagonist-Centered Morality, and its ties to Leggenda are, at best, skin-deep, without so much as a basic continuity in common. The Cartoon Hero is forced by Diamanda Hagan to review this in a story arc, which is apparently so bad that it leads to a quick glimpse into an alternate universe. The Mysterious Mr. Enter rips the film apart here, and Bobsheaux does so as well here. Also, Infamous Animation returned with a review of this disaster after a two-year hiatus, and Diva of Musical Hell had a few things to say about it as well. PhantomStrider ranked this as #7 of the Top 10 Worst Animated Movies of All Time. The Nostalgia Critic called it the worst Titanic-inspired animated movie he ever saw.
- The original uncut version of Titanic: The Legend Goes On. Practically everything is plagiarized, not just from Titanic (1997). The animation and sound editing are grievously mishandled, with frequent and blatant recycling and obvious mess-ups kept in. The voice acting borders on text-to-speech at points, and the music is cheap and obnoxious. The writing is loaded with plot holes and pandering, the plot is one giant Cliché Storm, and the script bears little-to-no resemblance to actual human speech. The ending, in particular, is incredibly disrespectful. There's a revised cut that took out or dubbed over some of the worst parts (even gaining a Signature Scene with the infamous rapping dog scene in the process despite utterly disregarding the film's 1912 setting), but even that's So Bad, It's Good at best. ShogunGin0 provides his thoughts toward the matter. This is also Musical Hell's first case.
- There exists an obscure animated film (or rather, 3/4 of a movie and a short stitched-out thing to the end to pad it out to feature length) called Wizard So-So: Fun Magical Adventure. Those unfortunate enough to have beheld it in all of its unholy glory, however, will wholeheartedly tell you that it is far worse than "so-so," as the name would imply. The animation is abysmal, especially for something that came out in 2008; movement is consistently jerky and stilted, and all the models look like something cheaply slapped together in Blender, which causes the characters to dive headlong into the chasms of the Uncanny Valley. The ugly character designs do it no favors, with such examples as two bugs "blinking" by having the models for their eyes get momentarily squished. The voice acting is horrendous, as despite there being multiple voice talent credits, everything still sounds like it was done by one or two guys that alternate between bored and drunk. The sound design is awful too, for the music smacks of cheap MIDI, grating Stock Sound Effects play at every turn, and characters' voices run the gamut between lazily pitch-shifted and too close to the mic. The writing is a confounding mess, with two nonsensical plots that run berserk like a headless chicken and ultimately end up in an entirely different direction from where they intended to go, two limp-dicked attempts at a moral, Padding galore, and strange lines ("the right butt" instead of "the right buttcheek") that makes one wonder if the movie was originally written for another language. Interestingly, there's a Sequel Hook at the end of the film that will obviously never come to fruition, as both the movie itself and the careers of everyone involved likely shriveled up and died with it. Overall, it's a garish, shoddy chimera of a film that manages to be such a failure in every regard that it makes one ponder about what kind of sordid story must have occurred to bring it to life. Reviews are here and here, and one can watch the whole ordeal here if they dare.
