Top 10 Worst Movies Based on Cartoons

I'm honestly not bothered too much by the skin color that everyone else bashed the film for, but there are many other issues. Awful acting, designs that even despite the skin look nothing like the originals, random pronunciation changes, surprisingly cheap-looking visuals, boring action, no emotion or character, incredibly bad acting (the guy who plays Zhao was once the pizza man in Spider-man 2, where he was good), and a few other things that really bother me. The main things need more discussing. First of all, the pacing is the worst of any film I've ever seen. They spend half the movie on 18 of the 20 episodes, cutting out important characters like Suki, Bumi, Jet, Teo, and the Cabbage Man (who is not necessary, but also appears in later seasons like the other characters. The fact that Agni Kai, the winter solstice, and the storm are left out is stunning because these are great moments that define the show. Instead, all information gained from those scenes is just spoken in out-of-order exposition. They even forget to mention Aang's name when they meet him and never even say Haru's name. They scarcely mention BA Sing Se and Avatar Roku. The second half, however, focuses on the other 2 episodes and is nearly the length of them, but it's still slow. The strong gender equality message is left out, Sokka and Yue have no chemistry, and the final battle leaves out all of the emotional moments. For example, one of my favorite moments in the show is when Zhao is grabbed by Aang in spirit form, Zuko offers his hand, and Zhao pulls away, choosing to die instead of letting Zuko, his rival, save him. Instead, Zuko leaves and random benders drown Zhao in a bubble before dropping his corpse 30 feet o to the ground. This film sucks. While cutting out stuff sucks, my true least favorite part of this film is the random changes to the basics of the show. For example, people in the show now to each other differently from in the movie. There are many other random changes, but the... more

If someone's mother who listened to her kid watching cartoons in the other room wrote a movie, this would be it.

Watchmojo did a list called "Top 10 Ways Dragonball Evolution Got Everything Wrong." That's how bad it is.

I hate this movie.

This movie also deserves to be on the list.

I give it a skip of Mr. Magoo whiches a meh film.

This movie is just a shameless cash-in, filled with terrible CG, corny jokes, endless pop cultural references getting shoved down our throats, and unnecessary fart jokes to top it all off. Not to mention it was wasted very talented actors, and our protagonist cares more about stupidity rather than David. Definitely stick to the 1983 cartoon instead of this one, I'm not a huge fan of the cartoon, but at least it wasn't this pandering.

I'm really to any hip hop fan (and yes I'm the same guy who typed that comment on the led zeppelin song), but every rap song now today sounds the same. And when I mean the same I mean having no real message and just talking about drugs, money, sex, and violence. Most of these modern rappers never even been in the ghetto. Hip hop is dying and we need to do something about it.

This is my least favorite movie based on one of my favorite cartoons ever made.

This makes the live action Scooby-Doo look like George of the Jungle!

Did you grow up watching He-Man? Did you ever imagine that his feature film adaptation would transport him and his friends to California? Neither did we.

Actually both the cartoon and movie are based on a toy line.

I haven't seen this but I bet its crap!...

The first 2 were much better than this garbage. They didn't follow much plot, and basically sung pop songs the whole time.

They just farted! Isn't that funny?

No one likes these movies, nick is just making them when they get bored, why? You have a crap ton of other shows to make movies off of and they're just continuing to make these godawful fairly odd parents movies, it would be perfectly fine if they were animated, it would probably get SOME people watching it, but no, they just make these stupid live action movies with horrible cgi fairies that no one watches, also some really crappy casting, Drake Bell has always acted like he's just phoning it in when he does these movies, Trina from victorious has proven in these movies that she is one of the worst actresses of this decade, Cosmo in these movies sounds like he's TRYING to irritate you. Wanda is just like she is in the show ever since poof came along, the fun killer, Poof is still the godawfully annoying abomination that has been in every episode since fairly odd baby. Jorgen is the worst looking fairy in these movies, he looks so fake, granted so do the others, but he is the worst looking of them all, these movies need to stop getting made cause no one watches them and they're just awful wastes of time

Just when you thought there would never be an adaptation worse than Last Airbender, along comes this, even if you're like me and you've never seen the show this movie is still horrible, it took a sort of sci-if musical cartoon and completely grounded it in reality, why the hell would you do that!?! It's like making a live action Danny Phantom movie, completely removing the ghost stuff, and just having him dress up in the black suit and put on a grey wig and he just goes out fighting other people dressed up as ghosts. And what did they do to Sinergey? Why would you take a gigantic supercomputer and make it look like some kind of Eve knock-off? And why did they have to keep cutting to all those pointless YouTube videos? It was incredibly annoying. Also, why did they modernize the movie? What Jem fan would ever in a million years want to see all the characters talking about Twitter or Instagram? But you wanna know what the worst part about this movie is? The ending, because before the movie was done they asked a bunch of classic Jem fans if they wanted to be in the movie, all they had to do was make a video saying how much they love the original cartoon, BUT, the editors of the movie then took all those videos and tried to edit them to make it look like they're talking about the movie...WOW! That is downright cruel! It's so bad that it's still hard to comprehend. That's like having a bunch of DragonBall Z fans make a video saying how much they love the original cartoon and editing it to look like they're talking about Dragonball Evolution, that is just insulting. And the edit is so bad that it's so clear that they're talking about the cartoon not the movie, they're dressed like the characters from the cartoon and they have the cartoon playing in the background, it's so clear that they're not talking about the movie that it just makes the sequence look even more pathetic. Move over Last Airbender, we have the new crowing Jewel of crappy live action movies based on... more

I actually didn't think this movie was that bad. It was a lot like a kid's version of Deadpool, and in a good way. I was laughing out loud multiple times during this movie. The only bad qualities are the animation and the poop jokes.

Unlike the T.V. series, people think this is actually GOOD. Critics think it's good (it has a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes), fans think it's good, people who hate the show think it's good. Maybe this movie might not be so bad after all.

I have so many things to explain how bad this movie is. This used to be one of my guilty pleasures, but I found it flat out ridiculous. It's almost nice to see Dr. Claw's face, even though he never showed it in the cartoon, but too bad, everything about him stinks. I mean, his scary voice is replaced with a snooty British accent. And besides, he has a robot claw on his hand in the movie, after he gets it, he renames himself "Claw". Wait, shouldn't "Claw" be his last name, because according to the cartoon, his real name is George Claw, right? Well, in the movie, his real name is Sanford Scolex, why not just rename himself Dr. Claw? The actor Rupert Everett did a terrible performance on Dr. Claw, overall. The Gadgetmobile is changed from a silent car, which morphs into a sports fastback and van in the cartoon, into an annoying comic relief character in the movie. Penny isn't blonde and she barely helps Gadget. You know who did a good job at playing as Inspector Gadget? Don Adams was a good actor to play as him, Maurice LaMarche was a good actor to play as him too, but Matthew Broderick is not. Like Rupert Everett, Matthew Broderick did a terrible performance on his character. Both Gadget and Dr. Claw behave nothing like their cartoon counterparts. Every time Gadget falls in the climax, he said "Go Go Gadget" which gets really annoying. Some scenes make no sense like Gadget saying "Go Go Gadget Oil Slick", but he shoots toothpaste instead. Every single second of the movie, cartoon sound effects are heard, even though this movie is based on a cartoon. Sometimes, the movie can be really disturbing for younger audiences, like when Gadget grabs a guru by the crotch so hard that the tightness of the squeezing makes his eye pop-out to a really big size as he yells in a very shrill, extremely high-pitched Judge Doom-like shrieking voice. You'll be hearing that when you sleep during the middle of the night. No, don't waste your time on this movie. It will give you nightmares... more

The Worst alvin and the chipmunk movie.

This whole movie is like if Mean Girls was made by somebody less talented than Tommy Wiseau.

This one needs to be Number 1! It's worse than The Last Airbender AND Mr. Magoo!

This is a big insult to teenage girls everywhere!

What I really don't understand is how Barney got the highest score on the test, I've seen a few episodes of the flintstones so I know the characters, and Barney would clearly not be the smartest guy there

Sucks like crap it should number 1 on the list!

This movie isn't that good, but I think Viva Rock Vegas is probably worse. Yabba-dabba... don't!

This movie is just stupid and forgettable!

This is one of the more " not bad but not good either" movies I watch. I can tell that most of the production try, expect for the actors, they're bad. But it has the charm of the original plus not the worst movie base on a live action cartoon "cough" dragon Ball and last Airbender " cough".

I didn't even know that there was a live action movie based on this!

I hated Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov, and Natasha Fatale so much. They were jerks to Rocky and Bullwinkle

Sorry but this movie destroyed the franchise, the movies should have been based more on the show.

They should be embarrassed making a classic like this.

Love it love it want more of it but its unwatchable.

A little better than the first one but still kinda bad. At least Gadget is a lot more incompetent here.

Even though this movie seriously reaches the mark of what considers to be the worst movie that is based on a cartoon, it still reaches it. The main problem is how predictable and been-there-done-that both the story and characters are. I predicted who the villain was, what the twists were, and even how it was going to end. Also, Fred's "stupidity" didn't affect me at all because I knew he wasn't doing it, and the fact that the writers thought they would fool me is irritating. I've heard people talk about dealing with loss being the central theme of the movie, but maybe if the movie put more logic on it, I would actually care.

I agree with peeps who voted on this one. I mean, they basically RUINED the entire idea of Tom and Jerry: And that is the former chasing around the latter. Instead, this film makes them ALLIES just because they speak. I have to admit, the fact that they find out that they talk was pretty funny, but making them ALLIES in barely any time at all. God, and there's that part about the young girl that Tom and Jerry meet and they help her escape from her abusive guardian... say WHAAT!? (insert Stewie meme) This is basically the Disney film The Rescuers in some sort of nutshell; Only you add in one the most popular cartoon duos, add a bunch of forgettable songs and annoying new characters, and make the plot completely GARBAGE. *Sigh* What the heck were the writers THINKING? (They didn't even add in Spike or Tyke the dogs in it! ) Moral of review: This movie will TORTURE Tom and Jerry fans; EVEN the younger ones. God...