Top 10 Movies Based On Books With the Least Similarity to the Book

The Top Ten
1 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

There were only two aspects of this movie that are also n the book the fact that food falls from the sky, and the fact that they escape the island when the falling food becomes too bad. Absolutely nothing else is similar

This should be number one. At least with HTTYD, the characters have the same names. With this, not even THAT is right.

Get this to number 1, it practically just named itself after the book.

This is almost nothing like the book it's based on.

2 How to Train Your Dragon

The movie is amazing, but still not like the books at all. That isn't a particularly bad thing, as long as it's great!

Love this movie but I haven't read the books

3 Eragon

Eragon is good looking.
But I heard the books aren't very good so whatever.

The movie was awful, it had no relation to the book whatsoever and it was rushed. Iḿ stating my opinion, but other people may think it was good.

I liked the movie and the names of the characters

4 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

It's different but not even close to the profanity that is httyd movie.

Nothing like movie

5 World War Z

The book and the movie both have zombies, but that's the end of the similarity.

6 The Cat in the Hat

It is nothing like the book AT ALL!
Firstly, there is no portal to The Cat's world.
There is also a ton of adult jokes that was meant for The Grinch but Ron Howard cut it out. Read the book then watch the movie and you will see. No wonder it has only got 10% on Rotten Tomatoes!

Thing 1 and Thing 2 are so creepy

7 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

People complain about the sea of monsters but in terms of writing the whole movie was close except for the last 15 minutes which took the ending of the series and threw it in right then and there.

8 The Lorax

Just to clarify, I kinda like this movie.

9 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Greg and Rodrick never got along in the book. The movie, meanwhile, also takes it's plot from the THIRD book, rather than the second.

10 Pinocchio

Trust me, it is not like the book

The Contenders
11 The Grinch
12 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
13 The Neverending Story
14 Ella Enchanted

There was a book?

15 Horrid Henry the Movie
16 The Hunger Games
17 The Tale of Despereaux

This movie BARELY relates to the book, other than the main story and the characters. Roscuro comes from a ship, there's a cat for some reason, Gregory doesn't die, now he's somehow Mig's dad, and Despereaux and Roscuro are friends.

This movie made me mad even as a young child who loved the book.

18 Garfield: The Movie

Well it's a comic strip

19 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

It's nothing like the book at all. Or the radio series.

20 Mary Poppins

Well, it's still a great movie! Go see PhantomStrider's list of "Top 10 Best Disney Movies" for proof since this actually shows us innovation!

21 Divergent
22 Shrek

Have you seen what Shrek and Fiona look like on pictures from the picture book?

23 The Boss Baby

It's true, the movie only takes what's part of the book and adds in a weird dog fight plot into it because there is nearly no material that is in the book. It's just too bad that the movie put a cliched story into it, which makes it more annoying than what it could've been.

24 Bridge to Terabithia
25 Garfield Gets Real
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