Top 10 Worst Movie Adaptations of All Time

Films that were bad and based on anything count, such as comic books, books, true stories, TV shows, and cartoons.

The Top Ten

  1. The Last Airbender

    Based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' the movie tried and failed to make the characters likable and three-dimensional. The writing and directing were subpar. For instance, the comic relief in the show, Sokka, is a very funny character with lines like "Smoochy smoochy, someone's in love!" In the movie, however, he's serious and emotionless until the end when his love interest dies, but he's just not as cool as he was in the show. Watch 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' if you haven't because even though it's a cartoon, it has brilliant writing and awesome fighting scenes. Don't watch the movie. It's bad and an insult to the makers of the original show.

  2. The Legend of the Titanic

    When I was a kid, I was so confused about how the characters survived because I knew they didn't in the movie and in real life, which pissed me off to no end. I usually hated when characters died as a kid, but I knew this movie shouldn't have had everyone survive.

    The octopus put the Titanic back together?! This movie is so offensive!

  3. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

  4. Bratz: The Movie

  5. Twilight

    The books weren't that good either.

  6. Patch Adams

    This movie is just offensive on so many levels. It makes the real Hunter Adams look like a moron!

  7. Batman & Robin

    'Batman & Robin,' in my opinion, is the worst superhero movie I've seen, next to other bad superhero movies. I understand it was aimed at kids with all the ice-related puns and the kid-friendly tone, but does a good kids' movie translate into a good movie for everyone? I'm guessing that comic book fans weren't expecting this. Thanks to the failure of this film, though, Christopher Nolan changed everything and saved Batman. Heath Ledger's Joker was more than spot-on. It was 400% amazing! 'Batman & Robin' was bad, and I think the only decent actor was Poison Ivy. Bad: 'Batman & Robin,' and Good: Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.

  8. The Cat in the Hat

    To this very day, I regret ever seeing this movie. Even as a kid, I couldn't figure out what was happening in this film.

  9. Inspector Gadget

  10. Transformers: Age of Extinction

    11. The Newcomers
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    Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

    Did the director even read the books? There were so many terrible choices and unnecessary changes that I could keep writing forever, so I will say only one - I mean, a few things (spoilers).

    Why change the ages? Why remove the good things from the characters, making Percy unsassy, Grover a show-off, and Annabeth a Mary Sue? Why have them hunt for pearls? Why break the whole Who is Percy's father? suspense?

    And finally, why did they make Hades a villain? The whole point was for them to believe he was a villain when he wasn't. Where is Ares? I am deeply suffering.

    This movie was so bad that the author of the original book flat out refused to see this movie.

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    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    Changed way too much. They shouldn't have changed anything.

    13. The Contenders

  13. Thunderbirds

  14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

  15. Transformers

    All of these felt so empty. Lots of explosions and offensive gender roles. There are worse ones, I'm sure, but this stood out for being disappointing since it was nothing like the old cartoon at all.

  16. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

  17. The Smurfs

  18. Barbie in the Nutcracker

  19. Tom and Jerry: The Movie

  20. Dragonball: Evolution

    How could you forget this piece of crap?

  21. Fat Albert

  22. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

  23. The Smurfs 2

  24. Catwoman

  25. Garfield: The Movie

  26. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

  27. It (1990)

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