Top 10 Worst Animated Sony Movies

Did you see the trailer for The Star? That movie looks TERRIBLE! Sony has made a lot of bad animated films. So here are their worst ones.
The Top Ten
1 The Emoji Movie

This movie fails at being in touch with the crowd it tried to cater to, which is my biggest issue with it. In its focus to be hip it came out as a huge disconnect. Do they really think that young kids are that petty? I mean I get it some people are too focused on their phones and such but older people do it too so I found it laughable that the child made such a big deal over a smiley. Every generation has its ups and downs but millennials aren't as dumb as this movie likes to think hence why there's such a disconnect. Stop relying on loud music, memes, "cool" phrases, edgy looking characters, or trying to copy other movies' tactics and focus more on building depth and clever jokes and an actual COMPETENT story.

2 The Smurfs

Who's idea was it to make a movie about the Smurfs entering a portal and ending up in New York City? It's basically a ripoff of Enchanted. Except Enchanted was actually a good movie. I feel bad for Neil Patrick Harris. He's a great actor, so it pains me to see him in something like this. He must've been desperate for a paycheck. And of course the movie has to take place in New York City because it's the easiest way to put a lot of product placement in a movie! It's not even subtle! Also, take a shot every time the characters say the word "smurf". I know saying "smurf" to replace other words is a way that the Smurfs communicate, but they do it so many unnecessary times that it gets really annoying! This is one of the worst movies to be based on a cartoon. Terrible.

Oh, why did Harry Shearer accept the offer to play Gargamel in this horrible piece of blue crap?

I used to like this. Then I realized how creepy it was.

3 Hotel Transylvania 2

In my opinion, Hotel Transylvania is the best Adam Sandler movie. I actually really like it. Had some pretty great humor and some pretty great characters. So I was excited for the sequel. And when I saw it, I was disappointed. What happened here? Most of the movie feels like it was rushed. The plot wasn't very interesting and felt pretty cliché. The jokes also didn't land. Which is sad because the first movie was so funny! I also didn't like the characters in this one! They were so terrible! I really wanted to like this movie, but it was not a good sequel.

UPDATE: Hotel Transylvania 3 is worse.

In my opinion, I actually found this quite entertaining. However, I still understand why people say this movie is garbage. The jokes, the conflict, everything was so unecassary. All they needed to do was wait until Dennis's birthday to see if he grew fangs or not. They didn't have to climb on top of whatever that tall wooden thing was and toss him to the ground. In conclusion if you're really curious about what this movie is about, just read a wikipedia article or something.

4 Sausage Party

As bad as The Emoji Movie is, it isn't really the worst animated film of all time. I bet most of the people who voted for that movie haven't even heard of Foodfight. Hell, watch the trailer and get back to me later on if you change your mind.

I still haven't seen Sausage Party as of me typing this. I just prefer not to watch a movie with a insanely low budget where the producers were treated like dirt and watch like a hour worth of sex jokes said by bloody food products.

One thing I can't stand is movies that try so hard to push for that R rating that it ends up not having a good story. One of the reasons why I hate the South Park movie. I get that Sausage Party wanted to be the first R rated CG animated film, but I felt like that was the main focus. It was nothing but food swearing! It was funny the first few times, but it got old real fast! The movie also left me asking a lot of questions. What do the humans see when the food move? And when they do move, why don't the humans question it? There was one moment when some baby carrots were running away and then a lady just sees them rolling like regular carrots. That still doesn't answer what she would see if she saw the hot dogs go up to the window. And she doesn't question how they got up there! The only way the humans are able to see the food as living beings are if they're on bath salts! Which is beyond stupid! This is not a good movie. I know people like it, but in my opinion, it failed at comedy.

5 Smurfs 2

Despite the first movie not being a critical success, it still managed to make a lot of money. And so a sequel was made. And people hated it. Understandable because it SUCKED! Just like the first movie, there's a bunch of unsubtle product placement! There's this one scene where Gargamel is using a tablet and is fascinated by the fact he can swipe on it. I felt like I was watching a commercial. The humor was very unfunny. I didn't laugh once. I really hate when people use the excuse "it's for kids" as an argument. Just because it's a kids film doesn't mean that it should be terrible! Toy Story was a kids film and that was really good! This movie just insults children's intelligence! It's not as bad as the first movie, but it's still awful.

As per the original movie.

6 Surf's Up 2: WaveMania

I LOVE Surf's Up! It was such a great film! Surf's Up 2, however, sucks. I am very sick of these WWE crossovers! There was the Flinstones, the Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, and now Surf's Up. Why is it that when Sony makes a good animated film, they must ruin it with a bad sequel? This movie is so stupid! Not everyone is a fan of WWE! Including me! Cody is no longer voiced by Shia LaBeouf. Instead, he's voiced by the guy who voices Finn from Adventure Time. Big Z doesn't appear in the movie even though he was an important character in the original. The inclusion of wrestling stars makes no sense. It's a movie about surfing for crying out loud! The animation is also a step back from the original. But it's a direct to dvd movie. What do you expect? This movie was unnecessary.

Considering how good the first movie was, you just don't know how angry I was when this was announced. I saw the title on YT "Surf's Up 2 Trailer" and I was so hype, only to realize that it was just a god damn knockoff to promote crappy PG-era WWE.

7 Open Season 3

So apparently Open Season is a trilogy. I don't understand why but the third one is the worst in the franchise. It's another direct to dvd movie. It pretty much has some of the same problems that I had with the second one. Boog and Elliot's voices are replaced AGAIN, the jokes never got a laugh out of me, and there are a lot of things that don't make sense! It's a very forgettable movie! Not a lot of people know of its existence. And for very good reason. Don't watch this movie.

The plot, the animation, everything about this movies is bad, Madagascar 3 Europe's Most Wanted was this movie, but done right, it took the same concept with the animals joining a circus, only it was more funny, action packed, and heartwarming, where as this movie has childish humor, a stupid plot, and lots of bad characters (Eliot in my opinion is the worst character in the whole Open Season triliogy by the way), pretty much everything about this movie is juST HORRIBLE!

8 The Angry Birds Movie

Oh look! A movie about a mobile game that barely anyone cares about anymore! I'll admit, I used to play Angry Birds on my phone a lot, but did it really need a movie? I mostly found the movie to be pretty dull. Given that it's a movie about a game that is literally just slingshotting birds and breaking down forts built by pigs, it doesn't give them a lot to work with. But the fact that it was a popular game made them realize that they can make profit off of everyone's love for the game. The movie was announced back when the game was still popular, but came out after people had already forgotten about it. The characters in this movie are irritating! I like Josh Gad, but Chuck was my least favorite character! I also thought Red was pretty terrible. Throughout the movie, he is such a jerk! It makes me wonder why we're supposed to care about him! The movie succeeds at being a movie based on a game, but fails at being a movie all together.

9 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

I like this movie, but it is not as good as the first one.

I liked it for the food puns.

10 Open Season 2

I haven't watched the first Open Season movie in a long time, but I remember liking it. Although, I was kind of little when I saw it. Open Season 2 is not a good movie! Considering it's a direct to dvd movie, that shouldn't be surprising. They didn't even try with this one. No funny jokes, no great characters, and no Ashton Kutcher! Seriously! Ashton Kutcher was my favorite thing about the first movie! He didn't return for this one! The humor is way too childish and treats its audience like idiots. Avoid this movie! Not worth your time!

Ugh, direct to dvd throwaway.

The Contenders
11 Surf's Up

Actually forgot this existed until now. It was actually pretty good.

It's good. It's just the sequel that was bad.

But...But... I like this movie... Take it off!

12 Open Season: Scared Silly

Like the Shrek and Madagascar of Dreamworks, anything that does slightly well gets all manner of sequels, including a Halloween special that no one needed. The plot is your standard cliche "scare them to get rid of fear", and the poop jokes just make even more childish. They could have made their own ORIGINAL movie, but they decided to cash in on Open Season.

13 The Star

I can't believe Gabriel Iglesias has to star in another potentially bad animated film this decade! First, it was Planes. Next was The Nut Job (and its 2017 sequel). Then came Norm of the North. And now he's starring in a pathetic comedic film about the birth of Jesus. Why can't my man Fluffy just star in good films like he did in The Book of Life and the upcoming Coco?

Sony has only a few watchable movies in stores now. let's see, the not so amazing Spiderman movies were rubbish, the new Ghostbusters failed to be engaging, only a few people have bought tickets to see the very disappointing bachelorette party from hell, everybody despised and loathed the very unoriginal & unnecessary generic kids movie about texting symbols that nobody asked for, Jumanji looks extremely cringy, and as for the Star, what the hell, Sony? I want something engaging! Not this cringe worthy pandering crap that you call films!

14 Planet 51
15 Open Season

It has childish bathroom humour and IS REALLY offensive to hunters, horrible message.

16 Hotel Transylvania 3

To be honest, I like Hotel Transylvania. Yes, I know, it's not as great as Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack, and it does have dated pop song references, as well as some actors I don't like, as well as an attempt to be cool and hip with the kids, but I still enjoyed a lot of the film's humor and cartoony animation. I still enjoy Surf's Up, though. I know Genndy Tartakovsky is not the REAL creator of Hotel Transylvania, especially since the franchise was actually made by Todd Durham, but I always thought the first two films were funny.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing about Hotel Transylvania 3. Hotel Transylvania 3 was just unfunny compared to the first two films. It just copied the plot from the first film, and it just made me realize that Tartakovsky is better of working at Disney, if he's no longer able to work at Cartoon Network anymore. - RegularShowFTWSuperjailFTL

17 Eight Crazy Nights

Still better then the emoji movie. Also, it gives me the warm feeling of a classic Sony movie. (ya know, old Sony movies like Elmo in Grouchland and the ORIGANAL Ghostbusters)

The worst Happy Madison movie ever made since The Master of Disguise.

This is the worst animated movie I have ever seen and one of the worst movies as well, it is just horrible to sit through and unbearable

18 Peter Rabbit

Hop was a lot worse than this maybe.

19 Pixles
20 Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

Miles is a brat. How anyone could get past 10 minutes of his whining is beyond me.

21 Hair Love
22 Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

This movie, was just a massive train-wreck. It was absolutely horrendous. It's just the perfect example of how to not make a kids movie. Just reading the synopsis of the film, I thought the concept was idiotic enough. Apparently, this huge monsterfication ray goes totally haywire and turns all of the humans into monsters and vice versa. And of course, it's a race against time because we need to have non-existent tensions. Now as for the actual plot, it's also pretty lame. Dracula is planning on retiring and thinks of giving away the hotel in the hands of Johnny and Mavis..., but then he lies to Johnny because this movie needs to have a plot. And this is where he wants to become a monster and such. If you guessed that halfway through the movie, the truth would come out and Drac and Johnny would become enemies, well you're absolutely right! It's the most predictable storyline from start to finish. Johnny also becomes a Godzilla-like monster because of that because hey we needed a final battle of some sort. Hell, it doesn't even feel like an actual movie! The concept is something you'd find in a filler episode of like the Clone Wars, it feels so trivial and cliché that it's unreal. And the fact that the characters move in so exaggerated ways doesn't help to remove that problem. The biggest issue I have with this movie, is that it's just..., stupid. Every single moment in the film only exists to cause a few chuckles in the most desperate of children, and it's the lowest common denominator. The developers seem to go by the philosophy that "random = funny". But here's the thing, random does NOT equal funny. And the entire movie is just this. Random joke after random joke. Maybe I'm just really narrow-minded about humour, but I don't think anyone would want to watch a movie whose only purpose is random joke after joke. Even when it seems like the movie is going to have a deep conversation, it's pushed aside for randomness. Take the ending for instance, when they find out... more

23 Smurfs: The Lost Village

This is a movie that people either love or hate. I'm sort of in the middle. I don't think it's a terrible movie, but it wasn't very good either. But then again, I've never been a fan of the Smurfs. So I didn't find much enjoyment in this movie. The characters were one dimensional, the story was predictable, and the voice acting was awful! Whenever the characters speak, I can't stop thinking about the actors recording their voices in a studio! Overall, this is a very bland and forgettable movie that doesn't have a lot going for it. It's better than the other Smurfs movies, that's for sure!

I get that it was predictable and cliche, but I'd definitely take this any day over those two live-action movies.

It's meh, but way better than those two awful live-action remakes.

24 Hotel Transylvania

Sony did make good movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Memento, Men in Black, Ghostbusters and Spiderman 2, but have given up on all their efforts with garbage like the Jumanji reboot, Unfunny Night, the Garbage Party, that atrocious Why Him? movie with James Franco, and cash grab animated movies with little to no substance what so ever.

What is this brilliant masterpiece doing on the list?
This is one of Sony's best movies, this was my childhood movie.
Glad it's below HT2.

I don't know why but what do people see in this film?

25 Zambezia

Samuel & Jeff, why star in this crap? You're too good for this!

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