“The Love Guru” was not loved by audiences. “The Love Guru With network television playing reruns and air conditioning in high demand, summer is…
“The Love Guru” was not loved by audiences.
“The Love Guru
With network television playing reruns and air conditioning in high demand, summer is peak season for blockbuster hits. Summer 2018 alone has brought us “Incredibles 2,” “Ocean’s 8,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp” — and it’s only mid-July.
Still, as the discerning viewer knows, quality is another matter entirely. While any summer flick will give you an excuse to bask in the cool air and double up on buttered popcorn and sour straws, many sequels and big-budget flicks offer little else in the way of entertainment.
Audience standards are notoriously lower than critics’ standards for most films, but for these 17 films, consumers were in full agreement — and full of regret. We sought out some of the most poorly-received summer movies listed on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Audience score: 12%
Plot synopsis: “In this unconventional romantic comedy, low-level hood Larry Gigli is given an assignment that gets him in way over his head and Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female enforcer, is sent in to assist him.”
Sample review: “OMG! It’s like watching a train wreck (without the dead people).”
Audience score: 19%
Plot synopsis: “[It] follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event…hits the city and their path.”
Sample review: “I did laugh… maybe once?”
Audience score: 25%
Plot synopsis: “Comic tale of a young boy who blackmails his ex-con father into spending a vacation with him.”
Sample review: “For some reason I remember liking this when I was 9 years old.”
Audience score: 20%
Plot synopsis: “The baby geniuses find themselves at the center of a nefarious scheme led by powerful media mogul Bill Biscane to use his state-of-the-art satellite system to control the minds of the world’s population.”
Sample review: “What in the holy mother of God did I just watch.”
Audience score: 27%
Plot synopsis: “A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs – the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii – and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.”
Sample review: “This movie did one thing amazingly well, and that is to disastrously and horribly waste the talent that signed up for it.”
Audience score: 39%
Plot synopsis: “This animated comedy takes place in Textopolis, a world inside a smartphone that’s inhabited by various emojis. There, an emoji named Gene is ashamed that he has multiple facial expressions while his colleagues only have one each, and he embarks on a quest to be like everyone else.”
Sample review: “The worst movie I ever saw, never want to rest my eyes on something so horrible, it was so terrible I wished I was dead.”
Audience score: 18%
Plot synopsis: “A sometime defender of the underdog, she isn’t above breaking the law to achieve her own ends.”
Sample review: “The story has no stakes, the writing is clunky, the editing is haphazard, the vision is juvenile, and the visual effects are amateurish at best.”
Audience score: 37%
Plot synopsis: “Dads Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson are in another kid-harried adventure as they take over running a summer day camp. Armed with no knowledge of the great outdoors, a dilapidated facility, and a motley group of campers, it doesn’t take long before things get out of control.”
Sample review: “It seems like they didn’t hold auditions.”
Audience score: 30%
Plot synopsis: “An attractive bachelorette finds that her chances of landing a man hinge far too much on her unattractive best friend, whom she goes out of her way to find a mate for.”
Sample review: “This might possibly be the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life.”
Audience score: 29%
Plot synopsis: “‘Vampires Suck'” is a comedy about contemporary teen angst and romance movies. Becca, an anxious, non-vampire teen, is torn between two boys.”
Sample review: “I probably would have been better watching the dripping tap in the bathroom or counting the pattern lines on the carpet.”
Audience score: 30%
Plot synopsis: “Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka, to restore balance to their war-torn world.”
Sample review: “Why was Aang’s name pronounced wrong? Why was everyone white? Why was it casted so horribly wrong? “
Audience score: 16%
Plot synopsis: ” Batman, Robin and new crime fighting comrade Batgirl face Gotham City’s deadliest threat yet when cold-hearted Mr. Freeze and venomous Poison Ivy team for some lethal mischief.”
Sample review: “We do not talk about this one.”
Audience score: 33%
Plot synopsis: “Pitka is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the US to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality.”
Sample review: “If you want to make fun of a religion or a culture then at least try harder…”
Audience score: 17%
Plot synopsis: “The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a SeaWorld theme park after a 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park with them.”
Sample review: “This barely classifies as a film as it does a 99 minute long advertisement for SeaWorld.”
Audience score: 32%
Plot synopsis: “A former superhero is called back into service to transform an group of ragtag kids into new heroes at a private academy.”
Sample review: “Zoom’s decent premise gets destroyed with horrible effects, generic humor, cut-out characters, uninteresting plots, and a predictable story enough to feel like a rip-off of every family superhero movie.
