17 A-listers Who Starred In Critics' Most-hated Movies

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Derek plays a young woman named Ayre who decides to travel the world after college graduation to find the perfect man to lose her virginity to.

Famed critic Roger Ebert wrote, "The real future of 'Bolero' is in home cassette rentals, where your fast forward and instant replay controls will supply the editing job the movie so desperately needs."

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While the original "Highlander" plot is by no means simple, the story of "The Quickening" is even more convoluted, with global warming destroying the planet, the new revelation that Connor (Christopher Lambert) and the immortals are actually aliens from a different planet, and more.

Roger Ebert wrote, "'Highlander II: The Quickening' is the most hilariously incomprehensible movie I've seen in many a long day — a movie almost awesome in its badness."

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Wiest plays an opera singer named Victoria who has to inform her son that his estranged father was murdered — and he realizes that he might have accidentally witnessed it.

Time Out's Jessica Winter called the film a "limp, smirky lark."

TriStar Pictures

Married couple James (Travolta) and Mollie (Kirstie Alley) are back again in "Look Who's Talking Now" — except this time, the dogs are narrating the action.

The Independent critic Quentin Curtis called the film "a glutinous mix of all that's worst in movies," while Variety's Dan Cox wrote that it "runs feebly on the calculated steam of its forebears."

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"Gotti" is a rather straightforward biopic of the infamous gangster who was eventually sentenced to life in prison after getting convicted of organizing the murder of his old boss, Paul Castellano.

"I'd rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch 'Gotti' again," wrote Johnny Oleksinski in the New York Post.

Warner Bros.

The fourth film in the series centers on citizen cops joining the force, which predictably goes horribly.

Critic Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "What's so amazing about the 'Police Academy' movies is that they keep being made even though they stopped being funny after the hilarious original."

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Banderas plays the titular Ecks, while Lucy Liu plays his opposing secret agent Sever. Each one is looking for a new type of nanobot that can cause heart attacks.

Critic William Bibbiani wrote for Consequence, "I guess not every bad movie has a cult following in its future. Some of them are just kinda bad."

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What's this film about? Exactly what the title says: A group of preternaturally smart babies who go up against a villainous super-baby named Kahuna to save the world.

Joanne Kaufman of The Wall Street Journal simply called the film "unspeakably ghastly."

20th Century Fox

Union's not the only A-lister who appeared in this generational story — her co-stars included Zoe Saldaña and Billy Dee Williams. Each plays a member of the Boxer clan, who are left reeling from the death of Union's character, Carmel.

"Scenes in which little or nothing happens pass by slowly, and the only point of suspense is whether the number of tearful hugs at the end will reach double digits," wrote the New York Post's Kyle Smith.

IFC Films

"Stolen" switches between the present-day, when Hamm's character attempts to solve a cold case from the 1950s in order to cope with the disappearance of his son, and the past, when the murder happened.

"The low-boil mystery-thriller 'Stolen' was once known as 'The Boy in the Box' and then 'Stolen Lives,' but now has a title as nondescript as its contents," wrote Noel Murray for the AV Club.

G2 Pictures

"The Nutcracker in 3D" is another in the long list of on-screen adaptations of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, this time starring Fanning as Mary, a young girl who decides to help her friend, the Nutcracker, overthrow the villainous Rat King.

Critic Frank Scheck wrote for The Hollywood Reporter, "Delivering the cinematic equivalent of a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking, 'The Nutcracker in 3D' is an apparent Scrooge-like attempt by Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky to forever ruin children's associations with the classic Yuletide ballet."

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Berry stars as Kate, a dive instructor and shark expert, who finds herself on the verge of foreclosure and unable to get back in the water after the death of a fellow diver during one of her expeditions. To help herself get back in the game (and to pay some bills), she agrees to supervise a dangerous dive to a shark feeding ground.

The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw wrote, "The sharks themselves are the only ones to emerge with credit from this."

Paramount Pictures

In "A Thousand Words," Murphy plays a literary agent who discovers he doesn't have long to live after a magical tree appears in his backyard. Every word he speaks corresponds to a leaf on the tree — when the leaves eventually all fall off, he will die. So, he must figure out a way to break this curse and perhaps become a better person.

"A thousand words? Try two words: Stay away. Murphy does a pretty good job keeping up with the various indignities heaped on him but the movie as a whole ends up sinking," wrote We Got This Covered's Kristal Cooper.

Netflix

"The Ridiculous 6" is one of the films produced through Sandler's deal with Netflix, with this one being a clear parody of Westerns like "The Hateful Eight" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

Brad Newsome of The Sydney Morning Herald called the film "a lazy pastiche of westerns and western spoofs, replete with lazy, racist jokes that can't just be waved away with a waft of the irony card. Woeful."

Rogue

The titular room refers to an attic that Beckinsale's character discovers. Families who lived in the home in the 1800s used to hide disabled children in the attic. She soon has visions, suffers a breakdown, and soon completely loses her grip on reality.

The Los Angeles Times' Katie Walsh wrote, "This spooky house flick would be better off locked up in the attic and forgotten for good."

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"London Fields" is based on the novel of the same name. Thornton stars a writer, Samson, who is both terminally ill and suffering from writer's block. When a mysterious clairvoyant woman enters his life, it seems like he finally might have a new story to tell.

Critic Peter Sobczynski wrote on RogerEbert.com that this film is "a boring and garish mess that even fans of the book will find nearly impossible to follow."

Saban Films

In the film, Carrey plays a detective who finds similarities between a cold case he's been working on and a crime described in a recently published novel.

For Spectrum Culture, critic Josh Goller wrote, "There's not even much novelty in seeing Carrey play so aggressively against type in this oppressively artless slog."

Universal Pictures

The same year Caine won his first Academy Award for his performance in "Hannah and Her Sisters," he also starred in the fourth "Jaws" film as a character named Hoagie Newcomb, who teams up with the Brody family to once again battle a shark.

Sheila Benson wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "Dumb beyond belief, hollow, bloody and nonsensical, it's Universal Studios' vanity movie, a way of providing employment yet again for its Great White icon."