Random Worst Live-Action Movies Based on Cartoons (22 items)

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  (#11) Dudley Do-Right

  • Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Fraser, Alfred Molina, Kathie Lee Gifford, Eric Idle, Alex Rocco, Robert Prosky, Corey Burton, Jack Kehler, Louis Mustillo, Jed Rees, Don Yesso, Dyllan Christopher, Brant von Hoffman

  Brendan Fraser is perfect casting for Jay Ward's George of the Jungle, a Tarzan riff in which a moronic white savior kept swinging on vines into trees. Lightning doesn't strike twice, however, as Fraser's portrayal of Mountie Dudley Do-Right falls completely flat.

  Worst of all, though, is how terrible Alfred Molina comes across as arch-villain Snidely Whiplash. A great actor and a great character, both Molina and Whiplash deserve better.
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  (#12) Underdog

  • Amy Adams, Taylor Momsen, Jay Leno, Peter Dinklage, Jim Belushi, Jason Lee, John Slattery, Brad Garrett, Patrick Warburton, Samantha Bee, John DiMaggio, Susie Castillo, Jess Harnell, Cam Clarke, Phil Morris, Michael Massee, Eric Bruno Borgman, Ezra Buzzington, Anthony Estrella, Walter Covell, Tony Moreira, Kaitlyn Bouchard, Albert M. Chan, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Joe Bucaro, John M. Deluca, Ellen Becker Gray, Larry Vigus, Frank D'Agostino, Lonnie Farmer, Bates Wilder, Donald Warnock, Armen Garo, Grady Justice, Alex Neuberger, Michael Tyler Henry, Frank Ridley, Rebekah Aramini, Dahiana Torres, Jon Pierce, Mike Wendt, D.W. Cormier, Tacuma Vanterpool, Tim Crowe, Alexander Garde, Mackenzie Hawe, David Struffolino, Billy Silvia, Vincent J. Earnshaw, Alan Resnic, Michael J. Peluso, Scott Dittman, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Tom Paolino, Stuart F. Wilson, Lewis D. Wheeler, Joe Stapleton, Kevin M. Simon, Donna Wong, William Alva, Rena Maliszweski, Joseph Siriani, Ellen Withrow, Susan Garibotto, Aaron Dorsey, Sujoy De, Harry L. Thomas, Daniel Kirby, Adam McCarthy, Diana Shneider, Michele Proude, Gabriel Field, Stephen James Kidd, Tom Gilligan, Bob Boehm, Roy Souza, Amy Tanner, Lincoln P. Sisson, Nicole Kopka, Richney Fischer, Christopher Francis Byrnes, Mario Mariani, Bob Jaffe, Rebecca Warnock, Courtney O'Regan, Barry Blair, Malik McMullen, Kate Lohman

  Underdog is meant to be a cartoon dog in a world where anthropomorphic animals aren't unusual. Making him live-action? You might as well do a live-action Mickey Mouse with an actual rodent.

  A pre-Tyrion Lannister Peter Dinklage plays a decent Simon Barsinister, though.
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  (#19) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

  • Kevin Nash, Frank Welker, David Warner, Paige Turco, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Kevin Clash, François Chau, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, Mark Caso

  Look, everybody loves the Turtles, and everybody looks back fondly at that Vanilla Ice song (some people unironically). What nobody loves is the way this movie cheaps out of giving fans Bebop and Rocksteady in favor of Muppety knock-offs. Not only that, but the sequel makes the TMNT pull their punches into more slapstick antics, all because parents complained about the violence in the first film.

  It's just about watchable, but it's the least of the original series of movies.
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  (#14) Transformers: Dark of the Moon

  • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Hugo Weaving, Leonard Nimoy, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Frances McDormand, Alan Tudyk, John Turturro, Ken Jeong, Frank Welker, Tom Kenny, George Coe, James Remar, John DiMaggio, Meredith Monroe, Andy Daly, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Kevin Dunn, Charlie Adler, Mindy Sterling, Maile Flanagan, Keiko Agena, Elya Baskin, Robert Foxworth, Jim Meskimen, Julie White, Glenn Morshower, Keith Szarabajka, Iqbal Theba, Ravil Isyanov, Reno Wilson, Sammy Sheik, Tom Virtue, Lester Speight, Mark Ryan, Scott Krinsky, Francesco Quinn, Chris Sheffield, David Hill, Anthony Azizi, David St. James, John Turk, Liam Ferguson, Jesse Heiman, Thomas Crawford, John H. Tobin, Jack Axelrod, Kathleen Gati, Matthew James Gulbranson, Greg Berg, Annie O'Donnell, Ron Bottitta, Danny McCarthy, Peter Murnik, Stephen Taylor, Elena Kolpachikova, Keith Middlebrook, John Farrer, Jennifer Williams, William Haze, Darren O'Hare, Larry Clarke, Markiss McFadden, Inna Korobkina, Lindsey Ginter, Kevin Sizemore, Eugene Alper, Kef Lee, Alan Pietruszewski, Abi McKenzie, Joel Thingvall, Erik Kowalski, James D. Weston II, WBBrown II, Yasen Peyankov, Michael Daniel Cassady, Patrick Pankhursts, Rich Hutchman, Dustin Dennard, Brett Stimely, Katherine Sigismund, Ian Bonner, Kristoffer Kjornes, Ken Takemoto, Zoran Radanovich, Kaitlan Welton, Jeremy McLain, Niko El Santo Zavero, Bob Kaye, Josh Kelly, Scott C. Roe, Drew Pillsbury, Robert Herrick, Karen E. Wright, Jim Nieciecki, LaMonica Garrett, Zander Gerhardt, Don Jeanes, Luis Echagarruga, Christian Baha, Larry Carter, Lawrence G. Lozano, Michael Saglimbeni, Jake Won Lee, Daniel Okeefe, Derek Miller, Taylor McCluskey, Mikal Vega, Matt Cinquanta, Eva Marie Lardani, Christopher Mur, Matt McVay, Danielle Fornarelli, Chris A. Robinson, Jay Gates, Mark Golden, Ajay James, Brett Lynch, John S. McAfee, Jillana Laufer, Mitch Bromwell, Leidy Mazo, Rebecca Cooper, Aaron Garrido, Sean Murphy, Nick Bickle, Joshua Farcone, Kenny Sheard, Cory Tucker, Pete Kelly, Charlotte Labadie, Michael Loeffelholz, Bonecrusher the Mastiff, Scott Paulson, Brian Call, Vincent Conti, Eric Berlynn, Victor Saigh, Amal Torich, Michael Paul, Jason Neisewander, Jason Endicott, Alicia Hamilton, Tony Cronin, Rodney Luis Aquino, Gena Ellis, Andrew Biesen, Adam Critchlow, Jennifer Gorka, William H. Worden, Dean Napolitano, David Michael Williamson, Jordan Michael Coulson, Mike Ciannilli, Christina Putnam, Ina Lereine, Gracie Zane, Mino Mackic

  A lot of people hate all the Transformers movies, but Dark of the Moon deserves special attention for neglect of the show's core premise: it forgets it's supposed to be about robots that transform, and in robot form look somewhat like the thing they become. New villain Shockwave never transforms into anything, nor does the giant robo-snake he rides around Chicago. Laserbeak, meanwhile, can become anything at any time. Other robots fly around in vehicles rather than simply becoming them.

  Most damning is that every transformation in the movie, beginning to end, adds up to just over three minutes of footage. In a movie that runs 154 minutes.
  
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  (#4) Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins

  • Frank Welker, Robbie Amell, Hayley Kiyoko, Garry Chalk, Lorena Gale, C. Ernst Harth, Cassandra Sawtell, Benita Ha, Dee Jay Jackson, Kurt Evans, Kira Clavell, Christopher Attadia, Kate Melton, Al Rodrigo, Shawn MacDonald, Josh Goring, Daniel Riordan, Mark Gash, Wendy Morrow Donaldson, Nick Palatas, Dave Hurtubise, Leah James, Devon Thomas, Tony Der Jr., Kristina Barr, Brian J. Sutton, Courtney Schott, Jordana Largy

  The Scooby-Doo movies written by James Gunn are surprisingly not terrible. So of course some studio executive somewhere had to say, "We're not screwing it up enough! Fire everybody and start again with a prequel!"

  At least, you can assume that's what was said. It's the only explanation for the clip above.
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  (#18) Richie Rich

  • Macaulay Culkin, Claudia Schiffer, Reggie Jackson, Ben Stein, Frank Welker, Christine Ebersole, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Rory Culkin, Jonathan Hyde, Rick Worthy, Chelcie Ross, Eddie J. Fernandez, Mike Bacarella, Michael McShane, Eddie Bo Smith Jr., Nydia Rodriguez Terracina, Kevin Mukherji, Joanne Pankow, Diann Burns, James Deuter, Keith Schrader, Wanda Christine, John Thurner, Dawn Maxey, Marilyn Dodds Frank, James Deeth, Stephi Lineburg, Matt DeCaro, Mariangela Pino, Jan Jackson, Robert Oliver, Sam Sanders, Joel Robinson, Peter Lampley, Rachel Stephens, Bruce Green, Michael Maccarone, Jonathan Hilario, C. Michael Haynes, John Drury, Mindy Bell, Sean A. Tate, Justin Zaremby, Stacy Logan, Dustin Drapkin, David Fawcett, Joel Ellegant, Rush Pearson, Jim Blandford, Lily Semel, Bob Riley, Michael Godleski, Kent Logsdon

  Richie Rich is a product of a bygone era, really. If we want to see people who have more money than we'd know what to do with nowadays, just turn on E! any hour of any day. But here's the thing: the vast majority of viewers watch the Kardashians because they hate them.

  If Richie Rich were a real kid, we'd be tuning into his reality show to watch him get drunk and be an asshole. Nobody wants the rich to actually be better than them.
  

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