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

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  (#22) Space Jam

  • Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Danny DeVito, Patrick Ewing, Patricia Heaton, Alonzo Mourning, Vlade Divac, Mel Blanc, Charles Oakley, Danny Ainge, Larry Johnson, Shawn Bradley, Frank Welker, Muggsy Bogues, Paul Westphal, Billy West, Dan Castellaneta, Wayne Knight, A. C. Green, Cedric Ceballos, Derek Harper, Jeff Malone, Dee Bradley Baker, June Foray, Kath Soucie, Ahmad Rashād, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Rome, Dorian Harewood, Catherine Reitman, Bob Bergen, Bill Farmer, Jim Wise, Thom Barry, T. K. Carter, Connie Ray, Brad William Henke, Albert Hague, Theresa Randle, Brandon Hammond, Del Harris, Bebe Drake, Andre Rosey Brown, John Roselius, Penny Bae Bridges, Sharone Wright, David Ursin, William G. Schilling, Joe Bays, Charity James, Steve Kehela, Michael Rothhaar, Charles Hoyes, Kent Kasper, Anthony Miller, Amy Chance, Barbara Anne Klein, Michael Ray Clark, Eric Gordon, Joey Camen, Steve Shenbaum, Colleen Wainwright, Michael Alaimo, Darnell Suttles, Kelly Boone, Douglas Robert Jackson, Manner Washington, Bean Miller, Dylan Tucker, Jocelyn Blue, Luke Torres, Nicky McCrimmon, Linda Lutz, June Melby, James O'Donnell

  Bugs Bunny deserves better than a basketball movie based on shoe commercials, don't you think?

  So did Bill Murray and Wayne Knight, come to think of it. And even though Michael Jordan's not really an actor, he was good on Saturday Night Live once. Less so here. Everybody deserves better, including the audience. And yet there's a sequel in the works, because nostalgia has clouded just how bad Space Jam actually is and has always been.
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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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  (#21) Casper

  • Christina Ricci, Dan Aykroyd, Rodney Dangerfield, Amy Brenneman, Ben Stein, Eric Idle, Brad Garrett, Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Cathy Moriarty, Fred Rogers, John Kassir, Joe Alaskey, Terry Murphy, Joe Nipote, Malachi Pearson

  It used to be a playground joke among kids who had grown old enough to be cynical: Casper was obviously a dead kid. Nobody ever thought, however, that a major motion picture would emphasize that fact.

  Yet when director Brad Silberling came aboard the movie version, it was probably inevitable. Following the 1989 murder of his girlfriend Rebecca Schaeffer at the hands of a deranged fan, many of his films fixated on the possibility of an afterlife for the virtuous. For the Wings of Desire remake City of Angels, that's appropriate. For Casper, not so much.
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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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  (#16) Alvin and the Chipmunks

  • Jane Lynch, David Cross, Jesse McCartney, Cameron Richardson, Beth Riesgraf, Justin Long, Jason Lee, Matthew Gray Gubler, Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., Oliver Muirhead, Don Tiffany

  Alvin and the Chipmunks is one of those classics you hoped the world would forget about. Somehow the story of three high pitched mice, screeching top 40 hits doesn't sound all that enjoyable, especially for the parents who begrudgingly take their children to see these wailing rodents.

  Although most parents would settle for a Kidz Bop album on repeat any day of the week, Alvin and the Chipmunks has somehow warranted mutiple sequels. Even worse, the Chipmunks choose equally upsetting songs, including a single from one-hit wonder Daniel Powter.
  
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  (#1) Dragonball Evolution

  • Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, James Marsters, Chow Yun-Fat, Ernie Hudson, Justin Chatwin, Joon Park, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim, Julian Sedgwick, Eriko Tamura, Shavon Kirksey, Jon Valera, Megumi Seki, Mike Wilson, Luis Arrieta, Freddy Bouciegues, Rafael Valdez, Richard Blake

  Dragonball is a cartoon so stylized that making it in live-action is a fool's errand to begin with, and the moment anybody even attempted to style Justin Chatwin's hair into a Goku 'do, it should have been a red flag.

  By the time he turns into a giant were-ape at the movie's climax (yes, seriously), the accumulated red flags ought to have summoned a herd of angry bulls. The video above sums it up best.

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