some films are so bad they're good
and others are so bad they're hilarious
but sometimes they're just
plain bad we can't budget sir this hatch
cover's just as jammed as the others
oh you're gonna need dynamite to go down
through that mess
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down
our picks for the top 10 worst movies of
the 1980s
uh i'm sorry uh mr burrow
i need your advice on getting laughs for
this list
although we can all agree that there are
different levels of bad
we'll be looking at north american big
budget studio productions
give something to america you
never gave
we'll be basing our choices on a mix of
critical and commercial success
or rather a lack thereof the quality of
the films in terms of story
effect acting and so on as well as how
they are generally perceived
these days this is part of a series of
videos spanning the decades
howard i'm about to meet secretly with
my colleague and he's bringing
the feather the feather what are you
talking
if it matches it'll be the answer to all
your problems no you don't
stay away from me let me through
number 10 star trek 5 the final frontier
i don't want my pain taken away i need
my pain it was no surprise that william
shatner wanted to direct the next star
trek movie
since his co-star leonard nimoy had
directed the previous two successful
entries
sure you won't change your mind
is there something wrong with the one i
have throughout the production shatner's
ego would not let him
give up even if the film was plagued
with problems why spock
why i all you had to do was pull the
trigger creator gene roddenberry didn't
like the script
co-stars opposed the premise and the
film went through multiple rewrites and
cuts
including a complete revamp of the
ending after horrible test screenings
i lost a brother once
i was lucky i got him back
i thought you said men like us don't
have families
i was wrong with subpar effects a
bizarre story about searching for god in
space
and razzie awards for worst picture
director and actor
it's easy to see why this entry almost
killed the franchise
say one thing spock you never cease to
amaze me
nor i myself number nine superman 4
the quest for peace no pain no gain
here's another successful franchise that
lost its way
once the superman film rights were
passed on to the notoriously low budget
canon films
everyone screamed in unison what were
they thinking
stop don't do it the people the
resultant disaster piece
actually killed this franchise as the
world waited almost 20 years for a
reboot
it's as it always was on the brink with
good fighting evil
cn20 critics agreed that the film was
beyond boring
the effects were cheap looking and all
the actors seemed like they wished they
were somewhere else
you'd risk worldwide nuclear war for
your own personal financial gain
nobody wants war i just want to keep the
threat alive
christopher reeve famously predicted to
john cryer that the movie was going to
be terrible
and lo and behold superman himself was
right
you didn't need superpowers to figure
that out though
number eight howling two your sister
is a werewolf the inhabitants of the
earth have been made drunk
with her blood and i saw her sit
upon a hairy beast unlike our previous
two entries
horror film franchises will not
necessarily die out no matter how bad a
sequel is
this type of bullet killed your sister
unfortunately they were removed during
the autopsy and
as a result she can never rest in peace
the follow-up to the now cult classic
the howling was such a mismatched
disaster that audiences and critics were
not sure if the studio was playing a
joke on them
later i would come back and make you one
of
ours barely following the original the
film's only saving grace was horror
legend christopher lee's inclusion
although he later apologized to joe
dante the original film's director for
appearing in this terrible sequel
let me challenge
no you're sweet
but we cannot make a mistake not with
him despite all this
and having originally been subtitled
werewolf [ __ ] the horror flick spawned
six more sequels
number seven going overboard
oh by the way i do weddings in case your
parents decide i'm getting married
say what you want about adam sandler but
he had some great successes early in his
career
this is why the world has chosen to
forget his film debut
going overboard well what you're about
to see
is a fictitious loosely thrown together
story
about a sea cruise waiter me right here
who dreams of becoming a stand-up
comedian in this comedy
sandler plays a crappy struggling
comedian on a cruise ship
that gets a chance to perform and
succeeds after learning about the power
of laughter
use the power of laughter laughter he
always says that
maybe that has a meaning or something
i know what he means yeah i know what he
means
then terrorists climb onto the ship to
kill miss australia
and sandler shecky saves the day by
offering to put them in a movie
this is the actual plot of this film we
are not
making this up so you can understand why
it has thankfully
fallen into obscurity i like comedy i
like being funny that's it all right
number six howard the duck that's it
no more mr nice duck when the world
heard that george lucas was finally
bringing marvel comics to the big screen
we're sure that nobody expected the
character he'd be adapting would be
howard the duck
bev i'm not a real sentimental guy
no i bet you were born from a very
hard-boiled egg kentucky
the end result barely resembled the
comics and
was such a mess that all the actors had
a hard time finding work after this film
no one laughs at a master of quack foot
willard hike never directed again and
well we all know what happened to george
lucas after this
creepy interspecies sex duck nudity
and cheesy duck puns create an
underwhelming experience
that not even future oscar winner tim
robbins could save
despite the sci-fi comedy flick's now
cult status
filthy help me never heard of a duck
that couldn't swim
hopefully the marvel cinematic universe
can do this character justice someday
gross
number five mac and me you know what i
feel like
a big mac man is a genius i'm psychic
i tell you we don't think anyone
expected this feature-length mcdonald's
commercial disguised as an
e.t knockoff to be a masterpiece but did
it have to be so
criminally mind-numbing everything's
ruined
it's totally ruined it wasn't me mom is
the little creature
i saw it it was supposedly aimed at
children
but it insulted even their intelligence
something i've been telling you about
the map
what the mysterious alien creature the
only difference between mac and me and
spielberg's classic is that the main
character is in a wheelchair
and everyone is brought together at the
end by the power of mcdonald's
hamburgers
oh and coca-cola too he took my coke mom
come on you guys
i don't have it i didn't take it the
sci-fi adventure movie was rightfully a
box office disaster
and its planned sequel was thankfully
immediately cancelled
at least it's given paul rudd and conan
o'brien something to joke about
robert smeigle looks awful yeah i was
gonna say
well so many people are just used to
yeah that's the guy who does triumph
how many times have you shown that clip
on this show over the years
well we just shot that this
number four leonard part six i don't
understand
but i imagine eventually everything will
be clear no this is not the sixth entry
in a franchise and yes the entire world
was confused by the title
however that is just the tip of the
iceberg of reasons why nobody went to
see this comedy
you've just got to stop being so hard on
yourself although denounced by bill
cosby himself
who practically begged audiences not to
see it the spy movie parody was actually
produced by
and starred the comedian we need you
leonard
you don't need me you need the aspca
we'll pay you a regular fee six million
dollars
why don't you just blow her up in the
comedy cosby is supposed to be a james
bond type of operative
trying to save the world from evil
vegetarians by using meat
as a weapon it more than deserved its
trio of razzie awards for worst actor
screenplay and picture and was for a
time
considered to be the worst thing that
bill cosby ever did
whatever you do son don't fall on that
number three
the garbage pail kids movie my god it's
getting jolly
we still live in a hollywood that can
turn any product into a film
and while it sometimes works such as
with the lego movie
sometimes it doesn't battleship anyone
do you think that this could be some
super
secret navy surprise exercise
because if so they they've gone way too
far
and sometimes you just try to imagine
what the pitch meeting for some ideas
looked like
and if everyone was either asleep or
drunk when they green lit certain things
might come here what did you eat
everything that'll do it all right
the garbage pail kids were a brilliant
and popular trading card series
parodying cabbage patch kids dolls
but its film adaptation turned them into
nightmare creatures
well perhaps it would have been safer to
lock them away from the world
with terrible effects that make them
unwatchable and
gross out humor that won't even make
children laugh this film's cult status
is hard to swallow oh
gross we want to go to the fashion show
you might get caught number two king
kong lives
while the 1976 remake was a box office
success
this sequel falls short on every level
how can a king kong movie be so boring
how's our boy doing
incredible the plot revolves around the
scientists that have been keeping kong
alive while he's in a coma
after the monster fell off the twin
towers they give him an artificial heart
and
a female kong to give him a blood
transfusion to save his life
though it's not meant to be a comedy
king kong lives is laughable for all the
wrong reasons
the 1933 original had better special
effects than this
hey look out it's calm khan's coming
before we reveal our number one pick
here are some honorable
or in this case dishonorable mentions
jesus is pissed
i just had a beard all over my body yeah
okay i had fingernails the size of
french fries
teeth from here to texas and she called
me a dog
come here come here
number one jaws the revenge come on you
overgrown goldfish come
uncle jake in a world with sharknados
and mutant piranhas
this movie is somehow the most laughable
underwater monster movie
well at least it was in the 80s get up
mediocrity with fattening you'd all be
whales
another franchise shot dead in the water
this fourth jaws film
asks the question that was on
everybody's minds what if sharks can
hold grudges
and somehow stalk a family across a
country shark that killed martin and
sean is following the family hey he's
not talking about osha
this boring sequel expects us to believe
that this shark wants revenge on the
brody family
for killing the original jaws and swims
from new york to the bahamas
looking boring and mechanical the whole
way and to think
michael kane missed out on accepting his
oscar for hannah and her sisters in
order to shoot this disaster
the first time's the best for everything
after that you know too much and
nothing's ever quite the same
do you agree with our list i knew it
we're all gardeners
ah shut up madison what do you think is
the worst movie of the 1980s
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