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Top 10 Kids’ Movies That Don’t Hold Up


you know that wasn’t quite as amazing as
we remember it shall we begin
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
kids movies that don’t hold up for this
list we’re taking a look at movies we
all liked as kids but are probably
better left forgotten now that we’re
older number 10 babies date out ah
here’s a genius idea we rip off home
alone only instead of an eight-year-old
outwitting a couple of bumbling thugs we
have a baby out with three even stupider
thugs hey you couldn’t wake up the baby
don’t get amazed I’m done rose well okay
maybe that could be tolerable as a
five-minute cartoon
wait you want to stretch this out into a
full-length live-action movie you guys
are worthless are you insane
apparently producer John Hughes and
company were off their rockers I’m a
banana thinking that anybody over the
age of 1 would be amused watching an
infant narrowly escape certain death as
the bad guys and or recycled slapstick
for 99 minutes
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number nine angels in the outfield
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angels in the outfield is like Field of
Dreams
if completely inept people made it the
film stars Joseph gordon-levitt as a boy
who prays to God for the California
Angels to win the pennant God if there’s
God although it goes against Lord knows
how many of his own Ten Commandments God
sends several of his freakiest looking
angels down from heaven to help the
baseball team cheat it’s misguided it’s
corny
it tries way too hard to be
inspirational kid season angel yeah you
must that’s the signal but at least the
film wasn’t bad enough to derail Gordon
Levitt’s career yeah of course it’s
lover number eight flubber
it’s a metastable compounds here in
layman’s terms if you’re playing small
amount of energy that liberates an
enormous quantity of energy it’s no
secret that we’re huge Robin Williams
fans at watch mojo that being said his
comedic genius was wasted on some of the
dumbest movies of our childhood the
worst being flubber may I see your soul
I need the bottom of your shoes
Williams plays an absent-minded
professor
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who invents a piece of stretchy green
slimy matter he uses this CGI
abomination to rig basketball games
frighten little boys and neglect his
fiance what about your wedding
um and this guy is supposed to be our
lovable hero in all fairness though
flubber at least gave us Weibo the
sexpot equivalent to Siri a little hot
Sarah if dad ever finds out that we
check Dunston hotel we be in big trouble
number seven Dunston checks in oh that’s
to come back here
whenever the title character of a movie
is an orangutan it’s unlikely that
anybody involved with the project will
put in any effort whatsoever Joe listen
I had a boy would you mind putting it in
right about here that’s okay though
because showing an ape run amok in a
hotel is all you need to sell a movie
right one more thing my dollar
maybe if the audience is under five but
for everyone else you need to try a lot
harder throw in actors that look
embarrassed to be there lame slapstick
and a cliched burglary plot and you’ve
got yourself a genuine pile of monkey
feces number six MVP most valuable
primate what’s worse than a comedy about
an orangutan
how about a sports comedy about a
chimpanzee that leads a struggling
hockey team to victory what if I got
myself into a premise like that is so
idiotic that it couldn’t possibly exist
but MVP most valuable primate is all too
real and the film is every bit as
painful as its cringe-inducing title
not to mention boring oh I thought
you’re talking about my cousin Ernest
the fact that the movie actually tries
to work in subtle sentimental moments
involving a dying old man and a little
deaf girl only makes the experience more
asinine his favorite food bananas raisin
of two of you
number five Air Bud
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movies about cute animals inexplicably
playing sports with truly one of the
unfortunate trends of the 90s it
shouldn’t be a surprise that the same
producers behind MVP made Air Bud and
it’s equally awful like the others –
seeing a golden retriever in a
basketball uniform might be enough to
make toddlers giggle but Air Bud makes
no further attempt to be funny smart or
original for anyone else if that’s not
enough to piss you off the film inspired
over a dozen straight-to-video sequels
and spin-offs none of which holds up
either case code spike it number for Spy
Kids I think he’s gonna be a best-seller
this family film at least had an
imaginative set up and a talented
director to bring it to life what would
you do without me well it might be
creative Spy Kids isn’t quite as
whimsical or thrilling as you might
remember you know what I don’t remember
that reason the movie is weird without
ever being very funny creepy without
ever being very charming and just an
all-around disturbing acid trip you
don’t look very scared to me also was
there a kid who saw this movie who
wasn’t scarred for life by the Foo
Glee’s recognized days mooglies I’ve got
toy versions this is what they look like
before you mutated in you are dealing
with an evil here that is beyond all
imagination number 3 Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers the movie yeah we’re the
Power Rangers
watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
the movie as an adult is a bit like
digging up an old drawing from second
grade
gross at the time you thought it was an
epic masterpiece looking back on it
however you realize it was actually
sloppy rushed and embarrassing there may
be a power that can save you sew it on
of course your nine-year-old self likely
put more effort into that drawing then
the filmmakers put into this flip helps
close with bland characters and lazy
effects power rangers the movie is a
cheap exercise to appeal to the lowest
common denominator at every turn
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number two Super Mario Brothers last
name Mario the Super Mario Brothers
movie has about as much to do with the
Nintendo game on which it was based
as the et Atari game had to do with the
movie on which it was based
okay what’s your name Luigi Luigi Luigi
Oh Luigi Mario in 1993 the Mario
Brothers were so big that the filmmakers
figured they didn’t have to cast Italian
actors or make King Koopa look anything
like a Koopa I must say we have a very
exciting proposal a video game based on
your many adventurers kids would just
accept whatever they threw together some
of us might have been suckered in then
but now we all know that our princess
definitely isn’t in this castle Luigi
Mario Daisy you gotta come with me I
need your help
what’s wrong you’re never gonna believe
this
before we try to forget our top pick
here are a few honorable or in this case
dishonorable mentions she’s a bossy
arrogant Mitchell ative Beverly Hills
Chihuahua what is that
son that’ll be in every Airport along
every highway crack my crack is gonna be
shown at every Airport Oh son what gives
you the right to show my crack in every
Highway hey pop you is that all you got
that’s dollar mark well planty you’ve
been moving on Richie Rich the richest
in the world number one Richie Rich hi
my dad couldn’t make it so he sent me in
the 90s every kid dreamed of being super
wealthy and was be cool Ted everything
having a McDonald’s in their house and
being Macaulay Culkin first my friends
are too busy to hang out with me now I’m
too busy to hang out with me in that
sense Richie Rich is like every child’s
dream come to life it’s also every
adults worst nightmare come to life
manipulative and stereotypical Richie
Rich is virtually devoid of any genuine
humor wit or inventiveness young
gentlemen are apt to find royal
functions a trifle boring like the rest
of the films on this list the only way
to enjoy watching it is either through
the eyes of a naive kid or with the use
of nostalgia goggles congratulations on
the Zipp sir Thank You Cadbury do you
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