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ByAND/June 9, 2015 3:46 pm EST/Updated: June 12, 2020 7:50 am EST

Critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes rates movie reviews from 0% to 100%. These are all the movies that have received a 0% on the site. They include movies like the mob biopic 'Gotti' and the Dennis Rodman action movie 'Simon Sez.' Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.
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Movies with a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes are common, but if you've been paying attention to the world around you, you know it's almost impossible to get a big group of people to agree on anything—and movie critics are some of the crankiest people of all, so any film that manages to achieve a zero percent represents a rare kind of perfection. Sure, it isn't the type of perfect the filmmakers were going for, but to get any kind of unanimous response on a film is quite a feat. Though purposely watching a bad movie can seem like a complete waste of time, when a movie is this bad, it really has to be seen to be believed—and these epic flops offer universally reviled proof. Here's a (semi-) fond look back at the unlucky and unloved movies that have managed to earn a 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In 2008, Rotten Tomatoes compiled a list called 'Moldy Tomatoes: The 10 Worst Movies of the Last 10 Years,' which included—you guessed it—Ballistic: Ecks vs. In the article, Alex Vo wrote, 'The plot is undeserving of analysis, or even a summary: the most fitting epitaph for this, the worst reviewed movie in our site's history, might.

A Thousand Words (2012)

How do you know when a movie is bad? Like, really, really bad? When it was filmed four whole years before its official release. Such was the case for Eddie Murphy's A Thousand Words, about a literary agent whose... oh, it's not even worth explaining. Critics inevitably had more than a few harsh words to throw at this notorious turkey; Owen Glieberman, then of Entertainment Weekly, said it was so bad, he wished Murphy would do 'anything but star in another movie like this one.' Here's hoping he'll listen.

Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star (2011)

Every so often, a movie comes along that's so bad, so random, it's hard to imagine how it was ever made in the first place. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is one of those movies. The film, which starred Nick Swardson as a dopey small-town grocery bagger who moves to L.A. to follow in his parents' porn-star footsteps (ugh), opened in 2011 to some of the worst reviews Hollywood had seen in decades. Many critics trashed the film for its ridiculous, childish jokes. ('This movie is dire, soul-crushing stuff,' wrote Matt Singer for Time Out.) In fact, reviews were so harsh, by the time the movie was open, Swardson's leading-man career was already over. A star was not born, indeed.

Nutcracker In 3D (2010)

One of the biggest victims of the post-Avatar 3D craze was 2010's notoriously bad Nutcracker in 3D, which took Tchaikovsky's ballet and turned it into a bombastic musical featuring Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, and not exactly subtle references to—wait for it—the Holocaust. Worst of all: the movie's over-the-top sets and CGI were a literal eyesore, preventing the movie from entering so-bad-it's-good territory. Ultimately, Lou Lumenick of the New York Post summed it up best when he called Nutcracker in 3D 'spectacularly misconceived, bloated, and incredibly ugly.'

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

Manos: The Hands of Fate is one of the best episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and one of the strangest films of all time. From the beginning, everything about it was a bad idea: Hal Warren bet Oscar-winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant that making a movie was so simple, even Warren, a lowly fertilizer salesman, could finish a picture. When your grand artistic vision behind making a film is winning a bet, you're already off to a bad start.

Warren raised $19,000 from friends and family and started filming Manos. What's so interesting is that Warren didn't pick some simple horror film to show Silliphant how easy filmmaking is. The story of Manos is about a mother and father and their young girl getting lost on vacation, then encountering a sort of satyr named Torgo who works for the 'Master.' The Master finally appears and tries to make the wife and child the newest addition to his stable of undead brides, and in the end, the Master takes the girl and wife, and the dad becomes the new Torgo. He could have just had a family get lost and stalked by some knife murderer in the woods and it would have been cheaper and easier, but Warren insisted instead on a hard-to-follow plot that ends with a little girl becoming a corpse bride.

The man who played the Master, Tom Neyman, also designed the costumes and props with his wife, and the big red hand cloak is honestly a pretty great villain ensemble. His own daughter played the little girl, and their dog stood in as the Master's hound from hell. Whatever else you can say about Manos—and the MST3K gang said plenty—you'll never see anything else like it.

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

The original Baby Geniuses was just one positive review away from making this list. That in itself is enough reason to wonder how anyone on Earth allowed a sequel to happen. And yet, somehow, some way, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 rolled into theaters in 2004. Unsurprisingly, critics were quick to call it out for being what it was: a dumb idea. Undeterred, producers turned this series into a full-fledged franchise, releasing the third, fourth, and fifth installments roughly a decade later, but critics refused to follow—none of the subsequent Baby Geniuseseven have enough reviews to earn a Tomatometer.

One Missed Call (2008)

The revival of the horror movie genre has led to a number of bad decisions in Hollywood. (Remember when Paris Hilton co-starred in House of Wax?) But the biggest scare, so to speak, was reserved for the ridiculous One Missed Call, a remake of a 2004 Japanese horror movie that opened to truly terrifying reviews in 2008. Critics were quick to roll their eyes at the film's premise (which essentially revolved around a cell phone that killed people), calling it contrived, silly, and a complete waste of time.

Pinocchio (2002)

Roberto Benigni was everyone's favorite kooky Italian during and after the release of his Holocaust dramedy Life Is Beautiful, which took home three Oscars and millions of dollars at the box office in 1998. That explains why he was given the OK to film a live-action version of Pinocchio, but it still doesn't excuse the final print. Indeed, Benigni's remake was an all-out cinematic fail. Reviews were brutal, box office returns were worse, and in a matter of days Benigni's career in Hollywood was pretty much finito. Case in point: Since Pinocchio, Benigni has directed only one movie: The Tiger and the Snow. Don't even pretend you've seen it.

Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002)

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever was arguably the first high-profile zero-percent whiff in Rotten Tomatoes' then four-year history—and rightfully so. Even today, it's hard to imagine how a studio actually put $70 million into a convoluted, far-fetched spy thriller starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. (Was Charlie's Angels really that popular back in the day?) Either way, all that big-budget money didn't fool critics: more than 100 of them panned the movie, landing it quickly in Worst Movie Ever territory. It's remained there ever since.

Highlander 2: The Quickening

The original Highlander is a compelling contender for the best movie ever made, a perfectly-tuned epic of '80s cheese, Queen music, and swordfights. Its sequel is its polar opposite — the film equivalent of a stage performer accomplishing an incredible magic trick and then immediately dying of an embolism.

Right from the opening intro cards, which refer to 'an electromagnetic shield' protecting the Earth following the destruction of the ozone layer in the year 2024, it's clear that something went very wrong during the conception of this sequel. The interesting idea of a group of immortals walking the planet since the dawn of time

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