Amazingly Awful Animated Films

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More and more animated films are being made, and not all of them are good. But how many of them are amazingly awful? I'm not talking painful Shark Tale-type awful, I'm talking Plan 9/Troll II/what the hell is this!?! awful.

Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned is the one example I can think of. A summary of the silliness: Dracula is mistaken for Satan by a girl who wants to marry Satan but finds Dracula too romantic. Jonathan Harker's grandson is an Indian dude in a wheelchair
or is he?
who fights people with a cane. And Dracula eats a hamburger.
 
Whatever happened to staying positive around here for a while? I can't think of anything utterly horrible off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's some worse-than-bad stuff out there.
 
Well, for one who read the movie's literary source: Tomb of Dracula (written by Marv Wolfman, who co-created much of the Teen Titans cast BTW), I feel some explanations are needed.
-Actually, it was the cult Domini belonged to that mistook Dracula for Satan. And Dracula used this misinterpretation to his advantage for his world-conquering plans. Poor Domini is used as his bride, but she sees through his facade and- wouldn't you know it?- falls in love with him and vice versa (note that despite her situation and obvious bad choice of a husband, Domini comes off as saintly, looking a lot like the Madonna).
-The Indian dude and Harker's wheelchair-bound grandson are two different people. The Indian Taj Nital hates Dracula because his son is a vampire. Quincy Harker has a bone to pick on Dracula for (a) crippling him, (b) attacking his wife and driving her to suicide, and (c) turning his daughter into a vampire.
-And the hamburger bit is supposed to be seen in the proper context: Dracula is now cursed into human mortality. He is forced to rob someone and use stolen money to eat a stupid pattie in some sleazebag dinner- SO beneath his dignity. If you think it looks silly and ridiculous, than you're probably seeing things in Dracula's POV.
 
Yeah, I want to see this, because it's a Tomb of Dracula movie. It's almost like discovering there was a Luke Cage OVA for me, although slightly less awesome. I can figure it's probably not as good as the comics, but it would be interesting anyway. I'd like to see it rereleased with a better dub and a title that makes its Marvel Comics connections clearer.
 
Well if this is an "awesomely bad" list:

Rock A Doodle - Virtually incoherent, but it had singing bouncers , so it balanced out.:D

Rockin' With Judy Jetson/ Jetsons: The Movie- Yes they were corny as all get out, but it has nostalgic value for me. The Jetsons Movie had one of my favorite "big lipped alligator moments" ever when Judy just went into these 1980's music video ballads. Random geometric shapes in all.

Tom and Jerry: The Movie- Bad for obvious reasons, but this was also a favorite of mine as a kid. An obese dog that gets around on a skateboard is comedic brilliance in my book. Seriously, that could have easily been a gag in Meet The Parents or something. We've got to have...moneeeeh.

Chipmunks Go To The Movies- The pun tastic titles did it for me. While I enjoyed the 80's chipmunks to death, they were pretty dang bad. Awesomely bad, that is.
 
I've taken it you've been to one of those "Bad, Anime, Bad" panels that took place at some anime conventions. :anime: That's where I first found out about this movie.

Very much understandable given the context of the situation. However, it's still cheesy when you consider that this is Dracula doing it (you'd think he'd eat at a fancy restaurant rather than a diner). Of course, that the least bit of stupidness of that scene: in the same scene, Harker's grandson and his crew spot Dracula, but despite the fact that Dracula is powerless (a perfect time to kill him), they do nothing, as Harker tells them that since he's human at the moment, there's no need to kill him now. :confused:

Finally, for those people who are curious, here's a gif of the legendary "hamburger" scene:
drac2.gif
 
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf.

You know a Scrappy-era Scooby Doo movie is bad when Scrappy's presence does little if anything to make it worse.

The jokes, while not as reliant on puns as in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, were still not funny, the main villain Dracula acts like a whiny little kid when nothing goes his way, his single-digit IQ girlfriend character is annoyingly vacant, and the funny-car race that the plot builds up to just drags on and on and on.

If there is anything good about this movie, it's that it was Scrappy Doo's final appearance in any animated Scooby-Doo movie or TV show.
 
The amount he stole was probably less than a ten; hardly fancy restaurant collateral.
Also, you have to understand Harker and his crew's dilemma: they are vampire hunters. Since Dracula is now human, wouldn't killing him make them murderers? Sorta like Buffy the Vampire Slayer's ethic about slaying only demons and not humans, no matter how scumbaggy the latter can be.
But this indecision is only momentary; the crew still track down Dracula to his Transylvania castle (in the comic, Janus the angel teleported everyone from America to Romania; the movie just has Dracula arriving with no explanation) and hunt him down. This forces the downtrodden Dracula in desperation to ask for God's help so he could die in dignity. Thus he renounces everything he believed in, everything that made him who he is- much to the delight of Satan, who restores his vampirism.
 
You just know that the Tom and Jerry movie is going to be bad when you actually hear the cat and mouse talk!!! I think that Gene Siskel said during his review that what's next, a movie about the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote speaking English to each other!?

As for the Jetsons movie, well you just had to know that something wrong was bound to happen when the studio souled out by getting Tiffany (of "I Think We're Alone Now" fame) to perform the voice of Judy Jetson instead of Janet Waldo. I don't have anything personal against Tiffany, but imagine if this occurred today (it makes the movie feel dated in other words). The producers would probably get somebody like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato in order to lure in the teenyboppers.
 
I like it. I will admit that to be a Scooby Doo fan I had to lower my standards a little bit. But it was fun, punny stupidity, better than Ghoul School.

Is this Dracula movie available anywhere? I want to see it.
 
This was SOOOO boring! So Dracula had some good lines ("Next time I want to be by myself I'll call you people!") but he was otherwise annoying with a voice actor that was dreadful.
 
Originally Posted by Kitschensyngk
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf.

You know a Scrappy-era Scooby Doo movie is bad when Scrappy's presence does little if anything to make it worse.

The jokes, while not as reliant on puns as in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, were still not funny, the main villain Dracula acts like a whiny little kid when nothing goes his way, his single-digit IQ girlfriend character is annoyingly vacant, and the funny-car race that the plot builds up to just drags on and on and on.

If there is anything good about this movie, it's that it was Scrappy Doo's final appearance in any animated Scooby-Doo movie or TV show.


Drac in Reluctant Werewolf was voiced by the late Hamilton Camp, and say what you will about the movie, I don't think it's fair to call him a "dreadful" voice actor. The man has done some great work--he was excellent as Fenton Crackshell on DuckTales, Greedy Smurf on Smurfs and Greensleeves on Twice Upon A Time. Regardless what you thought of the film, it wasn't Camp's fault, as he didn't write the movie, he was just reading his lines. I though Camp did well with the material he had, such as it was.
 
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