Top 10 Worst British accents

[Eddy .]

Definately Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins - it was hideous yet hilarious!

 

[aLwAyS_mE!]

Isn't the lead Charlie Hunnum though - a Brit

 

[DrewC]

I thought Natalie Portman's was pretty dire in The Other Boleyn Girl.

 

[wearetomorrow]

Unfortunately, due to the fact that the only reason we could cure my 4 year olRAB obsession with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was to introduce him to Mary Poppins thereby fuelling ANOTHER obsession, I can hear it only too clearly!

OT: try explaining to a 4 year old why Mr Potts is now called Bert and is with two different children!

 

[♪ Offshore Driller]

Don Cheadle sprang to my mind too. "We're in Barney now" (who says that?!?). Annoying that they couldn't just cast a Brit actor in the part, but DC was funny all the same.

 

[Zack]

Just watched Gladiator for the first time last night and have to agree that Joaquin Phoenix's accent was terrible.

 

[nemo09]

James Doohan and christopher Lambert attempts at a scottish accent are pretty awful.

 

[♥Socially Awkward♥]

Got to be Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

 

[angelchula]

There must be a certain "Blindness" amongst some Americans when it comes to British Accents.
Just as we in the uk probably couldn't tell between American Accents.

Recently a friend from Massachusets watched "Love Honour and Obey"
He commented that he understood it perfectly well because their accent was just like mine.
So to him North London sounRAB the same as Liverpool

Notable cringes for me would be

Charlton Heston when he played Sherlock Holmes and Kevin Costner in Prince of Thieves

I have been told that many Americans cannot tell Australian from British, is that an urban myth I wonder

There was a very Australian sounding British officer during one episode of Jag

 

[tran]

Heather Graham in From Hell was pretty bad I thought.