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Janeane Garofalo (Kathy) Christopher Titus (Nick) Michael Boatman (Gary) Reiko Aylesworth (Laurie) Rosie Gunther (Kelly) Rebecca Budig (Allison) Cheri Oteri (Melissa) Bill Sage (Dan) Lauren Sudol (Jenna) Debbie Philips (Debbie)

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A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.

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Bad parents.

Directed by Caytha Jentis

A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.

Janeane Garofalo Christopher Titus Michael Boatman Kristen Johnston Cheri Oteri Rebecca Budig Lauren Francesca Reiko Aylesworth Rosie Gunther Bill Sage Lauren Sudol Debbie Philips Bradley White Mike DiGiacinto Collin Biddle Jacqueline Laurita Osborn Focht Ben Bailey Signy Coleman Michael Billy Nick Mennell Lorraine Farris Rob Nelson Aimee Denaro Michael Emery Darcy Fowler Carl Burrows Adrian Fucito

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Review by Michael Vazquez ½

Love you Janeane Garofalo & Cheri Oteri but boy, what a seriously unfunny & annoying stench this was.

Review by WILLYP76 ★½

This film is pretty accurate.

Review by Jerry ½

This thing is just a mess. The acting, oh the acting. It's not even that the acting is that bad... it's just awkward. These actors just don't mesh together and it shows on screen as a huge awkward jumbled mess.

Review by Spinnr1 ★★

Not great, but it kept my attention mostly

Review by Nathan ½

"Whether your child plays soccer, trumpet or Juliet, you will be able to relate to this movie. It depicts the nonsense that surrounds children's activities where adults turn what is intended to be enjoyable and enriching for their children into a nasty competition amongst themselves. I hope viewers will take the message of the movie to heart and stop trying to make children professionals by age nine. The writing is sharp and the cast contains wonderful comedic actors. It is great to see what can be achieved when movies are made in Ridgewood instead of Hollywood."

- Amazon user Courtney Smith September 29, 2013

Review by MoVieManKev ★

Christopher Titus is usually watchable in anything, but not this time. NO ONE survives this mess of a 'comedy' unscathed. It's celluloid death.

Review by Scott Pearson Eberly ★★

I'm perplexed and disappointed to see what has become of Vickie Miner. #RealityBites

Review by Daniel Dunn ★½

If you don’t understand why you should hate soccer watch this movie

Review by Andy Fritz ★½

When Kathy's daughter wants to join the soccer team, Kathy tries to be really chill about it, but she soon discovers that it's impossible to not take second grade girls' soccer incredibly seriously and so she gets really stressed out about it.

Review by benadryl ★★★★

no one sees the vision

Review by kaqueena ½

Possibly one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.  Janeane Garofalo is still hot though.

Review by MJ Lee ★★★

If you showed this film to your rec or comp club parents, I could see a lot of raised eyebrows afterward. So if you do, just show the first 57 minutes.

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M uch like the little girl with the curl in the well-known rhyme , when this film is good, it’s very good. But when it’s bad it’s … well, the original poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says “horrid,” but Bad Behaviour is more very awkward and self-indulgent. But the good largely outweighs the “oof” and this is a first feature for writer-director-co-star Alice Englert who should be applauded for taking interesting if not always successful risks.

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If the movie had covered everything at the retreat and stopped at the moment of violence it would have been an elegantly structured short. However, Englert keeps cutting back to Dylan working on an unhappy film set where she has an affair with an actor and ends up getting injured in the line of work. (The brisk doctor who treats her, seen in just one shot, is Englert’s real-life mother, director Jane Campion .) Dylan flies back to the US to support Lucy and the two bicker and snipe at each other in highly credible mother-daughter fashion before forging a superfluous epiphanic conclusion. The back half is all over the place and doesn’t seem to know what to say – but Connelly never ceases to be anything less than mesmerising as the kind of older woman full of spit, vinegar and shrapnel who could go off at any second.

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It's hard to overemphasize the importance and value of quality kid-friendly entertainment. Striking artistry and positive morals are more important than ever in formative years , and the best of these films bring people across generations—and perhaps most importantly, families—together.

From timeless classic Disney animation like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the modern golden age of Pixar, to live-action masterpieces like The Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , such movies are worth their weight in gold. There are also truly awful kids' movies out there to be sure, and if anything they seem more cynical and less forgivable than bad movies aimed at grown-ups. It's arguably a responsibility of filmmakers with resources to expand children's imaginations and dreams, not numb them. According to critics on the Tomatometer, these are the absolute worst family and kids' movies ever made. Yes, Mac and Me is accounted for.

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One of the most infamous stinkers ever certainly lives up to its reputation. Half a decade after E.T. became the highest-grossing movie of all time, Coca-Cola and McDonald's ripped off its plot, poster and marketing for a feature-length advertisement for their products. Mac and Me absolutely has so-bad-it's-good value , most famous to general audiences thanks to a long-running Paul Rudd gag on late night. The gag has run for years and years; it's still funny.

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Rotten tomatoes score: 6%.

A must for any roundup of the worst animated motion pictures ever made, The Emoji Movie stars T.J. Miller as Gene, a resident of Textopolis who simply doesn't fit in with the hustle and bustle within the world of a smartphone.

Perhaps the worst thing about The Emoji Movie is that it portents to have positive messages that ring utterly hollow and telegraphed. It's all pure cynicism. Somehow, this misery machine made over $217 million at the worldwide box-office. That's just about $10 million less than the worldwide haul of Paddington 2 .

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9 'Happily N'Ever After' (2006)

Rotten tomatoes score: 5%.

In one of his last roles before his death in 2008, comic genius George Carlin lent his voice talents (alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar , Andy Dick , Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sigourney Weaver ) to a corner-cutting production that twists classic fairy tales, ostensibly based on a German kids' show, though it's really just attempting to hock the magic of Shrek to no success.

If the topic is great family films, let's not forget how fresh, admired and influential the original Shrek film and its immediate sequel were. Happily N'Ever After has none of the wit, none of the tenderness that made those films instant classics ; the animation looks like Microsoft Paint, too.

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An ambitious servant girl sees her chance to play the heroine when the wizard who keeps fairy tales on their traditional paths takes a break. As the villains begin altering the stories for their own gain, she teams up with unlikely allies to correct the twisted narratives and ensure everyone has their rightful ending.

8 'Zoom' (2006)

Rotten tomatoes score: 4%.

The enormous, oft-underrated comic talents of Tim Allen and Courteney Cox are wasted in a family comedy about a superhero academy that critics absolutely reviled. It's barely even discussed these days, exclusively in so-bad-it's-good context, it would seem.

The talented Kate Mara also appears in this unfortunate pre-superhero movie boom disaster that's laced with cringe special effects that have become memes in the modern era. It's the kind of situation that seems to call out for an exorcist. How did these effects ever make it into the final cut of a major feature film?

Once a celebrated hero, a man finds himself out of the game and forgotten until he's recruited to coach a group of kids with superpowers. Tasked with molding them into a team, they must quickly learn to harness their abilities against an emerging villain that threatens global safety.

7 'Getting Even With Dad' (1994)

Rotten tomatoes score: 3%.

A film of weird alchemy that worked extraordinarily well, John Hughes and Chris Columbus ' risky Home Alone was a box-office leviathan, and it made talented young star Macaulay Culkin a household name that all of Hollywood wanted to move in on.

Unfortunately, the young star's gifts were largely squandered on trash (have you seen The Good Son ?) throughout the early 90s, perhaps nowhere more than here, where he plays a con man ( Ted Danson )'s estranged son, determined to teach pops a lesson about the joys of father-son bonding, through blackmail. Not a moment rings true.

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6 'Baby Geniuses' (1999)

Rotten tomatoes score: 2%.

1999 was an incredible year for film. Pretty much across the board, critics agreed Baby Geniuses was the worst film of that year. Kathleen Turner plays an evil businesswoman who schemes to make millions from deciphering baby talk.

This is a movie without a single redeeming quality. What's really upsetting is that Baby Geniuses and its sequel were directed by Bob Clark , the director of classics Black Christmas and A Christmas Story . What the hell.

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5 'Daddy Day Camp' (2007)

Rotten tomatoes score: 1%.

Daddy Day Care was a critically unloved but financially successful comedy starring Eddie Murphy as a father who spearheads a day care after he's laid off. The feature directorial debut of Fred Savage , the sequel stars Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. , without Murphy. Free of laughs though laden with wall-to-wall bathroom jokes, this is a reminder that there is only one Eddie Murphy. As if audiences needed one.

Daddy Day Camp was demolished by critics, and grossed a little over a tenth of its predecessor's haul in theaters. There is a third film, all but virtually unseen Grand-Daddy Daycare , starring Danny Trejo from 2019. The mystifying powers of brand recognition.

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4 'Problem Child' (1990)

Rotten tomatoes score: 0%.

John Ritter stars in Dennis Dugan 's comedy about an adopted kid who turns out to be one bad seed, indeed. Problem Child is a mean-spirited comedy with some downright offensive observations of adoption. Cynicism in filmmaking rarely works to begin with; in a children's film it feels fairly unforgivable.

Problem Child is cynical, maybe even cruel. Still, its success gave way to multiple sequels: a theatrical sequel in 1991, and a network TV movie in 1995. Both were critically reviled, just not quite as much as the original.

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Here's the answer to that ages-old question: What in the hell do you get when you take the most iconic ballet, take out some of the music and dancing, and replace that with gritty war violence, Nathan Lane as Albert Einstein, awkward pop lyrics, some bad acting, anthropomorphic rat Nazis and their robot dog henchmen?

Roger Ebert said: "From what dark night of the soul emerged the wretched idea for The Nutcracker in 3D ?" ... It's would be hard nigh impossible to sum it up better than that. This has to be seen to be believed, but it doesn't have to be seen. Post-release the film was retitled The Nutcracker: The Untold Story , not making it more endurable.

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Superbabies takes all that was dreadful about the original and turns it up to 11. The effects are even more off-putting. The gross-out gags are even grosser and less funny. This may have seemed impossible after the dreadful original, but it's true.

Baby Geniuses 2 also replays the original's sin of taking a great actor and serving them with a disastrous script; only this time it's Jon Voight instead of Kathleen Turner. The Oscar-winning Voight plays a madman with intent of controlling brainwaves. This film is a depressing experience all around.

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1 'Pinocchio' (2002)

There is nothing cute about a middle-aged man playing a little boy, toy or not. There never will be. Roberto Benigni 's follow-up to Life is Beautiful definitely didn't win Oscars like that film; it earned only critical ire. The landmark of what-not-to-do for aspiring filmmakers is one of relatively few films in Rotten Tomatoes history to score a perfect zero.

An insult to the beloved and exquisitely crafted 1940 animated film, this is as unsettling as most hardcore horror films. This is, maybe, even worse than the Disney live-action remake. It's a tough call. They're playing together on a double bill somewhere in the underworld. Here is a notorious bomb that lives up to every word of the negative hype.

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