So far this year, we have seen some amazing movies come to the big screen. "Deadpool" and "Zootopia" have already gathered some amazing reviews, and films such as "Finding Dory", "Suicide Squad", "The Jungle Book", and "Captain America: Civil War" all look to be full of promise. However one particular movie released this year, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", grossly failed to live up to its hype prior to its release. So here’s a list of 11 movies that were just slightly less terrible than "Dawn of Justice", which received a 29 percent rating Rotten Tomatoes.
1. "Nacho Libre" - 40 percent.
Yes, "Nacho Libre". In the battle between the Caped Crusader, the Man of Steel and a man named Nacho, Nacho won. I hear DC is looking for him to be the next Justice League villain.
2. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" - 33 percent.
This movie featuring Kevin James riding a Segway, stealth-rolling around pillars and getting called "Peanut Blart and Jelly" by a borderline offensive Indian guy, all in order to save a New Jersey mall did better with critics than a movie featuring seemingly every super hero in the DC universe. Maybe Kevin James and his Segway should have made an appearance in the film to boost ratings.
3. "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" - 36 percent.
The title says it all. Not "Sharknado", not even "Sharknado 2", but "Sharknado 3", the third installment of this mercilessly drawn out franchise obtained higher ratings than the high budget DC film. It’s literally the third movie about sharks. In a tornado. Swimming around LA doing things sharks do. The ceiling was definitely reached the first time around.
4. "Knowing" - 34 percent.
If you have any experience reading movie reviews, you know that critics and movie goers alike generally are not fans of films featuring Nicholas Cage. "Knowing", a brooding, often creepy movie about a little girl predicting the end of the world and Nicolas Cage being totally incapable of stopping it and losing a couple of his kids in the process, was no exception to this trend.
5. "Chicken Little" - 36 percent.
The highlight of this movie about a spectacled chicken convinced the sky is falling had to have been the performance of the Spice Girl's "Wannabe." It still fared better than "Batman v Superman", which was universally deemed bad from the first weekend of its release.
6. "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" - 46 percent.
Another back end of a trilogy makes the list in the form of "Spy Kids 3-D". The saddest part of this movie might have been the lack of thumb people from the earlier installments.
7. "Space Chimps" - 34 percent.
8. "Mr. Bean's Holiday" - 51 percent.
9. "Race to Witch Mountain" - 43 percent.
10. "Dumb and Dumber To" - 29 percent.
This movie is so mind-numbingly painful to watch, I can’t believe it made this list myself. If you thought Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels making fart jokes in the second installment of their Dumb and Dumber series couldn’t possibly be on par with "Batman v Superman", you would be wrong.
11. "Rubber" - 67 percent.
If you haven't seen "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" already, it seems you would be better off spending your time watching any of the 11 movies mentioned above. This movie had a gargantuan budget, every DC superhero they could have asked for and a cast headlined by Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill. Unfortunately, no amount of spandex, eye candy, or buildings exploding in spectacular fashion could have saved this one. A Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan return, anyone?
