The Worst Movie Podcast

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Welcome to Mooseport (2004), which scored 13% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned a $30 million budget into $15 million at the box office. Gene Hackman plays the most popular ex-president in history, who retires to a small town in Maine and ends up running for mayor against the local handyman, Ray Romano. The guys break down the golf match for Maura Tierney's affection, the septic tank scene and the helicopter carrying a donkey. It was Hackman's final role before he retired from acting.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle American Ninja (1985), the Cannon Films production that scored 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned a $1 million budget into $10 million at the box office, enough to launch a franchise. Michael Dudikoff plays an amnesiac soldier who takes on an arms dealer, his rebels and his entire ninja army somewhere tropical. The guys break down the somersaults, the color-coded ninja training camp and the kicks that miss by a mile. Dudikoff had no martial arts training when he got the part.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Invasion U.S.A. (1985), the first film in Chuck Norris’s six-picture deal with Cannon Films, co-written by Norris, who got the idea from a Reader’s Digest article. Norris wears head-to-toe denim, two Uzis in leather shoulder harnesses, and one facial expression. The guys break down the bazooka with infinite ammo, the fully demolished suburban Christmas neighborhood, the mall shootout with the world’s coolest kid, and an ending that involves viscera literally flying out of a window.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Action Jackson (1988), Carl Weathers’ shot at becoming the next Schwarzenegger. Joel Silver produced it, half the cast of Predator seems to wander through, and Craig T. Nelson plays a Detroit car tycoon who does martial arts and kills off union leaders in the most public ways possible. Sharon Stone plays his wife, Vanity plays a nightclub singer who gets two full songs, and Bill Duke yells at Weathers for a third of the movie before he disappears. It scored 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ade’s verdict: one third bad, one...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Tango & Cash (1989), which scored 31% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned a $54 million budget into $120 million worldwide. It started shooting without a finished script, fired its director three months in, and ended with Sylvester Stallone rewriting and directing much of it while producer Jon Peters pushed for crazier set pieces. The result is a tangled mess of buddy cop movie, courtroom drama, prison break and monster truck rally. It still ends up a lot of fun to watch.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Dirty Work (1998), Bob Saget's directorial debut, which scored 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned a $13 million budget into $10 million at the box office. Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange start a revenge-for-hire business to get Artie's dad a new heart. MGM forced a PG-13 cut, and NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer, who had fired Norm from Weekend Update, would not advertise the movie on the network. Returning guest Andrew still knows every line. 

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Joe Dirt (2001), the David Spade vehicle that scored 9% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned an $18 million budget into $31 million at the box office. Spade plays an orphaned janitor with a wig fused to his skull, telling his life story across four days of talk radio while the entire country stops to listen. Aaron and Andrew call it middle-of-the-road bad. Ade gave it one star and didn't laugh once.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle A Night at the Roxbury (1998), the SNL sketch adaptation that scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned a $17 million budget into $30 million at the box office. Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan star as two brothers who bob their heads to Haddaway's "What Is Love" while trying to get into the hottest clubs in LA. This week's guest called it his favorite movie at thirteen and hadn't seen it since. It does not hold up.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Super Mario Bros. (1993), the first American live-action video game adaptation, which scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes and turned a $48 million budget into $39 million at the box office. Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo star as Mario and Luigi in a grimy dystopian movie with no Peach, no Bowser, and little that resembles the Nintendo franchise we all love.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Knock Off (1998), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Rob Schneider. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 9%. Returning guest Landon joins as the three sort through a plot none of them can reconstruct, count how many times Paul Sorvino explodes, and debate which Van Damme undressing scene is the steamiest.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Barb Wire (1996), Pamela Anderson's thriller that pulled a 28% on Rotten Tomatoes, turned a $9 million budget into $4 million at the box office, and walked away with a Razzie for Worst New Star. Set in a dystopian 2017 amid a second American Civil War, the film swaps out Casablanca's Rick for a nightclub-owning bounty hunter who hates being called "babe."

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Elektra (2005), the Jennifer Garner spin-off that earned 11% on Rotten Tomatoes and pulled $57 million against a $43 million budget — the lowest gross for any Marvel adaptation since Howard the Duck. The guys debate whether you can twist your own neck off, whether this counts as a Christmas movie, and the awesomeness of Bob Sapp's hit(?) single, Sapp Time.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Robin Hood (2018), directed by Otto Bathurst and starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx as Little John, and Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Egerton fires arrows fast enough to punch through helmets, Foxx works through an accent that won't stay in one country, and Mendelsohn dusts off the same shouty authoritarian he played in Rogue One. The guys debate the casting, the preachy script, confusing setting, and whether anyone is actually a Robin Hood fan.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Masters of the Universe (1987), the 21% Rotten Tomatoes He-Man adaptation that turned a $22 million budget into $17 million at the box office and helped bankrupt Cannon Films within months. Directed by Gary Goddard — his only feature credit before he left to design theme parks — the movie was hyped as the Star Wars of the 80s, then ran out of money mid-shoot and relocated its intergalactic war to a suburban American strip mall. Dolph Lundgren stars as a glistening, barely-dressed He-Man whose dialogue had to be re-recorded in post. Frank Langella, perf...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Swept Away (2002), the Madonna vehicle that scored a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and made back just $1 million of its $10 million budget. Directed by Guy Ritchie and starring his then-wife, the movie strands two terrible characters on a deserted island and asks the audience to root for them as a couple. Madonna won the Razzie for Worst Actress — her first of two that year. Spoiler: both hosts agree it's the worst movie either has ever seen.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Crossroads (2002), the Britney Spears road trip vehicle that earned a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes but turned its $12 million budget into $60 million at the box office. Written by Shonda Rhimes and directed by the woman behind Half Baked and Billy Madison, the film follows three estranged high school friends — played by Spears, Zoe Saldana, and Taryn Manning — as they drive cross-country with a mysterious stranger to chase their dreams. The guys debate Dan Aykroyd's accent, Britney's status as the least convincing nerd in cinema history, and whether a karaoke crowd has...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Cool as Ice (1991), the Vanilla Ice vanity project that scored a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned back just $1.2 million of its $6 million budget. The movie is a plotless fever dream where a 24-year-old rapper jumps a motorcycle over a fence to impress a high schooler, breaks into her bedroom to drip ice on her face, and somehow also foils a witness protection kidnapping subplot that nobody asked for. Fun fact: the cinematographer went on to win Oscars for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Everyone has a blip...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Borderlands (2024), the $120 million video game adaptation that earned just $33 million at the box office and a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by Eli Roth and starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Jack Black, this one boasts a ghost writer who doesn’t want to take credit for their work, action sequences with zero stakes, and the rare achievement of making Jack Black unfunny. Aaron calls it his least favorite movie they've covered — and they've watched Troll 2.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Hitman (2007) — a video game adaptation that strips away everything that made the source material interesting and replaces it with every action movie trope imaginable. Timothy Olyphant plays the world's most conspicuous assassin: bald, barcode-tattooed, wandering through train stations somehow undetected, and trembling noticeably while holding a gun. The plot — a Russian presidential body-double conspiracy so convoluted that Aaron paused mid-watch to Google it — earns its 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Doom (2005) — an 18% on Rotten Tomatoes adaptation of one of the most influential video games ever made, starring Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban as space marines fighting hell beasts on Mars. For a franchise built entirely on relentless carnage, the film is surprisingly short on actual monster killing and long on standing around in corridors talking. Not bad enough to be fun, just bad enough to be boring.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Street Fighter (1994), the 11% Rotten Tomatoes disaster that still somehow pulled $100 million at the box office. Directed by Steven E. de Souza from a script he reportedly wrote overnight, it's a fighting game adaptation that famously forgets to include much fighting — burying its roster of beloved characters under layers of plot while Raul Julia, in his final role, delivers a performance that has absolutely no business being this good.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade finally sneaks in A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995), a forgotten 90s oddity with a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes that also happens to be one of his all-time favorite films. Set in a fairy-tale version of the present day, the film follows a smitten baker's apprentice (John Leguizamo), an eccentric pyromaniac (William Baldwin, surprisingly unhinged), and a tangled web of confessions, unrequited love, and misplaced gestures. It's a weird, warm, quietly funny movie that somehow never found its audience — and the podcast is officially volunteering to be the spark.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron shake up Cocktail (1988), the Tom Cruise 80s movie that critics savaged with a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes despite making $170 million at the box office. The romance never quite convinces, the tonal swings are abrupt, and yes, the novel it's based on is probably better. But it may also be the best worst movie they've watched yet.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle Gigli (2003), the infamous rom-com crime experiment that brought together peak-fame Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Directed by Martin Brest (Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman), the film tries to blend gangster hijinks, edgy romance, and broad comedy, only to collapse under abrupt tonal shifts, baffling character choices, and moments that have aged into outright discomfort.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron revisit Bewitched (2005), the big-screen adaptation of the beloved 1960s sitcom. Starring Nicole Kidman and peak-era Will Ferrell, the film opts for a meta “show-within-a-show” premise that never fully commits to being a rom-com, a satire of Hollywood, or a straightforward comedy. Directed by Nora Ephron and packed with an overqualified supporting cast, Bewitched isn’t aggressively bad—it’s just strangely flat, hesitant, and uninterested in letting its funniest actor actually be funny.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron tackle The Avengers (1998) — the non-Marvel, deeply forgotten adaptation of the stylish 1960s British TV series. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery, this $60-million misfire earned a brutal 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. What should have been a sleek, sexy spy thriller instead arrives chopped to pieces, with entire chunks of story seemingly removed and replaced by confusion, teddy bear costumes, and weather-controlling nonsense.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron crack open The Mod Squad (1999) — the edgy-for-the-90s TV reboot that tried to turn counterculture cool into a leather-jacketed music video. With Claire Danes, Omar Epps, and Giovanni Ribisi cast as rebellious undercover cops, it’s a film that mistakes vibes for plot and attitude for character development.

Grab your club soda with lime and join us — because if The Mod Squad taught us anything, it’s that no amount of wardrobe can fix a plot you can’t follow.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron saddle up for Wild Wild West — the $170-million steampunk western that tried to mash together TV nostalgia, Will Smith swagger, and a giant mechanical spider.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld at the peak of Will Smith’s 90s superstardom, the film reimagines the classic TV series as a gadget-stuffed action comedy where Jim West and Artemis Gordon race to stop a disgruntled Confederate villain from literally selling off the United States. Along the way, the movie delivers baffling tonal shifts, deeply uncomfortable jokes, Salma Hayek doing absolutely nothing of c...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron hit pause on watching movies and open the mailbag for a year-end Q&A. They touch on how the podcast got started, reflect on their favorite disasters so far, and give a sneak peek at what’s coming next.

Because if this Q&A taught us anything, it’s that watching terrible movies is easy—explaining why you keep doing it is the hard part.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron ring in the new year with New Year’s Eve (2011) — the bloated, celebrity-packed rom-com that treats Times Square like a narrative dumping ground. Directed by Gary Marshall and stuffed with more recognizable faces than an Oscars montage, the film juggles dozens of half-baked story lines involving dying wishes, stalled elevators, maternity ward competitions, and a fragile New Year’s Eve ball.

So grab your champagne, set your expectations low, and join Ade and Aaron as they slog through paper-thin characters, relentless exposition, and a holiday movie that someho...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron sprint, tackle, and elbow their way through Jingle All the Way (1996) — the holiday madhouse where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a mattress salesman with the physique of a Greek god, Sinbad turns it up to 11 as an unhinged postal worker, and Phil Hartman seduces a neighborhood of moms with fresh-baked cookies.

So grab your non-alcoholic eggnog, take a dose of 90’s nostalgia, and join the guys as they unpack bomb scares, mall-Santa cartels, and jet pack technology. Because if Jingle All the Way taught us anything, it’s the true m...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron unwrap Deck the Halls (2006) — the holiday comedy that tries to bottle Christmas spirit and instead dumps out seasonal misery. Matthew Broderick plays a joyless optometrist who’s obsessed with Christmas, while Danny DeVito shows up as a restless salesman who decides that turning his house into a space-visible light beacon is the key to existential fulfillment. 

So grab your hot cocoa, and join the guys as they break down mustachioed stunt doubles, ice-skating duels, and a sheriff’s provocative choice of underwear. Because if Deck the Halls taught...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron kick off Horrible Holidays with Jack and Jill (2011) — the Sandler-verse twin comedy that tries to coast on wigs, pratfalls, and CGI jump roping. With Adam Sandler playing both an ad executive and his chaotic sister, Al Pacino delivering a fully unhinged performance fueled by real-life financial desperation, and Katie Holmes standing politely off to the side like she wandered onto the wrong sound stage, it’s a film so sloppy it somehow swept all 10 Razzie categories.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron dive into Obsessed (2009) — the glossy, PG-13 thriller that tried to channel Fatal Attraction but forgot to include the actual attraction. With Idris Elba playing the squeakiest-clean husband in movie history, Beyoncé maintaining moral perfection at every turn, and Ali Larter going full Lifetime-villain with zero explanation, it’s a film so neutered by studio notes it may as well have come with an abstinence pledge.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron slide into the sun-bleached, Florida-fried madness of Striptease (1996) — the political-strip-club crime caper that paid Demi Moore a record-breaking salary to anchor a movie that can’t decide if it’s political satire or a sexy crime thriller. Featuring Burt Reynolds caked in Vaseline, and Ving Rhames wielding a cordless drill, it’s a film that turns Hiaasen’s dark comedy into pure, neon-tinted chaos.

Grab your lint trap, queue up some Annie Lennox, and join Ade and Aaron as they sift through off-screen plot twists, Florida Man side quest...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron dive into the glitzy, sleazy chaos of Showgirls (1995) — the infamous NC-17 trainwreck that tried to mix Vegas glamour with social satire. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Elizabeth Berkley fresh off Saved by the Bell, it’s a film so ambitious, so uncomfortably earnest, it turned neon and nudity into high camp legend.

Grab your fries, throw them dramatically into the air, and join Ade and Aaron as they wade their way through bizarre relationships, unexpected dietary choices, and perplexing sex scenes. Because if Showgirls taught us anyt...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron kick off “Naughty November” with Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) — the Twilight fanfic-turned-global-phenomenon that had everyone clutching their pearls.

Dakota Johnson stars as Anastasia Steele, a shy literature student who trips into the life of Christian Grey, a billionaire control freak with a hardware-store loyalty card and a passion for legal documents. The guys unpack the awkward dialogue, endless red flags, and the “playroom” that apparently doesn’t contain an Xbox.

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron wrap up their “Horrible Horror” month with one of the most infamous bad movies ever made: Troll 2 (1990). This so-called sequel has no trolls, no connection to Troll 1, and no idea what it’s doing—and that’s exactly why it’s perfect.

The guys dive into the world of Nilbog (“Goblin” spelled backwards), where a vegetarian cult turns humans into plant goo for dinner. They discuss the kid who pees on dinner to save his family, the dad who bellows “You can’t piss on hospitality!”, and the Goblin Queen who s...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron take a wild ride through Maximum Overdrive (1986), the only film ever written and directed by Stephen King — and for good reason. Fueled by cocaine, ACDC, and zero directing experience, it’s the story of killer trucks, homicidal vending machines, and a group of survivors holed up in a North Carolina truck stop wondering how this movie got made.

From a drawbridge that eats cars to soda cans that kill Little Leaguers, the guys break down every explosive and confusing moment. They talk about King’s on-set chaos, Emilio...

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron get lost on Summer’s Isle with The Wicker Man (2006), Nicolas Cage’s legendary descent into bee-filled chaos. Part horror remake, part unintentional comedy, it’s a movie that wants to say something about faith, feminism, and honey production—and somehow fails at all three.

From a rocking California Highway Patrol outfit to Cage screaming “Not the bees!”, the guys break down every bizarre creative choice. They debate why the island’s women talk in riddles, how you pack for an investigation at a remote island, and the logic of u...