
A list of demons, dancers, and dunces.
I know we’ve had WGA and SAG strikes this year, and I supported them 100%, but I still need to complain about the bad movies that I don’t even think they were trying to be good. Some go to the dogs, some shoot bullets, and only one holds the whip. In case you’re wondering, I didn’t go near “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” because my kind of Pooh is afraid of Heffalumps and Woozels. But these ten films feel like they were made by them. So what could be worse than “The Exorcist Believer?” One particular movie could.
10.) “Magic Mike’s Last Dance”

In terms of threequels, while some people were complaining about “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania” more than I was, I was complaining about “Magic Mike’s last Dance.” This final entry in the Channing Tatum/Steven Soderbergh franchise has so many cliches and dancing, I’m surprised no one booked a foot massage appointment afterwards. When a friend of mine asked me how was it, I said: “It didn’t turn me on,” and he laughed.
9.) “65”
Bet you thought I was going to say “69.”
Adam Driver is an amazing actor, even outside his “Star Wars” persona, but his Sci-Fi movie was a dull waste of space. He plays a man from another world, who crash-lands on our planet 65 million years ago. You know when dinosaurs existed. If his technology can tell him the asteroid is coming, then how come it doesn’t know what these creatures are called? This is no “Jurassic Park.”
8.) “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”

Harrison Ford will always be Indiana Jones, and his 80s trilogy will live on forever. This fifth film, however, that’s a whole other story. One that recycles elements from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” has sidekicks inferior to the ones in “The Temple of Doom,” and you hope this is “The Last Crusade.” Even the success on “Barbenheimer” found more treasure than this did at the box office. And that wasn’t “The Crystal Skull.” All I can say is: “Hey, Dr. Jones! No time for love!”
7.) “The Out-Laws”
Let’s combine “The In-Laws” with “Meet the Parents” and “Bonnie & Clyde,” and pretend no one has seen them. Let’s also use Adam Devine as a cowardly bank manager marrying his yoga instructor girlfriend, and then have his future in-laws be criminals. And let’s have Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin as those parents of the year, and have their characters think they’re better than their future son-in-law. And this is me saying: “Let’s not and say we did.”
6.) “Strays”

A majority of people seemed to have liked this raunchy canine comedy, while others have either walked out on it or were repulsed by its gross-out jokes and nonstop F-bombs. I was one of those repulsed people, because I could barely eat my snacks and I think cursing is only funny when it’s taken seriously. And these dog are only subjected to the same old dog jokes, especially when they and the humans can’t understand each other. Neither the voices of Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx nor these well-trained dogs could save this movie from being too rabid for my tastes.
5.) “Expend4bles”
You could say this sequel is 4 the birds. Like we haven’t seen this B4. Or This ain’t 4 me. So many corny 4 puns I have. At least they’re more interesting than the action, poor CGI, and lousy story Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone was given in this sequel. You have a number of bad things in the mix. You have the cliche in which Stallone must fake his death, the quick final battle between Statham and bad guy Andy Garcia, and Megan Fox’s arrival in the franchise. I’m so glad that not even the international box office could help this mess, because we’re at the end of the rope with this franchise.
4.) “Fool’s Paradise”
What the Hell was Charlie Day thinking directing and acting in this Hollywood debacle? It basically follows every cliche in the Hollywood lifestyle book as he plays a mute being a replacement for a hateful actor. And he guides a number of big names from the late Ray Liotta to his old “Horrible Bosses” co-stars Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis. All of them are wasted, and all of them can do better than succumb to the idiocy here.
3.) “Mafia Mamma”

This is the second most disrespectful thing to happen to Rome this year. The first was when that guy carved his and fiancée’s initials into the coliseum. And you couldn’t have asked for a more idiotic gangster comedy than “Mad Dog Time,” but someone had to compete. That someone would happen to be Toni Collette as a housewife transitioning into a mafia don, who lacks the common sense to watch “The Godfather” half now and half later. Spoiler Alert: she reads the summary on Wikipedia. I spit at this movie.
2.) “The Exorcist Believer”
Face it, people. The late, great William Friedkin’s take on William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist” will always be the best movie of its kind. And no movie, sequel, remake, or rip-off can top it. “The Exorcist Believer” may bring back Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair in their iconic roles, but it still failed to scare us. Director David Gordon Green has made some good to great films in the past, but he needs to rethink his options. I’m surprised I didn’t vomit all over the theater.
1.) “Rebel Moon-Part One: A Child of Fire”

I can’t believe they saved the worst for last, and this is only the beginning of a Netflix franchise, written and directed by the usually brilliant Zack Snyder. The second part will be released in April, but for now, we’re stuck with this piece of space crapola. If “Jupiter Ascending,” both versions of “Dune,” and “Star Wars” had a baby, then Jerry Seinfeld would say: “Was that the ugliest baby you have ever seen?.”
Dishonorable Mentions
“Vacation Friends 2,” “The Family Plan,” “Shazam: Fury of the Gods,” “A Good Person,” “Ghosted,” “Shotgun Wedding,” “House Party,” “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” “She Came to Me,” “Bad Dads,” “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania,” “The Marvels,” “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” “Next Goal Wins,” “Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken,” “Trolls Band Together,” “Candy Cane Lane,” “Retribution,” Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”
The Bombs I Didn’t Touch with a 39 and a Half Foot Pole

“Paint,” “Love Again,” “Maybe I Do,” “Fear,” “Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey,” “Assassin,” “Meg 2: The Trench,” “Family Switch,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3,” “Freelance,” “On a Wing and a Prayer,” “Sweetwater,” “Quasi,” “Book Club: The Next Chapter,” “About My Father,” “The Machine,” “Buddy Games 2: Spring Awakening”
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