America's Favorite Really Bad Movies
If you had any doubts that this country loves really bad movies, these past few days should have cleared them up. Despite absolutely brutal reviews, Dumb and Dumber To, the sequel that nobody asked for, hauled in more money than any other movie (roughly $36 million) during its debut weekend. The movie, for good measure, currently sports a 15 percent approval rating from "top critics"—the sort of people who see movies for a living—on movie review site Rotten Tomatoes. "If Dumb and Dumber To were a live comedian, he'd have said, 'Is this an audience or an oil painting?' He'd have left the stage in tears," New York Magazine's review reads. Dumb and Dumber To, however, is hardly the first terrible movie America has fawned over—or, at the very least, spent inordinate amounts of money on. In fact, the country has fallen a lot harder for a number of other awful flicks.
avg. score: 10 of 20 (50%)
required scores: 1, 5, 9, 11, 15
