Rank Rotten: A Rotten Movies Podcast

Season 2, Episode 3. This month we have a listener request from friend of the show and all round best bro Rab! We’re chatting about and reassessing 2001’s goofball ‘edgy’ comedy ‘Saving Silverman’, or as some may know it ‘Evil Woman’. Jack Black is back, Steve Zahn is also in this one as well as that famous pie shagger; Jason Biggs. The energy is as chaotic as the plot, in which we have kidnapping...

Season 2, Episode 3. This month we’re talking all things CRITE (or is it KRITE, it’s up for debate) with 1986’s Critters, on it’s 40th Anniversary no less! It’s seen by many as simply a Gremlins ‘rip-off’ and by many others as a sci fi heavy creature feature cult classic, so we’ll talk about all this and more including floating prison wardens, space poisons and the FAMOUS Johnny Steele… Synopsis:...

Season 2, Episode 2. SURPRISE, we’re back, we didn’t want to wait until the end of the month to return and as we’ve missed a couple of episodes, so we thought we’d put out our first ever extra episode. What a movie to come back with too; one of the most polarising movies of the last year; 2025’s A Minecraft Movie. Expect meme humour, lots of internet culture and Jack Black turned up to 11! Is this...

Season 2, Episode 1 - DUUUUUUUUH DUN, DUUUUUUUUH DUN! That can only mean one thing! For January's episode we’re taking a ‘deep dive’ into Jaws…Jaws 2 that is. In 1975 the cinematic landscape was forever changed by the release of Jaws. It was a ground breaking movie, based on the popular novel by Peter Benchley and it was also heavily tied into the cultural landscape. Made by a wee up and comer nam...

Season 1, Episode 20 - It’s the turn of the year so we thought it would be a good idea to reflect on a year of rotten movies, and most importantly rank them all from 19 to 1. We start with a wee chat about Hogmanay and our traditions and about the invasion of AI slop on social media before getting down to business and running through all 19, taking a little bit more time to discuss the top 10.&nbs...

Season 1, Episode 19 (Christmas Special 1) - There was Cabbage Patch Kids, Ninja Turtles, Buzz and Woody...but all these pale in comparison to the fictional Turbo Man craze of 1996! Join us as we talk about the time Arnold Schwarzenegger spent his Christmas Eve trying to get the hottest toy in town Jingle All the Way. Synopsis: Workaholic Howard Langston wants to make things up to his wife and son...

Season 1, Episode 18 (Christmas Special 1) - Do you know what? To heck with Christmas, let’s go on a cruise instead…is what Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis say in 2004’s Christmas With The Kranks, and we’re talking about it in great detail for the first of TWO Christmas Specials this month. Synopsis: When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie L...

Season 1, Episode 17 - It’s another mystery pick for Cat and she's picked 2004’s A Cinderella Story. This is a movie that attempts to bring a classic fairy tale into the 21st century, but does it succeed or is it a by-the-numbers money spinner? Synopsis: A teenager with a wicked stepmother develops an online relationship with a popular high school quarterback. We’ll talk about the film’s scores, g...

Season 1, Episode 16 - Oh no, we’re off to Forks again for this episode, we’re talking about The Twilight Saga: New Moon from back in 2009. We honestly swear we thought these movies were more recent than that! Mikey, in his madness, chose this as his mystery pick, partly due to popular demand and partly in the hope we won’t have to revisit this saga for a while…but we’ll see,  Synopsis: After...

Season 1, Episode 15 (Halloween Special 2) - IT’S A G-G-G-Ghost! Wait, it’s OK, he’s friendly…shame about those uncles though. This time on Rank Rotten our Halloween Spooktacular concludes with 1995’s Casper; a cosy, fun, friendly ghost feature which for all its flaws has a lot of heart. Casper is a character who is synonymous with Halloween, so much so his live action feature length debut is base...

Season 1, Episode 14 (Halloween Special 1) - It’s time to get spooky with the first of our two Halloween Specials this year, actually it’s our first Special ever! You better get used to it because there will be a few between now and the end of the year. But this time we’re discussing 2020’s Hubie Halloween. Synopsis: Despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem (and its Halloween celebration), Hu...

Season 1, Episode 13 - We’re back from our wee break, and as a sort of segue into the Halloween season, we’re talking about a very famous foul mouthed doll’s second big screen outing; 1990’s Child’s Play 2. Synopsis: Chucky is reconstructed by Playpal Toys to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the brand. Now resurrected he tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where he aims to claim An...

Season 1, Episode 12 - This is our last episode before we go on a wee mid-season break until October, so as a sort of special we decided to cover a 0% movie, and that movie is 1990’s Problem Child, a film which is very confused and didn’t really seem to know what it wanted to do, we’d seen it referred to as ‘Problematic Child’ and to be fair, that’s quite accurate. Synopsis: A seven-year-old troub...

Season 1, Episode 11 - Where does your franchise go when it has nowhere else to go? That’s right, SPACE! This week it’s 2001’s (or 2002’s depending on who you ask) horror adjacent space slasher; Jason X. We’ve had quite a few requests for this one, so Mikey decided to choose it for his mystery pick! Synopsis: ‘Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the 21st century, and is disc...

Season 1, Episode 10 - This week we’re talking about 2008’s dreary romantic vampire flick; Twilight. Cat has been excited about this one. Largely because it would finally mean Mikey would have to watch it.  Synopsis: ‘High-school student Bella Swan, always a bit of a misfit, doesn't expect life to change much when she moves from sunny Arizona to rainy Washington state. Then she meets Edward C...

Season 1, Episode 9 - COWABUNGA! RADICAL! BOSSA NOVA!? That's right, this week it’s turtle time and we’re buzzing to talk about the famous amphibians 1990 foray into live action cinema.  Synopsis: ‘Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.’ We’ll talk about the film’s scores, go over the whole plot, talk about trivi...

Season 1, Episode 8 - This week we have another request! So, we're off to Louisiana for 2018’s romantic drama cheesefest; Forever My Girl.# Synopsis: ‘Liam Page is a country music superstar who left his bride Josie at the altar to pursue fame and fortune. Page never got over Josie, his one true love, or forgot his Southern roots in the small community where he was born and raised. Now, he must une...

Season 1, Episode 7 - GREAT GOOGA MOOGA! It’s time for Cat’s mystery pick for this season and she picked 2001’s alien invasion goofball comedy; Evolution.  Synopsis: ‘Two college professors team up with a firefighting cadet and a government scientist to combat an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor.’ We’ll talk about the film’s scores, go o...

Season 1, Episode 6 - Join us as we talk about a film which was somewhat overlooked on it’s release, it’s 1995’s A Goofy Movie, starring Disney’s most famous H’yucking lovable klutz – Goofy! Synopsis: ‘When Max makes a preposterous promise to a girl he has a crush on, his chances of fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy.’ We’ll...

Season 1, Episode 5 - This week we’re doing our first listener request! Mikey also gets a chance to geek out over some of his favourite things as we talk about OG monster masher Van Helsing and his 2004 big screen feature film. We’ve got crossbows, vampires, werewolves, fizzing whizzbees, a very Scottish Mr Hyde and more! Synopsis: ‘The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Cou...

Season 1, Episode 4 - This time on Rank Rotten we’re headed back to 2000 again with the absolute Crocbuster that is Lake Placid. Synopsis: ‘Four people attempt to stop a gigantic crocodile who is terrorising residents in Blake Lake, Maine’. Join us as we talk about the film’s scores, go over the whole plot, talk about trivia. We’ll also talk about beaver-tagging, Betty White and chop-o-diles! If y...

Season 1, Episode 3 - This time on Rank Rotten we talk about 2024’s fast paced spy action comedy Argylle. Synopsis: ‘Reclusive author Elly Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent called Argylle who’s on a mission to unravel a global spy syndicate. However, when the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real life spy organization, the line between ficti...

Season 1, Episode 2 - This time on Rank Rotten we’re in New York City again and it’s time to shout loudly, spit into beer bottles and waste an obscene amount of tequila via spillage, that’s right it’s 2000’s Coyote Ugly. Synopsis: ‘21 year old Violet is blessed with a melodious voice and dreams to be a songwriter. When she gets an opportunity to chase her dreams she moves to New York City where sh...

Season 1, Episode 1 - It’s finally here, our first episode! This week we talk about the 2024 flop that was Madame Web, which we hadn’t seen before. Synopsis: ‘Cassie Web is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them, dead.' Join us as we talk about t...

Have you ever wanted to watch a movie, but you're unsure so you check online to see if it's any good? Then it's likely you've seen a Rotten Tomatoes score. Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator website that gathers reviews from critics to decide if a film is 'fresh' or 'rotten'. But is the critical consensus everything? So join this Scottish, married, movie loving couple as we look at movies the...