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 M...

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 somers...

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 subur...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. Send us Fan Mail

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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, an...

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...

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 sta...

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 whil...

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 corridor...

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 whi...

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...

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. Send us Fan...

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 tha...

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 supporti...