The Worst Movie Podcast

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.Send us Fan Mail

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 ever been that enthusiastic about anything.Send us Fan Mail

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 on their resume.The grossest sandwich ever shown on film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqFuqAg1c9kJim Carrey as Vanilla Ice on In Living Color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtKBe7sM48Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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 Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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 consequence, and one of the most infamous third acts in blockbuster history.So grab your whiskey, dust off your boots, and saddle up for a deep dive into one of the most expensive misfires of the 1990s — because if Wild Wild West taught us anything, it’s that not even Will Smith’s charm could save a terrible script.Send us Fan Mail

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.Send us Fan Mail

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 somehow makes optimism feel exhausting. Because if New Year’s Eve taught us anything, it’s that stuffing a movie with stars doesn’t guarantee fireworks — sometimes it just guarantees a very long countdown.Watch the trailer for New Year's Eve.Send us Fan Mail

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 meaning of Christmas — buying the right toy or your family will stop loving you.Watch the trailer for Jingle All the Way.Send us Fan Mail

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 us anything, it’s that even the brightest lights can’t save a holiday movie this dim.Watch the trailer for Deck the Halls.Send us Fan Mail

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.Grab your Dunkachino, brace for twin-language gibberish, and join Ade and Aaron as they tackle cruise-ship detours, uncomfortable picnics, feral dinner guests, and a finale so self-aware even Pacino begs for the footage to be destroyed. Because if Jack and Jill taught us anything, it’s that building a movie around a vacation itinerary is great for Adam Sandler — and catastrophic for everyone else.Watch the trailer for Jack and Jill.Send us Fan Mail

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.Grab your tequila, don’t forget to set the alarm, and join Ade and Aaron as they break down HR violations, temp agency chaos, and a finale that involves Beyoncé fighting in an attic for reasons no script rewrite could justify. Because if Obsessed taught us anything, it’s that removing every flaw from your lead characters leaves you with nothing but drywall — and one very ineffective cop.Watch the trailer for Obsessed.Send us Fan Mail

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 quests, and memorable one-liners. Because if Striptease taught us anything, it’s that in Florida, the line between comedy and corruption is as slippery as Burt Reynolds’ boots.Watch the trailer for Striptease.Send us Fan Mail

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 anything, it’s that ambition can take you to the top—just watch your step on the way down.Watch the trailer for Showgirls.Send us Fan Mail

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.Grab your gin and tonic (Hendricks if you have it, otherwise Bombay Sapphire), and join the hosts as they cringe, laugh, and try to find the safe word for boredom. Because if Fifty Shades of Grey taught us anything, it’s that romance is easy when you can afford a helicopter.Watch the trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey.Send us Fan Mail

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 seduces a teenager with corn before drowning him in popcorn. From the funky costumes to the mistranslated dialogue, every frame is a glorious accident that somehow became a masterpiece of ineptitude.Grab your double-decker bologna sandwich, and join the hosts as they celebrate the most “so bad it’s good” movie of all time. Because if Troll 2 taught us anything, it’s that heart and enthusiasm can outlast talent—and sometimes that’s what makes a movie unforgettable.Watch the trailer for Troll 2.Send us Fan Mail

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 Estevez’s deadpan delivery, the horny newlyweds, and that unforgettable Green Goblin–faced semi that became the movie’s mascot. It’s a masterclass in 80s excess — part action, part horror, all nonsense.Grab a can of soda, your ACDC mix tape, and join the hosts as they laugh their way through one of the most cocaine-fueled disasters in movie history. Because if Maximum Overdrive taught us anything, it’s that not even Stephen King can direct Stephen King.Watch the Maximum Overdrive trailer.Send us Fan Mail

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 using a bear costume to go incognito.Grab your mead, and join the hosts as they laugh their way through one of the strangest horror remakes ever made. Because if The Wicker Man taught us anything, it’s that not every Nicolas Cage movie deserves a cult following.Watch the trailer for The Wicker ManSend us Fan Mail

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron kick off their “Horrible Horror” series with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023). Pooh Bear and Piglet trade in honey pots for meat cleavers after Christopher Robin heads off to college, and the result is somehow even worse than you’re imagining.Shot in just ten days for under $100,000, this slasher manages to turn one of childhood’s most beloved franchises into a rubber-mask gore fest. The guys break down everything from Pooh crying honey, to Piglet dragging around a sledgehammer he can barely lift, to characters so clueless they deserve every ridiculous death scene.With gratuitous nudity, mis-matched accents, and a storyline that barely qualifies as a movie, this un-bear-able horror still made $7.7 million and launched an entire “Poohniverse.” Ade and Aaron marvel at its baffling success, laugh at its endless nonsense, and pitch storylines that would’ve made much better movies.So grab your jar of honey, cancel that Airbnb in the Hundred Acre Wood, and join the hosts as they try to survive the movie that has A. A. Milne turning in his grave.Watch the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey trailer.Send us Fan Mail

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron wrap up their “Modern Messes” series with one of the twistiest, most overcooked spy films in recent memory: Argylle (2024). Bryce Dallas Howard stars as a cat-loving novelist, Sam Rockwell shows up as a scruffy maybe-spy, and Henry Cavill rocks a questionable hairstyle. With a cast this stacked and a budget that ballooned into the hundreds of millions, you’d think it would be a sleek spy thriller—instead, it’s a chaotic mess of twists on twists on twists.From brainwashing music boxes to oil-tanker ice-skating fights, the guys try to unravel a story that somehow manages to out-parody itself without ever admitting it’s a parody.So grab your velvet blazer, pour yourself a glass of Samuel L. Jackson’s finest Pinot, and join the guys as they laugh their way through one of the most ambitious, baffling, and bizarre spy flops of all time.Watch the official Argylle trailerSend us Fan Mail

This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron curl up with one of the most infamous musicals-to-movie adaptations of all time: Cats (2019). With its star-studded cast—Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, James Corden, and more—it’s a film that aimed for spectacle and landed somewhere between surreal fever dream and Broadway karaoke. But love it or hate it, you can’t deny it’s unforgettable.The guys dig into what worked and what didn’t: the choice of digital fur, the confusing sense of cat-to-human scale, and the songs that range from head-scratching introductions to genuinely moving numbers. They give credit where it’s due—Jennifer Hudson’s powerhouse Memory, Taylor Swift’s stylish cameo, and Francesca Hayward’s heartfelt Beautiful Ghosts all shine through and remind us why the stage musical was a phenomenon in the first place.Along the way, Ade and Aaron debate whether Cats is secretly fun if you lean into the absurdity, and whether the movie might have been better enjoyed live on stage or with the right crowd (and maybe the right state of mind). It’s weird, it’s messy, but it’s also bold, memorable, and occasionally magical—just the kind of movie that makes The Worst Movie Podcast so much fun.Send us Fan Mail

This week, Ade and Aaron tangle themselves in Sony’s spidery mess of a movie: Madame Web (2024). With Dakota Johnson staring blankly through most of her lines, this movie is less a superhero flick and more a PSA about why you shouldn’t let IP law write your scripts.From jungle spider cults in Peru to clairvoyant CPR lessons in New York, the guys try to untangle the plot—or at least survive the web of confusion. They debate the villain’s impeccable hair and suspicious ADR voice, roast teenage diner dance parties, and marvel at the worst boss battle in superhero movie history.Grab your Pepsi (to stay on-brand with the blatant product placement), settle in, and join the hosts as they laugh their way through one of the flattest, strangest superhero movies ever made. Because if there’s one thing Madame Web teaches us, it’s that not every character in the Spider-Verse deserves their own movie.Send us Fan Mail

This week Ade and Aaron sink their teeth into the modern cinematic disaster that is Morbius (2022). Jared Leto broods, Matt Smith struts in pinstripes, Tyrese Gibson pretends to be an FBI agent, and a colony of CGI bats work overtime. Along the way, Ade and Aaron learn important scientific lessons about human DNA, and discover that parts can double as medical-grade sequencers.Grab your popcorn, favorite brand of artificial blood, and join the hosts as they laugh, cringe, and almost—almost—find something redeeming in one of the most memed superhero flops of our time. It’s Morbin’ time… or at least, time to admit this movie deserved all those memes.Send us Fan Mail

In our first episode, Ade and Aaron take on War of the Worlds (2025) — the Ice Cube–starring, Amazon-Prime–streaming, alien-data-sucking spectacle no one asked for but everyone is hate-watching.Ice Cube stars as an NSA analyst who spends more time spying on his kids’ fridges than saving the world, while Eva Longoria watches the weather. The aliens? They don’t want our planet, they want… our data. Cue Facebook memories disappearing, planes falling from the sky for no reason, and tanks that instantly rust when Wi-Fi goes down.Add in the most shameless Amazon product placement ever, stock footage galore, and the worst green screen we’ve ever seen, and you’ve got a masterpiece of unintentional comedy.Was it so bad it’s good? Nope. It was just boring. But like The Room or Plan 9 from Outer Space, this movie might earn its place in the “so bad you need to witness it once” hall of fame.Send us Fan Mail