My Top 10 Worst Films of 2010

Like any year in the exciting and ever-changing world of film, 2010 has certainly had its miserable stinkers. Over the past 12 months, my love of cinema has been bashed over the head at an alarming rate with worrisome additions to theatrical schedules. Some have been laughable, some have been boring, and a hefty amount have baffled me as to how they were even green-lighted in the first place. But there are some that really stood out to me as truly monstrous pieces of work that have horrified audiences in all the worst ways. And so, I've compiled a list of the top ten movies of 2010 I consider to be the most abominable of the lot. Avoid these at all costs.

10. "The Wolfman"

One of the biggest disappointments in recent memory, this gothic horror is less spooky than a newborn baby giggling away in the comfort of its own crib. Joe Johnston‘s "The Wolfman," a remake of the George Waggner original, has Benicio del Toro wandering around in Victorian England before being bitten by a werewolf and turned into one himself. So much potential, yet such poor execution. It's tiresome, lifeless, and needlessly gloomy. Still, Anthony Hopkins looked to be having hammy fun as del Toro's estranged papa.

9. "The Bounty Hunter"

Even if you were to pump laughing gas into every orifice of my body while I sat and watched "The Bounty Hunter," you still wouldn't manage to make me laugh. Gerard Butler is a bounty hunter who finds himself on the job of tracking down his bail-skipping ex-wife, played by Jennifer Aniston. Hilarious (ha!) shenanigans occur as the ex-couple plummet towards snogging each other at the end. Oh, did I spoil it for you? Tediously unfunny star-parade that's almost as grating as Butler's American accent.

8. "Furry Vengeance"

Any film with "furry" in the title should be treated with caution, and none more so than this eco-friendly kiddie comedy. Slapstick shenanigans occur when wild animals (who can communicate with each other through think bubbles) fight back against businessman Brendan Fraser for trying to demolish their homely forest. Thrusting environmental messages down your gagging throat with every millisecond of its overlong running time, "Furry Vengeance" was another misfire in Fraser's shaky career. Chin up though, Brendan. I'm sure there's another "Mummy" movie waiting for you.

7. "Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball"

With "Smokin' Aces" taking high reign amongst my list of favourite films, it was especially uncomfortable for me to watch it get callously cut to pieces and pasted back together again in the form of this copy-cat follow-up. FBI desk jockey Tom Berenger is told he has a high price on his head, and so is rushed to a top-secret location to hide from an array of money-hungry assassins. Sound familiar? Slothfully recreating every single plot point from its ludicrously fun predecessor to terrible effect, this sloppy straight-to-DVD sequel was a tiring chore to watch; even with Vinnie Jones as one of the baddies.

6. "Marmaduke"

Who said basing a film on a one-panel newspaper comic strip would be a bad idea? Anyone with a brain, I'd guess. "Marmaduke," a fly-covered dog turd of a movie, is a boring snooze-o-rama about a talking Great Dane (voiced by Owen Wilson) who moves to California with his human family. Stuff happens with other dogs, it's all so drab, the mouth-moving CGI is creepy, and wake me up when the end credits start rolling. Down boy, down! Sit! Left paw! Right paw! Good boy! Play dead! Now stay dead.

5. "My Soul to Take"

Wes Craven's unscary retread of past slasher horrors is less memorable than it is dull. The "Nightmare on Elm Street" director filled this bore of a stupid-teen killer with talk of souls and resurrection, which all sound pretty neat and cutting-edge, yet the movie itself is tired and monotonous. Without soul, you might say. With a lame villain, laughable script, and insipid main characters, “My Soul to Take” plunged a knife into the heart of Craven’s once-respected career. "Scream 4" looks to be in trouble.

4. "Cop Out"

Ah, the film that made me question Kevin Smith's talents as a filmmaker. Smith ranted on his Twitter page about how critcs were unneeded and unwanted once they rightfully gnawed their teeth into his latest cinematic effort, but what he failed to understand was that they were very much correct in their harsh-but-fair bashing. Dire and nigh unwatchable, this tedious buddy cop comedy is less funny than having diarrhoea injected into your eyeballs, with not even the constant presence of the illustrious Bruce Willis able to make this horribly-written stinker the least bit entertaining. Yippie-kay-yay, Kevin Smith. Fat bastard.

3. "Sex and the City 2"

Obnoxious, annoying, irritating, abhorrent, repugnant, loathsome, pointless drivel. Subtlety does not appear in "Sex and the City 2"'s strawberry-scented dictionary; instead, words like "overlong," "insensitive," "ditzy" and "nauseating" are listed in pink, sparkly text. Lazily sending its caricature cast to Abu Dhabi to buy handbags, shoes, and act like total sluts, "Sex and the City 2" did more to set women back than empower them. Judging by what I've watched of the beloved TV series on which this is based, the second big-screen outing of the independent gals is a deep-reaching cunt punt to its much-worshipped name. Piss off, girls, and take your shitty movie with you.

2. "Fred: The Movie"

To say that "Fred: The Movie" is an excruciating ordeal to sit through simply would not justify the unadulterated savagery of such a harrowing experience. Made-for-TV in the US (though somehow it got a theatrical release in the UK), this mind-boggling disaster marks the first (and hopefully last) feature-length outing for the YouTube phenomenon known as Fred Figglehorn, portrayed by Lucas Cruikshank. He's a teenager with a stalkerish infatuation with his female neighbour, he has an unendurable squeaky voice, he never shuts the hell up, and I want him to be crushed to death under the weight of a school bus. Kids these days.

1. "Vampires Suck"

And now we come to the big, rotten, festering cheese. From the makers of (sigh) "Date Movie," "Disaster Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" came yet another laugh-free, fart-filled spoof in the form of this half-assed "Twilight" parody. Unbearably unfunny and a thousand times worse than what it is meant to be mocking (without any effort put in), "Vampires Suck" is an agonizing 76-minute-long showcase in how not to make an audience laugh. Utterly torturous, and one of the most useless contributions to celluloid since John Travolta dressed up as a Jamaican extraterrestrial in "Battlefield Earth." The only thing amusing here is the irony of the title.