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{{quote|''"There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it."''|'''Roger Ebert''', in [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990507/REVIEWS/905070303/1023 his review] of '''''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'''''}}
 
There are a lot of really bad movies out there. Some of them are watchable in their own twisted way. In fact, there are studios who make [[B -Movie|movies like this]] almost exclusively. Many of these have been saved through [[Ham and Cheese]].
 
[[Ed Wood (Creator)|Ed Wood]]'s films and ''[[Troll 2]]'' are so extremely [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] that they're [[Critic Proof|beyond criticism]]. Seriously, critics can't say anything bad about them because the films just speak for themselves. They're so bad, they're works of art.
 
Of course this is a very subjective trope, but let's try not to argue, eh?
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** "QUICK! CHANGE THE CHANNEL!"
* Peter Bogdanovich's much reviled musical ''[[At Long Last Love (Film)|At Long Last Love]]'', realized without lipsynch in an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of classic musicals like ''Top Hat''. It was an enormous box-office bomb and gained scathing reviews, yet some have re-evaluated it, at least as an example of this trope. It can be really funny to watch (marvel at the "vocal" stylings of Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd!).
* The Hong Kong movie ''[[Future Cops]]'' also falls squarely on this trope. [[WTH Casting Agency]] with Hong Kong pop singers, every character is a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Street Fighter]] characters, silly humors, messed up character alignments like the above movie and a lot of wacky nonsensical scenes just doesn't even begin with this movie that takes itself even less seriously than ''[[Street Fighter (Film)|Street Fighter]]'' above. Certainly this movie lives on the further end of 'Bad' of [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] compared to that movie above. However, some still consider it a good movie for some senseless laughs.
* ''[[Birdemic (Film)|Birdemic]]'' may actually be almost as bad as ''[[Plan 9 From Outer Space]]''. And it never stops with the hurting!
* ''[[Showgirls]]''. A bit like [[Ed Wood (Creator)|Ed Wood]]'s films, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] proclaimed it to be so bad that it almost swung round to be an art film.
* The ''[[Grindhouse (Film)|Grindhouse]]'' movies, ''Planet Terror'' and ''Death Proof'', were generally regarded as [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] by critics. ''Death Proof'' was actually criticized a bit for not being stupid enough. The director [[Quentin Tarantino (Creator)|Quentin Tarantino]] has a different opinion: [http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/?cat=126 he doesn't believe in so bad it's good].
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' is a textbook deliberate case of this. The plot (such as it is) is very like ''[[Manos: theThe Hands of Fate (Film)|Manos the Hands of Fate]]'' (probably unintentional, given ''"Manos"'''s cliched plot and utter obscurity until ''[[MST3K]]'' found it) with vast galloping amounts of homoerotica thrown in. The characters were, for the most part, based on those of the Bulgakov novel ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' - itself a modern masterpiece, partly because all of its failed drama is [[Logic Bomb|deliberate.]]<br /><br />Richard O'Brien intentionally made it this way, as a tribute to the campy sci-fi films of the 50s & 60s (as evidenced by the opening number ''Science Fiction, Double Feature'')
* ''[[The Slumber Party Massacre (Film)|The Slumber Party Massacre]],'' a hilariously cheesy slasher flick. It contains [[Panty Shot|panty shots]], nudity, gore, and more fake-outs than you can shake a stick at. Oh, and it was originally written by a feminist as a spoof of slasher flicks - but the directors filmed it straight. The result is unbelievably goofy.
* The ''[[Van Helsing (Film)|Van Helsing]]'' movie. [[Big Bad]] [[Dracula]] is over-acted; the only guy who gets any action is the sidekick; and there's a Frankensteinsicle. Plus, an [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|automatic crossbow]]. Stephen Sommers' other writing tends towards this trope.
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* ''[[Road House]]'' has been described as "[[Overly Narrow Superlative|The best movie ever made in which a philosophical bouncer finds love and confronts his demons while working at a rowdy honkytonk outside Kansas City.]]" That should tell you everything you need to know about it. ''[[Road House]]'' was one of a number of movies recommended by a self-help book called ''The Psychopath's Bible.''
* Most of the movies featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' deserved this status as soon as they were made but gained new notoriety after being lampooned by Joel and the 'bots. Some examples:
** ''[[Robot Monster]]'': in which the costumes of the robots comprised a gorilla suit and a diving helmet. [[Special Effect Failure|And they look exactly like what they're made of.]] It also is an [[Ontological Mystery]] whose creators don't quite get that it's an [[Ontological Mystery]], leading to a killer [[Logic Bomb]] and a jarring use of [[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Butterfly]] in a film aimed at the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] of people who watched [[B -Movie|BMovies]] at drive-ins.
** ''[[Pod People]]''. If all of humanity could love as [[Messianic Archetype|Trumpy]] does, then there would be world peace. And many many potatoes.
** ''[[Space Mutiny]]''. Gave us the trope name "[[Railing Kill]]", special effects lifted wholesale from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', and a host of goofy nicknames for protagonist David Ryder ("We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!")
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** "Watch out for snakes!" ''Eegah!'', a laughably bad caveman movie starring a [[James Bond]] villain and some whiny kid who can't even remember his girlfriend's name.
** ''The Phantom Planet.'' Leonard Maltin called it a "fascinatingly terrible movie." With the [[Did Not Do the Research|stupid science]], the [[Special Effects Failure|bad special effects]], and the absolutely terrible acting, it would be a hoot even without the bots. "Good thing there's so much gravity in space." That the main protagonist looks enough like [[King of the Hill|dang ol' Boomhauer]] to be disturbing is the icing on the cake.
** The Chicken-men of Krankor, from ''[[Prince of Space]]'', may not be very threatening or three-dimensional villains, but they do serve as excellent comic relief throughout most of the movie. As for the [[Big Bad|Phantom of Krankor,]] he is every bit as silly as his henchmen, but he manages to drive even that off for a while because of his (twisted and power-mad) apparent [[For Science!|love of science,]] which gives him a cheesy, overdone charisma that helped make the film watchable. And he has the slowest, least intense [[Evil Laugh]] ever.
** ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'', one of the stupidest films ever made. From the theme song to the ending credits...well, it's like a gruesome train accident or industrial disaster. You just can't look away. Apparently, the entire film was shot in a re-purposed aircraft hangar either on Long Island or environs. Oh...last but not least, [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=428349265473317718 the polar bear and the Martian robot must be seen to be believed].
{{quote| '''Martian''': The people of Earth do not realize that Santa Claus has been kidnapped by Martians.<br />
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** "One more sacrifice before we go?" "Alright, but this is ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]''"
** ''[[Time Chasers]]'' - food court...''OF THE FUTURE!''
* ''[[Snakes On a Plane]]''. The premise itself attracted a massive internet following based on its [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]-ness, leading the makers to reshoot certain scenes to make them [[Refuge in Audacity|even more outlandish]]. Notable additions include a snake slithering out of the toilet bowl to latch onto the expected area of a man using the facilities, and [[Samuel L Jackson|Samuel L. Jackson's]] (in)famous line "I have ''had it'' with these ''motherfuckin' snakes'' on this ''motherfuckin' plane''!". Did we mention how {{spoiler|''Kenan Thompson'' lands the plane safely because [[I Know Mortal Kombat|he's been playing a flight simulator on his PlayStation Portable for the entire flight?]] And that upon said safe landing, Samuel L. Jackson shouts in his unparalleled badassedness, "ALL PRAISES TO THE PLAYSTATION!"?}}
* The independent film studio Troma Entertainment specializes in films that are [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] ''on purpose'', the best known of which is ''[[The Toxic Avenger]]'' and its sequels.
** And now there's a stage musical version! Can a radioactive mutant find love in a world that hates and fears him!?
** Troma is now also responsible for ''Poultrygeist: Night of the Living Chicken'', a movie that combines [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]], [[Crosses the Line Twice|crossed the line twice]] and possible brain damage for the viewer.
* There are plenty of fantasy movies that fall under this category:
** ''Conan The Destroyer''. Another action film of [[The Eighties]]. Featured the classic line "Fine magician ''you'' are! Go back to juggling apples!" and [[Giant Mook|Pat Roach]] in a [[Special Effects Failure|Halloween mask]] lifting Arnie on his shoulders and trying to pull his arms off. Also, Grace Jones in a [[Fur Bikini]].
** ''[[The Scorpion King]]''. Probably the most [[ClicheCliché Storm|cliché-laden movie in history]], but still watchable.
** ''[[Krull]]''. A critical and financial disaster that probably contains some of the best British actors available at the time. James Horner's film score is also highly regarded.
** ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Film)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''.
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* ''[[Night of the Lepus]]'', a film whose plot centers around Arizona being under attack by [[Killer Rabbit|Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits]]. Yes, this is a real movie. Starring real actors, like Janet Leigh and Stuart Whitman (and [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|De Forest Kelley]]), and made by real major studio MGM. It's all made even more surreal by the fact that the '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits''' are depicted by either (1) cute domesticated bunnies filmed in extreme close-up running around on scale-model sets, (2) hilariously awful-looking gore-smeared puppets, or (3) guys in tacky-looking bunny suits (for the attack scenes, naturally). In the end it has to be seen to be believed.
** Actually, this movie made it into the background of ''[[The Matrix]]''. It is on the background TV when Neo first goes to see the Oracle.
* The Japanese film ''[[Versus]]'' is like this as far as its acting, plot, and setting go. The action scenes, however, are spectacular. Another hallmark of it being [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] is that the commentary features the director, the producer, and three of the actors, and they were probably all drunk when they recorded it. Japanese B movies seem to have an incredible ability to take a really silly premise, fill it with gore then play everything without a hint of irony.
* ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]''. Something about [[Michael Jordan]]'s super-mellow attempts at acting whilst surrounded by the biggest hams of [[Looney Tunes]].
** The part where Daffy kisses his own, Warner Bros.-emblazoned arse suggests [[Lampshade Hanging|they knew]] the film was blatant marketing fodder for all the attached [[Merchandise -Driven]]. Cemented by the point later on, where Bugs and Daffy complain that they don't get any royalties.
*** [[Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden|It's completely canon.]]
** To give Jordan some credit, as bad as his acting is, you have to remember that, for the most part, he's supposed to be interacting with something that isn't even there.
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** There are no words that can adequately describe the horror of this film; after you recover from the numbing shock of it all you can do is laugh endlessly.
* ''[[Star Trek V the Final Frontier (Film)|Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]''; it is only awful if you're a ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' fan.
** Some fans of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' also consider the movie [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]-the type of fan who also love "[[Star Trek (Franchise)/Recap/S3 E1 Spocks Brain|Spock's Brain]]" and "Threshold".
** That, and it does have its moments. Also, no individual "terrible" aspect of the movie would ruin any other Star Trek movie on its own; it's really that Star Trek V was unfortunate enough to have so many of them that it really became bad.
* The somewhat silly Russian fairy-tale movie ''[[Morozko]]'' ("Father Frost", or "Jack Frost" on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''). It aired every Christmas on Czechoslovak TV during the Communist era, over time becoming a cult classic. Not only did television stations continue to air it after the revolution, but a musical and a video game based on the movie were made. (The film was recently redubbed into Slovak, so that Slovak televisions don't have to air it in Czech.)
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* The 1993 [[Made for TV Movie]] ''The Man from Left Field''. A bunch of poor kids looking for a baseball coach find Burt Reynolds, a Mysterious Figure who has gotten [[Easy Amnesia]] and forgotten everything but his Good Solid Values. Since it's three times as long as your typical [[Very Special Episode]], they compensate by having three Very Special Storylines. One kid is teased by the obligatory rich rival team about his working-class father, cuing an [[Author Filibuster]] from Burt about how Money doesn't matter as much as Values. Another kid is abused at home (his alcoholic father beats him with his fists, which somehow results in the kid getting lash marks on his back) so Burt [[Right Makes Might|kicks the dad's butt]]. The [[Token Minority|token black kid]] loses his grandfather to [[Soap Opera Disease]], which is somehow resolved by Burt saving the kid from drowning (no, you read that right). In the midst of all this, the film achingly struggles to be "cute" and there's also a lame [[Token Romance]] with [[Reba McEntire]] thrown in for good measure, even though the film seems to be aimed at ten-year-old boys (the kids have no girls on their team). Finally, the scene where Burt regains his memories has to be seen to be believed.
* The animated version of ''[[The Hobbit (Animation)|The Hobbit]]''. [http://www.lordotrings.com/images/movies/hobbitbig.jpg Here's Bilbo.] [http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/tolkien/h-1-2441-gollum.jpg And this is Gollum.] Now imagine sitting through 90 minutes of that, including songs.
** Hippie folks songs, at that. Even children watching this movie would have to ask "[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]"
* You want a real Christian preaching [[MST|MST3Kable]] film? Look no further than ''Megiddo: [[The Omega Code]] 2''. This movie truly has it all: acting and dialogue so awkward and bad you wonder if the writers, actors and the director were somehow [[Wild Child|deprived of human contact]] and think people actually act like that; Udo Kier playing a character that does nothing but follow the [[Big Bad]] around wearing a [[Black Cloak]] and sounding like he had just left the ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Yuri's Revenge'' soundstage; [[R Lee Ermey]] playing the ''President of the United States'' (sadly {{spoiler|only doing so for 5 minutes before getting offed by the [[Big Bad]]}}); and best of all, Michael "[[Austin Powers|Basil Exposition]]" York playing ''the Antichrist'' as a [[Large Ham]] of truly planetary proportions.
** The first ''[[The Omega Code]]'' also qualifies, with Casper Van Dien and Micheal Ironside in addition to Micheal York. Their performances are so fun to watch. Its also rather subtle for being a End Times film (until the end). Its a bad flim, but enjoyable.
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** ''[[Octopussy (Film)|Octopussy]]''. [http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Bond.jpg Nothing else needs to be added, really.] It doesn't cross into any worse category due to the surprisingly solid plotline under all the cheese.
** ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]''. The sheer hilarity of watching Roger Moore trying to infiltrate a soul food shack in ''1970's Harlem'' has to be experienced. Yaphet Kotto turning into a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float and then exploding, the weird sub-plot/theme involving voodoo and ''the'' Baron Samedi and the ridiculous alligator pit escape. Paradoxically, it has what may arguably be the best Bond Theme of all the films and a fantastic boat chase scene.
* ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' is an odd example, being a shot at ''deliberate'' [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]... that failed miserably, but thanks to [[Development Hell]] (the film went through [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup|six directing teams]], and it ''shows''), a cast studded with wasted talent ranging from [[Woody Allen]] to [[Orson Welles]], an incomprehensibly muddled "plot," and a finale that ''completely defies description'', it manages to be [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] at ''being'' [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]].
* ''Kunoichi: Lady Ninja'' is about a bunch of women becoming ninja to get revenge for the sacking of their village with the help of a one-eyed samurai, or something like that. Not much stuck with me except for the thing that makes it awesome: one of the women had some kind of power that related to her virginity, so when she and the samurai were trapped, she told him to bang her so that blood from her ''torn hymen'' would fall on his sword and save them.
* A great many educational films are so campy and badly made that they end up being just plain funny. There's one about electrical safety, with a [[Jerkass]] villain reminiscent of Beetlejuice called ''Electrojuice''.
** One home economics video where had the narrator saying, "Quiche. Pronounced...keesh" in a monotone. Also, possibly in the same film, the narrator says something about never touching pans in the oven with your bare hands and then proceeds to do so, going "Ouch. That's hot" again in a monotone.
** In the same vein: a certain Spanish video, with the line, "This is my brother, Antonio. [[Shaped Like Itself|We call him 'Antonio'.]]"
* The 2008 film ''[[Doomsday]]''. Scottish cannibal ninja strippers? Check. [[Large Ham|Malcolm McDowell]] as the nutty king of Medieval Land ([[One -Scene Wonder|for about five minutes]])? Check. Auto-targeting machine gun turrets vaporizing a cute widdle bunny-wunny? Check. If there was ever, ''ever'' a film [[Snark Bait|crying out]] for the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K]] treatment, THIS IS THE ONE.
** It could also be argued as a deliberately over-the-top [[Refuge in Cool]].
** Also contributing to the effect is the crippling multiple-genre-disorder ''Doomsday'' suffers from: Epidemic Movie --> Search-and-Rescue Team Movie --> Dystopian Apocalypse Movie --> Zombie Movie --> Swords & Sorcery Movie --> Car-Racing Movie --> It's-All-A-Government-Conspiracy Movie, and that's not even the half of it.
** The movie was taking ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later]]'', ''[[Escape From New York]]'', ''[[Damnation Alley]]'', and ''[[Mad Max]] 2'', putting them in a blender and seeing what happened. Apparently, the lead character was essentially supposed to be a female version of Snake Plissken.
* ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Overlords_of_the_UFO_1976.aspx Overlords of the UFO]'' is a rare [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] ''documentary'', though we do use that term lightly.
* ''Heartbeeps'', a somewhat obscure 1981 movie about two robots - played by [[Andy Kaufman]] and Bernadette Peters - who fall in love and build a child (whose beeps and boops were provided by Jerry Garcia). And it's scored by ''John Williams.'' Watchable only for the gorgeous costumes, Stan Winston's Oscar-nominated makeup work, and the excellent soundtrack.
** In its defense, some scenes are quite [[Tear Jerker|touching]]...
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* ''Fatal Deviation'' is without a doubt the most incredibly awesome Irish martial arts movie to ever exist. [http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHSCNMH4wE See for yourself!].
* ''Fantasy Mission Force'' is a completely incoherent mess that tries to be a war movie about a band of mercenaries trying to rescue Allied generals (including [[Abraham Lincoln]]) from the Axis, who took them to Canada. Just watch the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BfMgEa40tY restaurant scene].<br /><br />[[Jackie Chan]] himself gets about fifteen minutes of screen time as a minor character, who apparently wins at the end after all the main characters die. The movie includes such gems as sudden and inexplicable barbarian raiders, the Great American General Abraham Lincoln, and the deep and startling realization that a Chinese actor will never ever make a convincing Scotsman, even if you do dress him in a kilt. Watching the dubbed version just makes it all better.
* The whole concept is parodied in the French movie ''La Cité de la Peur'' (The City of Fear): the horror movie ''Red is Dead'' is a textbook example of [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] and critics hate it with a passion. Then someone dressed up as ''Red'' 's serial killer starts hacking projectionists to bits with a hammer and a sickle, and it's instant glory. The star and publicist of the movie get to walk on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.
* ''Dragon Wars'', also known as ''[[D-War]].'' Lots of convoluted Korean mythology, plot holes as far as the eye can see. It's unintentionally hilarious.
* ''[[The Machine Girl (Film)|The Machine Girl]]''. Gatling Gun Arm attached to a schoolgirl, Ninjas that look like Football players, and 1970s violence despite being a 2008 movie, and a Drill Bra. What makes this so hilarious, is its genre is listed Action/Adventure. A lot of schlocky movies are hard to watch because of [[Padding|padding]]. This film replaces padding with [[High -Pressure Blood]].
* ''Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare'', also known as ''The Edge of Hell.'' It's a 1987 Canadian horror film that was filmed in seven days and went straight to video. Features Jon Mikl Thor as Triton, lead singer for a metal band, who fights Satan himself. Clad a cape, studded codpiece and tons of makeup and hairspray. Includes Muppet demons, cycloptic starfish creatures and the line:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmxtDl-u1aQ " Ah, you've killed no one bub- or is it less familiar to call you BEELZEBUB!"]
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:: [[Samuel L Jackson]] plays The Octopus as [[Large Ham|over-the top as possible]]. It's a significant surprise when he appears for the first time, you expect a menacing character...and then he whacks The Spirit over the head with a toilet while explaining that toilet humor is always funny.
* ''[[The Shadow (Film)|The Shadow]]''.
* ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Mr__T_s_Be_Somebody____Or_Be_Somebody_s_Fool_1984.aspx Mister T's Be Somebody...or Be Somebody's Fool]''. Considering that in many ways T. is either the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] or the patron saint of [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]...So yeah...[[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|fool!]]
* ''[[The Room]]'', which is supposedly "the best worst movie ever made", dubbed by one ''Entertainment Weekly'' reviewer "the Citizen Kane of bad movies." [[The Onion]] explains it [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-room,25723/ here]. ''[[The Room]]'' supposedly has more than just a bad plot and bad acting - its full of failed drama and has terrible focus and transitions. It not clear if the director did so on purpose.
{{quote| "You're tearing me APART, Lisa!"}}
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* ''[[The Swarm]]'', an [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]] movie which represents the stupidest of [[Irwin Allen (Creator)|Irwin Allen]]'s disaster movies. A cast full of reputable names had their talents wasted on a silly script, one of these names being [[Michael Caine]], who [[No Indoor Voice|shouts his way through the movie]]. The killer bees are made of [[Special Effect Failure]]. [[Every Car Is a Pinto|Helicopters and train cars explode dramatically upon crashing]] (the latter turn into obvious models first).
{{quote| "I never thought it would be the bees. They were always our friends!"}}
* ''[[Dragon Ball Evolution]]'' is possibly the most over the top film ever made, yet it sucks so hard it's just funny to watch to see what they got wrong. In fact, this movie is [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] only when you '''[[In Name Only|don't]]''' see it as ''[[Dragonball]]''. But if you want to see a true example, watch the old Chinese adaptation ''Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins''.
** This movie is [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] even by some critics' standards (at least those who knew not to [[Took the Bad Film Seriously|take the film seriously]]). For example, Alfonso Duralde of MSNBC, who generally doesn't like ''anything'' save very few exceptions, said the movie was "both entertainingly ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining."
* The ''Springtime For Hitler'' play ([[Springtime for Hitler|that one]]) from ''[[The Producers]]''.
** Specifically, it was intended to be just offensive, but the portrayal of Hitler (either by a hippie or the [[Camp Gay]] director) made it So Offensive It's Hilarious.
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* You can watch... ''[[Suspiria]]''... you can laugh... at ''[[Suspiria]]''... but you cannot escape the bizarre silliness that is...''[[Suspiria]]''!
** You gotta love that [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Goblin score]] though.
* ''[[Friday the 13 th13th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' eventually settles, and arguably, revels in this.
** ''Jason X'' easily takes the cake. When a slasher movie can best be summarized as "Like the previous 9, but [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]", you know you've got something good before you even start watching.
 
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* ''Black Sheep'' has some hammy acting, a cheesy plot, and horri-awesome special affects that, separately, would make it a very bad movie. But, all together, they make something that is pure campy and self-aware B-Movie fun.
* ''[http://twitpic.com/3ux7t Galaxina]'' arguably does this on purpose...when you make ''AVERY FRIKKIN' SCHREIBER'' a starship captain, you've already decided you aren't making the next ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* The German movie ''Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Guru Jakob'' (''The Incredible Adventures of Jakob the Guru''). Starring German ex-child star Tommi Ohrner as the [[High School Hustler]] (wannabe) [[The Danza|Tommi]] and Israeli Zachi Noy, veteran of the soft-sex comedy film series ''Lemon Popsicle'', as the titular Jakob Feierabend, who spent his time [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|getting fired from various jobs]] and being rejected by girls, until he is mistaken for an Indian guru, like Baghwan, by the people of an Upper Bavarian village, who are looking for somebody to buy the old castle of the village, and soon unwillingly starts [[Church of Happyology|his own cult]], with Tommi as his manager. Add porn star Sibylle Rauch as [[Ms. Fanservice]] and [[Ethnic Scrappy|a Chinese restaurant owner]] for [[Chop Sockey]] kung fu action and [[Unfortunate Implications]]. It's like a mixture of slapstick, sex comedy, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimatfilm Bavarian Heimatfilm], youth movie and "let's pretend we warn people of the danger of strange sects"-film. Oh, and the repeatedly played song "Hey, ho, nochmal Schwein gehabt" (Hey, ho, got lucky again).
* An intentional example is ''[[Dead Snow (Film)|Dead Snow]]'', a Norwegian zombie/splatter-movie about a group of students on a camping trip in northern Norway who encounter a battalion of zombiefied Nazi soldiers. Writer/director Tommy Wirkola is a huge fan of classic horror b-movies such as Evil Dead, and Dead Snow is something of a tribute.
** A lot of critics made the mistake of thinking it was meant to be a serious film, [[Comically Missing the Point|unfortunately.]] Given how over-the-top the gore factor is, one wonders ''how'' they could have thought that, but as a result even some of the ''reviews'' are hilarious.
** There is a brief argument about whether one of the characters, a Jew, would come back as one of the [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|Nazi zombies]]...
* ''Rockula''. A vampire is cursed to experience the death of his true love (by ham bone) every 20 or so years. His mom is a nymphomaniac cougar. He courts his true love by becoming a rock star vampire. So wrong, and yet so right.
** [[Serious Business|Good lord, man!]] It's a ham bone wielded by a [[Pirate]] with a rhinestone pegleg! It's all an [[Excuse Plot]] to string together a bunch of music videos amid the [[ClicheCliché Storm]], with a large dose of [[Our Vampires Are Different]] for spice.
*** The vampire in question also has a [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] relationship with his independent reflection (who may or may not be the ghost of Elvis). His mother is played by Toni Basil (of ''Hey Mickey'' fame), the girlfriend's manager is played by Thomas Dolby (yes, ''that'' one) who sells new-age coffins in his day job (and his advertisements are pure comedy genius) and it includes the unforgettable sight of Bo Diddley in skintight neon-yellow spandex.
* ''100 Million B.C.'', a Sci-Fi original movie, is so bad that it's funny. Complete with cheesy acting and special effects. The sound of time travel was the same sound effect of a [[Pokémon|Pokeball]] opening!
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* ''[[Silent Night Deadly Night]] Part 2'' was made up from scenes from the original ''Silent Night Deadly Night'' and some of the [[Chewing the Scenery|most hilarious overacting]] of all time. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k&NR=1 Just try and watch the "Garbage Day" scene without laughing.]
* ''[[Xanadu (Film)|Xanadu]]'': Olivia Newton-John is a muse who comes to visit a struggling artist (played by Michael Beck, whose career - by his own admittance - died a horrible death upon the film's release), and the two of them decide to make something timeless... a roller disco rink! Add the [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|random-ass animated sequence]] and some really awesome music, and you have one of the funniest movies ever made. There's a reason it's become a cult classic.
** And [[One -Scene Wonder|Gene Kelly]] showing that despite being in his eighties that he is still one of the best dancers in Hollywood.
* ''[[Deadly Prey]]''. A Vietnam vet gets kidnapped by garbage men stripped down to his pants and has to survive being hunted by mercenaries. Rambo meets Running man minus any sort of budget.
** Mike Danton cuts a man's arm of and beats him around the head with his own severed limb and then finishes by scalping him.
*** The best insults are directed and the evil female such as "kiss my ass", "Bitch". And a personal favourite "Fuck You!" before knocking her out cold with one hand.
* ''[[Mac and Me]]'' is a [[Follow the Leader|blatant ripoff]] of ''[[ET the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' which takes shamelessness to hitherto unexplored depths. If you thought Elliot feeding E.T. Reese's Pieces was unwarranted [[Product Placement]]...hoo boy. The aliens here ''require Coke to live''! There's a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] scene of Mac and his human companions at [[McDonaldsMcDonald's]]...with ''Ronald McDonald himself'' appearing! For more [[Head Desk|head slamming]] without risk of (further) brain damage, read the [[Something Awful]] review of this POS available on the link.
** Ron would later go on to win the Worst Newcomer [[Golden Raspberry Awards|Razzie]] for 1988 (as "[[The Danza|Himself]]").
* The 1995 film "Mosquito" with Gunnar Hansen is hands down one of the funniest movies ever made. Unfortunately, it's supposed to be a horror movie.
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* ''[[KISS (Music)|KISS]] Meets the Phantom of the Park''. [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|You need know nothing more than the title.]]
* The 1955 film ''Picnic'' is one of the great unintentional comedies, embracing every cliche about [[The Fifties]], highlighted by dialogue that's pure camp ("Neeeewoooolllaaah!"), a melodramatic score, and a middle-aged William Holden playing a supposed [[Chick Magnet|sexy drifter]] in his early 20s.
* ''[[The Rage Carrie 2]]''. A [[Dolled -Up Installment|dolled-up]] sequel to [[Carrie|a horror classic]], made over two decades after said movie came out in order to cash in on the success of ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'' and other teen horror films in the late '90s. While it doesn't hold a candle to the original in terms of quality or tension, it makes up for this with buckets of blood ([[Accidental Pun|no pun intended]]) and every late-'90s [[Teen Drama]]/horror cliche in the books.
* The film ''Killjoy'' is a prime example of this. A killer clown offers drugs to "gangstas" in an effort to entice them into the back of his magical ice cream truck so he can kill them when they are transported to an abandoned warehouse. The special effects are laughable, the acting is terrible, the plot is ludicrous, and the whole film is so bad it is awesome.
* ''The Swinger,'' a 1966 vehicle for the vivacious Ann-Margret that reunites her with ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]''/''[[Viva Las Vegas]]'' director George Sidney, is one of the earliest attempts at a "sexy" comedy. But it's so dated, [[Values Dissonance|sexist]] and [[Camp|kitschy]] it winds up being the rarest of cinematic beasts: a comedy that's only funny [[So Unfunny ItsIt's Funny|when it's not trying to be]].
* ''[[G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra]]''. It looked like they just stuck their arm in the Trope Bag, and then tried to make the cheesiest version possible of everything they pulled out. ([[Defrosting Ice Queen]], [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]], [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Spinning]], [[Powered Armor]], [[Slave Mooks]], [[Grey Goo]], [[Guns Are Worthless]], [[Dark Chick]]...)
* The Italian masterpiece: "La croce dalle sette pietre" (The Seven Stones Cross), commonly known as: "L'uomo lupo contro la Camorra", which means "The [[Werewolf]] versus the Mafia" (Camorra is a specific, localized kind of Mafia). [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Yeah, that's right]]. It was (poorly) funded by exploiting a loophole in the Government policies, which financially encouraged those creative works highlighting the Mafia problem. The same guy was director, writer and protagonist actor, so you know ''exactly'' who to blame for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B611ROsP7Vc this sequence] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPBMENu_fQI&feature=related this one] (the language is for the most part irrelevant). The movie got a small but devoted group of amused fans, which caused the author to be regularly invited to a lot of trash movies conventions in Italy. His own "fans" then proceed to systematically and ''brutally'' mock his movie. Poor bastard.
* ''Dead Heat'' is the best [[Overly Narrow Superlative|80s zombie buddy cop action horror comedy]] you will ever see. A cop investigating jewelry store heists (performed by zombies) is killed and brought back from the dead and has 12 hours before he melts into goo. His partner is [[Joe Piscopo]] whose entire existence is dedicated to terrible one-liners. [[They Fight Crime]]. It also includes bad acting, obvious continuity errors, a plot that makes little sense and reanimated Chinese food.
* The Pakistani movie ''International Guerrillas''. It shows the story of three Pakistani guys who, after seeing how one of their relatives is killed by the police during the demonstrations against Salman Rushdie's ''Satanic Verses'', decided to go and [[Comically Missing the Point|murder the famous writer]]. The movie becomes a cat and mouse game, with the guerrillas being always a few seconds too late, allowing Rushdie to run away while they are stuck fighting his armies of thugs. With some (hilariously bad) [[Bollywood]] dance segments in between. And a bunch of cut and paste action sequences (more like copy and paste, since all the sequences play at least three times before moving on to the following one). Finally, Rushdie catches the protagonists, but suddenly a literal [[Deus Ex Machina]] ([[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|a flying Ku'ran, symbolizing Allah]]) appears to save the 'heroes' and kill Rushdie with some [[Dramatic Thunder]]. All in glorious VHS quality. It has to be seen to be believed.
** Watch the final scene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eoNLlHzPhI&feature=related here]. Words, there are none.
** Would it be out of line to say [[Bollywood]] - particularly Bollywood action flicks - just ''runs'' on this trope?
* The Gag Dub movie ''[[Kung Pow]]'' is so profoundly, mind-bogglingly idiotic it's hilarious with the right mindset. [[Love It or Hate It|Others will just hate it.]]
* ''[[The Marine]]'', starring [[John Cena]], has a pretty generic action plot and decent special effects. It could probably be considered [[So Okay ItsIt's Average]] were it not for the hilarious acting of [[Dull Surprise|Cena]] and Robert Patrick (who is fully aware what kind of movie he is in and [[Evil Is Hammy|earns his pay]]) as the crime boss. The supporting cast is equally hilarious and the dialogue?
{{quote| '''Giant Mook''' (blows up a police car with a bazooka and is met with disbelieving stares from his comrades): What? Too much?}}
** Special mention goes out to the scene where the [[Big Bad]] threatens at gunpoint the hostage who's currently piloting the helicopter they're both sitting in hundreds of feet above the street. (note that the reason she's flying it, is because ''he doesn't know how'')
* If the [[YouTube]] comments are any indication, the "educational" film ''[[Unarius The Arrival]]'' put out by Unarius Academy of Science (a space cult) is this. The sparkly special effects and goofy costumes of the then-cult leader Uriel (Ruth E. Norman) are fun to look at, the spaceships are actually kinda cool, and it's often hilariously cheesy. A great film to snark at that probably won't make you want to chew your own arm off to get away from.
* The film ''Zombi 7'' (also known as ''Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence''), made by The Violent Shitters of Violent Shit fame has over the top low budget German [[Gorn]] combined with some [[So Unfunny ItsIt's Funny]] [[Gag Dub|English dubbing]] that it saves the film from entering Violent Shit's territory. [http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/12/08/zombi-7-aka-zombie-90-extreme-pestilence.aspx You can trust The Cinema Snob about this film with his great review here.]
* ''[[Space Marines (Film)|Space Marines]]'' a 1996 film with warp effects stolen from ''[[Babylon 5]]'', a grenade blast that launches a mook like a rocket and space pirates with eye patches and AK-47s. Has John Pyper-Ferguson of ''[[Caprica]]'' as an over the top villain looking like a confederate officer with a handlebar mustache, goatee and a habit of recording himself then playing it back. Glorious.
* ''Bloody Mallory'' is a french "horror" flick about a woman trying to save the pope from [[Our Demons Are Different|demons]]. She does such with a [[Wholesome Crossdresser|transvestite]], a government agent and a [[Psychic Powers|mute telepathic girl]] who has a mind battle with one of the enemies, complete with over the top music and intense staring. Mallory's dead demon husband shows up here and the entire English dub is on par with the ''Godzilla'' dubs.
* ''[[Ninja Assassin]]'': A glorious example of martial arts cinema, complete with [[Ludicrous Gibs]], nonsensical backstories about warring ninja clans, overdramatic angst, a fight in a laundromat that ends with a girl's severed head in a washing machine, and immortal dialogue such as "Plants don't have hearts." "Everything has a heart." "I don't."
* ''[[Cobra (Film)|Cobra]]''. It's a [[ClicheCliché Storm]] starring [[Sylvester Stallone]] using every single trope from [[Dirty Harry]] and the renegade cop films it inspired. [[Cowboy Cop]] main character with an endless stream of one liners who's called in to do the dirty work? Cobra is the trope image. Ethnic sidekick who gets injured in the line of duty? Check. [[Da Chief|Overbearing chief]] who insists upon doing things by the book? Check. Antagonizing fellow cop who has the audacity to stand up for the criminals rights? Check. Love interest caught up in the case but otherwise useless? Check. [[Ax Crazy]] serial killer villian? Check. Car chases, gun fights, explosions, and a final fight in a steam factory with [[No OSHA Compliance]]? Very check. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fUOxPyt5U Just watch the opening action sequence.]
* ''[[The Core]]''. As [[Roger Ebert]] puts it: ''"I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it."''
* ''[[Robo Cop]] 3'' is quite substandard when compared to its previous entries, but when taken by itself, the film is ''hilarious''. A Japanese competitor of OCP's sends over robot ninjas to stop Robocop, a 9-year old girl uses a computer terminal to hack an [[The Dragon|ED-209]] unit and there's [[Special Effect Failure]] galore. Add to that unintentionally funny moments (including Robo commandeering a pimp's car (complete with reaction shot), a man's suicide is played for comedy, a children's tricycle being used for barricade material, Robocop [[Big Damn Heroes|flying in]] [[Merchandise -Driven|on a jetpack]] and two robots who simultaneously cut each other's heads off) and script howlers ("Come and get me, Mr. Robocop!", "Oh my God, Johnson, our stocks have dropped to nothing!", "You got a ghost cop? A vampire cop?" and Robo's immortal line "Don't count on it, chum!"), along with a score that makes these moments epic, and you've got the perfect storm for SBIG. And Jill Hennessy as eye candy.
* ''Fahrenheit 451'' struggled to have anything to do with the book, instead focusing on a romance that didn't have much to do with the rest of the plot, which alone would have made it just sort of bad, or even possibly okay. Add in the special effects, though, particularly the amazing jetpack rivercrossing scene towards the end, and it suddenly becomes ''hilarious''.
* While ''[[Titanic (Film)|Titanic]]'' is a good film, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2tYHcXNwAk alternate ending] is [[Anvilicious|extremely heavy-handed]] and unintentionally amusing.
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* ''Starballz'' is probably the worst animated porn film ever made but it is incredibly hilarious. The dubbing is bad, the animation is bad, the dialogue is... astonding but it is absolutely hilarious. Especially since you can make a brain-killing drinking game by naming all the references.
* ''[[Cool As Ice]]'', which can best be described as '[[The Room]]...with [[Vanilla Ice (Music)|Vanilla Ice]]'.
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6h8WntefD0 3 Dev Adam]'' (3 Mighty Men). A Turkish superhero ripoff in the vein of [[Turkish Star Wars]], it stars an inexplicably Turkish Captain America and a Turk- err, Mexican masked wrestler teaming up against a potbellied [[Complete Monster]] version of [[Spider Man]] with [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]. It must be seen to be believed.
* ''[[The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (Animation)|The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]''. Filled with [[Deranged Animation]], [[Hitler]] as a dog, and such genius dialogue as "Jesus Christ, Lucifer's a faggot!", it must be seen to be believed. Also [[Fritz the Cat (Animation)|the first one]], with all the animal sex and the black stereotype crows.
* [[Death Bed the Bed That Eats]]. It must be seen to be believed.
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* Back in the 90s [[Archie Comics]] made a [[Made for TV]] movie based on the cartoon named ''Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again''. One of the scenes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBojt6fDVvw features a middle aged Jughead attempting to dance to hiphop].. It's as awkward as you'd expect.
* ''[[Eegah]]'' is this, even without [[MST3K]], it's still hilarious, like plan 9, but with Jaws as a caveman.
* Most certainly [[The Boondock Saints]], with the OTT performance from Willem Dafoe and the [[Cluster F -Bomb]]s and all.
 
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