The 2001 How Dare You Awards

Worst Title:

  • Crazy/Beautiful

  • K-PAX (WINNER!)

  • Pootie Tang

  • Riding in Cars with Boys

  • What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

Most Unnecessary Sequel:

  • American Pie 2

  • Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (WINNER!)

  • Jurassic Park 3

  • The Mummy Returns

  • Scary Movie 2

Movie that Took Itself Way, Way Too Seriously:

  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (WINNER!)

  • Hearts in Atlantis

  • The Last Castle

  • The Majestic

  • Pearl Harbor

Biggest Disappointment:

  • A.I. (WINNER!)

  • Ali

  • Blow

  • Final Fantasy

  • Planet of the Apes

Movie that Should Have Had Action Figures, But Didn’t:

  • Hannibal

  • I am Sam (WINNER!)

  • Life as a House

  • Rock Star

  • The Shipping News

Lamest Use of Time Travel:

  • Black Knight

  • Just Visiting

  • Kate & Leopold (WINNER!)

  • Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

  • Planet of the Apes

Most Regrettable Performance by a Non-Actor in an Acting Role:

  • Lance Bass: On the Line

  • Mariah Carey: Glitter (WINNER!)

  • Snoop Dogg: Bones

  • Joey Fatone: On the Line

  • The Rock: The Mummy Returns

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actor:

  • Nicholas Cage: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (WINNER!)

  • Michael Douglas: One Night at McCool’s

  • Cuba Gooding Jr.: Rat Race

  • Gene Hackman: Heartbreakers

  • Christopher Walken: Joe Dirt

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actress:

  • Kathy Bates: Rat Race

  • Whoopi Goldberg: Rat Race

  • Goldie Hawn: Town & Country

  • Helen Hunt: Curse of the Jade Scorpion (WINNER!)

  • Angelina Jolie: Original Sin

Most Reprehensible Body of Work in a Single Year:

  • Paul Hogan: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (WINNER!)

  • Hugh Jackman: Kate & Leopold, Someone Like You, Swordfish

  • Angelina Jolie: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider & Original Sin

  • Vince Vaughn: Domestic Disturbance, Made, Zoolander

  • Mark Wahlberg: Planet of the Apes & Rock Star

Movie You Least Wanted to See:

  • Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

  • Glitter (WINNER!)

  • Joe Somebody

  • On the Line

  • Original Sin

Title that Best Fits a Porno
Film:

  • All Over the Guy

  • Along Came a Spider

  • The Deep End (WINNER!)

  • The Fast and the Furious

  • The Mexican

Most Formulaic:

  • Black Knight: Somebody hit on the head goes on a fantastic journey

  • Hardball: Only a coach with his own problems can help a group of misfits win on the baseball diamond

  • Kate & Leopold: Two people not suited for each other fall in love. This time thanks to a rip in the fabric of time

  • The Princess Diaries: A regular girl from the city finds out she’s a princess in a fish out of water story (WINNER!)

  • Serendipity: Two people meant to fall in love but marrying other people manage to find each other 

Worst Concept:

  • The Animal: A loser hit by a car is saved with animal parts and becomes a great cop (WINNER!)

  • Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles: Dundee goes to Hollywood with his son and movie studio shenanigans

  • Ghosts of Mars: People live on Mars and discover a long dormant Marian civilization of warriors

  • Sweet November: Two people meet in a DMV and decide to date for one month with no pressure, until they fall in love

  • What’s the Worst that Could Happen?: A thief being arrested has his ring taken by the man he was stealing from and wants it back

Cinematic Death Matches

Hedwing and the Angry Inch vs. Josie and the Pussycats

The Tailor of Panama vs. The Mexican

Joe Dirt vs. Joe Somebody

Ghosts of Mars vs The Planet of the Apes

Bubby Boy vs. Hannibal

The Others vs. The One

The Fast vs. The Furious

Previous
Previous

The 2002 How Dare You Awards

Next
Next

The 2000 How Dare You Awards