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