The 2010 How Dare You Awards

Written By Michael Shantz

Worst Title:

  • How Do You Know

  • Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (WINNER!)

  • My Soul to Take

  • Salt

  • The Next Three Days

Most Unnecessary Sequel:

  • Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (WINNER!)

  • Nanny McPhee Returns

  • Resident Evil: Afterlife

  • Step-Up 3-D

  • Why Did I Get Married Too?

Movie That Took Itself Way, Way Too Seriously:

  • Dear John

  • Extraordinary Measures

  • Love and Other Drugs

  • Prince of Persia

  • The Last Airbender (WINNER!)

Biggest Disappointment:

  • Alice in Wonderland (WINNER!)

  • Clash of the Titans

  • Due Date

  • Sex and the City 2

  • The Tourist

Least Successful Remake or Reboot:

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (WINNER!)

  • Clash of the Titans

  • Robin Hood

  • The A-Team

  • The Wolfman

Movie Not Even a Child Wanted to See:

  • Alpha & Omega in 3-D

  • Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (WINNER!)

  • Furry Vengeance

  • Marmaduke

  • The Spy Next Door

Least Frightening Horror Movie:

  • Case 39

  • Devil (WINNER!)

  • My Soul to Take

  • Saw 3-D

  • Splice

Biggest Non-Entity Performance by a Hollywood Legend:

  • Julie Andrews: The Tooth Fairy

  • Dustin Hoffman: Little Fockers

  • Shirley MacLaine: Valentine’s Day

  • Jack Nicholson: How Do You Know (WINNER!)

  • Barbara Streisand: Little Fockers

Most Unecessary and Annoying Use of 3-D:

  • Clash of the Titans

  • Gulliver’s Travels

  • Step Up 3-D (WINNER!)

  • The Last Airbender

  • Yogi Bear

Movie You Least Wanted to See:

  • Faster

  • From Paris with Love

  • MacGrueber

  • My Soul to Take (WINNER!)

  • The Spy Next Door

Movie That Should Have Stayed a Video Game, Comic, or Graphic Novel:

  • Jonah Hex

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (WINNER!)

  • Repo Men

  • Resident Evil: Afterlife

  • The Last Airbender

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actor:

  • Nicholas Cage: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (WINNER!)

  • Chris Cooper: Remember Me

  • Dustin Hoffman: Little Fockers

  • Anthony Hopkins: The Wolfman

  • Ben Kingsley: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actress:

  • Anjelica Huston: When in Rome

  • Liza Minnelli: Sex and the City 2

  • Julia Roberts: Valentine’s Day

  • Reese Witherspoon: How Do You Know (WINNER!)

  • Renee Zellweger: Case 39

Movie That Best Fits a Porno Movie:

  • Faster

  • Inside Man

  • Let Me In (WINNER!)

  • Morning Glory

  • Winter’s Bone

Most Formulaic:

  • Due Date (A travel movie. A mismatched pair travel across country. One is uptight and one is loud and obnoxious. Think Trains, Planes and Automobiles)

  • Killers (A wife joins her CIA husband and his dangerous shenanigans. She had no idea!Think True Lies) (WINNER!)

  • Leap Year (Two complete opposites manage to fall in love. This time in Ireland.)

  • Life As We Know It (Two complete opposites manage to fall in love. This time when they’re willed a baby.)

  • The Spy Next Door (A spy has to baby-sit some children while people try to kill him. It’s a fish out of water story. Think The Pacifier)

Most Ridiculous Concept:

  • Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole: A young owl is abducted by an evil owl army

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: A young fugitive prince and princess try to stop a villain with a special dagger that reverses time

  • The Human Centipede: A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists to reassemble them into a new pet.

  • The Last Airbender: A young successor to Avatars must put his childish ways aside to battle the Fire Nation

  • Tooth Fairy: A bad deed forces a hockey player to be the tooth fairy (WINNER!)

Michael Shantz
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