The 2011 How Dare You Awards

Worst Title:

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

• I Am Number Four (WINNER!)

• Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon

• We Bought a Zoo

Most Unnecessary Sequel:

• Big Momma’s: Like Father Like Son (WINNER!)

• Final Destination 5

• Hoodwinked 2

• Johnny English Reborn

• Quarantine 2

Movie That Took Itself Way, Way Too Seriously:

• Cowboys & Aliens (WINNER!)

• The Eagle

• Ides of March

• Robin Hood

• Trespass

Biggest Disappointment:

• The Adjustment Bureau

• Cowboys & Aliens (WINNER!)

• Green Lantern

• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

• The Thing

Least Successful Remake or Reboot:

• Arthur

• Conan the Barbarian

• Footloose (WINNER!)

• Straw Dogs

• The Thing

Movies You Most Easily Confused:

• The Change-Up & Hall Pass

• The Company Men & Margin Call

• Dream House & Insidious

• The Green Hornet & Green Lantern (WINNER!)

• The Way & The Way Back

Least Frightening Horror Movie:

• Dream House

• Final Destination 5 (WINNER!)

• Paranormal Activity 3

• Quarantine 2

• The Rite

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actor:

• Nicolas Cage: Drive Angry (WINNER!)

• Nicolas Cage: Season of the Witch

• Nicolas Cage: Trespass

• Robert DeNiro: New Year’s Eve

• Al Pacino: Jack & Jill

Most Forgettable Performance by an Oscar Winning Actress:

• Nicole Kidman: Trespass

• Helen Mirren: Arthur

• Natalie Portman: No Strings Attached

• Natalie Portman: Your Highness (WINNER!)

• Hilary Swank: New Year’s Eve

Movie You Least Wanted to See:

• Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (WINNER!)

• Drive Angry

• Johnny English Reborn

• The Three Musketeers

• Trespass

Title That Best Fits a Porno Movie:

• 30 Minutes or Less

• The Beaver (WINNER!)

• Dolphin Tale

• Just Go With It

• The Thing

Most Formulaic:

• The Change-Up: The body switching movie is back but this time it’s two buddies who like each other’s lives better (WINNER!)

• Jack & Jill: This formula is specific to Adam Sandler in which he makes a movie that is utterly insane

• New Year’s Eve: This movie follows the formula of putting dozens of stars into one movie with a very thin through line

• One Day: Two people from opposite sides of the track and who see the world completely differently learn how to love each other. And it only takes twenty years

• Unknown: A unique formula in which Liam Neeson stars in an action movie in January or February

Most Ridiculous Concept:

• The Adjustment Bureau: A young man running for the Senate meets the woman of his life but apparently there are actual agents that work for Fate and unfortunately Fate says he shouldn’t love this woman

• Cowboys & Aliens: A mysterious gunslinger must unite townspeople, outlaws, and Apache warriors against alien forces in an epic battle for survival

• Drive Angry: A brutal felon escapes from hell because cultists have murdered his daughter and taken her baby. He joins forces with a waitress to get the baby back but Satan sends a merciless henchman to get him back (WINNER!)

• Real Steel: A prize fighter lost his chance at the title because boxers because giant robots took over boxing matches and he now want to put a winning robot together for the championship 

• Zookeeper: A caretaker at the zoo likes animals more than people and decides he can only get a girl if he quits his job for a better one