THE WORST FILMS OF 2013
Bad movies are like bullies: You know in your heart you should just forget them, turning the other cheek rather than holding a grudge, but the thirst for retribution can be consuming. Here, ranked by rankness, are the year’s worst movies—a hall of shame that includes blockbusters, sequels, spinoffs, franchise hopefuls and laughless comedies. (Bad movies, after all, come in all shapes, sizes, and budgets.) Don’t have the stomach for such petty score settling? Planes Though often derided as the lone lemon on the Pixar lot, Cars 2 looks like Toy Story 2 compared to the parent company’s insultingly lazy attempt at a spinoff. Set in the same confusing, nonsensical universe as the Cars movies, Disney’s Planes swipes shamelessly from the first film in that series, setting up its crop-duster hero (voiced by Dane Cook, doing his best Owen Wilson) with a wise old mentor figure and a yokel sidekick. In place of characters, the movie offers only broad, borderline-offensive caricatures, l...