Worst Movies of 2011: 'Jack & Jill,' 'Just Go With It,' 'Sucker Punch' And 'Shame'?

Shame

First Posted: 01/23/2012 12:31 pm Updated: 01/23/2012 12:31 pm

Good news, haters! The annual Vulture-compiled critics' poll of the worst movies of 2011 has arrived, and it's chock-a-block with your least favorite offerings from the last year. At the top, the Adam Sandler terrible twosome of "Jack & Jill" and "Just Go With It" (Sandler is to film critics what George Clooney is to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association), with the derided trio of "Sucker Punch," "I Am Number Four" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" rounding out the top five. So far, so bad! But then what is "Shame" doing on the list at No. 6?

The Steve McQueen-directed sex-addiction drama, which is poised to earn 2011 It-Boy Michael Fassbender an Oscar nomination on Tuesday, has a sparkling 81 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but still cracked the list of worst films on the Vulture poll (compiled from the opinions of "40 professional cinephiles").

"Shame" was listed on only five of the 40 ballots (New York critic David Edelstein, Reverse Shot's Michael Koresky, Jonathan Rosenbaum, New York Times critic Charles Taylor and Slate.com's Seth Colter Walls), but was seemingly penalized because of the wide variety of bad movies released in 2011. (People hated a lot of different things last year.)

Of course, that doesn't mean "Shame" was worse than "Abduction" or "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" -- two horrendously reviewed movies that are suspiciously absent from the list -- just that critics took the Vulture call-to-action as an opportunity to hate movies that had gotten some roundly approved critical love throughout the last year ("The Descendants," "War Horse" and "Drive" made some ballots as well). Anyway, congratulations, Bucky Larson! For one brief moment, you're bigger than Fassboner.

Click over to Vulture to see the top ten.

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Good news, haters! The annual Vulture-compiled critics' poll of the worst movies of 2011 has arrived, and it's chock-a-block with your least favorite offerings from the last year. At the top, the Adam...
Good news, haters! The annual Vulture-compiled critics' poll of the worst movies of 2011 has arrived, and it's chock-a-block with your least favorite offerings from the last year. At the top, the Adam...
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04:17 PM on 01/25/2012
What is the Hate for Sucker Punch, that was a good film
09:54 AM on 01/24/2012
i realy enjoyed just go with it who could say that that moie was bad i however did not enjoy sucker punch or rango or thor or twilight breaking dawn but zoo keeper 'wich everyone hated i loved' and yes i may be a guy but i also loved monte carlo with selena gomes and i also loved captian america
09:11 AM on 01/24/2012
jack and jill was just a laugh one of the few movies i saw this year the way everything has gone this year all i want is to forget troubles and jack and jill, thor, capt America, puss and boots, was for.
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10:38 PM on 01/23/2012
Just Go With It wasn't a bad movie at all, I enjoyed it. Brooklyn Decker being totally adorable definitely helped with that. I think this is more of a "bash Adam Sandler" plot rather than an actual critical opinion. If it were, Twilight should indeed be on the list. Because (once again) if it were based on critical opinion, box office success shouldn't matter. If it did, Mars Needs Moms would be right there at the top.

And I would STRONGLY defend Extremely Loud and Incredibly close as one of the BEST films of the year. I don't quite think it should get any Oscar attention, though von Sydow was absolutely brilliant, it was a VERY good film. There are certain negative criticisms of it that I agree with, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Whoever wrote this sounds like they haven't even seen the movie but rather just jumping on the bandwagon of a few nay-sayers that he/she may have come across when trying to decide which movie should be the last one on their list.

Overall....not well thought out. And because the article isn't very long (it should be to defend the author's choices), you can tell Rotten Tomatoes was probably the only real piece of material the author used. And also, calling Fassbender "Fassboner" is just incredibly poor taste. How can I respect the opinion of someone who would end their piece with that?
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03:08 PM on 01/23/2012
Kind of stunning that Breaking Dawn wasn't in the top 5.
02:13 PM on 01/23/2012
I guess the movies lived up to their names