When a cameo is imaginative and well-pitched to its audience, it can be glorious, and when it isn't, it can temporarily derail or distract us from what a film is trying to do. Though a lot of the cameos here are riotously entertaining, they're all undeniably strange, making us wonder what could have possibly inspired the filmmakers to pick them for the part. Here's the ten that weirded us out - and amused or occasionally enraged us - below.
10. Mike Tyson - The Hangover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHwjD-g1L0 To be fair, Mike Tyson's appearance in Todd Phillips' smash-hit comedy The Hangover makes for one of the film's most uproariously funny moments, as the hungover heroes are forced to haggle for their lives after realising that they thieved his big cat. Still, that's nothing on what follows, which is something truly nobody could have anticipated; Tyson sits down at a grand piano and begins singing Phil Collins€™ In The Air Tonight, a nice juxtaposition which satirically undercuts his stereotypically savage persona. But there's one line in The Hangover that has stuck firm ever since first seeing it, and that's when Tyson is sitting with the boys, and casually declares, "We all do dumb s**t when we're f****d up". Think back to Tyson's chequered past, specifically his rape conviction, and that line resonates in a much darker way, especially given the fact that the guys laugh uproariously after he says it. While one can never be sure whether Phillips slipped that one in as a slyly dark zinger, it resonated with this writer, and indeed, a few other viewers I've asked about it.