10 Actors Who Ruin Any Film They're In

6. Kevin James

Fat guy humour has been a staple of American cinema ever since John Belushi blew the roof off in Animal House (that's a figurative roof, not a plot spoiler). However there's a certain subtly to those roles, and despite how slapstick and silly they occasionally seem there's a genuine level of craft required to actually pull them off.

Contrast to Kevin James, a man who has made a multi-million dollar Hollywood career by doing nothing else but falling over, getting hit in the crotch, and pulling a confused face. From his breakthrough role in Hitch, right up to the upcoming third Paul Blart movie, James has played the same extra-notch-on-my-belt, everyman, white male for over a decade now.

However there's a huge distinction to be made between bad actors and bad movies, and for any actor to legitimately ruin a film there would have had to have been some potential there in the first place. Kevin James' ultimate sin on screen? His presence is the thing that tells you that you're watching a Kevin James movie.