10 Dumbest Villains In Movie History
8. Jabba The Hutt - Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Jabba Desilijic Tiure, known colloquially by allies and enemies alike as Jabba The Hutt, is a giant alien slug and crimelord whose actions are the catalyst for the events of the opening act of the third instalment of the Star Wars franchise. Essentially, the focus is rebel hero and reformed smuggler Han Solo, who has been captured and imprisoned by Jabba for a year, since the successful conclusion of a bounty hunt on Solo's head.
The successful bounty hunter, Boba Fett, had Solo frozen in carbonite and hand delivered to Jabba, who has him as a wall-hanging and deterrent to any others working for him who might think of dumping a valuable shipment when boarded by the authorities. When Luke Skywalker infiltrates Jabba's stronghold, Jabba isnt remotely concerned; he's immune to Luke's Jedi mind tricks, and has already chained rebel Princess Leia up in a fetching gold bikini at his feet, thereby triggering the sexual awakening of millions of adolescent geeks.
As crimelords generally do, he elects to submit the first Jedi Knight seen in the galaxy in two decades to a couple of entertaining execution scenarios, rather than just off him with a series of well-placed blaster bolts from the dozens of cronies and henchmen littering his seedy den. By this point, the woefully poor businessman Jabba has had offers of financial settlement made (not just from Solo, an inveterate chancer and liar, but by Skywalker himself) to compensate him for his loss, but has instead elected to continue partying like Tom Cruise in Risky Business in what appears to be a dank basement masquerading as a desert post-apocalyptic nightclub, while holding hostage two leaders of a galaxy-wide rebellion, who happen to have their own army.
Imagine if the leader of a Mafioso family held two terrorist generals hostage for nothing but his own amusement and then played games with the life of a third when he came to bargain for their release. If this wasn't set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Tony Soprano would be spinning in his grave.