10 More Movies That Suck So Bad You Can’t Believe Got Made

In an impressive career that has spanned four decades and seen her complete the performer Infinity Gauntlet known as the EGOT (winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award), the great Whoopi Goldberg has only one regret. And it comes in the form of a pretty disastrous 1996 dino-buddy cop movie known as Theodore Rex.

Here, Goldberg plays Katie Coltrane, a no-nonsense detective, a character who eventually teams up with George Newbern's anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus Rex. The two then get to searching for a killer of various animals.

Containing the sort of cringe-inducing dialogue and poor special effects that will make you wish you'd gone extinct a few million years before sitting through this prehistoric dud, even New Line Cinema themselves eventually realised they were onto a loser here and opted against releasing the film in theatres. That made Jonathan Betuel's Theodore Rex the most expensive direct-to-video movie ever when it finally dropped/flopped. 

It's not exactly hard to see why Goldberg initially tried to back out of a picture that required her to throw on a futuristic jumpsuit and trade dodgy lines with a goofy-looking Rex-suit for 90 minutes. But the real question is how anyone within New Line Cinema with a pair of working eyes could have honestly taken one look at this weak concept on paper and seen anything other than a guaranteed failure on the horizon?