10 Movie Flops It's Okay To Hate

When Men In Black made $589 million worldwide, reteaming Will Smith with director Barry Sonnenfeld for another effects-heavy action comedy sounded like a great idea. Armed with a $170 million budget, the duo set out to own the box office,

All they needed was a script.

Credited to six writers, this rehash of the 60s TV show set a new record for the amount of zingers that land with a thud. Every time Smith and Kenneth Branagh (whose character uses a steam-powered wheelchair) share the screen, they trade insults, Branagh making racist slurs while Smith comments upon Branagh’s handicap. Among the jaw-dropping lines used are “I haven’t seen him in a coon’s age” and “I find that an occasion to stand up and be counted.”

One of the strangest scenes comes when Smith attempts to escape a lynching for touching a white woman by explaining that in his “native land”, the men communicate with women by drumming on their breasts. All he was doing was tapping out the message, “Hi, how you doin’. How’s yo momma?”

The movie landed with a thud at the box office, too.