10 Movie Flops It's Okay To Hate

Here’s a would-be superhero movie (produced in association with Mattel) that’s so generic and predictable that it defies description as a “new” film.

Teenager Max is basically the poor man’s Amazing Spider-Man who discovers that his late father was a brilliant scientist working on a way to harness energy “beyond anything that mankind has ever attempted.” Faster than you can sense a YA franchise in the offing, Max gets an extraterrestrial buddy named Steel and has to fight an alien menace.

Max Steel was a disaster at the box office, opening at #11 and taking $3 million – less than Bratz or Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. It only made $6 million worldwide, so we shouldn’t be bothered by this type of nonsense again.