10 Movies That Blew INCREDIBLE Casts
3. North
Casts don't get much more impressive than that of Rob Reiner's 1994 dramedy North, which stars Elijah Wood alongside Jon Lovitz, Jason Alexander, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Kathy Bates, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Reba McEntire, John Ritter, Kelly McGillis, Abe Vigoda, Bruce Willis, and even a 9-year-old Scarlett Johansson.
Yet despite the tremendously successful Reiner directing a script penned by both the original novel's author Alan Zweibel and Oscar-nominated producer Andrew Scheinman (A Few Good Men), North was skewered by most critics, while inexplicably netting Razzie nods for Bruce Willis, Dan Aykroyd, and Kathy Bates.
However, its legacy might ultimately be the legendarily scathing review it received from the great Roger Ebert:
"I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."
Though Ebert and others criticised the film for its racial stereotypes at the time, beyond that it's simply a staggeringly unfunny film that couldn't wring even a few honest laughs out of some of the funniest and most entertaining actors on the planet. For shame.