10 Movies That Will Definitely Win Razzie Awards In 2017

2. Ride Along 2

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As long as people keep making movies like Ride Along 2, there’ll be no need to reboot the Police Academy franchise. Anyone nostalgic for bumbling cops and one-dimensional villains can get their fix right here, albeit with an ethnic twist and no Steve Guttenberg.

Just like a Police Academy sequel, Ride Along 2 pencils in its basic conflicts in the first ten minutes, with Benjamin Bratt (who you know is an evil drug lord just by looking at him) killing a competitor while Ice Cube (straight man) and Kevin Hart (funny man) perform some recycled shtick while chasing down bad guys. You can probably figure out which of the three will attempt to earn cheap laughs throughout the film by sticking his head into a rotating fan and running away from an alligator.

Anyway, Cube and Hart have relocated to Miami for this sequel, which makes it their Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach and begs the question: will there be a scene where they humiliate a guy by writing Dork on his chest while he’s sunbathing? There isn’t, but the humour is on that level, and most of the jokes are as sophisticated as the product placements for Red Bull.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'