10 Terrible Movies That Still Managed To Break The Box Office

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 42%

By all accounts, Shrek the Third should have been a roaring success. The first film broke ground with a unique (at that time) blend of adult humour within a children's movie setting, rehashing the fairytale world for the millennial generation. The second doubled down on this, refining its animation, bringing in a larger cast of characters (all with famous voices) and going to town on contemporary culture in the process.

Sadly, however, the people in charge of the third entry in the endlessly memeable franchise reckoned that audiences came for pop culture references and body humour alone. Shrek 3 is a watering down of the canon, with weaker characters, strained Shrek-Donkey banter and cheap laughs throughout.

Despite the serious quality concerns and lack of innovation involved in utilising its $160 million budget ($10 million more than its predecessor), it still made an eye-watering $813 million, which, while less than Shrek 2's $935 million, was still enough to secure Shrek's place as a big and small-screen mainstay for the remainder of the noughties.