10 Terrible Movies That Still Managed To Break The Box Office

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 21%

Much like Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Smurfs isn't exactly prestige cinema. However, the series - about tiny little blue people who live in the toadstool-topped and aptly named Smurf Village - has slightly more elevated origins in the medium of comic books.

The 2011 CG/live-action adaptation brings the Smurfs (voiced by a cast including Jonathan Winters, Alan Cumming and Katy Perry) to Manhattan, where they spend their time enacting mild shenanigans and evading capture by the evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria). Anything set in New York tends to put bums on cinema seats, and Raja Gosnell's goofy romp was no different, bringing in some $563 million's worth of punters on a $110 million budget.

Needless to say though, the film is terrible. The dialogue, humour and action are all aimed at the youngest possible audience, with nothing for anyone in double digits to care about. Add to this Sony's flaccid, pre Spider-Verse animation and predictable plotting, and it should be no surprise that this series was aborted after a sequel, rebooted, and then banished to TV, where it belonged from the start.