10 Upcoming Netflix Movies That Are Probably Going To Suck

Release Date: 2018

Movies like this one, which bring together characters from two separate works of literature, rarely fare well. That's because these kinds of flicks require a whole lot of suspended disbelief... you have to buy into the core idea before you can enjoy the film, even if it fundamentally appears to make no sense at all.

So take the plot synopsis for Dorothy and Alice, which reads as follows:

Haunted by nightmares of Oz’s impending destruction, Dorothy Gale finds herself in a home for others like her with troubling, vivid dreams. While she is there, she meets a mysterious girl, Alice – who involves her in a perilous quest to not only save the worlds of imagination — those which we come to realize are real and not just dreams — but the world as we know it.

Whilst this might read like an interesting concept on paper, in practice it's wholly problematic. Explaining why - and how - two literary characters have somehow ended up coming together is going to be tough (and exposition-heavy).

Aside from the fact that there's a severe Sucker Punch vibe ringing through that plot outline, the screenplay - a spec - was penned by Justin Merz, an English teacher who co-wrote the terrible 2014 animated film The Boxcar Children. Does this already have the makings of a new, CG-tastic franchise nobody wants?