10 Wildly Popular Films That Are Actually Rubbish

Described as “monumentally silly” by Rolling Stone and a “disjointed botch” by the Wall Street Journal, Tim Burton’s “reimagining” failed to launch a franchise, left audiences scratching their heads and received some very lukewarm comments from its own cast, so it must’ve been a miserable flop, right?

With a $360 million worldwide gross, Planet ranked #9 on the list of 2001’s highest grossing films, just ahead of Ridley Scott’s Hannibal. This was despite a storytelling style so convoluted that even Burton, in a DVD commentary, admitted he couldn’t explain the film’s plot.

After multiple viewings, you have to sympathize with the filmmaker because his picture has the distinction of being the only entry in the franchise where nothing is satisfactorily explained, characters and plot points are introduced and discarded at random and the climactic ‘reveal’ provides more questions than answers.

If Ape-raham Lincoln has a monument in his honour, does that mean that he freed the (human) slaves? If so, did one of them go one to become President at Twentieth Century Fox? Probably not - only a monkey could’ve greenlit a movie like this.