11 Movies That Should Really Have Sucked (But Somehow Didn't)

4. Clue (1985)

ClueClue resulted from one of the first instances where the guy who green-lights projects in Hollywood came into work one day and said: "You know that board game? Clue? I think the best thing we could do right now is make a movie out of it." And that's precisely what happened - they made a movie out of freakin' Clue, which sounds like a fully-fledged disaster of epic proportions, but somehow wasn't that. Nope: this thing didn't emerged as the unmitigated abomination that everybody was probably expecting - it's no masterpiece, of course, but thanks to its irreverent tone, a great cast, and the fact that the movie shipped into theatres with the added novelty that there were several endings, and this was probably about the best movie they could have made. Oh, and it stars Tim Curry and Christopher Lloyd, who nail their roles as Wadsworth and Professor Plum respectively. It's ridiculous, but in the best way.
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