12 Awesome 2014 Performances In Otherwise Awful Movies

4. Terry Crews - Blended

The Movie: Adam Sandler takes a holiday to Africa and brings a film crew along to the tune of $40 million...but to his credit, even though Blended is painfully overlong and casually racist, this extravagant economic model continues to work for the divisive comedian. The Performance: While Sandler and romantic co-lead Drew Barrymore both totally phone it in here and barely anyone else even registers a pulse, the one performance that's actually genuinely entertaining is Terry Crews as Nickens, an African performer working for the resort where the families are staying. Even though Crews' performance could itself be said to simply reinforce unsavoury African stereotypes just as strongly as every other performance by a black actor in the movie, at least he's clearly having a blast doing it, and brings a ton of energy to a movie otherwise totally lacking it. Much like his hilarious work in White Chicks, he manages to slightly elevate a terrible movie with his go-for-broke attitude.