13 Movies With Hilariously Inappropriate Product Placement
10. Everything - FoodFight
Product Placement: While this list largely consists of movies with egregious product placement, here's a movie that is itself pretty much a 91-minute advert from start to finish. After 10 years in production and $65 million spent, the Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff and Christopher Lloyd-starring animated flick finally hit screens in 2012 to a universally negative response, though coming from the guy who wrote Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, this isn't too surprising. FoodFight's plot revolves around a number of brand name products in a supermarket who are being bumped off and replaced with cheap, generic brands. As such, the movie's heroes include band together, including characters like Charlie the Tuna, Mrs. Butterworth, Mr. Clean, Twinkie the Kid and the California Raisins, all based on actual, real-life products. Why It's Inappropriate: For starters, who thought that kids would be interested in a movie about the stuff their parents buy at the supermarket? Was the goal to brainwash kids into begging their mums to buy more Mr. Clean? How does this make any sense whatsoever? Secondly, it's a movie built almost completely on product placement, with an extremely thin story merely wrapped around it. Unsurprisingly, nobody turned up to see it, and it grossed a shocking $73,706.
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