13 Terrible Recent Movies Destined To Become Cult Classics
11. A Wrinkle In Time
Ambitious, big-budget flops are always prime fodder for cult fandom, and truly, A Wrinkle in Time "succeeds" as the rightful heir to Tomorrowland's crown as the King of wildly overblown, odiously ill-advised, can't-look-away car crash entertainment.
It is a visually inventive film for sure, though those visuals are in the service of a weirdly generic adventure movie, directed with little aplomb by indie vet Ava DuVernay, and a cast struggling to survive amid a sea of trippy-yet-hilarious CGI.
After all, where else can you see a gigantic Oprah show up in someone's back garden, or Reese Witherspoon turn into a giant leaf creature? And if that's not enough for you, a terrible child actor ends up playing the avatar of the primary antagonist, and it goes about as well as that usually does.
Always baffling but also an utterly fascinating curio from a production perspective, almost all of A Wrinkle in Time's creative choices will have you wondering how Disney ever gave it the green light, but you'll probably be perversely glad that they did.