20 Highest Grossing Movies of 2014 - Ranked From Worst To Best

19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A concept like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has always been associated with a sense of fun, but director Jonathan Liebesman strangely decided to turn his movie into an overly-serious and largely humourless affair; there is precious little of the signature banter between the title characters, everything is tied together with an overly-complicated backstory and the action sequences are a generic succession of CGI scraps with no real stakes. The final product strikes an uneven balance of being too dark for a kids movie and too stupid for older audiences to enjoy. While Michael Bay may only be on board as a producer, his fingerprints are all over the movie; the paper-thin script, one-dimensional characters, cringeworthy humour and objectification of Megan Fox could have come directly from his own Transformers franchise. Perhaps the most impressive thing about this update of the enduringly popular franchise is just how a $125m blockbuster about the adventures of four giant talking reptiles that know martial arts could turn out to be so crushingly dull.