8 Movies That Escaped Development Hell (And Weren't Worth The Wait)

Is a movie made as a cash-grab on a load of terrible dolls as an attempt to market them ever going to be good? I don't know, why don't you try asking The Emoji Movie, or Trolls, or any other inane meme-ably bad film with a merchandise line prepped before the movie even hits cinemas. I'll give The Lego Movie a pass, but the rest can hang their animated heads in animated shame.

Uglydolls is of course a vapid exploration of a bunch of the titular dolls celebrating their differences from cookie-cutter conventional beauty, which would be an admirable enough message if it wasn't underpinned by greed. In any case, that the film had to fight to exist at all just feels ironic, since it was dropped by the superior Illumination Entertainment studio and director Robert Rodriguez and picked up by STX for a lacklustre release this year.

The film was originally announced in 2011, but didn't start moving until four years later. It then suffered from multiple changes up of crew and production issues before finally landing in 2019, eight years after its intention. That no-one has really heard of it nor cares for it just solidifies its the Hollywood cynicism surrounding it.