Dan Aykroyd: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

3. Dad - Loser (2000)

2000 really wasn't the greatest year for the Dan Aykroyd fan club: he'd rubbed salt into the wounds of anyone complaining about a Blues Brothers sequel by making it terrible, and he also appeared in one of the most unremarkable teen comedies of all time. That it came at the height of the genre, starred American Pie's Jason Biggs and was backed up by the supreme excellence of Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag" makes it all the worse.

Loser is an absolute abomination, and definitive proof - if ever it were needed - that nobody should ever allow David Spade and Andy Dick to work on the same project. It is utterly, painfully unfunny, offering no new riff on the teen comedy movie, and the entire thing - including Dan Aykroyd's entirely pointless supporting role as "Dad" - is upstaged horribly by Biggs' improbable, ridiculous curtains.

He only turns up for a short amount of screen time, but Loser is another case of Aykroyd wasting his comic legacy for walk-ons and supporting roles that are distantly beneath him.