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The Worst Movies of 2024
Variety critics pick the worst movies of 2024, from 'Rebel Moon: Director's Cut' to 'Poolman,' 'Dogman' and 'The Mouse Trap.'
This year, “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” got a sequel (and threats of an expanded “Poohniverse” involving Peter Pan, Bambi and Pinocchio in 2025), while a lazy group of Canadians shot a dreary horror movie about a dude who goes homicidal after watching “Steamboat Willie.” The film provides zero scares and countless questions, like why can he teleport, and why would anyone scream after seeing a guy in a Mickey Mouse mask? That makes the cross-dressing comic (homophobically rechristened “Pherry” here) an easy target for envy and scorn, and yet, he deserves better than Johnny Mack’s crude, incompetent satire, which hectors everyone from Oprah to Judge Hatchett, squandering cameos from Jamie Foxx as God and Mickey Rourke as a sickly-looking Satan in a red cape and lingerie. For all its supposedly visionary, wank-bank addition to the “Heavy Metal” genre of battle droids and scantily clad warrior babes, very little of the movie lingers in my memory (apart from a showdown with Jena Malone’s spider-like ogumo and the shredded “Game of Thrones” guy who travels the galaxy without ever needing a shirt).
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