From Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, a timeless audience favourite, to It Happened One Night, an Oscar winner It’s amusing and ultimately quite exciting to see a seemingly unrelated pair fall in love, as in the movie When Harry Met Sally. Even a so-so, predictable rom-com that is confident in sticking to tropes and never aims further than mediocrity may be comforting in its familiarity. However, there are the romantic comedies that completely fail. The films listed below are the worst romantic comedies attempts ever, according to critics on the Tomatometer.
1. Down To You (2000)
Director- Kris Isacsson
Votes- 0%
When Imogen is a freshman and Al is a sophomore, they first meet at a college in New York City. He aspires to become a chef like his father, but she is a gifted artist. They make out after she chooses a music for them after they fell in love. But she worries about ageing, getting marry too soon, and having kids before she’s ready. Imogen fears that this might just be a false romantic illusion. He is upset when she sleeps with someone else, and the marriage falls apart. He enters a depression with the help of booze once she departs for San Francisco. In an effort to get rid of his addiction, he even consumes her shampoo.
2. Because I Said So (2007)
Director- Michael Lehmann
Votes- 4%
The love of Daphne Wilder, a mother, knows no limits or restrictions. She is the proud mother of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie, gorgeous and wild Mae, and insecure, lovely Milly, who is schizophrenic flypaper around guys. Daphne makes the decision to match Milly with the ideal man in order to keep her daughter from making the same errors she did. Milly is unaware that her mother posted an advertisement in the online personals to find him, though. Daphne continues to act inappropriately for justification—all in the name of love—as comic mayhem ensues. The mother-daughter relationship is put to the test in all of its furious, crazy complexity in a struggle of strong wills. The girls attempt to provide the answers while also assisting Daphne in learning the realities and impossibilities of motherly love.
3. Serving Sara (2002)
Director- Reginald Hudlins
Votes- 4%
Joe Tyler, a process server in New York, is given a task with serving Sara Moore with divorce papers. Gordon Moore, her affluent husband from Texas, is defrauding her and attempting to seize their entire estate for himself. Joe heads to Texas with Sara in an effort to complete his mission after Sara gives him one million dollars in exchange for serving Gordon first. In the meantime, Tony, Joe’s coworker and adversary, are gone to serve Sara by the serving firm.
4. Playing For Keeps (2012)
Director- Gabriele Muccino
Votes- 4%
In this romantic comedy starring Gerard Butler, a burnt-out soccer player seeks to win back his family but is sidetrack by his wandering eye. Professional soccer player George hangs up his cleats and returns to Virginia when his bank account gets deplete and his libido has worn out. George takes a job coaching a local soccer club and starts striving to develop the young players into true athletes. For the reason, he is determine to live up to the expectations of his ex-wife and their lonely son. George discovers that it is difficult to stay focused on his work and control his urges for sex while every cougar in the town is watching him from the sidelines.
5. A Little Bit Of Heaven (2011)
Director- Nicole Kassell
Votes- 4%
Marley Corbett, a free-spirited advertising executive from New Orleans, draws strength and support from her close group of friends and celebrates her casual sexuality. Marley then finds out that her colon cancer is terminal. Even as her health slowly deteriorates, Marley discovers herself falling in love with her charming doctor despite her resolve to avoid becoming committed in a long-term relationship.
6. Material Girls (2006)
Director- Martha Coolidge
Votes- 4%
Avan and Tanzie, the well-off daughters of late cosmetics empire creator Victor Marchetta, never even show an interest in the company, content to let it be administer by Tommy Katzenbach, the administrator of the company, while they led socialite lifestyles and aimed to wed soap star Mic Rionn. The company’s stock and their family’s image are abruptly destroy by a scandal. Their credit cards gets suspend one of them sets the mansion on fire, and the other gives their sports car to a robber who they believe to be a valet parking attendant.
They consequently move in with their old cleaning lady, a Latina. Henry Baines, whose free legal aid for the poor charity they didn’t even consider for sponsoring. The hot lab technician Rick, whom they previously mistook for the nonexistent firm parking lot attendant. Hence, providing assistance in determining whether the firm is really best sold to rival Fabiella, as Tommy claims.
7. Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Director- Mark Helfrich
Votes- 5%
Charlie Kagan, a dentist, has been cursed since he was a child and cannot find the perfect woman. Even worse, he finds out that every one of his ex-girlfriends finds real love with the man she meets after their relationships finish. Women from all around line up for a short tryst after learning about Charlie’s reputation as a good luck charm. But when Charlie finds the lady of his dreams, he must figure out how to end the curse or risk losing her to the next man she encounters.
8. ‘Til There Was You (1997)
Director- Scott Winant
Votes- 5%
Gwen is raise by a romantic mother who frequently recounts the events surrounding the courting and marriage of her to her father. Nick is raise by an alcoholic father who is unable to keep down a job, forcing his family to travel frequently. The two are shape by this as they watch the wildly popular 1960s sitcom “One Big Happy Family,” with Gwen becoming a romantic and Nick becoming reclusive and unsure of himself. After years of almost-meetings and near-misses, it is Francesca Lanfield, the star of that programme who is now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always repeating, “I thought she was dead,” who unites the two of them.
While Nick, who later becomes her lover, is the architect who is tasked with creating a structure for Gwen’s property, Gwen is paid to write Francesca’s memoirs under her pen name. Writing letters to the press during Gwen’s campaign to rescue her building catches Nick’s eye and wins him over.
9. Gigli (2003)
Director- Martin Brest
Votes- 6%
Gigli, a poor thug, is tasked with abducting the mentally ill younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor in order to keep his gangster boss out of jail. Gigli and Brian, his kidnap victim, are camped out in his one-bedroom apartment when he discovers that what he once believed would be a simple operation quickly turns into a difficult one. Gigli’s boss doesn’t believe Gigli is capable of carrying out the kidnapping, so Ricki, a stunning, free-spirited female mobster, is dispatched to help. Gigli, the tough guy, starts to change into a real human being when his affections for the decidedly inaccessible Ricki start to intensify and he starts to worry about Brian, which, given his line of work, might be a very risky job.
10. All About Steve (2009)
Director- Phil Traill
Votes- 6%
The Sacramento Herald’s crossword puzzles are written by Mary Horowitz. She is excessively talkative. Mary takes a blind date with Steve, the cameraman for a television network akin to CNN, when youngsters at a Career Day make fun of her for being unmarried. She makes up her mind about him in a matter of minutes. He makes a casual comment about going on the road with her before splitting, quickly turned off by her incessant chatter and overbearing advances. Moonstruck, she creates a sentimental crossword puzzle, leaves her job, and makes the decision to follow him while the news crew travels throughout the Southwest. Steve’s team encourages her to do so. When she then falls into a mining shaft, Steve and she become the focus of a tale.
