Because you enjoyed it so much last year, I give you an early Christmas gift: my Top Ten Worst Films of 2007 list. These films will be counted down from 10 to 1, and please keep in mind these are MY picks and in no way represent any official movie institution. Feel free to disagree with my choices if you please. With that out of the way, onto the show.

10. December Boys
Director: Ron Hardy
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Thompson, Victoria Hill
Rated: PG-13 (For sexual content, nudity, underage drinking and smoking)

While there is only one person who will be able to make the claim that she is Mrs. Harry Potter, unfortuntly for her, by the time she has that bragging right everyone will be able to claim that they got to see Mr. Potter lose his virinity in "December Boys," a movie that most likely gained the attaintion it did for that sole purpose alone. One has to wonder whether or not the movie would have been even more of a bore without Daniel Radcliffe in it. At the very least it would cut back on the number of "is Harry Potter doing what I think he's doing" comments.

9. Rendition
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep
Rated: R (For torture/violence and language)

There is a saying that sometimes it takes truly talented people to make truly aweful stuff. "Rendition" is truly aweful in the sense that it's awefully boring, awefully long, and awefully preachy. I know that celebrities are human. And like all humans they usually have a strong political opinion. However, that gives them no right to band together and make a movie that beats you over the head with it's message. Robert Redford should thank God that this movie was released this year. If not, then it might have been "Lions For Lambs" on this list instead, which was an (almost) equally boring political film.

8. Evan Almighty
Director: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Steve Carrel, Morgan Freeman
Rated: PG (For mild rude humor and some peril)

Okay, I'll admit it: I forgot to write a review for this stinker. Sorry guys, but I honestly did NOT think I was going to see this movie! I hated the concept from the beginning, didn't like the envirenmental theme, and I get concerned when comedies have ballooning budgets. More bucks does not equal more yucks. "Knocked Up" had a mere fraction of the budget this movie had, yet it was far more edgy, far more funny, and (forgive me God) certainly had a hell of a lot more to say then this. By the time I finally got to see this movie I simply discovered that every complaint I heard about this movie was true (as well as every concern). This movie is ultra conservative, very much for the envirenment, and very, very preachy. It has plot holes that God himself would have difficulty forgiving, and the biggest mystery of all is why a movie cost $180 million dollars when it's basically Steve Carrel walking around in a toga the whole time. While I may write a review for this stinker to complete the links in this text, I feel a simple paragraph is really enough to sum up why this movie fails so miserably.

7. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Director: Tim Story
Rated: PG (For sequences of action violence, some mild language and innuendo)

While I can not deny that the Silver Surfer is one very cool creation, I also can not deny that this is one of the stupidist superhero movies ever made, toppled only by "Catwoman," "Batman & Robin," and the first "Fantastic Four." The first movie made enough money to get a sequel made, but you were hard pressed to find anyont who liked it. The only people who seemed to care about the first movie at all were kids. Realizing then that this franchise was lost with older viewers, this Fantastic Four had it's running time shaved to a mere ninty minutes, focused more on humor, and slashed the rating from a PG-13 to a family friendly PG. I also want to point out that the movie puts Jessica Alba's Susan Storm as the only member of the Fantastic Four to actually do anything important. Which is really odd, considering that The Thing was the most praisworthy character in the first film while Storm actually hindered the film for many fans because of Alba's lousy acting (she actually won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress for that film). Sadly, Alba's breasts resignates with many a hormone driven preteen, so it looks like Susan Storm will be taking a more prominant role in future installments of this franchise.

6. Fred Clause
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti
Rated: PG (For mild suggestive humor, and a brief depiction of smoking)

As if Christmas wasn't bleak enough as it was, Warner Bros. had to dump this, this...whatever, in our multiplexes this year. Considering Warner Bros. is the company behind the now classic "The Polar Express" and "A Christmas Story," the making of "Fred Clause" is esspecially puzzling. It's not only that the movie is bad, it's that it feels so restrained. Vince Vaughn, Paul Giatmatti, and Kevin Spacey all look like they want to be making a better movie. Indeed, the ending suggests that the movie at one point was really good, and the idea that Santa has a resentful big brother is, at the very least, a novel idea. But the movie seems to hold back most of the time, giving us outbursts of anger and some farting jokes. Racheal Weitz makes practically a cameo appearance and does nothing of importance, which makes me wonder if her part was scaled down the most. Who knows? What is clear is that "Fred Clause" amounts to nothing.

5. Norbit
Director: Brian Robbins
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy
Rated: PG-13 (For crude and sexual humor, some nudity and language)

Eddie Murphy was the front runner to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in "Dreamgirls," and he killed his own revival with this horrid, horrid train wreck of a movie. This is the kind of movie you go to see just to remind yourself of how unfunny truly funny people can be sometimes. Playing three different characters including the title character (all of them stupid and annoying), "Norbit" is a sad sight to behold. It's racist, sexist, and it glorifies in sin. The plot: Loser Norbit gets suckered into marrying the overweight Rasputia, who is a shrill, and secretly pines for the much nicer (though someone dumbwited) Kate, who is also the skinny girl. Though I could tear this movie apart, that would be all too easy and very unsatisfying. Instead, here's an idea the next time someone wants to make a movie like this: Try having the skinny girl be the shrew harpy and have the overweight woman have a heart of gold. That, I believe, would be a much more interesting movie.

4. Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightly, Chow Yun-Fat, Geoffery Rush
Rating: PG-13 (For intense sequences of of action/adventure violence and some frightening images)

In what is easily one of the biggest disagreements I've ever had with my friends, "Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End" is many things. It's long. It's loud. It's obnoxious. It makes no sense (ever). It has a monkey that gets shot out of a cannon. It has Johnny Depp being far weirder then even HE should have to be! Worst of all, it's not fun. Out of this big three hour epic mess, I think I enjoyed myself a mere twenty minutes, during a big climatic sword fight. Even that fight, I must add, got old after awhile. There are rumors that Disney plans to have these pirates set sail once again in another installment of the franchise. If the winds are with us though, that ship will be sunk, and we'll never have to watch another one of these movies again.

3. Wild Hogs
Director: Walter Becker
Starring: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy
Rating: PG-13 (For crude and sexual content, and some violence)

Is Tim Allen this desperate for work? I know John Travolta and William H. Macy have no excuses for wasting their talent on this movie, but I have to wonder about Tim. Ever since "Home Improvement" ended he's been in one bad movie after another. It's like he's deliberatly trying to have a crappy career. "Wild Hogs" is easily one of his worst movies, in a resume that really isn't glowing that much as it is (with the exception of some movies about toys and Santa Clause). As for the movie, well, if you've never seen a movie you might enjoy this. If you have seen a movie though, ANY movie, then stay away from this!

2. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James
Rating: PG-13 (For crude sexual content throughout, nudity, language and drug references)

Don't ask me why Adam Sandler gets to continue making movies, because I couldn't answer you if I tried. I've seen over half of this mans movies, and with rare exceptions like "Punch Drunk Love" and "Spanglish," Sandler is basically playing the same jerk in all of his film. For all I know though, maybe that's just Sandler being Sandler. Though the storyline for "I Now Pronoune You Chuck & Larry" is particularly stupid, I have to wonder how a movie can be this crass, this vulgar, and this mean to the homosexual lifestyle, and then feel it has the right to preach a message about tolerance and understanding. It's not like anyone actually learns anything in this movie.

1. The Heartbreak Kid
Director: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly
Starring: Ben Stiller
Rating: R (For strong sexual content, crude humor and language)

In a year full of turkies and disapointing sequel, "The Heartbreak Kid" was a shockingly easy choice to make as the worst film of the year. The Farrelly brothers try to get yucks out of yuck once more, and the results are just gross, stupid, and annoying. In particular this movie has the worst sex scene I've ever seen. I know some people question the validy of sex scenes in general, but if there is one thing we can all agree on they should not have us thinking "oh God, that poor man, why does he have to go through this?" On top of that this movie has the now famous jellyfish scene, a scene that was highlighted in almost every review as being one the stupidist (and grossest) scenes in the last five years. I also admit it: I'm getting tired of Ben Stiller playing a loser. I want him to be a tough guy. Just once. You know, for a change of pace.