Though 2011 may have been a great year for movies there were still some epic failures. To bad franchises that just won't go away to franchises that have no hope of becoming franchises, these are the movies that makes a critic want to find real work. But first, a list of the films that couldn't fit on this list (and trust me, there are a couple there that hurt to not have room for):

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Cars 2
The Twilight Saga: Break Dawn Part 1
Priest
Green Hornet
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

 

10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush
Rated: PG-13 (For sexual content/nudity, language and some violence)

I never thought I'd see the day when Disney released a PG-13 film for sexual content, but that was the least of this films problems. I think it's safe to say that Captain Jack Sparrow is no longer entertaining. Four movies ago he was a unique creation. Now he's an dog who you realize hasn't learned any new tricks for years. The movie squanders Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane as the first new characters in this franchise that had a chance at being interesting. What's most depressing is that once promising director Rob Marshall is showing that he may never top his success with "Chicago" ever again. This also marks my vote for "Most Pointless Use of 3D" for the entire year, adding nothing to the film other than a $3 per ticket surcharge.

9. Bad Teacher
Director: Jake Kasdas
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel
Rated: R (For sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use)

If the women in "Bridesmaids" could prove that women could be funny and smart while still being as crude as they wanted to, then Cameron Diaz proved the exact opposite all by her lone self in "Bad Teacher." Horribly unfunny with jokes that National Lapoon stopped using YEARS ago, "Bad Teacher" may be the only film on this list that actually warned you about the contents of its own movie! Props to Jason Segal for keeping a straight face during this film. He had a reason to be confident though: He knew "The Muppets" would save any damage this movie did on his career a few months later.

8. No Strings Attached
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher
Rated: R (For sexual content, language and some drug material)

This year there were two films that delt with the issue of friends having sex without the intention of getting into a serious relationship. One was a nice surprise and justified its humor with some real heart. The other was stupidly insulting and very well could have left broken careers in its path. Guess which one this is. Alright, so Ashton Kutcher was never really all that hot of an actor (and it's amazing his ex-wife wasn't ashamed to be seen in public with him after this), but Natalie Portman had just won her Oscar for "Black Swan" and director Ivan Reitman directed "Ghostbusters." How on Earth did these people manage to screw this up so badly? I list one scene on what this film so utterly fails: A twelve year old boy asks a girl (who is comforting him after he learns that his parents are getting a divorce) if he can finger her. And this is less then five minutes into the film. Yeah...I know I was in for a fun time after that.

7. Abduction
Director: John Singleton
Starring: Taylor Lautner
Rated: PG-13 (For sequences of intense violence and action, brief language, some sexual content and teen partying)

"Abduction" could have easily been titled "Abysmal" and I don't think anyone would have noticed. This extremely loud film piled stupid on top of stupid until there was nothing left. Everyone in this film is a complete moron who spends entire chunks of movie trying to catch someone and then letting them get away when they've got a great chance to catch them. I also know Taylor Lautner has his fans, but he doesn't have the charisma of a young Tom Cruise to make material like this work.

6. New Year's Eve
Director: Gary Marshall
Starring: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Héctor Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank, Sofía Vergara
Rated: PG-13 (For language including some sexual references)

Alright, seriously: WHAT does Gary Marshall have on Hollywood actors that he can rope a bunch of them into a brain dead script and have them stand around with no purpose?! Actors walk on camera, say something, and walk off. There is practically no story to be found (and the characters who do connect in a story is a stretch to say the least). What's next? "Christmas Day" (Note to Marshall: PLEASE don't take me seriously on that, it's JUST a joke!)?

5. The Sitter
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jonah Hill
Rated: R (For crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material and some violence)

Now that "Moneyball" has established Jonah Hill as someone who is capible of being a good actor, hopefully we can consider painful endevers as "The Sitter" to be unfortunate detours.

4. Just Go With It
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston
Rating: PG-13 (For frequent crude and sexual content, partial nudity, brief drug references and language)

Just go with it...to another movie on the DVD shelf.

3. Battle: Los Angeles
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Rating: PG-13 (For sustained and intense sequences of war violence and destruction, and for language)

"Battle: Los Angeles" is the loud, stupid disaster film that Roland Emmerick didn't direct this year. That doesn't mean this was any less stupid though. Unbelievably noisy and clunky, the only thing that made "Battle Los Angeles" worse was the D-Box motion seats which added an additional $8 a ticket. Imagine: Going to the theaters and paying roughly $20 to see THIS!

2. Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
Director: Paul Johansson
Rated: PG-13 (For some sexuality)

Based off a classic novel of the same name (minus the "Part 1"), this is the kind of movie adaptations that gives the source material they're based off of a bad name. Totally pointless, as exciting to watch as paint dry, and listening to characters who aren't the least bit interesting talk the whole time, "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" is the worst kind of "entertainment" you can find. The only people who seemed to like the film were fans of the book and I seriously wonder if even they were serious when they say they like it. Besides, this film is HORRIBLY misguided if it thinks people give half the thought into fast moving trains as it thinks it does!

1. Jack and Jill
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler
Rating: PG (For crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence)

You know, it's bad enough that Adam Sandler seems to make periodic visits to this list every year, but it's another thing for him to show up TWICE on the same list! Holding the number one position for one of the films no less. As if one annoying Sandler persona wasn't bad enough, "Jack and Jill" features TWO, as Sandler plays both the title characters! Sandler is in no way convincing as a woman or as an understood man. In fact, the worst part about this movie is that Jack is the only person who seems to realize what an annoying speciman Jill is, where everyone else thinks this annoying shrill is cute (including Al Pacino playing himself). "Jack and Jill" is so bad you almost want to give up seeing movies when its over. What's most baffling is that director Dennis Dugan also directed Sandler in "Just Go with It," this is ALSO one of the worst films of the year! Maybe these are two friends who just shouldn't work together. This is the worst film of the year.