"A Wrinkle in Time" = SWHS

Luckily I saw it on an airplane, and didn’t pay money to see it in a theater. Of course I am referring to “Wrinkle in Time”, which may now have garnered my coveted spot as Worst Movie Ever Ever. Its one redeeming feature?.. there are times when it looks eerily similar to the beloved Star Wars Holiday Special! And I mean the worst parts. Life Day would have fit right in - the music too!

I haven’t seen it, but all the landscapes in the trailer look really fake and visually unnatractive. Are those unfinished effects? Do they look much better in the finished film?

Just checked on IMDB… so far it’s pulling a 4.2 out of 10. I can’t remember the last time a recent major release managed a score that low, and it is well-deserved. Yes the special effects are poor, but that’s not what does it in. The story is convoluted and incomprehensible with major "huh?"s happening about every 5 minutes (I haven’t read the book, but apparently it barely resembles it). The script and acting are cringe-inducing. Every other line in the film is “we have to find your father”, acted like it was straight out of a Barney the Dinosaur episode. Every 15 minutes there’s an unwatchably sappy musical interlude. The climactic “rescue” is a total joke. I can’t imagine how Disney and an assemblage of so many skilled artists could produce something so painfully and obviously awful.

There were many moments when I found myself wondering if SWHS was the inspiration - it actually manages the same look and feel.

DominicCobb said:
Worst movie ever? Worse than the Holiday Special? You’re insane.

IMDB agrees with you – 2.3/10 for SWHS and 4.2/10 for WIT.
RottenTomatoes also – 33/100 for SWHS and 40/100 for WIT.
That said, all of those scores are pretty abysmal.
I wouldn’t say that WIT is THE worst movie ever, rather it is currently MY worst movie ever. Meaning that right now I can’t think of a movie that I enjoyed less. SWHS is by every objective measure horrendous, awful, and - oh all right - worse. However, I enjoyed it more - probably because it has Star Wars things in it, and things that can at least be laughed at.

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

The movie is fine. Not bad, not good. Just fine.

Worst movie ever? Worse than the Holiday Special? You’re insane.

Was it worse than Cars 2?

IMDB scores prefer Cars2:
WIT - 4.2/10
Cars2 - 6.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes scores give a slight edge to WIT:
WIT - 40/100
Cars2 - 39/100

However, Rotten Tomato viewers enjoyed Cars 2 more:
WIT - 29%
Cars2 - 49%

The Holiday Special can be very painful at times, but there are few agreeable flourishes that keep it from being entirely worthless. I’d be willing to bet that each segment would be regarded in a less condemnatory manner if they presented as their own thing, rather than the clumusily put together whole that the “special” is.

I doubt that Wrinkle in Time is the worst movie ever and I know even without having seen it that it is better than the Holiday Special.

I would say that those Date Movie and Epic Movie things were the worst movies ever. The one I saw was painful and sickening and it felt like it was four hours longer than it was.

Yeah, it really did ruin the genre. And not surprisingly either. They were horrible!