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Top Ten Shameful Sports Movies The following list is of the top ten most shameful sports movies ever made. The criteria for this list is that the basis of the movie had to do with sports and wasn't very good. If you think we forgot a movie or you think one of these shouldn't be here, let us know at topten@athletehos.com
Dishonorable Mention: The Program (1993) It’s the story of several football players along with their coach dealing with the pressures of college and football in their own ways. The movie was certainly one thing: entertaining. It kept you watching ‘til the end. However, it wasn’t the most well-acted sports movie that’s ever been made. It was a bit over-dramatized, to the point that it was hard to believe that an entire football team could be that extreme. It didn’t actually make the top ten, though, because of the entertainment value of it.
10. Major League 3: Back to the Minors (1998) This one takes a different spin on the original with an aging minor league pitcher becoming the manager of a AAA baseball team in the Minnesota Twins organization. Much like a lot of sequels, it was obvious they were riding the coattails of the earlier two Major League movies. Even the title suggests what you can expect from this movie. When the subtitle more or less contradicts the title, it lets you know you’re not in for fine cinema. And if Scott Bakula is the star of the movie, how much quality can you really expect?
9. Juwanna Mann (2002) A popular, arrogant basketball player (Miguel A. Nunez Jr.) gets kicked out of the league and is forced to take drastic measures, posing as a woman to play in the women’s professional league. With jokes that can be seen coming a mile away, this movie did manage to get a chuckle or two. But then again, how many laughs can be expected when the lead role is played by one of the stars of Leprechaun 4: In Space?
8. The Man from Left Field (1993 - TV) Director and star Burt Reynolds plays a homeless man who takes over a little league team and teaches the kids more than just baseball. The plot sounded interesting. And so did the fact that Reynolds was the star and director. But that’s where it stopped getting interesting. The basis of the movie was baseball, but it could have just as easily been soccer. There was more focus on Reynolds’ romance of one of the players’ moms, played by Reba McEntire, than there was on baseball. Reynolds would have been better off making Smokey and the Bandit IV: Smokey’s Revenge.
7. Rocky V (1990) Retired boxer Rocky has gone back into poverty after making some bad financial decisions. He straps on the and takes on a new protégé who has his own agenda. It looks like they spent more time on making Sylvester Stallone look like a good dramatic actor rather than focusing on the fight scenes. One saving grace was that they managed to work Mickey (Burgess Meredith) back into the movie, albeit in a flashback. A true Rocky fan can see the good in this movie. But how much artistic quality can be gained from the fifth in a series of boxing movies?
6. Eddie (1996) Whoopi Goldberg plays a New York Knicks fan who gets the chance to coach the team for a night and winds up becoming the full-time coach. Whoopi + sports = a bad movie. It’s hard to believe someone had the bright idea to combine the two. The only good thing about the movie was how many professional basketball players they included in it. Rick Fox, John Salley, and Greg Ostertag got to show off their acting skills. Wait a second…
5. Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002 - V) Stephen Baldwin is the player-coach of the Chiefs, the same minor league hockey team from the original, but is demoted from coach and replaced by a woman when the team is sold to a millionaire (Gary Busey) who just wants to make the Chiefs regularly lose to a dream team in a humiliating fashion. It’s no mystery why this movie was direct-to-DVD. Replacing Paul Newman with Stephen Baldwin is like replacing Gordie Howe with Marty Howe; there are some good qualities, but it just doesn’t compare to the original. The best thing about the movie is that they got the same three guys to play the Hanson Brothers. But if you’ve never seen the movie, imagine someone trying to play the same character the same way 25 years later. It ain’t pretty.
4. The Garbage Picking, Field Goal Kicking, Philadelphia Phenomenon (1998 - TV) All you really need to know is the title and that Tony Danza is the star.
3. Any Air Bud Sequel (1998-2006) Basically, a dog plays various sports. The first one was kind of cute. A dog playing basketball by hitting the ball with his nose to make a shot was clever. After that, the most clever thing about the sequels was the title including “Golden Receiver”, “World Pup”, “Seventh Inning Fetch”, “Spikes Back”, and “Air Buddies.” By the time we got to “Air Buddies,” it was so slapdash that the dogs could talk. Even kids weren’t amused anymore.
2. Caddyshack II (1988) Jackie Mason plays a crazed tycoon who gets his membership to a country club turned down and retaliates by buying the club and changing it into an amusement park. Mason can be funny in short spurts, but not for a feature film. He was the sequel’s answer to Rodney Dangerfield’s timeless Al Czervik in the original. It also didn’t help that Chevy Chase only made a cameo appearance, reprising his role as Ty Webb. Some credit has to be given, though, for the use of roman numerals in the title. It was a worthy attempt to make the movie sound elegant rather than just another sequel. But then you watch it…
1. Space Jam (1996) Michael Jordan gets transported into Cartoon Land and agrees to help the Looney Toons in a basketball game to free them from aliens. The aliens are superior players to the Looney Toons after they steal their talent from the likes of NBA players Muggsy Bogues, Larry Johnson, and Shawn Bradley. It would be believable that the aliens were good if they actually stole their talent from players that were good. Shawn Bradley? Gheorghe Muresan must have been unavailable. The worst thing about the movie was that the Looney Toons were all voiced by different people. Mel Blanc, who did the voices of just about every Looney Toon, had been dead for 7 years when the movie was made. Even Blanc’s son, Noel, didn’t do any of the voices in the movie. The movie may have generated a lot of money for Warner Brothers, but the public would be far better off to have never been exposed to it.
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