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Remember that movie you could, and did, watch on repeat as a child?

On VHS, no less, until the tape actually fried in half after you suffered through the indignity of watching your favorite movie with those weird squiggles on the screen that you couldn’t get rid of no matter how hard you tried to adjust the VCR?

Yeah. That movie was probably terrible.

Sorry (not sorry) to burst your childhood bubble. The plots were absent! The action sequences were clearly fake! The music was forgettable. And what was Michael Jordan thinking??

Aside from Josh Hutcherson and Jessica Alba, nothing good came from the following films. Above, check out 17 movies you loved as a kid that are actually terrible.

Sorry to burst your bubble.