The Day the Clown Died. this is at least better than that. maybe.

Amazingly enough, I haven't seen that bad movie, either. Apparently I have some catching up to do.

Wow. Just. . . wow!

Sandra Bullock has been in a string of really bad movies and she's still making money. Don't underestimate the complete lack of taste of the American public.

Holy God! How did this happen? There must have been blackmail involved.

It's just unbelievably bad. There's STILL a part of me that thinks it's a hoax. But that would mean that Netflix and IMDB and a bunch of other entities would be in on it. Dang... how could a movie like this have been allowed to escape?

Here's the first two sentences from the first "review" on the IMDB site:

"Some great physical acting from Gary Oldman and an excellent cast of dwarves[sic] cannot lift this formulaic inversion of the "Snow White" story. What is clearly a PC motivated movie also suffers from risible plotting, horrificly[sic] inappropriate dialogue about dwarves[sic] circle jerking, and offensive racism against Palestinians and Blacks who are portrayed respectively as dwarf-beating brutes or men who cannot control their animal urges. "

WTF?? A "clearly PC-motivated" movie? WTF??

No one in Hollywood is going to make a movie that makes fun of a group of people that isn't rightwing. However unreal, it's the real thing.

I'm with you, this premise is insane on so many levels... A double WTF rating for sure.

damn, now i have to admit i saw this a few years back. to give it its due, this is actually a pretty good movie with perhaps the worst trailer production ever. rent it sometime!

Ugh...

Oh God, all I could think of was that spoof movie they did on The Office with Jack Black and Cloris Leachman.

This is sure to become a cult classic though, like another movie with a cast of dwarves from the 80s, I believe called Under the Rainbow. It's about a group of Wizard of Oz survivors coming together for either a reunion or a Wizard sequal/remake. So unbelievably bad but I loved every minute of it - I just love these campy cultish movies.

BahHMMblog: I knew I'd eventually find someone!

It certainly seems like it would be a cult classic, but it's sure taking it's time. The movie was released in 2003!

Gary Oldman in the performance of a lifetime?! WTF?! Oh man. I do not understand how movies get made. Not at all.

Not only have I seen this movie, I saw it at Sundance. The best part was that afterwards the director came up for commentary/Q&A, and self-destructed on stage, slamming everyone who had been involved with the film and in getting him kicked off the film. He was drunk and/or high, and it was priceless.

I kept watching the trailer, looking for proof that they'd cut and pasted McConaughey and Beckinsale -- or Something! It could Not be Real! And so well Cast!

I had it wrong and so apparently do half the google sites who, er, cite it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried

Jerry Lewis pet project, wherein he plays a clown who helps little Jewish children go to the Auschwitz gas chambers "happy".

I.shit.you.not.

Without question or dispute the worst movie ever made AND the worst movie never seen. So very, very bad it was pulled, and only a handful have seen it.

Harry Shearer, who saw a rough cut of the film in 1979:
“ With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. "Oh My God!" — that's all you can say."

I'm jealous, Crystal!

You're right. A new low.

Oh my goodness!

being an old Gary Oldman worshipper, I couldn't help but know about this flick. and I swear, every time I walked past it on the shelf in Blockbuster, I'd pause, hesitate, nearly reach for it and then think, "Sorry, Gare, I know you gotta pay your mortgage, but I cannnnnot rent this!"

Rrrrrrrrated!

I wonder who slept with whom to get a part in this
movie.
I'm sure this won't ever reach the Australian market.
Hollywood must be desperate,they obviously underestimate the
intelligence of the American audience.

I didn't believe it was real - until I checked both IMDB and Netflix. Holy crap. [How is it that Matthew McC keeps working? God, he's awful.]

I have seen this film. Oldman, how could you choose this film? As for Matthew McConaughey and Kate Beckinsale, they have made a career out of BAD movies. I mean, c'mon, "A Time To Kill" was eons ago and U-571 is maybe his second best film? Kate and Matt are beautiful people aesthetically, but they can pick some bad ones. Oldman does his best but it comes off like Sean Penn in "I Am Sam", way over the top and the Lt. Dan CGI of his size is just plain bad.

Not the worst film I've ever seen by a stretch, but bad enough.

Rated

I wonder how all the dwarfs who had the rare opportunity to do this AND make some money feel about it.

I'm an outcast here for thinking this way.

Not sure what you're trying to say, XJS.

Y'all have obviously never seen "Krull." Look it up. Even as I kid, I knew how awful it was.

This movie, eh. Maybe it's because my "niece" (actually my second cousin's daughter, but we were close growing up) has dwarfism, but this looks like it might be kind of sweet in a wacky-look-who's-coming-to-dinner sort of way. I mean, hasn't anyone here seen Little People Big World on TV?

Under the Rainbow was a great flick. Saw it as a kid. I laughed my ass off.

But the story of the director at Sundance is priceless... is the flick really the trainwreck it appears to be?

I truly still don't believe it. . .I've entered The Twilight Zone. . .

I can't remember, for certain, who said the following [I think it might have been P.T. Barnum], "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American audience."

The movie wasn't great, but it wasn't the trainwreck it appears to be from the trailer. The whole Gary Oldman thing is pretty preposterous, but the movie held together reasonably. But yes, the director meltdown was the highlight!

After I saw (and I did), I wrote this review on Amazon:

How_in_the_world did this movie get made? This movie is without a doubt and without reservation the worst movie I've EVER seen. I mean consider the premise--husband of attractive NY couple is the only big person in a family of little people. Wife gets pregnant; are they going to have a lizard baby? or a little person? or what? And the title, "Tip Toes" (with the classic running line that only hollywood could write "Because sometimes its the little things that count.") Is that title because the husband tip toes around the secret? Or because everyone has to stand on tip toes? Or what?

How bad is it? It was so bad that the only reason I can think this movie was created was as a result of a lawsuit in hollywood, and one of the terms was to create a movie employing all the little people they could round up. It was so bad that it was actually outclassed by another movie we rented -- a shark movie starring Lorenzo Lamas called "Dark Waters". Yes, consider the implication of that statement: a shark movie that blew all it's budget hiring Lorenzo Lamas and so didn't_actually_include_sharks (even CG ones, or heaven forbit ones that creatively munched unsuspecting B actors) was better than Tip Toes.

My wife tried to argue that the premise "sounded interesting" and that it failed on execution. No no no no no. There were two justifiable paths this could have gone, but inexplicably chose not to -- as an afterschool special called "Johnny's got a little secret", or as a David Lynch movie in which John Malkovich should also have been a little person along with Gary Oldman. How embarrassing this must have been to work on. Surely Gary must have had a moment half way through when he had to slap himself and ask why he was here. I can also only imagine Michael Caine when reading the script would have said, "Not this one, mate."

Not this one indeed. Please. For the love of all that is good and noble in cinema, skip seeing this.

Just on the subject of "worsts"....I have never been a fan of Christian Bale, and his truly lousy performance in PUBLIC ENEMIES, from his pitiful "southern" dialect to is overall uninspired deer-in-the-headlights acting cinched it. BUT! Johnny Depp, as usual made it all worthwhile.

I first learned of Matthew McConaughey through the film Amistad. Since then, he has specialized in romantic comedies. I hate romantic comedies because most of them are neither. In fact, RMs are so generic that the word lame as an adjective is totally redundant.