Memeing Classic Movies: The Worst Animated Films That Are Great For Memes

For every great Hollywood movie, there are 10 low-budget animations of anthropomorphic animals dancing aimlessly across the screen. Some of these so-called "films" are famous for their terrible qualities, but all of them are awful in different ways, with some excelling at only being the worst. Since the internet is always looking for something to mock, these movies have great meme potential, and many of them have already been spawning memes for nearly a decade. Here are three of the best worst movies to create memes.

The Emoji Movie (2017)

As you can tell from the name alone, The Emoji Movie is pretty bad. It garnered some interest, though ironic, after the announcement of its premise. In essence, this movie has the same plot as Wreck It Ralph, only with flatly animated emojis as protagonists. It also oddly stars Sir Patrick Stewart, who plays a sentient pile of excrement listed as "Poop Daddy" in the credits. The movie itself is essentially an advertisement for different apps, and in the end, it doesn’t feel like anything is really resolved. Instead, it’s as if the audience has just watched a two-hour recollection of an 8-year-old’s fever dream.

The Emoji Movie is a meme primarily because of its concept. Of course, we should have expected this eventually. Society sometimes struggles to comprehend Gen-Z humor, and this movie is a great example of how this can go wrong. The Emoji Movie is so lifeless and devoid of anything funny that it actually is much worse than you’d expect it to be. Tons of memes exist about this one already, but actually watching it opens up hundreds of new possibilities, and you could easily profit by quoting any nonsensical line or idiotic plot point (such as the meme involving “meh” emoji Gene using his “wrong face”).

Foodfight! (2012)

Many years ago, the idea for this film was conceived. However, in 2002, every bit of finished material for the production was mysteriously "stolen" before its release. After a decade of salvaging and a budget believed to be between $45 and $65 million, Foodfight! was born, and it instantly made audiences deeply uncomfortable. Even after so much time at the studio, Foodfight! is a mess of gross adult jokes, harmful Jewish stereotypes, hazy animation that should have come with a seizure warning and food-themed representations of the Nazi Party. There is no reason this movie should have been resurrected.

Foodfight! is the story of Dex Dogtective, a private investigator in a grocery store after hours, who is searching for his missing girlfriend (a mascot for raisins). Then, Brand X begins to take over the store, led by a robotic man named Mr. Clipboard (who, believe it or not, is played by Christopher Lloyd). There are so many unintentionally hilarious or genuinely disquieting moments in this movie that you could make any second of it into a meme, from the food-themed dialogue to the distorted depictions of humans.

Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa (2002)

Though this movie features A-list stars such as Mark Hamil, Paige O’Hara, Jodi Benson and Nancy Cartwright, it is a failure of disastrous proportions. It would be impossible to complete this list without Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa because this is certainly the worst movie I have ever seen, animated or otherwise — not even The Room compares to this one. This is the ugliest animation you can witness, guaranteed, and a part of you will pity the unending expressions of misery you see on screen.

The plot revolves around a boy named Ricky who is continuously harassed by his classmates but decides to give the meanest girl in school a teddy bear as a gesture of friendship. This ends in vile screeching, dramatic letter-writing and his great-grandma spitting out wordless dialogue that sounds like the scriptwriter gave up and started bashing his head against the keyboard. There is no involvement with Santa Claus, no plot coherency and way too many shots of a scarf-clad character taking 30 seconds to swallow the entirety of his sandwich. You’re scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel here. This gives you limitless potential for any strange, twisted meme you can think of, whether that involves Ricky rapping about his feelings, a character jumping up and down in place for an entire musical number or just the general disdain for the Christmas season you will have after watching this movie.

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