Top 30 Worst CGI Movies of All Time Part 3/3

10. Happily N’Ever After (2007)

In this awful-looking Shrek rip-off, Cinderella’s stepmother Frieda (Sigourney Weaver) takes the wizard’s magic scepter and turns the happy endings of Fairytale Land into unhappy endings. Now it’s up to Cinderella (Sarah Michelle Gellar), along with the wizard’s flunkies Munk (Wallace Shawn) and Mambo (Andy Dick) to set things right. The animation is even worse than Valiant (both of them, along with Space Chimps, came from Vanguard), the story is a mess, the comic reliefs are annoying, and, like I said earlier, is a rip-off of Shrek.

9. Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2014)

In this unofficial sequel to the immortal 1939 classic, MGM's The Wizard of Oz, the Jester (Martin Short), brother of the Wicked Witch of the West, steals the Witch's magic wand and causes chaos all over Oz. The Scarecrow contacts Dorothy (Lea Michele) back in Kansas and brings her back to Oz. Now she and Toto must embark on a quest to return to Emerald City to stop the Jester. On her quest, she meets a slew of new characters like an owl named Wiser, a marshmallow soldier named Marshall Mallow, and a Princess of China (the fragile material) who acts like a brat. Legends of Oz is a mockery of its original source material with a clumsy script, mediocre animation, corny pop-culture references, songs that don't move the plot that much, and new characters that are unoriginal and annoying. Because of the film's poor quality, Legends of Oz even won the Razzi Award for Worst Supporting Actor, the first animated feature to win a Razzi since Thumbelina in 1994. Also, what are CARS doing in Kansas in the year 1900?

8. Delgo (2008)

In this CG animated adventure, there are two races: the reptilian Lochni and the fairy-like Norhin. When the evil Norhin Sedessa (Anne Bancroft, who passed away in 2005) threatens on unleashing war upon both tribes, it’s up to a Lochni named Delgo (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Norhin Princess Kyla (Jennifer Love Hewitt) to save their world from unspeakable destruction. While Delgo isn't as horrible as other people say it is, the film suffers from overused plot elements, animation weaker than DreamWorks, and one of the most annoying animated characters ever in the form of Filo, a friend of Delgo’s. Also, the designs of the characters and creatures look like a cross between Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, and, even though it wouldn’t be released for another year, Avatar.

7. The Ten Commandments (2007)

In the trailer for this movie, they say that 'one of the greatest and most inspirational stories of all time is now an animated movie event for the entire family.' However, that already happened nearly a decade earlier with DreamWorks' masterpiece The Prince of Egypt. In fact, this movie feels more like a knockoff of The Prince of Egypt without the heart and emotion, animation that makes the film look like it came out of the straight-to-video bargain bin, and a rushed story with no time for character development. The Ten Commandments became one of the lowest-grossing animated films of all time, grossing only over a million dollars on a 10-million-dollar budget.

6. The Nut Job (2014)

The Nut Job is a film about a selfish squirrel named Surly, who wants to rob a nut shop with his rat friend Buddy. This film is high on this list because Surly is such an unlikable character. He wants to keep all the nuts to himself and goes through almost no character development. Also, many of the character designs look like they were stolen from other films. Here are some examples.
Surly looks a bit like Hammy from DreamWorks' Over the Hedge...

Buddy looks identical to Remy from Ratatouille...

Precious the dog looks like (but not really) Luis from Rio and Rio 2...

And Raccoon's cardinal looks like an Angry Bird!

I still don't know how this film earned enough money to green light and generate a sequel. That's like DreamWorks making a sequel to Shark Tale or Bee Movie!
5. Elf Bowling: The Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike (2007)

Did you know that Santa Claus started out as a toy-stealing pirate? Yep, that's right. In this train wreck of a film, after a fight with his brother Dingle, he and Santa get frozen for a long time. Both Santa and Dingle wash up in the North Pole, get defrosted by an elf named Lex, and he brings them to a toy factory. Santa becomes a member of a secret elf society and agrees to deliver toys to every child in the world once a year, which would become Christmas. Over the years, Dingle has gotten jealous, and wants to take over Christmas. The animation is horrible, the voices are annoying, and the story feels like a mish-mash of Jim Henson's The Great Santa Claus Switch and Rankin/Bass's Santa Claus is Comin' To Town. There's also a fair amount of potty humor and fowl language, which is unusual for a PG-rated film these days. I find it sad that this was one of the final projects for Joe Alasky, the voice of Plucky Duck in Tiny Toon Adventures and Grandpa Pickles in The Rugrats, to be involved with, as he passed away in February of 2016.

4. Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011)

Hoodwinked was originally an animated film released in 2005. It took the story of Little Red Riding Hood and turned it into a detective story. The animation was hideous, but was backed up by some clever writing. A sequel popped up in 2011, called Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil. In this film, Red, Granny, and Wolf join the Happily Ever After Agency. After trying to rescue Hansel and Gretel from a witch, Granny gets kidnapped, and now Red, Wolf, and Twitchy (the squirrel) to save Granny and retrieve a secret recipe. While the animation has improved, the film suffers from random pop-culture references and a Shrek-like story that ruins the original characters that we've grown to love from the original film.

3. Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)

Kaena: The Prophecy was Europe's first CGI animated feature, and took place on an alien planet called Axis. The soil on the planet is drying up, making it hard for the villagers to find food. Now it's up to Kaena, a rebellious high-spirited teenager, to go above the clouds and save her planet. While the character Kaena is likable, the film suffers from plasticky animation and a confusing plot.

2. Doogal (2006)

Based upon the French animated TV series of the same name, The Magic Roundabout was about a shaggy dog named Dougal, who, with the help of his friends Brian the snail, Ermintrude the cow, and Dylan the rabbit, must save the world from being frozen by the evil Jack-in-the-Box Zeebad. When The Magic Roundabout made it to the US, Butch Hartman, creator of The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, Americanized the film by renaming it Doogal, replacing many of the British voice actors with American celebrity voice actors, and putting in pop-culture references and potty humor. That’s like taking Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers and having the characters voiced by Jay Leno, as well as putting in numerous references to American pop culture like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 80s TV series), Field of Dreams, and Law and Order! Also, why do they have American actors voice the characters if the original movie already had an English dub with British voice actors?

And the worst CGI movie of all time (aside from Foodfight) is...

1. Norm of the North (2016)

If The Wild was Madagascar done wrong, then Norm of the North is Madagascar in reverse. A polar bear named Norm (Rob Schneider) wants to visit New York City so he can convince a real-estate agent to stop plans from building a city in the Arctic. Why would anyone want to move to the North Pole? Not only is it too cold for humans to live, but the weight of the houses would cause too much pressure on the ice and they would sink! And why are some of the wild animal characters wearing clothes? There's an albatross wearing glasses, reindeer wearing hats and playing poker, a polar bear (but not Norm) wearing a mic around his ear, and lemmings that wear construction gear and use measuring tape. Also, the lemmings in the film act just like the Minions in Despicable Me, except even more annoying.

Norm of the North is bad in almost every way possible with a ludicrous plot, poor animation, paper-thin characters, and disgusting jokes.
Well, that's it for Top 30 Worst CGI Movies of All Time. Next month, on February 10th, I'll do Top 10 Best Stop-Motion Animated Films of All Time!