50 Worst Summer Movies of All Time

Critics Consensus: A dull, soapy potboiler that lacks the energy to qualify as a guilty pleasure, The In Crowd is undone by slow pacing, poor acting, and a stunning lack of originality.

Synopsis: Adrien Williams has spent time at a psychiatric hospital, learning to come to terms with a troubled past and is looking for a quiet, anonymous... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Lori Heuring, Susan Ward, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Matthew Settle

Directed By: Mary Lambert

Critics Consensus: An ill-concieved attempt to utilize Dana Carvey's talent for mimicry, The Master of Disguise is an irritating, witless farce weighted down by sophomoric gags.

Synopsis: Pistachio Disguisey, a genial waiter at his father Fabrizio's Italian restaurant, possesses an uncanny knack for mimicry. What he doesn't know is that his talent... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, James Brolin

Directed By: Perry Andelin Blake

Critics Consensus: Returning to their seemingly bottomless well of flatulence humor, racial stereotypes, and stale pop culture gags, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst Movie yet.

Synopsis: During a fateful night, a group of impossibly attractive 20-somethings (Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Kim Kardashian) must dodge a series of man-made and natural disasters.... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Matt Lanter, Vanessa Lachey, Kim Kardashian, Carmen Electra

Directed By: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Critics Consensus: A mirthless, fairly desperate family film, Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of cheap gags but no laughs.

Synopsis: Spurred on by their wives' insistence that their children attend summer camp, daycare entrepreneurs Charlie Hinton (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his friend Phil (Paul Rae)... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Lochlyn Munro, Paul Rae, Richard Gant

Directed By: Fred Savage

Critics Consensus: Illogical, tension-free, and filled with cut-rate special effects, Jaws: The Revenge is a sorry chapter in a once-proud franchise.

Synopsis: The family of widow Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) has long been plagued by shark attacks, and this unfortunate association continues when her son is the... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

Directed By: Joseph Sargent

Critics Consensus: Despite its lush tropical scenery and attractive leads, Return to the Blue Lagoon is as ridiculous as its predecessor, and lacks the prurience and unintentional laughs that might make it a guilty pleasure.

Synopsis: When widow Sarah Hargrave washes ashore on a tropical island with her daughter and adopted son, she learns how to survive and raise the two... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause, Lisa Pelikan, Courtney Phillips

Directed By: William Graham

Critics Consensus: This sequel to Saturday Night Fever is shockingly embarrassing and unnecessary, trading the original's dramatic depth for a series of uninspired dance sequences.

Synopsis: Six years after his glittering triumph in the disco dance contest of "Saturday Night Fever," an older and wiser Tony Manero (John Travolta) works as... View Full Synopsis

Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood

Directed By: Sylvester Stallone

Critics Consensus: Wagons East! is a witless, toothless satire of Westerns that falls far below the standard set by Blazing Saddles, and is notable only for being John Candy's final screen performance.

Synopsis: When a group of dissatisfied settlers decides they've had enough of the Wild West, they hire James Harlow, an alcoholic wagon master, to take them... View Full Synopsis

Starring: John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene

Directed By: Peter Markle

Critics Consensus: Mac and Me is duly infamous: not only is it a pale imitation of E.T., it's also a thinly-veiled feature length commercial for McDonalds and Coca-Cola.

Synopsis: A young extraterrestrial, separated from its family and stranded on Earth, finds friendship with a boy in a wheelchair.

Starring: Christine Ebersole, Jade Calegory, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary

Directed By: Stewart Raffill

Critics Consensus: A startling lack of taste pervades Superbabies, a sequel offering further proof that bad jokes still aren't funny when coming from the mouths of babes.

Synopsis: Toddlers use their special abilities to stop a media mogul (Jon Voight) from altering the minds of children.

Starring: Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel, Peter Wingfield

Directed By: Bob Clark