Worst Weekend Ever? ‘Bucky Larson’ Earns 0% On Rotten Tomatoes; ‘Creature’ Breaks Records With Poor Box Office Performance
By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2011 5:00 pm EST
Bucky Larson earned an impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and averaged just over eight moviegoers per showing. Meanwhile, Creature, which received just 2 positive reviews out of the 18 counted on Rotten Tomatoes, managed to achieve the worst-ever opening for a film showing on more than 1,500 screens. Read more after the jump.Bucky Larson opened in 15th place this weekend, one slot behind The Smurfs in its seventh weekend. Its total gross was $1,450,000 on 1,500 screens, which Film Drunk points out averages out to about eight people per screening. But perhaps more notable is the fact that it got literally zero positive reviews out of 21 on Rotten Tomatoes. That number puts Bucky Larson in the same rarefied class as Big Mamma’s Boy and Fred: The Movie. To offer some perspective, Disaster Movie, Norbit, and Jonah Hex are among the films that have managed to score above 0% on Rotten Tomatoes in recent years.
The difference between Bucky Larson and Creature is that the former was marketed endlessly (and obnoxiously) and featured recognizable stars and a $10 million budget. Creature was a low-budget indie with few recognizable stars and practically no marketing. (If I’m being completely honest, I didn’t even know this movie existed until I started reading stories about how badly it did, and it’s my job to know about the existence of movies.) In that light, Bucky Larson seems like the more spectacular failure.
If there’s a silver lining to be found, it’s that the awfulness of these films have made for some very entertaining film writing — I strongly recommend clicking through the reviews collected on Bucky Larson’s Rotten Tomatoes page. Here’s my favorite quote, from A.O. Scott of The New York Times:
Discuss: Have any of you actually seen either of these movies? Why? How many people were in your theater?
Let me put the matter another way: this may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that. If you dare, go on Netflix and test the hypothesis.
