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Quick, describe the Narnia movie plot in just one sentence. “Kid comes out of the closet,” you say? Technically true, but let’s try this again, this time for The Wizard Of Oz and its elements of the plot. “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.” The perfect children’s movie, right?
These funny plot summary examples were part of the Twitter trend called 'Explain a film plot badly,' and though it does no justice to the popular movies, it’s absolutely hilarious! And no, no movie is safe from these hilariously inaccurate descriptions—from Twilight to the Harry Potter saga, every flick gets its fair share.
And what started as a happy accident took the internet by storm. Scroll down below to check our compilation of the best bad movie descriptions, and if these are not enough for you, there are many more on Twitter (X now).
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#1
Lord Of The Rings
SusannaVesna 9 years ago
Walking to a f*****g volcano, when these f*****g eagles could have picked them up! Hahaha! But we then wouldn't have 9 hours of great adventures!
Jenelle Prins 3 years ago
I thought I would disdain this whole list and then this. Just laughed out loud and scared the dog.
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#2
Twilight
RachaelPearson 9 years ago
A young girls struggle to choose between b*********y and necrophilia
#3
Titanic
Asura “the destructor” 5 years ago
This was my exact reaction right before I saw this
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Bread That Hates Mustard 3 years ago
In denial captain makes a bet with physics. Loser has to take an ice bath. Captain is soo confident, he raises the stakes to make thousands of people involuntarily take part. Physics wins.
#4
The Revenant
#5
Harry Potter
AmandaPanda 9 years ago
Boy learns magic, but in the end he is still the same height as he was when he first started at Hogwarts
Alina Kolodyazhnyy 5 years ago
An absolute genius spends 7 years with Dumb and Dumber #sorrynotsorry
Tanner Degeer 6 years ago
Boy escapes cupboard, then goes to a castle, then uses a stick to kill a pale man with no nose!
#6
Beauty And The Beast
Damara Ankrum 1 year ago
I am an avid Beauty and The Beast defender! It is not Stockholm syndrome lol
#7
Star Wars: Episode V
EvelynFick 9 years ago
Umm he never actually physically killed Darth Vader. Darth Vador kind of died because of the sixth lord
Sem van Beek 2 years ago
Lmaaoo 😂 🐸 "Do, or do not. There is no try 😈" Yoda said when Luke had Vader pinned to the ground. Luke resists. "DEW IT! 👿"
#8
Forrest Gump
Lukas-not-Luca (he/him) 3 years ago
Actually, I disagree- Jenny was sexually abused as a child, she probably didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a guy- it's shown that she has multiple abusive boyfriends that drive her to drugs and almost suicide. I do think she made her mistakes, but she tried to push him away for a long time- I didn't see her "taking advantage" of him at any point.
Abriella Brown 3 years ago
Hopefully everyone else agrees that this is a legitimate explanation of this film because IT IS JENNY DIDNT DESERVE FORREST
#9
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sea otter simone/ froggy 3 years ago
Pedo kisses dead body while 7 weirdly named tiny dudes watch him
Jim Phoenix 9 years ago
He's taking advantage of the dead girl who he thinks is cute and she comes back to life 😱
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Not how the original is though. The prince finds her in the forest and takes her back to her fathers castle. On the journey back, one of his men trip and jolt the coffin making the apple dislodge from her throat. At the wedding of Snow and the prince, the stepmother shows up to kill Snow and the prince makes her dance in red hot iron slippers till she dies. A lot of originals are NOT suitable for kids. lol. In Cinderella, the step sisters cut off parts of their feet to try and fit the glass slippers, in one version of sleeping beauty a king finds her sleeping and proceeds to assault her and she is later woken up by giving birth to twins.
Alice Lurkins-Crothers 2 years ago
Man kisses hibernating teen girl around half a dozen people.
#10
Home Alone II
Alice Lurkins-Crothers 2 years ago
Donald Trump wants to make publicity for the future downfall of a nation.
#11
Sleeping Beauty
CeciliaOscarson 9 years ago
In the original book, he actually rape her when she sleeps...
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DaniellaDreier 9 years ago
She knows him.... " I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream."
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
One of the original versions was sooooo much worse. A king finds her and assaults her, she is then woken up 9 months later giving birth to twins.
#12
Harry Potter
JessicaCarroll 9 years ago
Boy spends 7 years trying to kill the man that has an unhealthy obsession with him
Infinitenotes 9 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA Its really funny though, he never attacks Harry during his school year...He must really care about his education.
#13
Shrek
#14
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
SusannaVesna 9 years ago
People, stop hating on Ange! The fact that Brad fell in love with another woman, means he wasn't into Jen that much. Means, he would eventually leave her anyway- for Jolie or someone else. Looking at their family now, I am sure they would have ended up together anyway!
IvanaAća 9 years ago
but Jennifer Aniston was with Brat Pitt before this movie. here he met Angelina and started dating her and dumped Jennifer.
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#15
The Chronicles of Narnia
Claire Beko 4 years ago
congrats!!!! we'll through a art for you and and that creepy white lady!
#16
Friends
Dr. Complex 6 years ago
Metal Gear Solid 2: SOL: Three long lost surrogate brothers reunited.
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#17
Mulan
MauricioLemos 9 years ago
How is that a "poorly explained" movie? That's literally the premise of the plot. How about "After hot new recruit joins the army, a general has to question his own sexuality"?
#18
The Shining
Atrociraptorous 2 years ago
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE'S JOHNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#19
Beauty and the Beast
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
Probably the closest fairy tale Disney told to the original fairy tale. Not saying much.
5 years ago
A kid turned into a dog kidnaps a girl who then talks to furniture and marries her.
James Moyner 8 years ago
Here is a link to seven reasons why the animated classic Beauty and the Beast doesn't have Stockholm syndrome. http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/10/7-reasons-beauty-and-the-beast-is-not-a-tale-of-stockholm-syndrome/ So leave that stuff in Sweden
#20
Batman Vs Superman
What is the Poorly Explained Movie Game?
The fun doesn’t stop here! You can explain a film plot badly and make a game of it. How? Grab a few friends, select your favorite movies, and explain to them as a bad critic would. However, you can always cheat and use other people’s bad explanations if you get stuck. Nobody will notice if you steal some of these bad movie descriptions.
#21
The Dark Knight
PaolaTurati 9 years ago
Billionaire spends money cosplaying and beating up the mentally-unstable
#22
Every Adam Sandler Movie
PéterLehoczki 9 years ago
Seriously, if 9 of the 25 pictures are duplicate, why not just make it 4x4? :D
EnderKreeper64 3 years ago
I don't think this applies to Hotel Transylvania (unless you're talking about Johnny being the man child)
Lilleanne 6 years ago
I don't think 50 first dates counts.... He was actually more responsible than the girl's parents when it came to dealing with her mental illness.
#23
Inception
#24
Nemo
Alice Lurkins-Crothers 2 years ago
Autistic woman and depressed dad try to find something on the ocean floor.
#25
Star Wars: Episode VI
CarlHylton 9 years ago
Thanks for spoiler only person on the planet yet to see it.
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Shyla Clay 3 years ago
I've been doing so well lately at keeping my coffee in my mouth and not on my phone. Thanks a lot.
#26
Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone
#27
The Martian
Samuel Jay Brown 9 years ago
Wait a minute was he concerned about shaving for years on mars? Who is there to see?
#29
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
#30
Deadpool
Lea Panthera 3 years ago
Thank you for your service, fellow citizen *salutes*
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Sardonyx_3 3 years ago
I've never watched Deadpool. Is it good? (P.S. what's the plot? I literally have no idea :) )
#31
Nightmare On Elm Street
ThatRandomGuy 2 years ago
THIS IS IT JENNIFER, YOUR BIG BREAK IN TV, WELCOME TO PRIME TIME B***H!
#32
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Hayden Robitaille 5 years ago
Small people sing every time their boss kills a « lucky » child.
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
But he’s a beautiful lunatic. In love with Gene wilder since I was 8. And I’m now 58. Faithful am I.
#33
Grease
Summer Lamkey 5 years ago
Did you never pay attention during the opening scene
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#34
Star Wars: Episode VI
#35
The Dark Knight
Pemberton 9 years ago
Why does Batman have to wear a bat costume rather than something more practical and strong?
EvaSmith 9 years ago
his bat suit actually is something practical and strong, it has a lot of important gadgets and weapons attached to it. even the cape has it's functions.
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Barry The Frog 2 years ago
I saw another one for this film that said "Clown terrorized city to annoy billionaire."
Ashley Gramann 5 years ago
But Joker's not insane... he says so himself... (but this is honestly true though)
#36
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
#37
Forest Gump
blugeagua 9 years ago
Ugh. I despise the term "friend zone". What the hell is so wrong with just wanting to be friends? If anyone feels that a woman "owes" you a relationship and you're upset that she doesn't want to be anything more than a friend, then that just proves that you never actually liked her to begin with. Otherwise you would value your friendship with her and you would at least be happy that she is in your life, even if you do continue to just be friends.
Jim Phoenix 9 years ago
This comment should get more upvotes great point blugeagua
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Brent Kaufman 9 years ago
See yourself as the victim much? This expression isn't about the woman. (The term refers to either man or woman but you've chosen to see the scenario as wrongly depicting you as the bad guy). Nor is it about what anyone owes anyone else. It is about the pain of unrequited love. Someone would have to have a drop of empathy, or even sympathy to realize that. Someone would also not have the need to create rules for others about what a relationship/friendship is or isn't, and how each person should feel in such relationships.
Louliez 9 years ago
It talked about Jenny being a drug addict and Forest being disabled. And the other ONE didn't say anything about her dying. There is a difference
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#38
Twilight
Emil Aways 4 years ago
I liked this one I read somewhere else: Grumpy emo chick ponders whether to shag a corpse or a dog over several years. =D
Jason Marin 3 years ago
Old man falls in love with hypocritic whiny teenager and controls ever aspect of her life.
Annabelle Taylor 1 month ago
teenage girl in a toxic relationship falls for a 100 year old pedophile instead of a dog
#39
Les Miserables
Tiffany Wilson 8 years ago
How can there be a spoiler alert when it premiered in 1980?!
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⚞ Katniss Everdeen ⚟ 5 years ago
*after spending a while in the fandom* everyone's gay and ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ nobody dies.
#40
Her
Where Can I Find Movie Descriptions?
Twitter isn't the only location for badly explained movie plots. With so many social media sites, Reddit seems to become the gathering location of bad descriptions. Particularly the subreddit group “ExplainAFilmPlotBadly.” People from all corners of the internet go there to explain a film plot badly and get praise for it.
#41
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
#42
Twilight
Ashen Mccann (They/Them) 2 years ago
when i watch this stuff, i make these summaries yet i still f*cking like them *_*
#43
The Human Centipede
AnnAbdelzaher 9 years ago
This movie was absolutely disgusting... and then there were at least 2 sequels!
YDNinja 8 months ago
It was scary, not intensely scary, but scary enough that I wouldn't want to watch it. I do feel nauseated though.
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#44
The Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Lily 9 years ago
Death cure isn't the first maze runner movie, whoever titled this is an idiot, it is not even released on disc or on cinemas—
Louliez 9 years ago
I know it's even worse than people calling it Maze Runner 2 *Shudder*
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#45
The Matrix
#46
Frozen
Annabelle Taylor 1 month ago
Self conscious girl run away to make others better, mentally damaged sister follows after her
Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
For that matter, barring Lion King and maybe Mulan (Both of whom show, on screen that PEOPLE DIE, and gorgeous art/animation. Disney either destroys the original story or simply makes things disgusting such as a farting god.
#47
Mrs. Doubtfire
ADayInTheLife 9 years ago
Maybe people should learn the difference between being transgender and being in drag.
Clever Username 7 years ago
Remember, it's called "Explain a film plot BADLY".
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Nora Reynolds 2 years ago
Divorced man discovers his love for drag. Looses custody of his kids****
#49
Star Wars: Episode VII
NateAnglesea 9 years ago
But it was c**p? Like really, really bad. Emo kid whines a lot, evil guys are comically evil and not even TRYING to hide it, and the same people do the same stuff but are a lot older.
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#50
Star Wars: Episode I
IrisBerry 9 years ago
Actually Padmè was only about 3 years older and Anakin was about 23 when he married her!
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MichaelAngelillo 9 years ago
9 vs. 14 is hardly double, but even if it was at say 5 to 10, that's still the same age gap of 5 years which isn't unreasonable. I'm sure everyone is different, but the age gap doesn't even start getting noticeable until 10+ years.
#51
Avatar
Rinso the Red 1 year ago
Dances with Wolves in space. Guy didn't even come up with a new plot!
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Manomnomnom 2 years ago
I had a history teacher who called this movie "Dances With Aliens" since he said "It's like Dances With Wolves, but in space."
Fluffy Feline Fire Hazard 2 years ago
I liked the Last Airbender animated series better honestly
#52
Taken
#53
Babe
#54
Spiderman
Anton Smith 7 years ago
While shooting his sticky white stuff all over buildings... and the public cheers when they see it..
Rachel Sefton 6 years ago
Gets white sticky stuff all over his hands after being on web
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Henry Girndt 11 months ago
Teenager discoveres he can shoot white sticky fluid out of his body.
#55
Elf
Anton Smith 7 years ago
A grown man that's a creepy van away from being the perfectly horrible pedophile..
#56
Star Wars: Episode VII
#57
Mean Girls
Star the Furry Therian! 1 year ago
HAH! Love mean girls. "Get in, loser. We're going shopping!"
Maxx Holifield 5 years ago
A homeschooled girl attends a regular high school and befriends selfish divas who turn her into one as well.
#58
Aladdin
Jim Phoenix 9 years ago
More like a guy disguises as a prince and takes advantage of a young princess and they go on a flying carpet :P
#60
Bridge To Terabithia
オタクAkuma 2 years ago
Actually this movie was based on the book (which was much sadder) and Disney just did this↑↑↑
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How Do You Describe the Plot of a Movie?
Think you can do better? Don’t be shy, and join other people. Since this community knows how to explain a film plot badly—don’t be afraid to fail. It’s the whole point of the conversation! The worse you make the plot, the harder it will be to guess. So, add you own obscure or famous movie summaries in the comments!
#61
The Notebook
#62
Star Wars: Episode VII
#64
The Dark Knight
Lillian Herman 2 years ago
Yes. Because What else would you do? Be RESPONSIBLE????? *laughs*. Boys are stupid. It's just the truth.
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Pemberton 9 years ago
"Home Alone" is titled as "Mama, I missed the flight" in French or some other language.
AjdaBoksicFilipovic 9 years ago
haha i am so gonna find that on youtube. Italy must be one of the leading countries in the world in wrong translating the titles of the films. When i talk with friends outside Italy about 70% of the films i don't even know if i saw it or not if i don't know the original title :D lmao
Load More Replies... Jason Marin 3 years ago
Four friends travel to Earth to find a music making device that can save an old woman from a skeleton.
Kent Huang 5 years ago
Some that I’ve come up with: The Wizard of Oz: Two women fight to the literal death over a pair of cute shoes. Minions: It’s about the Minions. My Little Pony: The Movie (80s version): Clovis Leechman somehow creates a ton of Muk before Pokémon was even a thing. Alice in Wonderland: A little girl somehow survives eating and drinking random things she literally finds just lying about. Thumbelina: It’s about some girl who get kidnapped by some frog with a chest literally bigger than the rest of her body (and that’s including the legs), gets called ugly by Gilbert Gottfried, And is lectured on the subject of love by Carol Channing. The Care Bears II- A New Generation: Misleadingly titled movie shows children trying to take care of a bunch of babies and doing a terrible job at it. Also has something to do about some whiny little female brat that is obsessed with winning that is somehow killed by a falling light and revived like Tinkerbell.
Kent Huang 5 years ago
The Oogieloves: A trio of Doug rejects meet A list celebrities that are clearly regretting signing a contract to make a movie about getting balloons for their living abomination of a pillow that likes to spit out its own internal body contents. Also one of the freak doesn’t know what proper pant sizing is. Cool Cat Saves the Kids: A man that is clearly insane has a giant cat for his son and the mother/wife is just the son wearing paper lips and in drag and has two big name actors in the movie that are completely miserable and there is supposed to be a bullying plot but it only last ten minutes and teaches kids you can win a writing contest by simply writing the same line repeatedly. Revenge of the Nerds: A college fraternity house actively assaults another house and their leader teaches viewers that rape is okay if you dress up as Darth Vader and your victim will fall in love with you and marry you
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Nick Weinkauf 3 months ago
A prince mourns his fathers death, resents his mother for her second marriage. Goes on imaginary psychotic break, killing his guards, his love interest, his stepfather, his mother, and his best friends. And then he dies. Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Philip Smith 1 year ago
Boy finds himself in a incestual love triangle after stealing a car from a crazy old man he was using for his gigantic guitar amp until a would-be rapist is assaulted by a bullying victim.
Amritkala Chota 3 years ago
love the blog many movies like war movies and best movies we also write many reviews for telugu movies and we write web stories for telugu movies also for many telugu movie reviews you can follow : www.filmify.in for updates and more.
Pemberton 9 years ago
"Home Alone" is titled as "Mama, I missed the flight" in French or some other language.
AjdaBoksicFilipovic 9 years ago
haha i am so gonna find that on youtube. Italy must be one of the leading countries in the world in wrong translating the titles of the films. When i talk with friends outside Italy about 70% of the films i don't even know if i saw it or not if i don't know the original title :D lmao
Load More Replies... Jason Marin 3 years ago
Four friends travel to Earth to find a music making device that can save an old woman from a skeleton.
Kent Huang 5 years ago
Some that I’ve come up with: The Wizard of Oz: Two women fight to the literal death over a pair of cute shoes. Minions: It’s about the Minions. My Little Pony: The Movie (80s version): Clovis Leechman somehow creates a ton of Muk before Pokémon was even a thing. Alice in Wonderland: A little girl somehow survives eating and drinking random things she literally finds just lying about. Thumbelina: It’s about some girl who get kidnapped by some frog with a chest literally bigger than the rest of her body (and that’s including the legs), gets called ugly by Gilbert Gottfried, And is lectured on the subject of love by Carol Channing. The Care Bears II- A New Generation: Misleadingly titled movie shows children trying to take care of a bunch of babies and doing a terrible job at it. Also has something to do about some whiny little female brat that is obsessed with winning that is somehow killed by a falling light and revived like Tinkerbell.
Kent Huang 5 years ago
The Oogieloves: A trio of Doug rejects meet A list celebrities that are clearly regretting signing a contract to make a movie about getting balloons for their living abomination of a pillow that likes to spit out its own internal body contents. Also one of the freak doesn’t know what proper pant sizing is. Cool Cat Saves the Kids: A man that is clearly insane has a giant cat for his son and the mother/wife is just the son wearing paper lips and in drag and has two big name actors in the movie that are completely miserable and there is supposed to be a bullying plot but it only last ten minutes and teaches kids you can win a writing contest by simply writing the same line repeatedly. Revenge of the Nerds: A college fraternity house actively assaults another house and their leader teaches viewers that rape is okay if you dress up as Darth Vader and your victim will fall in love with you and marry you
Load More Replies... Nick Weinkauf 3 months ago
A prince mourns his fathers death, resents his mother for her second marriage. Goes on imaginary psychotic break, killing his guards, his love interest, his stepfather, his mother, and his best friends. And then he dies. Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Philip Smith 1 year ago
Boy finds himself in a incestual love triangle after stealing a car from a crazy old man he was using for his gigantic guitar amp until a would-be rapist is assaulted by a bullying victim.
Amritkala Chota 3 years ago
love the blog many movies like war movies and best movies we also write many reviews for telugu movies and we write web stories for telugu movies also for many telugu movie reviews you can follow : www.filmify.in for updates and more.
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