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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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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.
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.
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!
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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
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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 6 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 2 years 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.
Bijoy Biswas 5 years ago
Very good movies collection here. But you can also add Venom 2 Upcoming
ChrisyPotter 9 years ago
Harry Potter and The "Philosophers" Stone is not the title of the book. I should not have told you that.
AlisonWookey 9 years ago
It is in the UK, where the author comes from. It was changed to The Sorcerer's Stone for the US release, as the corp who bought it thought kids would not want to read about a philosopher.
Load More Replies... 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 6 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 2 years 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.
Bijoy Biswas 5 years ago
Very good movies collection here. But you can also add Venom 2 Upcoming
ChrisyPotter 9 years ago
Harry Potter and The "Philosophers" Stone is not the title of the book. I should not have told you that.
AlisonWookey 9 years ago
It is in the UK, where the author comes from. It was changed to The Sorcerer's Stone for the US release, as the corp who bought it thought kids would not want to read about a philosopher.
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