Movies are everyone’s favorite pastime and any cinema fanatic will have no problem explaining their favorite movie plots to you for hours on end. However, sometimes it’s fun to look at things in a simpler way and poke fun at the ideas of popular motion pictures.
Our community members were asked to explain a movie plot badly - in a way that’s not necessarily wrong, but a bit too on-the-nose. Scroll down to see the results.
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4 kids come out of the closet. (Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Small story here- So one time, I was yapping with my friend about this grasshopper we adopted. (We also adopted Sans, but that is a whooole other story.) Anyways, I made a passing comment about that grasshopper being so far and so long in the closet that he had seen an age before and an age after an enternal winter, and he (friend) busted out laughing. And I'm just like-"wait you got that?!?!"
Well, it's better they know their gender identities when they are kids than getting confused after they grow older
Redhead trades her voice for the ability to spread her legs.
“ARIEL, YOU JUST GOT THOSE LEGS, WE CAN DO THAT LATER…you know what, on second thought…”
A guy finds a dead 14-year-old girl in the woods and kisses her.
That would be Snow White. The Prince in Sleeping Beauty found her in the castle.
A guy has to witness the murder of his wife and children. But one son survives, slightly disabled. Some time later, the son is kidnapped and the father has to go on a long rescue mission. He is accompanied by a mentally challenged woman.
Giant raisin with a rock collection cremates half the population.
He looks like a purple whale, and I will never forgive him for personally killing all my fav characters
I'll never forgive him and his ghastly chin for what he did.😡
Load More Replies...Not mine but my favorite. Two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes. (Wizard of Oz)
Other than the wicked witch of the East (under the house), and the wicked witch of the West (water), who else did she kill?
Load More Replies...Teen girl commits murder, forms a gang with three strange men, then kills again
Possessed toys come to life and ruin an artsy emo kid's life. (Toy Story)
No joke, I avoided playing with toys my entire childhood because this movie scared the hell out of me.
Put that "ring" back where it came from or so help me!
The eagles can outfly the nazgúl. It should have been a much shorter story.
Eagles? What eagles? Oh, you mean *those* convenient plot device eagles. Forgot I had them until this narratively useful moment!
Load More Replies...Unpopular kids beat up a starving, homeless clown.
Group of noble knights go on a quest but involuntarily end up oppressing people, fight a bunny and aaaaaaaargh
A cosplaying bat dangles a cosplaying clown off balcony to make him confess, but the clown finds it funny.
A girl gets kidnapped and locked in a tower. Mother knows best but sike not your mother. Frying pan to the mans noggin. Help I need to see lights. Oh no. I scheduled my haircut for next week idiot. Married.
Some guy without a nose has a bad obsession with a teenage kid. They all use sticks to kill each other. (Harry Potter series)
A guy wakes up a girl from a really long nap and she marries him anyways.
Omg this original post was so long ago that I don't remember even reading it at all. Yet, here i apparently am lol
Load More Replies...Snow white, yes. But Cindy? I don't think she falls asleep.
Load More Replies...Some dude wants to save his wife, but then some other dude cuts of his legs and his hand and lets him burn in a volcano
A goth family loves to torture each other and tries to kill people who get in the way of their kinship.
*snap* *snap*!! I want a love like Gomez and Morticia!!! ❤❤
They’re supposed to be “odd” by have the healthiest relationship on tv at the time
Load More Replies...Children go to a weird school and risk their lives to save witches and wizards while the most powerful one "helps" them. (Harry Potter)
Good question. I always wondered why the adults seemed helpless...
Load More Replies...Lol I was half asleep when I did this so it's not very good
Racial allegory lead by bald man in wheelchair.
Love triangle between a teen girl, a dog, and a hundred-year-old pedophile.
A hundred year old pedophile who used to be a wizzard! And the hottest Hufflepuff since Newt Scamander. 😍😍😍 Go Cedric!
I described this on Twitter the other day as an "Undead youthful centenarian seduces child".
I always think of it as necrophilia vs b*********y
Load More Replies...better love story than 50 shades of grey, perhaps? Slightly worse love story than the Howard the Duck movie tho
Load More Replies...Just a ton of sand. And some politics.
Well, this one is super vague. It can be just about any movie that takes place in a desert or a beach, for that matter.
Load More Replies...actually I think Aladdin makes the most sense with this description
Load More Replies...A kid had to watch his mom get shot and then had survive without her. His dad didn't look after him since the dad had better things to do. (Bambi)
Actually, he did. Okay, it doesn't really specify in the first one but the Great Prince did collect Bambi after his mother died. In Bambi II, which I finally watched this past weekend, he does end up raising Bambi. And the Great Prince is voiced by Patrick Stewart in that one. I liked it. It was cute.
Hamlet: Safari Adventure
An 18-year-old boy turns into a lamma and goes on a journey to go back to his throne.
Well at least you got it right ?
Load More Replies...Guy just really wants a good piece of meat to go with his wine, but people keep bothering him.
A shut in with low self esteem finally ventures out to only be kidnapped by an abusive wildebeest who she eventually falls in love with. (Beauty and the Beast)
Instead of low self esteem shut in I would say an isolated intellectual sacrifices herself to an aggressive bear thing and falls in love.
Wildebeest is an animal here in Africa. Actually a good comparison.
Load More Replies...Billionaire beats immigrant, then befriends him because their moms have the same name
I think the title continues ":The Dawn of Justice"
Load More Replies...A drug addict with a toxic personality stumbles through life at the expense of her mentally challenged childhood friend.
My car fast! (Vroom vroom) My car faster!! (Vroom vroom vroom) What? Now me furious, we race!
A white boy makes a black friend to stop his village (especially his single father) from being racist
Small people with hairy toes really hate a piece of jewelry. (The LODR Trilogy)
A man takes advantage of a space-time anomaly on February 2nd and learns to play piano really well.
A girl arrives in a strange land, killing someone. Then she sets off with three strangers to murder another person. (Wizard of Oz)
I know another version of this. Illegal alien kills the first person she meets then convinces three impaired people to rob and kill her sister.
No one wanted to respect the quarantine precaution exept for one woman. She was the only one to survive with her cat.
Finding Nemo: A man's wife gets brutally murdered by a serial killer and leaves his son physically disabled. His son is kidnapped and he has to chase the kidnapper thousands of miles to with the help of a mentally disabled woman.
Some idiot kills his dog
Harry Potter in space, with lots of family drama and explosions. Star wars
Rich man makes and tries to control a petting zoo but life, uh, finds a way.
Not even counting the spin offs and other copy cats.
Load More Replies...guy hits him self; starts a cult.
I dont know if youll see this but i cant tell if thats a picture of the crucifixition
Columbo reads to brat. (The Princess Bride)
I watched it with my kids last week too. They were not impressed
Load More Replies...Kevin Costner falls in love with the only white woman in their native American tribe.
a dude finds a laser-sword and learns telekinesis
At first, there were monkeys. Fast forward, the future. The computer is trying to kill people because it thinks it can't make an error. One person outsmarted it, and got to see rad trippy visuals.
some rich guy wants to make a space station, but some rebels say no
Fish Dad has to find Fish son who was abducted by Australian Dentists, so he has to team up with Ellen fish, meeting a turtle who is under the influence of drugs and driving on a highway, a group of vegans sharks who try to eat them after blue fish gets a nosebleed, and a group of seagulls who are experts in possessive pronouns. Meanwhile, the fish son in captivity learns from other fish why breaking your fragile arm is cool. (Finding Nemo)
A kid with a “different” face gets bullied and gets attacked in the forest from high school boys when he’s in middle school
Someone who looks like your mom goes rock hunting (Infinity War)
On a business trip picking up souvenirs causes deadly consequences.
One sister is able to shoot ice from her hands, and when she runs away, her sister finds her and gets shot in the heart with ice from her own sister… she’s so cold hearted
KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU
Groups of grown men and short men argue about a piece of jewelry during a bloody long road trip. P.S. This is my third. Someone stops me
Hermione reluctantly gets into b*********y.
If the censored word is b********y then is it 'Beauty and the beast'
Nothing makes really sense. Also sometimes they walk and fight backwards.
Tenet. I didn't understand anything but the fighting backwards was kind of cool, I'll give that to Christopher Nolan.
A man decides he could use the other one's face and takes it without permission, and then then other man does his revenge at face value.
Face off? Haven't watched it but my friend was telling me about it
comedians play siblings who have far bigger issues than their goldfish dying
wrong genre but closer ish??? one of the two main actors played the cat in the hat in a parody skit..
Load More Replies...this is a pretty unpopular movie.. a grand congrats to anyone who could possibly get it haha
Old man takes a lot of women into a phone box..... for an uncomfortably long period of time.
There are three Doctor Who movies. Two starred Peter Cushing and are not canon. The third was a TV movie starring Paul McGann and is canon.
Load More Replies...A weird dude with a messed up face tries to kill a child many times and fails. When he finally succeeds, that child zombifies but not and yeets him out of life
They all go in a train , his sister is a Oni {demon} , the train turns out is also a demon and a Hashira die on the end . {is a anime movie }.
Mugen train, I know it, BUT WAIT AT THE NED OF SEASON ONE INSOUKE WAS RIGHT, IT IS A DEMON WHY DIDNT WE LISTEN TO HIM
AND YOU RIGHT , is sad he died
Load More Replies..."This time, we made it without any Nazis or PTSD!" (Titanic, 1997.)
Poor boy falls for Rich girl but her family doesn't like it so they try to kill him while the boat their on sinks.
A group of Americans goes to France to find a long lost brother. When they find him he refuses to go home to his mom because he made new friends. They all stay to meet a group of foreigners at a bridge.
It takes 9 people to walk cross country to return a piece of jewelry. Death, betrayal, loyalty. (Lord of the Rings trilogy)
Boy falls in love with girl, jumps off the Tallahassee bridge. (Ode to Billy Joe) description is an actual TV guide description from about 15 years ago.
An exterminator who won’t finish his job until he marries your friend.
im sorry your comment got down voted so i upvoted to balence it out
Load More Replies...Magic Jewelry causes Asian couple to go on quest against male dudes father. I'll let you all guess.
Millennial jealous of mentally ill father's jewelry. Travels with Ghandi to stop his reunion with mom.
Cat girl joins a cult and dances then watches and a traitor that was taken back in get flung into space to die.
sociopath finds out hes a sociopath through competitive camera work; or Find Out How Bad Riz Ahmed Is With Directions: The Movie!
Spider-Man 3 Good Spider-Man meets his evil twin from an asteroid that gets frustrated with loud sounds.
a astronaut, drug addict, celebrity, guy with a knife, little boy, and a dead guy try to stop a musician from blowing up the moon.
Child suffering from seasonal affective disorder befriends deranged domestic terrorist...How The Grinch Stole Christmas
I cannot believe Terminator was not on here, so I'll do it: 1.) Arnold Schwarzenegger time travels to the 80s to kill a child that would never exist if he didn't time travel. (Because if he didn't time travel Reese wouldn't time travel so John wouldn't have been conceived) Arnold dies
Most of these are just descriptions. This is more like it. “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.” or American kills local leader causing power vacuum., assembles mercenary crew, kills again, abandons country with no exit strategy.
Man destroys planet after refusing to share his favorite toy with his sister. {Thor Ragnarok}
1 -Girl convinces her boyfriend to get plastic surgery. 2- An amputee is obsessed with big fish. 3- 27 years old actress plays 11 years old ,overly optimistic girl
Spider-Man 3 Good Spider-Man meets his evil twin from an asteroid that gets frustrated with loud sounds.
a astronaut, drug addict, celebrity, guy with a knife, little boy, and a dead guy try to stop a musician from blowing up the moon.
Child suffering from seasonal affective disorder befriends deranged domestic terrorist...How The Grinch Stole Christmas
I cannot believe Terminator was not on here, so I'll do it: 1.) Arnold Schwarzenegger time travels to the 80s to kill a child that would never exist if he didn't time travel. (Because if he didn't time travel Reese wouldn't time travel so John wouldn't have been conceived) Arnold dies
Most of these are just descriptions. This is more like it. “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.” or American kills local leader causing power vacuum., assembles mercenary crew, kills again, abandons country with no exit strategy.
Man destroys planet after refusing to share his favorite toy with his sister. {Thor Ragnarok}
1 -Girl convinces her boyfriend to get plastic surgery. 2- An amputee is obsessed with big fish. 3- 27 years old actress plays 11 years old ,overly optimistic girl
