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30 Bad Movie Plot Explanations By The Bored Panda Community
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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#1
4 kids come out of the closet. (Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Final score:
146points
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#2
Redhead trades her voice for the ability to spread her legs.
Final score:
142points
#3
A guy finds a dead 14-year-old girl in the woods and kisses her.
Final score:
104points
#4
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.
Final score:
103points
#5
Giant raisin with a rock collection cremates half the population.
Final score:
88points
#6
Not mine but my favorite. Two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes. (Wizard of Oz)
Final score:
85points
#7
Possessed toys come to life and ruin an artsy emo kid's life. (Toy Story)
Final score:
84points
#9
Unpopular kids beat up a starving, homeless clown.
Final score:
82points
#10
Group of noble knights go on a quest but involuntarily end up oppressing people, fight a bunny and aaaaaaaargh
Final score:
73points
#12
A cosplaying bat dangles a cosplaying clown off balcony to make him confess, but the clown finds it funny.
Final score:
62points
#13
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.
Final score:
56points
#14
Some guy without a nose has a bad obsession with a teenage kid. They all use sticks to kill each other. (Harry Potter series)
Final score:
53points
#15
A guy wakes up a girl from a really long nap and she marries him anyways.
Final score:
50points
#16
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
Final score:
49points
#17
A goth family loves to torture each other and tries to kill people who get in the way of their kinship.
Final score:
48points
#18
Children go to a weird school and risk their lives to save witches and wizards while the most powerful one "helps" them. (Harry Potter)
Final score:
46points
#19
Racial allegory lead by bald man in wheelchair.
Final score:
45points
#20
Love triangle between a teen girl, a dog, and a hundred-year-old pedophile.
Final score:
44points
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
A hundred year old pedophile who used to be a wizzard! And the hottest Hufflepuff since Newt Scamander. 😍😍😍 Go Cedric!
#21
Just a ton of sand. And some politics.
Final score:
42points
#22
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)
Final score:
40points
#23
Hamlet: Safari Adventure
Final score:
37points
#24
An 18-year-old boy turns into a lamma and goes on a journey to go back to his throne.
Final score:
37points
#25
Guy just really wants a good piece of meat to go with his wine, but people keep bothering him.
Final score:
36points
#26
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)
Final score:
35points
#27
Billionaire beats immigrant, then befriends him because their moms have the same name
Final score:
35points
#28
A drug addict with a toxic personality stumbles through life at the expense of her mentally challenged childhood friend.
Final score:
33points
#29
My car fast! (Vroom vroom) My car faster!! (Vroom vroom vroom) What? Now me furious, we race!
Final score:
21points
#30
A white boy makes a black friend to stop his village (especially his single father) from being racist
Final score:
16points
#31
Small people with hairy toes really hate a piece of jewelry. (The LODR Trilogy)
Final score:
16points
#32
A man takes advantage of a space-time anomaly on February 2nd and learns to play piano really well.
Final score:
16points
#33
A girl arrives in a strange land, killing someone. Then she sets off with three strangers to murder another person. (Wizard of Oz)
Final score:
15points
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
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.
#34
No one wanted to respect the quarantine precaution exept for one woman. She was the only one to survive with her cat.
Final score:
15points
#35
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.
Final score:
14points
#36
Some idiot kills his dog
Final score:
14points
#37
Harry Potter in space, with lots of family drama and explosions. Star wars
Final score:
13points
#38
Rich man makes and tries to control a petting zoo but life, uh, finds a way.
Final score:
12points
#41
Kevin Costner falls in love with the only white woman in their native American tribe.
Final score:
12points
#42
a dude finds a laser-sword and learns telekinesis
Final score:
12points
#43
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.
Final score:
11points
#44
some rich guy wants to make a space station, but some rebels say no
Final score:
11points
#45
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)
Final score:
11points
#46
A kid with a “different” face gets bullied and gets attacked in the forest from high school boys when he’s in middle school
Final score:
10points
#47
Man tells boy to destroy himself and murder a guy that loves snakes. (harry potter)
Final score:
10points
#48
Someone who looks like your mom goes rock hunting (Infinity War)
Final score:
10points
#49
On a business trip picking up souvenirs causes deadly consequences.
Final score:
9points
#50
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
Final score:
8points
#51
KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU KAIJU
Final score:
8points
#52
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
Final score:
8points
#53
Hermione reluctantly gets into b*********y.
Final score:
8points
Mann Brothers 4 years ago
If the censored word is b********y then is it 'Beauty and the beast'
#54
Nothing makes really sense. Also sometimes they walk and fight backwards.
Final score:
7points
Alice (Submission author) 4 years ago
Tenet. I didn't understand anything but the fighting backwards was kind of cool, I'll give that to Christopher Nolan.
#55
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.
Final score:
7points
#56
comedians play siblings who have far bigger issues than their goldfish dying
Final score:
7points
#57
Old man takes a lot of women into a phone box..... for an uncomfortably long period of time.
Final score:
7points
#58
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
Final score:
6points
#59
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 }.
Final score:
6points
4 years ago
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
#60
"This time, we made it without any Nazis or PTSD!" (Titanic, 1997.)
Final score:
6points
Clark Meldrum 4 years ago
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.
#61
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.
Final score:
6points
#62
It takes 9 people to walk cross country to return a piece of jewelry. Death, betrayal, loyalty. (Lord of the Rings trilogy)
Final score:
6points
#63
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.
Final score:
6points
#64
An exterminator who won’t finish his job until he marries your friend.
Final score:
5points
#65
Magic Jewelry causes Asian couple to go on quest against male dudes father. I'll let you all guess.
Final score:
5points
#66
Cat girl joins a cult and dances then watches and a traitor that was taken back in get flung into space to die.
Final score:
3points
What do you think ?
Eric Soliday 4 years ago
Spider-Man 3 Good Spider-Man meets his evil twin from an asteroid that gets frustrated with loud sounds.
Grahamalama09 4 years ago
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.
Eric Soliday 4 years ago
Spider-Man 3 Good Spider-Man meets his evil twin from an asteroid that gets frustrated with loud sounds.
Grahamalama09 4 years ago
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.
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