It's not worth sharing passwords to watch these movies, trust us! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the worst Netflix original films that were released in the first half of 2024.
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the worst Netflix original
00:10films that were released in the first half of 2024.
00:1610.
00:19Spaceman There was quite a lot of hype for Spaceman.
00:23It was an all-star cast, including the likes of Adam Sandler, Cary Mulligan, and Paul Dano.
00:28Well, his voice.
00:41He was directed by Johan Renck, an Emmy-winning filmmaker who worked on the likes of Breaking
00:45Bad and Chernobyl.
00:47But yeah, it just did not work.
00:50Spaceman is endearing and well-intentioned enough, with some fantastic production design
00:55and admirable work from the talented cast.
01:11It was also plagued with iffy writing, underdeveloped characters, and some eyebrow-raising plot
01:17choices.
01:18That's not to mention a mountain of clichés and painful pacing issues.
01:22We wanted it to shoot for the stars.
01:25We're settling for Orbit.
01:309.
01:31Players Mac is a sports journalist wanting to settle
01:34down with the man of her dreams.
01:48That man is Nick, a war correspondent who recently got a job at her newspaper.
01:53So instead of courting him with charm and friendliness, Mac decides to run some plays
01:58with her friends to win his heart.
02:10There's one major problem with this movie.
02:13Mac is totally unlikable, both immature and kinda creepy.
02:18It also doesn't help that the movie is formulaic as heck and riddled with tropes, including
02:23the age-old girl-realizes-that-she-loves-her-best-friend ending.
02:40To think this movie, with a stalker for a protagonist, was this year's Valentine's
02:46Day offering.
02:478.
02:48Unfrosted Oh Seinfeld, how did it come to this?
02:53The legendary comedian continues his run of mediocre movies with Unfrosted, a stylized
02:59recreation of the Pop-Tart's invention.
03:07Yes, the premise sounds a little dry, but with the right tone, style, and director,
03:20it definitely could have worked.
03:22Seinfeld attempted to do something fun with it, imbuing the film with iconic comedians,
03:27a wacky tone, and an eye-popping color palette with retro design.
03:39None of it really worked.
03:41Like a bad Pop-Tart, all the ingredients are there, but it didn't come together to form
03:46a satisfying whole.
03:48Whether it was the easy jokes, cow farts anyone, or reliance on cameos over good writing, Unfrosted
03:55was, well, unfrosted.
04:067.
04:07Irish Wish Another Netflix rom-com, another movie riddled
04:12with genre tropes.
04:14To its credit, this one has a dash of originality, containing some fun magical elements.
04:25You see, Maddie loves Paul, who is marrying her best friend Emma.
04:37When Maddie finds a wishing bench and a magical fairy, she wishes that she was marrying Paul
04:43instead of Emma.
04:51That's about where the fun stops.
04:54What follows is cliché after cliché, especially once Maddie starts falling for another man.
05:00With uninspired writing and a generally cheap appearance, these tropes aren't given any
05:06juice.
05:07They're just the same boring beats we've seen a thousand times before.
05:20But hey, at least Ireland is nice.
05:236.
05:24Lift Director F. Gary Gray has a very solid filmography
05:29and is no stranger to helming smart, well-crafted thrillers.
05:33We don't know what the heck happened here.
05:40Lift is about a group of thieves who are blackmailed into stealing gold from a moving airplane.
05:45The film desperately tries to be mission impossible, with a ragtag group of professionals doing
05:51all sorts of scheming, fighting and conniving to steal a valuable object from an impenetrable
05:57location.
06:05But it was made with a fraction of the talent.
06:07Lift is what would happen if you had Chet GPT write a heist film, a soulless mishmash
06:14of genre clichés and a plot that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
06:18Apparently Netflix is also getting in on the old doldrums of January.
06:295.
06:30Maya Culpa Tyler Perry attempts to make a legal thriller.
06:35The results are exactly what you would expect.
06:38Kelly Rowland stars as Maya, a defense attorney who takes the case of Zaire Molloy, an artist
06:45accused of murdering his girlfriend.
07:01Yawn.
07:03Like rom-coms, legal thrillers are a dime a dozen, and you've seen far better versions
07:08of Maya Culpa before.
07:09The movie looks pretty enough, but it's plagued by bad writing that results in plot
07:14holes, stupid characters, a checklist story, and some absurd dialogue that you have to
07:19hear to believe.
07:28It's reminiscent of all those trashy legal thrillers from the 90s.
07:32Not campy enough, not good enough, impressing no one.
07:414.
07:42Atlas Like many movies before it, Atlas is about
07:46artificial intelligence turning on humanity and deciding that it needs to go.
07:56Enter Atlas Shepard, who is called in to stop the robot uprising.
08:01While the film has two credited human writers, we wouldn't be surprised if this was secretly
08:06the first case of AI writing a movie about itself.
08:11In any case, Atlas is as generic and lifeless as its writing.
08:16Unlike the characters she's named after, Jennifer Lopez cannot hold the weight that
08:21this role requires of her.
08:23Atlas is one of Netflix's biggest swings of the year, but it's a foul ball at best.
08:313.
08:33Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp Look, we hate to criticize kids' movies,
08:37but this one deserves it.
08:42This is a sequel to a movie that allegedly came out in 2017, but we have no recollection
08:48of that, and you probably don't either.
08:51This one sees the anthropomorphic bird getting into goofy shenanigans at a summer camp and
08:56attempting to stop the inspector who wants to shut it down.
09:10This is the type of cheap straight-to-DVD movie that you throw on to distract the kids
09:15for 90 minutes.
09:16The type that gives kids' movies a bad rap.
09:22If you're over the age of 5, Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp has nothing for you, unless you
09:27want to see what Mary Louise Parker has been up to.
09:352.
09:38Rebel Moon – Part 2 – The Scar Giver We hate to say it, but Zack Snyder has sunk
09:44to a new low with his Rebel Moon series.
09:49The first movie was the national laughingstock of the Christmas 2023 season.
09:54We don't know how, but Part 2 made us laugh even harder.
09:59The story makes no sense, the writing is full of clunky exposition, and the acting does
10:04absolutely nothing to engage or elicit even the slightest bit of immersion.
10:19We admire Snyder's ambition, but he really dropped the ball with this.
10:24Given the massive budget and universal derision, Netflix cannot be happy with their return
10:29on investment.
10:30Then again, apparently there's 4 more movies coming, so maybe they are.
11:011.
11:02Mother of the Bride – Don't Be Fooled This movie has nothing in common with Father
11:07of the Bride, and is worse in every conceivable way.
11:15This one concerns Lana, a woman who learns that her daughter is marrying her ex-boyfriend's
11:19son.
11:20It's a little bit of everything.
11:31A cute comedy about letting go of your kid, a rom-com about rekindling lost love, a goofy
11:37meet-the-parents-esque romp with awkward situations.
11:41But you know what they say, jack of all trades, master of none.
11:49It's yet another predictable movie full of cliches, which seems to be Netflix's bread
11:54and butter as of late.
11:56Despite the presence of stars like Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, and Chad Michael
12:01Murray, it cannot jump over that made-by-committee hurdle.
12:10Did you see any of these flicks?
12:12Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.