The Worst Movie Musicals of All Time

Movie musicals are a joyous escape from reality. Musicals allow us to enter into a world of fantasy where everyone breaks out into song and dance knowing all the lyrics and all the steps.

Throughout the years in Hollywood, there have been musicals that have hindered our ability to enter into this fantasy realm.

Whether it was a problem with casting, an actor’s inability to sing, poor special effects, or all the above, we’re going to take a look at all those musicals that would have been best left on the cutting room floor.

La La Land

“La La Land” was nominated for several Oscars, but shouldn’t have been nominated at all. The character of Mia falls flat, she’s just there for show and lacks any sense of depth. The film focuses heavily on the development of Sebastian who is rude and snobbish.

Let’s not forget that the leading actors do not have singing or dancing backgrounds, which shows onscreen.

Les Misérables

The problems with “Les Misérables” extend from the casting to the decisions to cut certain characters and songs. Example: Russell Crowe as Javert. Why do we keep casting non-singing actors in singing roles? Anne Hathaway takes about a year to sing “I Dreamed a Dream”.

And the pivotal character of Gavroche is almost fully omitted from the script.

Phantom of the Opera

The problem with the film version of “Phantom of the Opera” is the casting. Both Gerald Butler and Emmy Rossum can play the roles of Phantom and Christine, but they cannot sing the roles. Gerald used to be a in rock band which could be a good choice if he had the vocal range.

Emmy is classically trained but her voice is not mature enough, had they waited a few years she would have been perfect.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

“Poultrygeist” is one of the most disturbing, raunchy, and vile movies to have ever been made. The makeup of the undead is weird and poorly done. The songs written for the film are oddly placed with lyrics full of weird rhymes. “Poultrygeist”

has copious amounts of violence, gore, and vomit that it becomes nauseating to watch after a few minutes.