Top 10 Worst Buddy Cop Films

Top 10 Worst Buddy Cop Films

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Sometimes two just isn’t better than one. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Worst Buddy Cop Films. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most dreadful movies featuring two people teaming up to catch a criminal or to solve any other sort of case, where at least one of them is a cop or other law enforcement officer. If you’d like to see a list on the opposite end of the spectrum, then check out our video of the Top 10 Buddy Cop films. But if you like seeing the bad more than the good, then lock yourselves in, because here we go!

#10: “Cop Out” (2010)

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Kevin Smith has made films for a couple of decades now; great films like Clerks!... and then awful films like this one. In the appropriately titled “Cop Out,” Bruce Willis’ character Jimmy is trying to pay for his daughter’s wedding, and tries to sell a baseball card to raise the money. After it’s stolen from him, he teams up with fellow detective Paul Hodges, played by Tracy Morgan, to get it back. While that premise is already flimsy, the characters are even worse! Morgan plays up his more annoying qualities at every turn, and the year following the movie’s release, Kevin Smith revealed just how much of a pain in the ass it was to work with Willis. And you know what: it consistently shows onscreen!

#9: “R.I.P.D.” (2013)

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A movie so terrible that it made our Top 10 Worst Movies of 2013 list, “R.I.P.D.” or the Rest in Peace Department, is the perfect example of good actors making horrible film choices. Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds play undead officers who work to kill monsters disguised as humans, known as “deados”. The result? The plot sucked, the dialogue sucked, the action sections sucked, and the movie was a box office bomb. It was everything that “Men in Black”- its inspiration - wasn’t. That is, it wasn’t fun. Ryan Reynolds deserves better, Jeff Bridges deserves better, and we deserve our money back!

So, dig this, kids. “Turner and Hooch” was released July 28th, 1989, exactly three months after a movie called “K-9.” “So the hell what?”, you say. Well, here’s the hell what: the two films have practically the same plot, but “Turner and Hooch” ended up being way more popular. How you ask? Because big-timer Tom Hanks was cast in the starring role. Both films involve the lead actor playing a police investigator who’s partnered with a dog to take down the criminal. Ridiculous, right? If you hate the police and you’re not fond of dogs, this is definitely not the movie for you.

Regarded by Roger Ebert as an all-time low for buddy cop films, “Loose Cannons” stars Dan Aykroyd and Gene Hackman as police officers working to solve murder mysteries. Aykroyd’s character suffers from multiple personality disorder, which is the ONLY good thing about the film because of the humor it adds. That aside, the action sequences are so cheesy it looks like 3rd graders are playing cops and robbers - which might be why the film only made back a third of its $15 million dollar budget. If you didn’t go to see this movie in theaters, you missed absolutely nothing.

#6: “Top Dog” (1995)

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If you’re someone who gets a kick out of watching bad movies, then put “Top Dog” on your radar. You will not be surprised to find out this is ANOTHER movie involving a cop being teamed up with a canine companion. Although this one had the round-housing Chuck Norris as the star - perhaps as a favor to his writing/directing younger brother? – “Top Dog” was criticized for a) being too similar to “K-9” and “Turner and Hooch,” and b) dealing with terrorism around the time of the Oklahoma City bombing. Still, we don’t think that was the only reason no one wanted to watch this… thing.

#5: “Cop and a Half” (1993)

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Devon Butler dreams of being a cop when he reaches adulthood. Butler gets his wish at eight years old however when he trades info about a murder for a job as a cop. The boy is teamed with Burt Reynolds’ Nick McKenna - who absolutely hates children, obviously. What you get is a movie in which the two actors appear to have absolutely no chemistry together and where it feels like McKenna is going through “Bring Your Kid to Work Unless You Want to Get Fired” day. The actor that played Devon – Norman D. Golden II - was even nominated for a Razzie award for Worst New Star! However, Roger Ebert gave it a thumbs up – so that’s something.

There are great film remakes, and then there are film remakes that never should’ve been made. This is definitely in the latter category. A remake of the 1998 French film of the same name, this action comedy – and we use both terms loosely – sees Queen Latifah play a taxi driver who dreams of becoming a race car driver and Jimmy Fallon as a clumsy cop who partners with her to catch a group of bank robbers. Let’s just say the film doesn’t even live up to that stellar premise, with an obvious BMW stunt double, an unconvincing Cuban impression by Fallon, and a “plot” involving a group of women led by Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen robbing banks in New York...?

This disaster of a film didn’t come to the U.S. until three years after its release overseas. Even then, it went straight to home video. And honestly, they shouldn’t have even bothered. Jay Leno plays a racist and arrogant cop who’s paired with a Japanese inspector to recover a stolen turbocharger. After the fact, it was revealed that the production team ran out of money on the last day of filming and that Leno wished he had never done the film. And it shows. “Collision Course” is painfully un-funny, and watching it can easily put someone to sleep. Anyone who had high hopes for this movie probably cried after wasting 100 minutes of his or her life viewing it.

#2: “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot” (1992)

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You know your movie sucks when the main star calls it “maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen”. Sylvester Stallone was apparently tricked into starring in the movie, as he was made to believe he was beating Arnold Schwarzenegger to the punch. In the film, Sly plays a cop who’s visited by his mother, played by Estelle Getty. She immediately gets on her son’s nerves but later starts to help him on an important case. The comedy tries to show the good mother/son bond, but ends up a low-budget travesty with no redeeming features. This movie actually makes the other films on this list look like masterpieces. Before unveil our number one pick, here are some dishonorable mentions: - “Ride Along” (2014) - “Showtime” (2002) - “Rush Hour 3” (2007) - “Bad Boys II” (2003) - “White Chicks” (2004)

During production, Whoopi Goldberg tried to get out of this project but found herself trapped due to contract restraints. As a result, someone had to sit through this horrible film where Goldberg is paired with a Tyrannosaurus Rex in order to stop a villain from creating a new ice age. The premise alone makes it sound like the movie was directed, produced and written by 7-year-olds, and the execution is not much better – in fact, it may be worse. All the dinosaurs look terribly creepy and there is not one joke that will even make you chuckle. If dinosaurs saw this, they would probably go extinct by choice in order to avoid ever seeing this again. Do you agree with our list? Which buddy cops would you laugh at if they tried to arrest you? For more interesting top 10s published every day, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com.