Worst Blockbusters Ever (10-6)

10. 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' (2009)
Face it people, we've created a monster. Following a strong positive reaction to his 2007 live-action franchise launcher, director Michael Bay went buck wild on the follow-up, piling on more explosions, more uncomfortable stereotyping, more leg-humping and more fights. (Can you even tell the robots apart when they tussle? We can't.) As if plot ever mattered, part 2's storyline somehow makes even less sense than the first movie's.

• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 20%
• Box Office Gross: $395 million

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9. 'Fantastic Four' (2005)
Technically this was the second crack at a 'Fantastic Four' franchise, and this take was intended to be something like 'X-Men' for families; that much was made clear when director Tim Story ('Barbershop,' 'Taxi') was hired. But it's hard to imagine that parents took anything away from this one, which largely ignores Dr. Doom, one of the coolest Marvel villains ever, in lieu of more internal conflicts. Flame on? Hardly. More like flame out.

• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 26%
• Box Office Gross: $154 million

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8. 'Godzilla' (1998)
That this, the 29th 'Godzilla' movie, came out almost exactly a year after 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park,' with its own dinosaurs-run-amok-on-mainland plotline, can only account for so much of our disappointment. Roland Emmerich's remake of the Japanese classic fixated too much on inside jokes (a mayor named Ebert) and on cramming in every single New York landmark. But ultimately, yes, the baby Godzilla attack, which ripped off 'JP''s raptors, is our main beef.

• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 26%
• Box Office Gross: $136 million

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7. 'Wild Wild West' (1999)
An exercise in the power of word of mouth: This stinker raked in $50 million in week one, but bad buzz (Entertainment Weekly called it "a noisy, joyless, bizarrely static fiasco") turned off audiences and the pic barely doubled its total in the next three months. Star Will Smith later apologized for the film, which remade a 1960s Robert Conrad TV series, saying, "I made a mistake on 'Wild Wild West' ... When there's a 'Fresh Prince' movie, I hope I'm so far buried under something."

• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 21%
• Box Office Gross: $113 million

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6. 'Van Helsing' (2004)
Picture James Bond as a 19th-century monster slayer who encounters every single one of his foes -- Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolfman, Dracula and his brides -- in the span of one movie, and there you have 'Van Helsing,' a ramped-up special-effects disaster of the "more! more! more!" energy drink generation. Sorry to say director Stephen Sommers blows his wad with action sequence after action sequence. Scary bad stuff.

• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 22%
• Box Office Gross: $120 million

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