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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ed Power

The worst Nineties comedies ranked, from Flubber to Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty in ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ - (Universal/Northern Lights/Kobal/Shutterstock)

The Nineties are remembered as a golden age of big-screen comedy. The highs were certainly glorious – from Doug Liman’s deadpan Swingers (which made “You’re so money!” a catchphrase for 15 minutes in 1996) to uproariously lowbrow Farrelly brothers chortlefest There’s Something About Mary – the Citizen Kane of movies about getting your junk caught in your zipper. But amid such chucklesome triumphs, the decade was strewn with laugh-free clunkers.

Here is a countdown of the anti-laughter zones that brought lasting shame on late 20th-century Hollywood.

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