10 Worst Romantic Comedies

Romantic comedies are beloved by almost every woman who ever walked the face of the earth. The tales of dealing with the major character flaw in the person the protagonist believes to be the person of their dreams seems to resonate with female audiences. However, some of the romantic comedies that hit the big screen are absolutely terrible because they don’t contain an ounce of realism. Others just plain old suck. Check out some of the worst romantic comedies and steer clear of them at all costs.

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Brown Sugar

Sure, the Rick Famuyiwua directed film has landed itself in the hearts of hopeless romantic hip-hop heads. However, “Brown Sugar” was tired before it was shot and got sleepier the longer we watched it. First off, Taye Diggs was so miscast, you almost felt bad for him when he had to act like he really grew up listening to Dana Dane instead of Broadway show tunes as a kid. Secondly, I don’t know who told Sanaa Lathan it was cool to begin every interview with the wackest question ever, but no real writer/blogger/journalist/whatever clever title you can find to describe the job would ask “When’s the first time you fell in love with hip-hop?” Then for it to later be revealed as a euphemism for Taye Diggs’ character, you’ll definitely need a barf bag from ingesting all of that corniness.

Woo

“Woo” falls into the category of “When Terrible Movies Happen To Decent Actors.” Jada Pinkett-Smith starred as a beautiful woman who could bring any man to his knees with the bat of an eyelash, yet she couldn’t keep a man if the world depended on it. Somehow, the geeky Tommy Davidson scores a date with Woo and things go crazy. His friends follow them around New York City like the ultimate d-blockers. Oh and did we forget to mention that Woo’s friend is dating a dude who has a sexual fetish for chicken?!

Love Don’t Cost A Thing

Minus “Drumline,” anytime you hear Nick Cannon is starring in a film, run far far away. “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” is a prime example. Basically, this is another where the sexy girl doesn’t like the geek until he changes his style and then she falls for him after he becomes a jerk. She gets mad at him and herself. When he realizes she is really in love, he apologizes and they live out senior year happily ever after. As much as this movie truly sucked, we can’t front that Nick Cannon did get with his co-star Christina Milian in real life. If you’ve seen her old King Magazine spreads, you know there’s no way to hate on that.

Breaking All The Rules

At a certain point in the early 2000s, Morris Chestnut was the go-to guy in every terrible ass black romantic comedy created. Check his IMDB. But “Breakin All The Rules” was probably the worst. Jamie Foxx writes a relationship book and Chestnut and his love interest Gabrielle Union run into trouble figuring out their relationship until they stop letting a book by a broken-hearted man ruin their love. After watching this movie, you might lose faith in black screenwriters as well as real love.

Norbit

This is the sole reason Eddie Murphy didn’t win an Oscar for his scene-stealing performance in “Dreamgirls.” Murphy was set to win and a week before the Academy voted, “Norbit” came out. While the delivery of some lines are enough to induce a chuckle, there’s no way in the world Thandie Newton would be so hard up for a geek like Norbit that she would deal with a woman like Rasputia. And Rasputia? Really?

How To Be A Player

Bill Bellamy was one of the brown skin brothas helping keep us in style in the early 90s. So it was natural he would do a movie about macking a bevy of beauties. However, if you get advice from the original Mack, Max Julien, and you still get caught, you ain’t really pimping the way you thought you were. On top of that, dude’s sleazy ways would’ve gotten him caught in thirty seconds if he tried to pull that mess now. Screenshots and social media don’t play that.

Sprung

If you remember the name of this craptastic film, welcome to my misery party. Tisha Campbell, Paula Jai Parker, Joe Torrey, and some other actor have a battle of the sexes that ends in love in one relationship and vengeance and spitefulness in the other. Am I the only one who noticed the dark skinned couple were the dysfunctional ones and the light skinned couple somehow got it together? No shade, but shade!

Last Holiday

Yes, it’s a cute movie for the over fifty set, but it is all out trash. Queen Latifah is a talented actress, but even she isn’t convincing when it comes to loving men in films. Moreover, she and LL Cool J just looked awkward as hell kissing and such. It was as awkward as Prince and Apollonia making out in “Purple Rain.” Yeah, I took it there. I’m just going to need Queen Latifah to stick to playing gun-toting back robbers or singing prison wardens. Please and thanks.

In The Mix

Usher has never been considered an amazing actor. We love him for his singing ability, but delivering a line isn’t in his forte. Too bad nobody told him because “In The Mix” could’ve been avoided. Usher plays a man who is asked to protect a mob boss’s daughter and the two fall in love much to the chagrin of the mob boss and drama and supposed hilarity ensues. Not interested.

Booty Call

The best thing about “Booty Call” is the soundtrack. Jamie Foxx‘s homeless braids and Tommy Davidson and the Saran wrap are enough to make me leave this alone, but if I was chasing pre-knifed up Vivica A. Fox, I might have went dumb stupid too.