For as many good movies as we managed to see in 2011 – especially with the holidays featuring the likes of The Adventures of Tintin and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – we also saw our fair share of real stinkers, the kind of movies that would make you shake your head at the mere thought of their creation.

So, with that, we’ve counted down the worst ten movies of 2011.  Now, we’ve eliminated some really bad ones out of this bunch, including Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It (ugh) and the Taylor Lautner-led Abduction – but these ten manage to reek just enough in their own right to justify their placement.  So, God help you, here goes the countdown.

And thankfully, there’s not a single entry by M. Night Shyamalan.  So the year didn’t end in suicidal thoughts.  Whew…

10. New Years Eve – An ensemble piece?  Oh goody!  Er, wait, it’s a quasi-sequel to Valentine’s Day, which means the folks involved in the film will be pretentious, non-withstandable and unrealistic.  Joy.  This dreck of a follow-up manages to ruin Robert DeNiro’s reputation, while at the same time laughing at Seth Meyers and Jessica Biel and somehow giving us more Ashton Kutcher than we really needed.  Seriously, we’ll spend our New Year’s alone.  Thanks.

9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – Was there a reason we needed a third movie loaded with high-pitched melodies and non-sensical humor that didn’t even come across as attempting?  Even The Smurfs managed to be better than this dreck, which has everyone’s favorite Chipmunks and Chipettes stranded on a desert island.  Sadly, it’s not the kind of desert island where they fight for survival, but rather sing cute musical numbers and eventually find their happy ending.  Too bad we never find ours.  (David Cross didn’t either, apparently.  He hates the film even more than us.  And he’s in it!)

8. Red Riding Hood – Doing a “serious” take on folklore is nothing new in Hollywood – this next summer will bring two alternative takes on Snow White – but we’re not quite sure what the folks at Warner Bros. were thinking with Red Riding Hood.  This is a dull version of the classic tale, with horrible plot twists, bad acting (even Gary Oldman can’t save this mess) and effects that will have you howling with laughter at the badness of it all.  We’d sooner watch Hoodwinked than this…and that’s desperation.

7. Something Borrowed – It’s a typical Hollywood practice.  While there’s some big blockbuster to open up the summer season (in this case, Thor), there’s an equally forgettable romantic comedy opening against it.  This one has Ginnifer Goodwin hitting on her old best friend, who’s engaged to her new best friend – and the inevitable “fall in love” crap happens.  Talk about a waste of celluloid.  Even poor John Krazinski, Jim from The Office, can’t escape the torment that is this mess.

6. The Dilemma – Soooo…anyone know what happened to the real Ron Howard?  Because this one obviously couldn’t have directed such an awful comedy piece.  What’s more, he dragged Kevin James and Vince Vaughn down with him, in a terrible story involving infidelity amongst a married couple and the best friend who bumbles trying to inform him.  Hey, genius, next time, just TELL HIM straight up.  Really, that’ll save us two hours of pain.

5. The Hangover Part II – It was a box office success, but we still can’t help but feel that The Hangover Part II was nothing short of a disastrous sequel.  Despite the Bangkok setting and the return of Ken Jeong, we couldn’t help but feel a whole feeling of recycling with this film, complete with awkward situations (how did Paul Giamatti end up in this again?) and the kind of laughs that annoy rather than bust a gut.  Sadly, we’ll have a third chapter incoming sooner than later.  This suffering never ends with the Wolf Pack.

4. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I – Okay, DON’T ask why we saw this.  We have no idea.  Someone talked us into it and they have since been unfriended on  Facebook.  And then killed.  This is the most miserable Twilight film yet, with a complete lack of action, lame acting (Lautner dials in as usual) and the kind of story twists that are reserved for a second-rate Underworld film.  Though that’s an insult to Underworld films.  Do yourself a favor and just succumb to fate rather than subject yourself to this crap.  One bed-breaking scene doesn't not make for passionate romance.

3. Zookeeper – Doctor Doolittle could easily talk to the animals, but the difference between him and Kevin James’ inept zookeeper is that the good doctor actually had something to say.  Not so with James, who chats with animals in completely pitiful ways while trying to win over a girl by, well, acting like an ass.  We just feel bad for Joe Rogan, wasted in a secondary role here instead of taking charge and smacking around animals like a UFC pro.  Poo-poo clean-up on aisle seven.

2. Bucky Larson: Born To Be a Star – More like “born to annoy”.  How Nick Swardson went from the cool-as-hell 30 Minutes Or Less to this disaster of a vehicle is beyond explanation.  It tells the story of a stupid goof who finds out his parents were porn stars, and he decides to follow suit, with disastrous results.  Despite some potential for nudity, this comedy falls flat pretty quickly, as Swardson gives birth to the most annoying character in cinematic film.  This year, at least.  Go back home, hippie.

1. Jack and Jill – We’re not gonna lie.  At one point, we saw Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It and figured that was about as low as his film career would get, schmaltzing with Jennifer Aniston in icky lovey-dovey fashion, despite his stupid dishonesty.  But then we get a complete train wreck like Jack and Jill, where he plays both siblings of a brother-and-sister twin couple and, of course, crap happens that makes it funny.  Or rather tries to make it funny and fails miserably.  Not even a useless cameo by Al Pacino, nor situations stemming from earlier Sandler films, can stop the pain that endures from this complete train wreck.  Hey Adam, either retire or make Happy Gilmore II already.  We’re tired of this garbage.

And now an ugly image to sum up the ugly year.  Merry Christmas.  Bleah.

About the Author

Robert Workman

Senior Writer/Editor

Robert has years of experience in the video game industry, writing for such sites as AOL GameDaily, PlanetXbox360 and Comic Book Resources.  He can also outdrink you any day of the week.  And twice on Sunday.  Follow him at www.twitter.com/thedcd.