How to Make Bad Movies Good

A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure

• Make it less of a rip-off to Cars.
• Give it better animation and music, in order to make it good.
• Make the voice acting less annoying.

A Troll in Central Park (1994)

• Don't have the green plants and flowers at New York City in the ending scene.

All Dogs Go to Heaven Sequel Movies

General

• Wipe them from existence.

Alvin and the Chipmunks Films from 2007-2015

General

• Hire Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman to reprise the roles as the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.
• Make it entirely CGI animated.
• Hire someone else other than Jason Lee to play his role as Dave Seville.
• Add Miss Beatrice Miller in the sequels.
• Redesign the Chipmunks and Chipettes to look more like they did in the cartoons.
• Remove all the potty humor, product placements, and modern day pop culture songs.
• Have the films take place in the 50's-60's instead of present day.
• Have Alvin wear a cap more often.
• Give the new songs made for the films the 50's-60's-like genres.

Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

• Make the rock version of "Christmas Don't Be Late" more 60's-like.
• Alvin scares Dave instead of farting on him when the latter traps the former.
• Simon actually eats raisins instead of Theodore's poop.
• The Chipmunks watch a 50's-60's cartoon instead of SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Make the film's version of "Witch Doctor" more like the 1961 version instead of the hip hop one.

The Squeakquel (2009)

• It actually explains how Jeanette gets her glasses.
• Instead of playing Wii Sports, they watch a sitcom on the TV.

Chipwrecked (2011)

• Give Zoe better characterizations.
  • Have someone else other than Jenny Slate to play as Zoe.
• Have the Chipmunks wear a beach holiday outfit in the film.

The Road Chip (2015)

• Don't hire Kaley Cuoco to voice Elanor.
• Hire someone else other than Tony Hale to play as James Suggs.
• Have the red car the Chipmunks ride in actually appear in the film.
• Bring back Ian Hawke.

An American Tail Last 2 Animated Direct-to-Video Sequels

General

• Release them in theaters.

The Treasure of Manhattan Island

• It was set after the events of the second movie.

The Mystery of the Night Monster

• Age Fievel Mousekewitz up to an adult.

Baby Shark's Big Movie! (2023)

• Retitle it, "Pinkfong: the Movie".
• Make Stariana a better villain.

Barney's Great Adventure (1998)

• Make Barney less annoying and give him more screentime.

Batman and Robin (1997)

• Remove the pop culture references.
• Make it feel less like a toy commercial.

Blown Away (1994)

• Have "Trade" and "Mark" in the in-credit from the MGM Logo without the 1994 roar track on the end credits.

Casper Live-Action and CGI Sequels

General

• Keep the original personalities from the CGI-animated ghosts in the original film called "Casper (1995)".
• Release "Casper 2'.

Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)

• Have Casper as a human as he turns into a ghost in the opening scene.

Casper Meets Wendy (1998)

• Get rid of all of the pop culture references.

Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000)

• Get rid of the movie references.

Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2003)

• Give the characters better designs. Example: Wilbur doesn't have a hairdo, and Fern doesn't look like a tooth-chipped hick.
• The movie is its own original story and is not connected to Charlotte's Web, story-wise or setting-wise.

Cuties (2020)

• Get rid of the sexual contents.
• Have Cuties do a more appropriate dance move instead of twerking.
• Get rid of the scene where Amy stabs a student with a pencil.

Dingo Pictures' Animated Films

General

• Fix the animation.
• Make them less of a Disney rip-off.

Disney's Direct-to-Video Sequel and Prequel Movies

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

• Have the Beast and the household objects turned back into humans before Mrs. Potts finished the story from the ending scene.

Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World

• Have Belle wear a blue dress on the 2003 VHS and DVD cover.
• Hire Angela Lansbury to reprise the role as Mrs. Potts.
• Remove the color errors from the four stories.

The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars

• Hire Jon Lovitz to reprise the role as Radio.

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

• Keep the "Gonna Get My Wish" scene.
• Fix Flounder's wife actually appear, since Flounder has guppies.
• Fix Flounder's design.
• Make the new characters, like Melody and Morgana, look less like ripoffs of old ones.
• Hire someone else than Rob Paulsen to voice Eric.
  • It's Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Eric.

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

• Retitle it, "Cinderella Stories".
• Make it an animated TV series.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

• Hire David Ogden Steirs to reprise the role as Archdeacon.

Atlantis: Milo's Return

• Retitle it, "Atlantis II: The Tides of Chaos".
• Make it an animated TV Series.

The Jungle Book 2

• Have Mowgli to grow up as an adult.

Mulan II

• Hire Eddie Murphy to reprise the role as Mushu.

Brother Bear 2

• Hire Joaquin Phoenix to reprise the role as Kenai.

The Fox and the Hound 2

• Have it take place after the events of the first film.
• Bring back Dinky, Boomer, and Squeaks.

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

• Give Scuttle some more screentime.
• Make the plot less similar to Footloose.

Disney's Live-Action and Photorealistic Films

102 Dalmatians (2000)

• Make it 2D animated.
• Bring back Roger, Anita, Jasper and Horace.

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

• Make it 2D or CGI animated.

Kim Possible (2019)

• Make it 2D animated.

Cruella (2021)

• Make it 2D animated.
• Downgrade the rating to PG.

Mufusa: The Lion King (2024)

• Make it traditionally animated.

Disney's Live-Action and Photorealistic Remake Films

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994)

• Have the voiceovers voice the animal characters.
• Have a musical version of the film.
• Have Baloo as a black bear on the VHS and DVD cover.

101 Dalmatians (1996)

• Credit the animal actors.
• Have the voiceovers voice the animal characters.
• Don't make Roger a video game designer.
  • Roger is a music composer instead.
• It was set in the 1950s.

The Jungle Book (2016)

• Have the Vultures to appear in this film.
• Have the voice actors to voice the elephants.
• Have a male voice actor as Kaa the python.

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

• Get rid of the pointless new character, Cadenza.
• Have Gaston stab the Beast from the final battle.

Dumbo (2019)

• Have the animals characters (like Timothy Mouse) talk, except for Dumbo.
• Remove most of the new human characters.

Aladdin (2019)

• Hire Gilbert Gottfried to reprise his role as Iago.
• Have Jafar turn into a cobra instead of turning Iago into a Roc.
• Remove "Speechless".

The Lion King (2019)

• Make the CGI designs more identical to how they appear originally.
• Have Banzai and Ed keep their original names.
• Have some of the other actors reprise their roles instead of replacing them with new ones.
• Get rid of the version of "Be Our Guest".

Lady and the Tramp (2019)

• Lady and Tramp have puppies at the end.

Mulan (2020)

• Mulan does not use magical powers.
• Add in Mushu, Li Shang, Little Brother, the Ancestors, and Grandmother Fa.
• Make the remake a musical, like the original.

Pinocchio (2022)

• Give Pinocchio donkey ears and a donkey tail at the ocean and inside the belly of Monstro the Whale.
• Have Pinocchio become a real boy (portrayed by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who voiced Pinocchio's puppet form) in the ending scene.
• Get rid of the pointless new character, Sofia the Seagull.
• Get rid of the pop cultures and the poop scene.
• Have two Pinocchio (1940) songs in the remake including, "Little Wooden Head" and "Give a Little Whistle".

Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)

• Have Tick Tock the Crocodile eat Captain Hook outside the ship before the Darling children goes home.

The Little Mermaid (2023)

• Make Scuttle a male seagull, like in the original, instead of a female gannet.
• Get rid of the pointless new character, Selina.
• Have Ariel's sisters keep their original names.

Snow White (2025)

• Have Snow White and the forest animals clean the Seven Dwarfs' house just like in the original animated film during the song, "Whistle While You Work".

Lilo & Stitch (2025)

• Have Rafiki be the one to hold Stitch in the teaser trailer instead, like in one of the teasers for the 2002 film.

DreamWorks' Live-Action and Photorealistic Remake Films

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

• Hire someone else to play as Astrid.

FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue (1998)

• Have it focus more on Crysta.
• Make the Lead Poacher the better antagonist.
• Crysta shrinks the poachers in the final battle scene.
• Hire the 1992 FernGully: The Last Rainforest voice actors reprise from the first movie.

Flubber (1997)

• Retitle it, "The Absent Minded Professor".
• It was set in the 1950's.

Foodfight! (2012)

• Remove the product placements.
• Make it animated in good CGI instead.

Freddy Got Fingered

• Make it feel like the extended version of the PG-rated cut.
• Give Freddy some more screentime.
• Retitle it "Gordy's Silly and Nonsensical Adventures".
• During the baby scene, have the birth be offscreen, and have the baby gets its cord cut off and be simply taking care of rather than having its cord chewed and being flung around. It was done by a real doctor instead of Gord.

Garfield CGI Films

The Garfield Movie (2024)

• Give Nermal some more screentime.
• Bring back Arlene.
• Add in the U.S. Acres characters.
• Hire Frank Welker or Bill Murray to reprise his role as Garfield.
• Make it less of a generic heist road trip film.
• Fix the ending.

Garfield live-action films

General

• Give the characters cartoonish CGI designs by Jim Davis.

Garfield: The Movie

• Get rid of all of the pop culture references.

Ghostbusters (2016)

• Replace Patty, Erin, Holtz, and Abby with the different Ghostbusters.
• Make it more canon.
• Bring back Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in the final battle.

Godzilla (1998)

• Replace Zilla with an actual Godzilla.
• Remove Zilla's eggs.
• Hire someone else than Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin to direct and write the film.

Golden Films' Animated Movies

General

• Fix the animation errors.
• Make them less of a Disney rip-off.

Hop (2011)

• It is entirely CGI animated.
  • This means have Illumination Mac Guff be involved with it instead of Rhythm and Hues.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

• It is 2D animated.
• Tone down the adult humor.

Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

• Make Gavin, Roger, and Gertie better antagonists.
• Fix Shangri-Llama's characterization.
• Get rid of the potty humor.

Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)

• It is made by Disney.

MGM Sing-Alongs

• Hire the 1998 Lionhearts voice actors.
• Remove "It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day" from Gulliver's Travels in Being Happy.

Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate (2024)

• Hire Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and David Cross to reprise their roles as Megamind, Roxanne, and Minion instead of being replaced with Keith Ferguson, Laura Post, and Josh Brener.

Moonfall (2022)

• Hire someone else than Roland Emmerich to direct.
• Make it more like the Moonfall book by Jack McDevitt instead.

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

• Make it less of a Jungle Book rip-off.

Percy Jackson film series

General

• Make it more like books.
• Release the adaptations of The Titan's Curse, Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Chalice of the Gods, and Wrath of the Triple Goddess.

The Lightning Thief (2010)

• Remove the Hydra scene.
• The bus explodes, but the characters survive.
• Bring back Clarise, Procrustes, Echidna, Chimera, etc.

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

• Don't have Peter Pan as a real killer.

Pixels (2015)

• Give the credit to Patrick Jean (the creator of the original Pixels short).
• Make Lady Lisa a pixelated character, since she is a video game character.
• Don't have Q-Bert turn into Lady Lisa at the end.
• Remove all the product placement and potty humor.
• Fix the characterizations of Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie Plant.
• Hire someone else to play as Sam Brenner instead of Adam Sandler.

Power Rangers (2017)

• It is made by 20th Century Fox.

Rock-a-Doodle (1991)

• Make it entirely 2D animated.
• Remove Patou's narration.

Rover Dangerfield (1991)

• Improve the characterization.

Scooby-Doo live-action films

General

• Remove all the potty humor and product placements.
• Make fix the CGI for Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and the monsters, so they won't look uncanny.

Scooby-Doo (2002)

• Get rid of those uncanny Spooky Island Demons.
• Make it more like the show.
• Don't have Scrappy-Doo pee on Daphne. Instead, have him spill grape juice on the floor in the Mystery Machine.

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

• Make Heather Jasper Howe a secret daughter to Jacobo instead of his persona.
  • Speaking of which, hire some one else to play the role as her instead of Alicia Silverstone.
• Remove the "I think Coolsville sucks" line.

Son of the Mask (2005)

• Retitle it, "The Mask II".
• Hire Jim Carrey reprise his role as Stanley Ipkis/the Mask.
• It is released in 1996.

Space Jam: A New Legacy

• Keep Kath Soucie and Eric Bauza as Lola Bunny and Speedy Gonzales.
• The Pepe Le Pew controversy wouldn't happen, so therefore, he, along with Penelope Pussycat, appeared in the film.
• The film doesn't try to be so "hip with the kids".
• Replace Al-G Rhythm with Berserk-O and his henchmen O-Yes and O-No.

SpongeBob SquarePants' Character Spin-off Films

General

• Have them focus mainly on SpongeBob SquarePants, but not the other characters such as Sandy Cheeks, Sheldon J. Plankton or Patrick Star.
• Make the films 2D animated instead of CGI, like how the first two SpongeBob SquarePants films were.
• Make them main films.

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024)

• Have Mikros Animation be involved instead of Sinking Ship Entertainment.
• Remove all the poop and fetish jokes. Replace them with better humor.
• Fix the Cheeks family's characterizations.
• Make Sue Nahmee, Kyle and Phoebe better villains.
  • Give Sue a better plan instead.
  • Don't have Kyle put SpongeBob on the coaster that leads to the cloning machine, in order to avoid cloning SpongeBob.
• Fix the special effects.
  • Have the young Sue Nahmee special effect be Jamaria Davis having blue hair rather than Wanda Skyes' head being poorly cropped onto Davis'.
  • Have Sue's cyborg form be portrayed using better motion capture.
  • Have Kyle and Phoebe wear live-action underwater suits instead of CGI ones.
• Retitle it, "The SpongeBob Movie: Saving Bikini Bottom".

Plankton: The Movie (2025)

• Retitle it, "The SpongeBob Movie: Musical Sponge".

The 5th Wave (2016)

• Make it more like a book it's based on.
• Release sequels based on The Infinite Sea and The Last Star.

The Banana Splits Movie (2019)

• Make it a PG-rated musical comedy film instead of an R-rated horror film, so this film would look more like a show instead of ripping off Five Nights at Freddy's.
• Have the Banana Splits appear as humans in costumes, like in the incarnations, since they're portrayed by human actors.
  • Have the Splits resemble their incarnations. This means Bingo has as much black hair as he did in the incarnations and is barefoot, Fleegle is light greenish-brown and wears shoes, Drooper has smaller eyes, and Snorky had bigger eyes.
• Don't have Fleegle, Bingo, and Drooper be mischaracterized into murderous serial killers. Examples:
  • Have Drooper give Stevie a real lollipop instead of shoving the prop one down his throat.
  • Have Fleegle do a magic saw trick, revealing he puts Thadd and Poppy on two halves.
• Don't have Snorky run over Mitch Williams with a Banana Buggy.
• Hire Jim Cummings and Carlos Alazraqui to voice Fleegle and Drooper.
• Make Hooty a character instead of being just a costume.
• On the poster...
  • Have it take place outside of Taft Studios.
  • Have Bingo hold something else instead of an axe.
  • Drooper had something else instead of sharp teeth.

The Cat in the Hat (2003)

• Make it an animated film.
• Hire someone else to play his role as The Cat in the Hat instead of Mike Myers.
• Tone down the adult humor.

The Emoji Movie (2017)

• It is made by Dreamworks Animation from 2015.
• No more poop jokes. This means Poop and Poop Kid would be removed.
• Give the characters more emotions.

The Flintstones Live-Action Films

General

• They were made by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

The Flintstones (1994)

• It is animated by Wang Film Productions from Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

• Have it a sequel originally intended after the events of the first film.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)

• It is made by 20th Century Studios.
• Improve the animation.
• Hire the other returning actors, like Ray Romano (as Manny the Mammoth), John Leguizamo (as Sid the Sloth), and Denis Leary (as Diego the Sabertooth Tiger), to voice the other Ice Age characters. (Not only Simon Pegg as Buck Wild)
• Bring back Scrat the Squirrel, Egbert, Shelly, Yoko, and Rudy.
• Make Orson a better antagonist.

The Land Before Time Sequel Movies

General

• Wipe them from existence.

The Oogieloves: The Big Balloon Adventure (2012)

• Give the story a better plot so that way they won't rip-off The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

The Pagemaster (1994)

• It is entirely 2D animated.

The Pebble and the Penguin

• Give the story about pebbles.

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

• It is released in 1995.
• Retitle it, "The Secret of NIMH 2: Martin Brisby to the Rescue".
• Have Martin Brisby as the hero and Timmy Brisby as the villain.
• It is made by Don Bluth Productions.

The Smurfs Live-Action Films

General

• Change the plots so that instead of The Smurfs ending up in modern-day New York and Paris, The Smurfs go to the human village.
• Make the CGI for the Smurfs, Azrael, and the Naughties look more identical to Peyo's artwork.

The Smurfs

• Get rid of "Blu-ray" on the taxi sign.

The Swan Princess' CGI Animated Films

General

• Make them 2D animated.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad

• Give Thomas and his friends some more screentime.
• Add more Thomas characters.

Thumbelina (1994)

• Don't reuse Disney animation from the Don Bluth movie.

Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)

• It is made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017)

• Make it the 2D animated remake to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but without the Tom and Jerry characters.
• Improve the blueberry scene.

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)

• Don't mischaracterize the Power Rangers.

Waterworld (1995)

• Make it less of a Mad Max rip-off.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey Films

General

• Don't have Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Owl have real killers.

Woody Woodpecker live-action/CGI films

General

• Give Woody Woodpecker some more screen time than any of the human characters, like Lance and Tommy Walters.
• Add in more Walter Lantz characters, like Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Winnie Woodpecker, etc.
• Make these films entirely animated by Illumination.
• Remove all the modern day electronics.
• Improve the humor.