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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ed Power

INSANE: The worst nineties comedies ranked from flubber to stop or my mom will shoot | Rare Historical Photos

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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