WWE: The 10 Worst Movies Starring Pro Wrestlers

Yesterday, Drake Oz compiled a list of the 10 best movies with wrestlers in starring roles. I regret to inform Oz that few people tend to link the word "good" with a movie that includes a pro wrestler in a big role.

In fact, most wrestler movies tend to be absolutely terrible. Initially, they are nearly unwatchable. Many of them are only bearable after years have passed and it's far enough away to heckle and make fun of it fondly in retrospect.

Whether it is The Rock making movies for Disney or Triple H making movies for his father-in-law, many wrestlers seem out of place in a majority of their acting roles. It does discourage some, while it also forces others to keep making really bad movies.

The latest attempt at finally striking oil with a movie comes with John Cena's movie, The Reunion. From what I gather, he is a guy who has to be in business with his brothers and decides to pick the oh-so-safe profession of private investigating. This is all done for the sake of honoring their dead father's final wish...and claiming $3 million each from his will for abiding by it.

The Reunion has not even been out for two weeks and is already suffering from very bad reviews. The movie comes out next week on DVD, which will likely prompt fans to camp outside of stores and pick up yet another movie that makes people hate John Cena.

Cena isn't the only star to jump out on this list, but will The Reunion end up earning a spot in the future? Let's see what this latest train wreck has to compete with.

The Scorpion King

We can start with the movie that likely spurRed on this surge in WWE's fascination with movies: The Scorpion King. The movie was the third movie in a series that now has six movies attached to it.

Of the other movies on this list, this was the only one to truly be linked to an actual successful movie. Following two successful movies from The Mummy series helped boost the profits from this film, but did little else to help itself. Two movies in the franchise may have been enough, but over $165 million was brought in worldwide with this movie, which did not have the main characters from the first two films.

It is scenarios like these that we can thank for having three more movies from The Mummy.

This movie was the very first movie co-produced by WWE Studios, the company responsible for all of the movies we get to see advertised during WWE programming on what seems to be a weekly basis. It also helped to vault The Rock's movie career, which would have other flops later on.

Ready to Rumble

Many fans are aware of Ready to Rumble, which was about two wrestling fans chasing their dream to hang alongside their favorite in-ring competitor. After the fictional Jimmy King experiences a screwjob of his own, Scott Caan and David Arquette are off to help their fallen hero, played by Oliver Platt, and give him his glory back.

The movie chronicles all of the adventures that the trio face, from crashing an episode of WCW Nitro to auditioning for a posse.

This movie had WCW written all over it and the company did everything it could to sell it to everyone, including wrestling fans. It was in this strategy that the awful idea of giving Arquette the WCW World Heavyweight Championship was created. That moment still stands as one of the worst ideas in wrestling history.

Even more than a decade later, wrestling fans still have to look at his untalented face in a wrestling ring, knowing that he earned an accolade the likes of Roddy Piper never could.

Doom

Not only are movies with wrestlers in them a bad idea, but movies based off of video games are also bad ideas. Doom was a popular game, but a pretty bad movie to watch.

I have to give it up to The Rock for trying his best in this film, as well as giving it up to the director and crew for staying close to the game. This still doesn't make up for the fact that it was a bad movie and belongs on this list.

Every so often, this movie pops up on cable television when a channel is looking for generic filler. That's about all that it is good for. Fans of the video game will get a kick out of it, but nothing more than that.

This is exactly why many video games present themselves as if they are a movie already. As long as Santino Marella doesn't begin doing a remake of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie, I think we can all block this idea of wrestlers in video game movies out of our heads.

Hell Comes to Frogtown

The title of this film sounds fake, but it actually makes sense with the plot. Ironically, it is the plot that makes no sense. Hell Comes to Frogtown stars Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, a rebel who is found in a post-apocalyptic world by nurses who need his help.

The world suffers from a shortage of fertile men and women, which threatens the human race's future. Mutant amphibians have captured some fertile women and use them as sex slaves. It is up to Hell to sneak into their base, nicknamed Frogtown, and save the day.

Oh, let me also mention that Hell is threatened to help in the mission or risk having his reproductive organs blown up by a device attached to it. All of that is actually the plot of this 88-minute movie.

Shockingly, this 1988 movie actually turned a profit and helped yield three more movies from it. Thanks, Piper. I hope your area is feeling safe still.

Tooth Fairy

Hilarity ensues by nobody in 2010's Tooth Fairy, starring The Rock as a minor league hockey player. The Rock's character gets the nickname by being notorious for hitting opponents hard and knocking their teeth out.

His character is sentenced to becoming an actual tooth fairy after stealing a dollar from under his girlfriend's daughter's pillow. That stolen dollar helps to turn The Rock into a tooth fairy and hockey player, but hiccups enable him to fail at both jobs. In the end, all of the things he screwed up throughout the movie are repaired and The Rock no longer has to be a tooth fairy.

I can only imagine who wrote that script and what they were on when they wrote it. It's absolutely shocking to me that notable stars like Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal all signed on with the project, as well as all took a back seat to The Rock.

What may be even more shocking is that this movie cost less than $50 million to make and grossed over $110 million in the box office.

The Chaperone

Yet another "tough guy doing a softie's job" movie, The Chaperone stars HHH as a former wheel man who has decided to be a nice guy for the benefit of his daughter.

After he agrees to help in one more heist with his friends, HHH's character decides against it to be a chaperone at his daughter's field trip. This leads to problems in the robbery and means that his old cohorts are after HHH and the kids on the field trip. It leads to one of the craziest field trips you will ever see—at least that's what the premise I read online suggested.

Did you really think I would see this awful movie idea?

The Marine 2

If you want to avoid starring in an awful movie, it would help to not be in a sequel where the original movie was awful as well. That's what happened to Ted DiBiase in The Marine 2. For those who saw John Cena's original movie, The Marine, this was exactly the same movie. For those who haven't seen either, consider yourself blessed.

In this film, DiBiase is a Marine who is home from the war and is around his wife, until she is kidnapped by criminals as collateral for a crime they committed. Little do they know that they kidnapped the wife of a Marine, who single-handedly defeats all of the bad guys and saves his wife.

I can understand wanting John Cena to pump his chest in acting and throw a nice compliment to military people everywhere, but was a sequel with the same story and a different star really necessary?

The first movie wasn't all terrible, but a sequel that acts like a remake is a bad movie on any list.

No Holds Barred

This was such a bad movie that WWE tried to use it to continue to sell their company mainstream. Hulk Hogan, years removed from his appearance in Rocky III, was in this filmed produced by WWE.

Hogan plays Rip, a popular babyface wrestler in his company. Rip is attempted to be lured away to a rival channel, but refuses to do so. This leads to a series of storylines developing. One of the more odd ones was a female being used to seduce Rip, which did not work when she fessed up to the plan and aligned with Rip. This actually prompted the evil network representative to attempt to have her be raped. Seriously, this was a real part of the movie.

WWE actually marketed this movie on pay-per-view with a tag team match scheduled after the movie aired. The match featured Zeus, the main villain in the movie, facing Hogan. In the movie, Zeus falls to his death, while the evil TV executive accidentally electrocutes himself to death.

What a heartwarming thing to show on pay-per-view two days after Christmas in 1989.

Santa's Slay

Can someone tell me what is wrong with Bill Goldberg? Santa's Slay came out in 2005 in one of the oddest movie scripts ever produced by the country of Canada.

In the film, Santa is a blood-thirsty killer. This is explained by an older man, who states that Santa was born from the devil, making him the Antichrist. Santa supposedly always killed everyone, but that was halted in 1005 when an angel stepped in. The angel defeated Santa in a game of curling, which settles most of the grudges in my life.

Santa's punishment for losing was that he was forced to give out presents instead of death certificates for the next 1,000 years. Shockingly, that sentence was over at that exact time.

The movie gets really weird when most characters are dying in strange ways and the old man is revealed to be the angel who defeated Santa so long before. Santa flees back to the North Pole at the end of the movie, making for the best and worst Christmas-related horror movie that I can recall.

What could possibly beat this movie? It would have to be something really out there and possibly Christmas-related.

Santa with Muscles

Seriously, what is it with the Santa movies?

When I think of Santa, I don't exactly think of Hulk Hogan. That didn't stop Santa With Muscles to be created in 1996. Hulk Hogan plays a criminal who dressed up as Santa Claus to disguise from the police. Hogan hits his head and suffers from amnesia, awakening to believe that he is the real Santa Claus.

Suddenly, Hogan is a nice guy, helping to try and save a local orphanage. Perhaps the only positive part of this movie is that it features a 13-year-old Mila Kunis.

Why is this film so bad on this list of bad movies? Everyone seems to think so. The website IMDB actually has Santa With Muscles listed as one of the 100 worst movies of all time.

It was even voted at one point by the site as the single worst movie ever created. Beat that, Cena.