20 stupid movies that are actually genius

Move over, Chucky. There's a new doll in town. Complete with all the accessories of a modern barbie, Megan also comes with a robot arm and a life of her own. You may not think of her as anything more than a killer doll, but she's got more to her than just blonde hair and sharp knives. She's got something to say...

Despite its extreme corniness and silly characters, Hot Rod has become one of the sleeper hits of the 21st century. The story of a wannabe stuntman has all the depth of an SNL sketch, which is good since SNL alums Andy Samberg and Bill Hader are in charge of delivering the lines. It's not every day you get to see someone make songs about "cool beans" or a stuntman jumping 20 cars on his bike. But this movie has both. 

Two words: Patrick Swayze. Add to that a roadhouse, a blues band, and several fights on the dance floor, and you got yourself one of the great '80s blockbusters.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more silly than stupid, though there are a few stupid moments along the way. The movie won us over with its story of two lovers (one Greek, one not) who look past their differences to live happily ever after. 

The perfect mix of Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia. The Mummy is a good old-fashioned adventure, complete with all the ingredients that make good old-fashioned adventures so fun. Yes, there are lots of dumb moments along the way, including a plot where the mummy has to kill people to get his powers back. But the movie embraces these flaws like a set of warm bandages. 

The Holiday is a cozy cashmere sweater of a movie, an invitation to warm your brain for a couple of hours. All the characters are super charming (minus the exes, of course), and all the locations are postcard-worthy, which is why this story of two ladies swapping homes at Christmas is one of our favorites of the 21st century. 

Let us count how The Lost Boys is actually great. It's cool, it's funny, it's quotable, and it's got characters we care about and vamps that make us scared. It's not often movies about vampires are actually scary, but this story of vampires in Santa Carla has a real bite. 

A movie about convicts being transported by plane, Con Air might have the dumbest plot on our list. Who in their right mind would put ten criminals on the same plane? A plane where none of the guards have guns? It's up to Nic Cage to save the day, of course, since he's the only one on board who knows how to fight back. 

Scratch that. Snakes on a Plane has the dumbest plot on our list. Snakes take over a plane carrying a wanted passenger, who Samuel L. Jackson guards. The rest of the movie boils down to a lot of snakes, a lot of planes, and a lot of fun moments.  

Fast and Furious  started a trend that put movie stars behind the wheel. As a racing group in Los Angeles, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker deliver their lines like '80s action stars. Everyone is squinting when they talk about cars, races, and heists, and you can't help but laugh anytime Diesel says something about "family." 

Rocky, Rambo, Cobra . It was a time when actors like Sylvester Stallone could turn stupid movies into major hits, so long as they packed enough style into the underdog formula. The best thing about Rambo is its style, which gives the movie enough ammunition to take on an army of cliches. 

House takes the trophy for the craziest movie of all time. It's hard to say whether this movie is good, bad, or stupid, so we're gonna say it lies somewhere in the middle. House is a mansion where bananas talk and cats fly, which is to say nothing of the grandma who lives there. 

Fans of the new Hocus Pocus should know where it all started — with the 1993 original, in which our eight-year-old heroine arrives at her new home to discover it's overrun by witches. It's not the most original concept, but it's one of the best concepts to come along in years. 

What could be more fun than watching Kevin James take down a group of terrorists? Nothing, we say! James is a security guard at the mall, which means he has to go full John McClane mode on the baddies who have taken their store hostage. The jokes are good enough to make you forget how dumb this is, and the action is good enough to make you forget how slow this is. Not bad for a movie with a scooter fight.  

Escape From New York is one of those bad movies that genuinely might be good. Yes, Kurt Russell is a guy named "Snake," and yes, he escapes from a prison called "New York," but what makes this movie work is how it all makes sense. John Carpenter commits to the premise, no matter how crazy that premise may be. 

Everyone's favorite sheep got their own movie in 2019, in which they make friends with an alien from Mars. There are all the aspects you'd expect from a Shaun the Sheep movie. Plus, flying saucers!

It was hard to narrow down the "best" Will Ferrell movie to put on our list. The comedian is known for his dumb comedies, though his films are never quite as dumb as they let on. Step Brothers is quite clever, with incisive things to say about family and jokes that are a part of the culture. You've probably heard of the Catalina Wine Mixer and Shark Week, but not because they actually exist. 

The plants are trying to kill us! That was the main takeaway of Shyamalan's movie, in which Mark Wahlberg converses with an actual plant. It's got all the aspects of a disaster movie and an actual disaster. It's a shame the movie couldn't have leaned more toward the good stuff.

We honestly could have made this list 100 percent comedies and called it a day. It's not that these movies are actually stupid, just that they have stupid characters, stupid jokes, and stupid plots. The rest of The Naked Gun is quite genius.