The Top 10 Worst Accents In Film

[Reno]

I always thought it was odd though. To cast someone for their 'fame' rather than VO talents, and then hide the famous voice you cast.

That's what happens when money people fancy themselves to be artists. Jeffrey Katzenberg was convinced that big star names were more important than voice over talent.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's what happens when money people fancy themselves to be artists. Jeffrey Katzenberg was convinced that big star names were more important than voice over talent.

No doubt entirely incorrectly, that conjures up images of top level meetings in expensive-but-tastelessly-decorated Hollywood office suites with a buffet consisting mostly of silver bowls of coke

 

[fogbat]

Pretty much anyone trying to do a scouse accent when they aren't from Liverpool

TBH, I'd prefer that people from Liverpool stopped doing Scouse accents, too.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That's what happens when money people fancy themselves to be artists. Jeffrey Katzenberg was convinced that big star names were more important than voice over talent.

I guess it does initially bring kudos to the project, but I doubt anyone cares after that.
Most of the 90s ghibi english dubs suffer terribly from famous names doing bad VO.

 

[PandaCola]

Worse than Dick. Charlie Hunnam's cockney in Green Street.

 

[DaveCinzano]

TBH, I'd prefer that people from Liverpool stopped doing Scouse accents, too.

Reminds me - Stephen Graham, doing bayou redneck in Texas Killing Fields.

 

[kebabking]

John Rhys-Davies as Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy - he kept wandering from Welsh to Scottish, which, given that he's Welsh, was a bit pump...

 

[Reno]

John Rhys-Davies as Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy - he kept wandering from Welsh to Scottish, which, given that he's Welsh, was a bit pump...

It was an authentic Middle Earthian accent.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Midlander - there can only be one

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Worse than Dick. Charlie Hunnam's cockney in Green Street.

Oh my lord, that's all over the place.
The dialogue too!!! Cor blimey guv.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

He's clearly from Johannesburg (or thereabouts..)

That's a good ear: he only says one line: "Shtep in toime".

 

[ferrelhadley]

As for the thread topic, Afrikaans (and other South African-related accents) does seem to smoke out some duds - Kevin Kline, Donald Sutherland, Penelope Wilton, Mark Strong, Thomas Jane, Derek Luke, Janet Suzman, Tim Robbins, William Hurt etc - but I've never really found an off-key accent to be that troubling if the rest of the performance is hitting the mark.

 

[trabuquera]

Calvin Lockhart (black US actor originally from the Bahamas) as Ethnic Stereotype #562a in Predator 2: the "Jamaican" "Yardie" "Drug Lord" imaginatively tagged "Big Willie".

Like most US actors trying to jafake it, it's bad. Even without the critique of his scaremongering racist role. Just the words and the lines are absolutely agonisingly bad. So bad I wanted to crawl out of the cinema, and I love a good bit of trashy pulp (which in most other respects this film delivered on magnificently.)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fair point, economically made

 

[Left]

Any film with that horrible American idea of an Irish accent. What is it with Americans and Ireland? Strange combination of fascination and total ignorance.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Gerard Butler - The Bounty Hunter. It fits. Horrible American accent in a horrible American movie.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ewan McGregor: Black Hawk Down

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Who thought this would work? Michael Caine.... trying to do a South Texas drawl. All I can say is, thank god the clip has subtitles.



How can something be so scary bad and lunatic funny at the same time?

 

[Espresso]

I love Second Hand Lions. Love it!
Yep, Caine's accent is tripe, but seeing as I love that film I'll let him off.

 

[Cloo]

Wot no Keanu in Bram Stoker's Dracula?

 

[Garek]

Watching Buffy and came across this,





That's an American trying to do an 'African' accent. The longer her scenes the more it veers between Caribbean and African with the occasional random detours into something sounding a bit like Scottish. I can't tell whether it is funny or racist. Possibly both.

 

[harpo]

Or Russell Crowe in Robin Hood? Veered wildly from Scouse to Lancashire to Geordie then Irish. He was widely ridiculed about it and stormed out of various promotional interviews when the film came out but FFS put the effort in man.

 

[High Voltage]

This - nothing else, IMVHO, comes close

 

[SpookyFrank]

Russel Crowe's Robin Hood was pretty dreadful, almost as dreadful as Ridley Scott's decision to make Robin Hood a fat, middle aged bloke who for some reason ends up going to war with France.

 

[Chz]

Re: Spike in Buffy, if you watch Marsters from S2 it's really quite hilariously bad. But by the time Angel went off the air, it wasn't half bad. Better than most, anyhow. I can't remember if he was putting on an accent or speaking his native California Surfer Dude when he was in Torchwood.

 

[DJ Squelch]

I'm watching 60s film Candy with Ringo Starr trying a mexican accent.

 

[rekil]

Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away.

 

[thriller]

that fat bloke (who was starred In Brugges film with colin farrel) playing the CIA man in Green Zone with Matt Damon. He is meant to be american but his irish accent blatently slipped through in many scenes

 

[Orang Utan]

Ewan Mcgregor in Big Fish.
It's on Film Four now. It stinks.
Who decided he could act?

 

[Gromit]

Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

E2A: I see it's on the list.

There is no other contender for #1 slot if you ask me.

As for their honourable mention of Forest W in crying game. I think his weird accent adds something to the performance.