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00:00As the following entries will no doubt showcase, there's actually a rather fine line between giving fans a fulfilling dose
00:06of midichlorians out of nowhere,
00:08or eliciting a wave of unwanted cringes on the back of a fumbled use of the Force.
00:13And unfortunately for this bunch of big screen offerings outside of the galaxy far, far away, the latter most definitely
00:20applies.
00:21Gareth here from World Culture Star Wars and here are the 10 worst times Star Wars appeared in other movies.
00:27Number 10, The Rock's Yoda name dropped mid-tune, Journey to the Mysterious Island.
00:32It is no secret that Dwayne The Rock Johnson is quite the fan of all things galaxy far, far away,
00:38and you can't blame him.
00:39But the closest The Great One has actually come to lending his star power to the Titanic Skywalker saga and
00:45beyond,
00:45came in the form of his sickly sweet rendition of What a Wonderful World in the thick of the somewhat
00:50forgettable Journey to the Center of the Earth sequel.
00:53With Johnson finding himself in the no-doubt surreal scenario of settling down for a bout of musical therapy,
00:59opposite Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson's Alexander and Sean respectively,
01:03his Hank proceeds to strum the ukulele, and the lyrics that follow are enough to incite another galactic civil war.
01:10Things get off to a cheesy enough start, with Rocky sticking to the OG verse.
01:15But Cheddar well and truly collides with the fan, as the lyrics of I see giant bees,
01:20and I coulda told ya, don't trust Alexander, he's older than Yoda,
01:26invade the sorry ears of those taking in the 2012 family action flick.
01:30In the case of Do or Do Not, Dwayne and all involved should have opted for the latter.
01:35Number 9, Solid Gold Death Stars, Futurama Bender's Big Score.
01:39With the villainous scammers found terrorizing the gang throughout the Futurama TV movie that was Bender's Big Score,
01:46tricking President Richard Nixon into selling them the globe,
01:49the slimy group opt to create a rather familiar defense system,
01:53with a hilarious twist of course.
01:55Kitting out their defenses with an entire fleet of Death Stars,
01:59boasting enough super weapons to make Emperor Palpatine crack an unsettling smile no doubt,
02:03wasn't enough for the slippery antagonist though.
02:05Sure enough, each and every Death Star knockoff turns out to be made entirely of gold and various diamonds too.
02:13Oh, and they're also all remote controlled as a way to shoehorn in the tired villains treating the battle like
02:17one big game gag.
02:19Luckily, these particular shameless Star Wars cameos are destroyed in next to no time at all,
02:24with Leela and the rest of Earth's forces making light work of the space station fleet,
02:28thanks to some Hermes head-in-a-jar intervention.
02:31But that still doesn't change the fact that this particular joke was clearly no moon,
02:35and it wasn't as funny as the folks behind the Big Score likely thought it was either.
02:40Number 8, Pimp My Vader, Date Movie
02:43Never want to miss out on the opportunity to send up whatever flicks were in the public eye,
02:47in the lead up to one of their consistent slices of,
02:50ahem, comedy,
02:51parody duo Jason Freeberg and Aaron Seltzer were at it again during their 2006 release by the name of Date
02:58Movie.
02:59You know, that one.
03:00This being a film that made its way into theatres almost a year on from George Lucas' final prequel entry,
03:05Revenge of the Sith,
03:06the call was made for Alison Hannigan's heavy prosthetic boasting Julia Jones
03:10to give in to the dark side during her Pimp My Girl makeover early on.
03:15It's as dreadful as it sounds, folks.
03:17Said Pimp My Ride parody soon paves the way for Jones being kitted out with a full-blown Darth Vader
03:22get-up
03:23before she slides straight off the operating table for, for laughs, I think.
03:28And Tony Cox soon gets in on the painful action,
03:30as the film then cuts to Hitch shaking his head in surreal Yoda facial prosthetics.
03:35Somehow this was the most jarring part of a sequence
03:38that also involved draining a character's stomach and using said substance for mayonnaise.
03:43That is saying something.
03:45Number 7, What's Up Darth?
03:46Looney Tunes Back in Action
03:48While many are understandably quick to defend just about any content
03:51that comes equipped with the beloved gang of Bugs, Bunny, and Co.,
03:54there was a beat during the closing stages of Looney Tunes Back in Action
03:58that almost single-handedly justified putting the property's big-screen ambitions on ice for a few decades.
04:04As Bugs and Daffy Duck pursue Marvin the Martian into space
04:07to prevent him from placing the Bloom Monkey on an Acme satellite,
04:11the leading bunny dishes out a pretty weak attempt at another iconic one-liner.
04:16What's Up Darth?
04:17Bugs inquires of his space foe.
04:19Get it?
04:19Apologies if so.
04:21If one cheap Star Wars gag wasn't enough,
04:23Warner Brothers chose to really double down on the four sensitive slapstick moments later,
04:28revealing Bugs' carrot to actually be a vegetable lightsaber of sorts.
04:32And this revelation leads to yet more fun at the expense of Lucas and his galaxy,
04:36with the legendary animated rabbit skimming through a The Force for Dummies book
04:40as he duels for the fate of the world.
04:43Saying that, there's likely a few folks at Disney who would benefit from a sit-down with said manual.
04:48Number 6, A Lightsaber Knife That Toast Bread While You Slice It
04:51Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
04:53Sticking with dodgy lightsaber tributes,
04:562005's big-screen installment from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
05:00introduced yet another soul-crushing take on the sacred Jedi Sith weapon.
05:05As Zooey Deschanel's Trillion gives Martin Freeman's Arthur a little tour of the Heart of Gold's Kitchen,
05:11a brief exploration of a machine that detects what you're craving and makes it for you
05:15is soon followed up by a revolutionary toasting device.
05:18That being the entirely inspired Bread Toasting Knife.
05:22Outside of this pointless tool likely leaving one side of the toast a touch stale
05:26if you were to, you know, take a break in between spreading the butter,
05:29the fact it sports both the exact same physical characteristics as the iconic Star Wars laser sword
05:34and very same sounds felt like a lazy and not exactly side-splitting way
05:39to capitalise on the buzz and attention surrounding Lucas' prequel trilogy at the time.
05:44The brief but still jarring brandishing of the Sith-coloured blade
05:47as a throwaway visual gag didn't do much to keep this particular sci-fi entry
05:52from stuttering at the box office, though,
05:54and just feels a little bit desperate and out of place upon a rewatch.
05:58Number 5, The Force Is Not Strong With Gulliver's Life Stories
06:01Gulliver's Travels
06:03Over the course of the already unforgivable 2010 ensemble adventure flick known as
06:07Gulliver's Travels, the titular giant amongst the Lilliput folk finds himself routinely dragging
06:13the galaxy far, far away down with the rest of this dud of a comedy outing.
06:17Getting the ball rolling with the first of many excruciating attempts at eliciting a Star
06:22Wars-induced chuckle, Jack Black's Lemuel Gulliver is spotted narrating some rather familiar action
06:28figures. Taking a press badge, by force, just about sums up these agonising first few moments.
06:34But this particular Rob Letterman entry was not done there, not by a long shot.
06:39Upon making himself at home in the diminutive kingdom,
06:42Gulliver soon settles down in his own personal media room.
06:46And it's here where the apparent tales of the towering entity's own life are told on stage for
06:50all to see. These bearing a striking and humourless resemblance to the Skywalker saga, of course.
06:56And the visual of James Corden as Darth Vader earns this entry's place on this list alone.
07:01Rounding out the tacky usage of Star Wars nods jumbled into this rotting mess of a feature,
07:07Gulliver also claims to be the captain of the Millennium Falcon and have Yoda as his vice
07:11president of Manhattan when lying to the Lilliput civilians. What a rascal.
07:17Number 4. Darth Vader chokes next to Oscar the Grouch.
07:20Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian
07:22Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian included an attempt to poke further fun at the
07:28galaxy's biggest bad. With Hanka's areas brought back to life big bad Kamun Ra inevitably turning
07:34his attention to ruling the world, two notable pop culture antagonists calling the Smithsonian home
07:39opt to offer up their services to the sequel's feature villain. Alongside Sesame Street's Oscar
07:45the Grouch, none other than Darth Vader himself decides to join the bad fight against Larry Daly,
07:51the night security guard. And this failed bid to convince Kamun Ra the duo are up to their task,
07:56soon leads to a deeply unfunny sequence depicting the powerless exhibit Dark Lord trying to force
08:02choke a less than impressed Pharaoh. Not content with merely laughing off Vader's ineffective hand
08:07gestures though, Kamun Ra then proceeds to stab holes in the all-round aesthetic of the legendary
08:12presence, stating there's just too much going on. Throw away be to bizarre slapstick or not,
08:18seeing the iconic Star Wars figure be classed as an asthmatic robot who looks like he's dressed for
08:23the opera, felt like little more than a cheap way to squeeze a few more famous face beats into the
08:28bloated mix.
08:34While it's blatant that the primary purpose of crapping on Return of the Jedi during the
08:38events of 2016's X-Men Apocalypse was to take aim at the fact threequels in general are often the
08:43weakest of the bunch, looking at you X-Men The Last Stand, the gag is still somewhat bittersweet in
08:48hindsight. Hot on the heels of the young mutants taking in episode 6 for the very first time,
08:53the gang of Jean Grey and co discuss which of the original trilogy sits as the best in the series.
08:58And while some would agree that Return of the Jedi isn't quite as strong as A New Hope and The
09:02Empire Strikes Back, Sophie Turner's eventual Dark Phoenix's comments of at least we can all agree
09:08the third one is always the worst, still feels like a bit of a pointed dig at the flick once
09:12helped
09:13into existence by 20th Century Fox. Again, it's evident the main point of this piece of episode 6's
09:19was to poke fun at the original X-Men trilogy's lacklustre conclusion, but Jean's loaded comment
09:24didn't exactly age all that well in the aftermath of Apocalypse's poor reception too.
09:29All in all, keeping this one on the cutting room floor may not have been the worst idea for all
09:33involved.
09:34Number 2, Shawn Michaels is Incredible Master Yoga, Avengers of Justice, Fast Wars.
09:39Instead of picking up a ukulele and strumming out a nod to Master Yoda,
09:43WWE legend the Heartbreak Kid decided to go one better or worse during his 2018 showing
09:50in parody party Avengers of Justice Fast Wars. That is a real title, I promise you.
09:56Sporting an unmistakable set of pointy ears and green face slash body paint, Shawn Michaels
10:01may trade the swamps of Dagobah for a makeshift yoga studio, but it's depressingly clear what
10:07the folks behind this pitiful farce were going for here. Yet this chaotic spin on the grumpy
10:11old master's legendary training of Luke Skywalker amidst the fog in the Empire Strikes Back
10:16is about as amusing as a smack to the shin from the former's trusty stick.
10:20And it's probably best to not even try to unpack what in the holy hell the WWE Hall of Famer
10:25was trying to achieve with his dodgy, arpy accent as the fast, sensitive, incredible master
10:30yoga. Still, at least the sight of him hitting sweet chin music on his unfortunate pupil was
10:35semi-entertaining, so that's something.
10:38Number 1. Sherman Uses His Force, Nutty Professor 2, The Clumps
10:43Sometimes a hero, be they Jedi or otherwise, must dig down deep in order to summon up the
10:48strength needed to save the day, or entire galaxy in some cases.
10:53Taking said sentiment, perhaps a little too literally though, Eddie Murphy's 2000 follow-up
10:58to the smash hit remake that was The Nutty Professor decided to release its own somewhat windy take
11:03on the Force, a year or so on from the prequel return of George Lucas' unstoppable franchise.
11:09As Professor Sherman Klump finds himself dozing off on the couch mid-late night movie, the
11:14leading light soon winds up in a nightmare Armageddon-esque scenario involving him trying
11:19to plant nukes in the center of an asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth.
11:23With the limp sequel being determined to fold as many pop culture sci-fi winks into the mix
11:28as humanly possible for the laughs, Sherman is soon met with a Force ghost appearance
11:33from his pops, and the advice of using a Force deep down inside you to fire him towards the
11:38detonation button needed to complete the mission.
11:41And what do you know, the Force was very much strong, with Sherman's flatulence.
11:46Though the same most definitely could not be said for this lame, gas-infused attempt to take
11:51the piss out of all things Star Wars.
11:54And that's our list, no of any other terrible times Star Wars appeared in other movies?
11:58Let us know all about them in the comment section right down below, and do not forget to like,
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12:12I have been Master Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars, may the Force be with you as always,
12:17thank you very much for watching this video today, and hopefully I'll see your face very,
12:21very soon. Bye-bye!
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