The Force was not strong with these particular Star Wars cameos in other movies.
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00:00 As the following entries will no doubt showcase, there's actually a rather fine line between
00:05 giving fans a fulfilling dose of midichlorians out of nowhere, or eliciting a wave of unwanted
00:10 cringes on the back of a fumbled use of the force.
00:14 And unfortunately for this bunch of big screen offerings outside of the galaxy far far away,
00:19 the latter most definitely applies.
00:21 Gareth here from WhatCulture Star Wars and here are the 10 worst times Star Wars appeared
00:25 in other movies.
00:27 10. The Rock's Yoda Name Drop Mid-Tune - Journey to the Mysterious Island
00:33 It is no secret that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is quite the fan of all things galaxy far
00:37 far away, and you can't blame him.
00:39 But the closest the Great One has actually come to lending his star power to the Titanic
00:43 Skywalker saga and beyond, came in the form of his sickly sweet rendition of "What a
00:49 Wonderful World" in the thick of the somewhat forgettable "Journey to the Center of the
00:52 Earth" sequel. With Johnson fanning himself in the no doubt surreal scenario of settling
00:57 down for a bout of musical therapy opposite Michael Caine and Josh Hutcherson's Alexander
01:02 and Sean, respectively, his Hank proceeds to strum the ukulele, and the lyrics that
01:07 follow are enough to incite another galactic civil war.
01:11 Things get off to a cheesy enough start, with Rocky sticking to the OG verse, but Cheddar
01:16 well and truly collides with the fan as the lyrics of "I see giant bees" and "I could
01:21 have told you, don't trust Alexander, he's older than Yoda" invade the sorry ears of
01:27 those taking in the 2012 family action flick. In the case of "Do or Do Not", Dwayne and
01:33 all involved should have opted for the latter.
01:36 9. Solid Gold Death Stars - Futurama, Bender's Big Score
01:40 With the villainous scammers found terrorizing the gang throughout the Futurama TV movie
01:44 that was Bender's Big Score, tricking President Richard Nixon into selling them the globe,
01:49 the slimy group opt to create a rather familiar defence system, with a hilarious twist of
01:54 course. Kitting out their defences with an entire fleet of Death Stars, boasting enough
01:59 super weapons to make Emperor Palpatine crack an unsettling smile no doubt, wasn't enough
02:04 for the slippery antagonist though. Sure enough, each and every Death Star knock-off turns
02:08 out to be made entirely of gold, and various diamonds too. Oh, and they're also all remote
02:14 controlled as a way to shoehorn in the tired villains treating the battle like one big
02:18 game gag.
02:19 Luckily, these particular shameless Star Wars cameos are destroyed in next to no time at
02:24 all, with Leela and the rest of Earth's forces making light work of the space station fleet
02:28 thanks to some Hermes head-in-a-jar intervention. But that still doesn't change the fact that
02:33 this particular joke was clearly no moon, and it wasn't as funny as the folks behind
02:37 the Big Score likely thought it was either.
02:40 8. Pimp My Vader - Date Movie Never want to miss out on the opportunity
02:45 to send up whatever flicks were in the public eye. In the lead-up to one of their consistent
02:49 slices of, ahem, comedy, parody duo Jason Freberg and Aaron Seltzer were at it again
02:55 during their 2006 release by the name of Date Movie. You know, that one. This being a film
03:01 that made its way into theatres almost a year on from George Lucas' final prequel entry,
03:05 Revenge of the Sith, the call was made for Alison Hannigan's heavy prosthetic boasting
03:09 Julia Jones to give in to the dark side during her Pimp My Girl makeover early on. It's
03:15 as dreadful as it sounds, folks.
03:18 Said Pimp My Ride parody soon paves the way for Jones being kitted out with a full-blown
03:22 Darth Vader get-up before she slides straight off the operating table for… for laughs,
03:27 I think. And Tony Cox soon gets in on the painful action, as the film then cuts to Hitch
03:32 shaking his head in surreal Yoda facial prosthetics. Somehow this was the most jarring part of a
03:37 sequence that also involved draining a character's stomach and using said substance for mayonnaise.
03:43 That is saying something.
03:44 7. What's Up, Darth? - Looney Tunes Back in Action
03:48 While many are understandably quick to defend just about any content that comes equipped
03:52 with the beloved gang of Bugs, Bunny and Co., there was a beat during the closing stages
03:56 of Looney Tunes Back in Action that almost single-handedly justified putting the property's
04:01 big-screen ambitions on ice for a few decades. As Bugs and Daffy Duck pursue Marvin the Martian
04:06 into space to prevent him from placing the Blue Monkey on an Acme satellite, the leading
04:12 Bunny dishes out a pretty weak attempt at another iconic one-liner.
04:15 What's up, Darth? Bugs inquires of his space foe. Get it? Apologies, if so.
04:21 If one cheap Star Wars gag wasn't enough, Warner Bros. chose to really double down on
04:25 the Force-sensitive slapstick moments later, revealing Bugs' carrot to actually be a
04:30 vegetable lightsaber of sorts. And this revelation leads to yet more fun at the expense of Lucas
04:35 and his galaxy, with the legendary animated rabbit skimming through a The Force for Dummies
04:40 book as he duels for the fate of the world. Saying that, there's likely a few folks at
04:45 Disney who would benefit from a sit-down with said manual.
04:47 6. A lightsaber knife that tells bread while she a-slice it
04:51 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sticking with dodgy lightsaber tributes, 2005's
04:57 big-screen installment from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series introduced yet
05:01 another soul-crushing take on the sacred Jedi Sith weapon. As Zooey Deschanel's Trillian
05:07 gives Martin Freeman's Arthur a little tour of the heart of Gould's kitchen, a brief
05:11 exploration of a machine that detects what you're craving and makes it for you is soon
05:15 followed up by a revolutionary toasting device - that being the entirely inspired bread toasting
05:21 knife. Outside of this pointless tool likely leaving one side of the toast a touch stale
05:26 if you were to, you know, take a break in between spreading the butter, the fact it
05:29 sports both the exact same physical characteristics as the iconic Star Wars laser sword and very
05:35 same sounds felt like a lazy and not-exactly-side-splitting way to capitalise on the buzz and attention
05:41 surrounding Lucas' prequel trilogy at the time. The brief but still jarring brandishing
05:46 of the Sith-coloured blade as a throwaway visual gag didn't do much to keep this particular
05:51 sci-fi entry from stuttering at the box office, though, and just feels a little bit desperate
05:56 and out of place upon a rewatch.
05:58 Number 5 - The force is not strong with Gulliver's life stories - Gulliver's Travels
06:03 Over the course of the already unforgivable 2010 ensemble adventure flick known as Gulliver's
06:08 Travels, the titular giant amongst the Lilliput folk finds himself routinely dragging the
06:13 galaxy far, far away down with the rest of this dud of a comedy outing. Getting the ball
06:18 rolling with the first of many excruciating attempts at eliciting a Star Wars-induced
06:23 chuckle, Jack Black's Lemuel Gulliver is spotted narrating some rather familiar action
06:28 figures. Taking a press badge "by force" just about sums up these agonising first few
06:34 moments, but this particular Rob Letterman entry was not done there, not by a long shot.
06:39 Upon making himself at home in the diminutive kingdom, Gulliver soon settles down in his
06:44 own personal media room, and it's here where the apparent tales of the towering entity's
06:48 own life are told on stage for all to see, these bearing a striking and humourless resemblance
06:54 to the Skywalker saga, of course. And the visual of James Corden as Darth Vader earns
06:59 this entry's place on this list alone. Rounding out the tacky usage of Star Wars nods jumbled
07:05 into this rotting mess of a feature, Gulliver also claims to be the captain of the Millennium
07:09 Falcon and have Yoda as his vice president of Manhattan when lying to the Lilliput civilians.
07:15 What a rascal.
07:16 Night of the Museum - Battle of the Smithsonian
07:23 Night of the Museum - Battle of the Smithsonian included an attempt to poke further fun at
07:27 the galaxy's biggest bad. With Hanker's areas brought back to life big bad Cam-un-Ra
07:33 inevitably turning his attention to ruling the world, two notable pop culture antagonists
07:38 calling the Smithsonian home opt to offer up their services to the sequel's feature
07:42 villain. Alongside Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch, none other than Darth Vader himself
07:47 decides to join the bad fight against Larry Daly the night security guard. And this failed
07:53 bid to convince Cam-un-Ra the duo are up to their task soon leads to a deeply unfunny
07:58 sequence depicting the powerless exhibit Dark Lord trying to force choke a less than impressed
08:04 pharaoh. Not content with merely laughing off Vader's ineffective hand gestures though,
08:08 Cam-un-Ra then proceeds to stab holes in the all-round aesthetic of the legendary presence,
08:13 stating there's just too much going on. Throw a beat to bizarre slapstick or not, seeing
08:18 the iconic Star Wars figure be classed as an asthmatic robot who looks like he's dressed
08:23 for the opera felt like little more than a cheap way to squeeze a few more famous face
08:27 beats into the bloated mix.
08:30 Return of the Jedi gets unnecessarily dunked on - X-Men Apocalypse
08:34 While it's blatant that the primary purpose of crapping on Return of the Jedi during the
08:38 events of 2016's X-Men Apocalypse was to take aim at the fact that the three quills in general
08:42 are often the weakest of the bunch - looking at you X-Men the last stand - the gag is still
08:47 somewhat bittersweet in hindsight. Hot on the heels of the young mutants taking in Episode
08:52 6 for the very first time, the gang of Jean Grey and co discuss which of the original
08:56 trilogy sits as the best in the series. And while some would agree that Return of the
09:00 Jedi isn't quite as strong as A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Selfie Turner's
09:05 eventual Dark Phoenix's comments of "at least we can all agree the third one is always the
09:09 worst" still feels like a bit of a pointed dig at the flick once helped into existence
09:13 by 20th Century Fox.
09:15 Again, it's evident the main point of this piece of Episode 6 shade was to poke fun at
09:20 the original X-Men trilogy's lacklustre conclusion. But Jean's loaded comment didn't exactly age
09:25 all that well in the aftermath of Apocalypse's poor reception too. All in all, keeping this
09:30 one on the cutting room floor may not have been the worst idea for all involved.
09:34 2. Shawn Michaels is Incredible Master Yoga - Avengers of Justice Fast Wars
09:39 Instead of picking up a ukulele and strumming out a nod to Master Yoda, WWE legend The Heartbreak
09:45 Kid decided to go one better, or worse, during his 2018 showing in parody party Avengers
09:52 of Justice Fast Wars. That is a real title, I promise you. Sporting an unmistakable set
09:58 of pointy ears and green face/body paint, Shawn Michaels may trade the swamps of Dagobah
10:03 for a makeshift yoga studio, but it's depressingly clear what the folks behind this pitiful farce
10:08 were going for here. Yet this chaotic spin on the grumpy old master's legendary training
10:13 of Luke Skywalker amidst the fog in the Empire Strikes Back is about as amusing as a smack
10:18 to the shin from the former's trusty stick. And it's probably best to not even try to
10:22 unpack what in the holy hell the WWE Hall of Famer was trying to achieve with his dodgy
10:27 RP accent as the farce-sensitive Incredible Master Yoga.
10:32 Well at least the sight of him hitting sweet chin music on his unfortunate pupil was semi-entertaining,
10:36 so that's something.
10:38 1. Sherman uses his force, Nutty Professor 2, the clumps
10:43 Sometimes a hero, be they Jedi or otherwise, must dig down deep in order to summon up the
10:48 strength needed to save the day, or entire galaxy in some cases. Taking said sentiment
10:54 perhaps a little too literally though, Eddie Murphy's 2000 follow-up to the smash hit remake
10:59 that was The Nutty Professor decided to release its own somewhat windy take on the force a
11:04 year or so on from the prequel return of George Lucas' unstoppable franchise.
11:09 As Professor Sherman Clump finds himself dozing off on the couch mid-late-night movie, the
11:14 leading light soon winds up in a nightmare Armageddon-esque scenario involving him trying
11:19 to plant nukes in the centre of an asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. With
11:24 the limp sequel being determined to fold as many pop-culture sci-fi winks into the mix
11:28 as humanly possible for the laughs, Sherman is soon met with a force ghost appearance
11:33 from his pops and the advice of using a force deep down inside you to fire him towards the
11:38 detonation button needed to complete the mission. And what do you know, the force was very much
11:43 strong with Sherman's flatulence. Though the same most definitely could not be said for
11:49 this lame, gas-infused attempt to take the piss out of all things Star Wars.
11:54 And that's our list of any other terrible times Star Wars appeared in other movies.
11:58 Let us know all about them in the comments section right down below and do not forget
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