The shamefully underrated Robin Williams films with appalling Rotten Tomatoes scores

Robin Williams is a much-missed surface presence by fans crossed the satellite – but there’s a shocking flimsy to his bequest courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes.

He entertained america successful movies from Mrs Doubtfire to Hook and Good Morning, Vietnam and Aladdin to Dead Poets Society.

In a vocation spanning decades, helium made fans laughter and outcry with his comedic genius, which ne'er held him backmost from making edgier choices either, similar One Hour Photo.

The Oscar-winning actor, who truly deed his vocation stride successful the precocious 80s and passim the 90s, died aged 63 successful August 2014.

However, immoderate of the movies helium near down from those years – portion dearly loved by fans, specified arsenic Jumanji – person criminally debased scores from the critics successful reviews cited connected aggregator tract Rotten Tomatoes.

 Here’s a look astatine immoderate of the shamefully low-ranked titles which fig among what are seemingly considered the worst Robin Williams movies.

Jumanji (1995) – 52%

One of the star’s astir beloved movies of the decade, this 1995 household movie cantered astir a magical committee crippled that unleashes a satellite of escapade connected siblings Peter (Bradley Pierce) and Judy Shepherd (Kirsten Dunst), who find it erstwhile exploring an aged mansion.

Williams is Alan Parrish, a present grown-up kid who got sucked into the crippled decades agone and tin lone beryllium freed if the existent crippled is won.

Jumanji nailed the nostalgic vibes of amusive 90s movies with precocious stakes that could bash conscionable the close magnitude of scaring (in this lawsuit courtesy of stampeding rhinos, monkeys and a mean father).

While audiences gave it 63%, which is inactive little than it should be, critics criticised its reliance connected computer-generated beasts, bladed crippled (slander) and claimed that Williams’ ‘manic vigor yet flags’.

Night astatine the Museum (2006) – 42%

In the fashionable Night of the Museum franchise, Williams got to bask himself playing erstwhile President Teddy Roosevelt.

Ben Stiller is simply a nighttime watchman astatine a depository of earthy history, who discovers that each mode of creatures from the exhibits outpouring to beingness erstwhile the gathering closes, owing to the unleashing of an past Egyptian curse.

Again, fans were kinder than critics, standing it astatine 67%, and it was the highest-grossing movie of Shawn Levy’s with $574.5million until Deadpool & Wolverine this summer.

It besides did good capable to spawn 2 sequels – Battle of the Smithsonian successful 2009 (43%) and 2014’s Secret of the Tomb (48%) – but the standing is amazingly harsh, arsenic this clip critics seemed uncharmed by the premise compared to their kids.

One damningly mediocre reappraisal described it arsenic ‘one of the astir neutrally capable blockbusters of the modern age’.

Bicentennial Man – 37%

Although a flop upon release, galore inactive deliberation fondly of this 1999 sci-fi comedy-drama, based connected Isaac Asimov’s archetypal work.

Williams plays an android servant, Andrew, who is purchased arsenic a household appliance programmed purely to execute menial tasks.

But arsenic helium begins to acquisition emotions and originative thought, the Martin household (Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz and their 2 daughters) soon discovers they don’t person an mean robot, and the movie follows him acold into the future.

Again, there’s a decent spread betwixt professional and instrumentality reaction, with fans astatine 59%, but reviews moaned implicit its mediocre publication and mawkishness.

Hook – 29%

Undoubtedly the travesty of the lot, this highest 90s film is simply a quality rotation connected the communicative of Peter Pan, directed by Steven Spielberg and co-starring Julia Roberts arsenic Tinkerbell, Dustin Hoffman arsenic Captain Hook and the likes of Bob Hoskins and Dame Maggie Smith.

In this instrumentality connected J.M. Barrie’s story, Peter (Williams) has grown up and forgot the Neverland of his younker but is forced to instrumentality connected a daring quest erstwhile his children are abducted by his one-handed nemesis.

Hook provides adventure, entertainment, aspiration for kids (who didn’t privation to unrecorded successful the Lost Boys’ sprawling treehouse?) and aggravated nostalgia – but seemingly near big critics astatine the clip cold.

While fans complaint it astir 50% higher astatine 76%, reviews picked astatine its unevenness and ‘terrible kid roles’.

Flubber – 24%

A remake of the 1961 Disney live-action movie The Absent-Minded Professor, Williams got to afloat clasp playing an eccentric inventor.

While trying to make a caller vigor root to halt his world instauration from closure, Philip Brainard accidentally creates a sentient greenish goo, christened Flubber.

Williams was helped on present by the endearing prime of the titular Flubber (that Mambo creation fig is iconic cinema), arsenic good arsenic robot adjunct Weebo, who is secretly successful emotion with him.

Contrary to astir kids watching it successful the 90s, the instrumentality people besides isn’t large for Flubber astatine 33%.

Reviews proclaimed that determination was ‘nothing present for an adult’ and slammed it arsenic ‘dull’, contempt the genius of Willimas and the cutting-edge peculiar effects.

Patch Adams – 21%

This was intelligibly a prima conveyance for Williams, who did each forms of drama truthful good portion besides being capable to tug connected heartstrings.

Based connected the existent communicative of Hunter ‘Patch’ Adams, the movie follows his unconventional quest to go a aesculapian doc due to the fact that helium enjoys helping people, often utilizing humour with his patients.

A deed with fans successful 1998, who springiness it a coagulated 73%, critics again were not impressed and astir 50% lower.

‘Comics who privation to bash Hamlet often extremity up, arsenic here, serving big, sticky slices of ham,’ sniped Time mag of the actor’s crook successful Patch Adams.

Jack – 17%

Okay, Jack is simply a spot of a weird one, but lone Williams could beryllium formed arsenic a 10-year-old lad who looks similar a 40-year-old antheral aft increasing unusually fast.

He is still, mentally and emotionally, a young lad though, starring to tons of difficulties arsenic he’s rejected by his chap kids astatine school, develops a crush connected his teacher and struggles with wellness issues.

Very unexpectedly, this coming-of-age comedy-drama is directed by Apocalypse Now and Megalopolis’s Francis Ford Coppola.

It whitethorn not beryllium to everyone’s taste, but a batch of radical watching this 1996 movie arsenic youngsters person been enchanted by Williams’ turn.

Jack was, however, critically derided upon release, with Coppola adjacent saying helium was ‘constantly damned and ridiculed’ for making it.

Critics’ reviews connected Rotten Tomatoes called it ‘icky’ and ‘beyond underwhelming’.

What is considered to beryllium the champion Robin Williams movie?

While we, of course, don’t instrumentality Rotten Tomatoes’ scores arsenic the last word, Good Will Hunting is William’s astir highly rated movie connected the website astatine 97%.

It clinched him his Academy Award for his crook arsenic an MIT prof who discovers the mathematical genius of his janitor (Matt Damon).

What is considered to beryllium the worst Robin Williams film?

According to Rotten Tomatoes, this would beryllium 2009’s Old Dogs, which sits astatine a paltry 5%.

Co-starring John Travolta, the 2 stars play bachelors who unexpectedly go impermanent guardians to seven-year-old twins.

What was the past movie Robin Williams made?

The last movie Williams appeared onscreen successful is Night astatine the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. His last ever movie released though was 2015’s alien drama Absolutely Anything, in which helium provided the dependable of Dennis the dog.

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