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Ham and Cheese
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Say you're an actor and a damn good one at that. You're hot stuff in Hollywood, with directors throwing money at your feet to be in their film. So you pick the one that gets you the most cash or sounds the most promising in general. It'll all be fine, right? Wrong. You arrive on set to find what seems to be a film Gone Horribly Wrong, complete with Special Effects Failure, horrible actors, and a script with so much cheese and so many holes it might as well be printed on deli Swiss. What's a star to do? Well, you have options. You could just say "Screw This, I'm Outta Here", storm off and refuse to associate with the film ever again, you could take the project seriously, and try with all your might to make it work... Or you could unleash The Hog, milk that great big heifer dry, and chew the scenery into a fine pulp. If it's going to be a well-remunerated bad movie, you might as well enjoy yourself, eh? And who knows? You might even end up saving the film. After all... What could go better with all that cheese than a big slab of HAM? You may notice that these performances tend to appear in tandem with ones that Took the Bad Film Seriously if only because they are such obvious Foils for each other. Also, compare One-Scene Wonder; both roles/actors in these films play memorable, often over-the-top enjoyable performances and can make them one of the best parts of a film. Compare the Rule of Sean Connery; the rule often applies to actors who know exactly when to serve up the Ham and Cheese. Can overlap with Questionable Casting and Awesome, Dear Boy. Compare Chewing the Scenery, Wag the Director. Contrast Took the Bad Film Seriously. NOTE: This is not for listing hammy roles in good or even decent works. For the ham without the cheese, see tropes such as Large Ham and Incoming Ham for good alternates. |
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Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills is best known as a cheap Power Rangers knockoff, and has lots of flaws, as detailed here. However, the late Ed Gilbert, playing the Big Bad, Emperor Gorganus, goes all out with his crappy role, to the point that his scenes are probably the best things in the show. | |
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This also applies to Palpatine’s reappearance in The Rise of Skywalker, where, despite the film having a few glaring writing mistakes here and there (including not bothering to explain how he survived his supposed death in Return of the Jedi), Ian still hams up his role, even stating he had to "contain himself" when he was approached with the offer to return to the role since he loves playing it that much. | |
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He also did this in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank out of his support for public broadcasting (as seen on MST3K). | |
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Kate Nauta in Transporter 2. It's pretty clear from her line delivery and facial expressions that once she read the script (which calls for her character, Lola, to spend half her screentime wearing a soaking-wet negligee, disheveled hair and runny eye makeup while dual-wielding pistols and gunning down all manner of individuals), she decided to take it as far as she could, and she looks to be the only person not to deliver the cornball material in a serious manner. | |
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In Batman (1966), Victor Buono loved appearing on the show as King Tut since cutting loose and being a Large Ham with the overacting was practically a job requirement. | |
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EVERYONE in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension but especially John Lithgow. It's just one reason why it's such an awesome movie instead of forgettable. | |
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Shawn Michaels used this to do a Take That! to Hulk Hogan when backstage politics led to him getting buried in a match. Michaels, rather than try to turn in the normal top-tier performance you're supposed to try for a PPV, spent the whole match flying around the ring◊ in ways that would make a Ragdoll Physics programmer think he was overdoing it. You can also count on this whenever Michaels teams up with Triple H (rarely these days, unfortunately) in D-Generation X. WWE is so intrinsically absurd anyway that you tend to get used to all the folderol and usually manage only a mild chuckle - but DX will make you laugh right out loud. Uncontrollably. | |
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In King Arthur, Stellan Skarsgård as Saxon king Cerdic. Skarsgård also said in a later interview that he deliberately inflected his character's voice with a slight Texan accent as a Take That! to George W. Bush. | |
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Chris Egan had only a bit part as Roran, but managed to spin it into a starring role on the vastly superior but tragically short-lived Kings alongside the legendary Ian McShane. | |
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Persona 5: The Animation suffers from a lot of the problems an adaptation of its source material's scope would come under (noticeable animation errors, rushed storylines, awkward pacing etc.). And yet one of the most widely praised aspects was the dub, as the dub actors (who for the most part reprise their roles from the game), inject the same charm into their characters that made them so beloved in-game while giving plenty of funny moments almost to Gag Dub levels. This is especially true for Xander Mobus, who free to voice Joker with more than just short lines, goes all-out in playing Ren as both a suave and calculating Phantom Thief and dorky/snarky teenager, and it's a treat to hear. | |
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Metal Wolf Chaos is, arguably, an enforced version of this. The plot and writing are so completely ridiculous that anything less than extreme doses of B-movie overdramatics and yelling would've ruined the charm. This is a Japanese game with No Export for You - yet it is entirely in over-the-top English and recorded by people who speak English natively for a game released only in Japan. Until it got rereleased on PC, Playstation 4, and X-Box One as Metal Wolf Chaos XD. |
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Most of the actors involved in Battle Beyond the Stars knew precisely the level of quality they were dealing with and decided to have as much fun with it as they possibly could. Exceptions were Robert Vaughn, who was only there for the paycheck, and Sybil Danning, who — as always — Took the Bad Film Seriously. | |
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One interesting example from the series is the character of Divatox from Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers in Space. In Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, the latter part of the Turbo season, and all of In Space, she was played by Hilary Shepard Turner in this manner. For many fans, she was all that made any of Turbo watchable. But for the first 60% or so of that season, she was away on maternity leave and replaced by Carol Hoyt. Carol took the role much more seriously, which came across as rather boring and generic. Most fans still prefer Hilary's version and were happy to have her back. | |
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Halloween: Resurrection is widely considered the worst in the series. Yet some entertainment can be found in Busta Rhymes clearly having the time of his life (a highlight is him talking down Michael Myers, while wearing The Shape's mask, no less, mistaking him for an imitator - and Michael accepts his request to leave instead of knifing him on the spot!). | |
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Although the movie isn't awful, The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea has Pat Caroll as Morgana, Ursula's sister.note Caroll played Ursula herself in the first movie. Her Evil Gloating in the climax is cheesy as hell, but her spectacular hamminess makes it very enjoyable. | |
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Out of the train wreck that is Sonic '06, Dan Green's gloriously over-the-top performance as Mephiles the Dark is easily the most enjoyable part of the game. | |
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If Venom has any entertainment value, it owes to Tom Hardy as the title character. As soon as Eddie Brock is infected, Hardy gets unhinged, even if silent (all his movements are intense!) or off-screen (Venom's inner voice, which is deep, over-the-top and loves to throw insults). It says a lot that despite the films' reception, Spider-Man fans were still excited to find he'd be crossing over into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. | |
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Batman Forever has Jim Carrey babbling about "brainwave manipulation", stating that his neon wardrobe keeps him "safe while he's jogging at night." Ham and cheese on rye. One gets the impression that Tommy Lee Jones was using the film as an excuse to enjoy himself as well - mostly trying to surpass Carrey when they share the screen. Case in point, the entire sequence involving the attack on Wayne Manor. | |
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Brenda Dickson was clearly hamming it up as the original Jill Foster Abbott in The Young and the Restless, almost resembling an over-the-top parody of a bitchy soap opera villainess, especially during her clashes with Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper). It must be seen to be believed. | |
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Grandia Xtreme isn't particularly well-remembered or well-liked, but it's worth it alone just to hear Mark Hamill ham it up so hard that it makes his work as The Joker seem subdued. | |
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Flash Gordon: Max von Sydow as Ming is a touch more restrained than many on this list, but definitely having fun with the part. Chaim Topol as Zarkov is, ironically, a Jewish ham. Both of them must have realized that you have to work hard to be remembered in a movie with BRIAN BLESSED. |
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Duncan pulls a similar performance as Kingpin in Daredevil (2003). This movie also gave us Colin Farrell in a Hamfully stunning performance as Bullseye, a giggling, frothing, leather-clad Irishman. You just know he's taking the piss the whole time. |
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Hopper must've known that Waterworld was gonna suck. I mean, with lines like: "AHM GONNA CUT OPEN HIS HEAD, AND AHM GONNA EAT HIS BRAAAAAAAAAAIIIIN!!!!" | |
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1995's Judge Dredd was ravaged by critics and largely ignored by audiences, but it has its fans partly due to the sheer insanity of its main villain, portrayed in such an over-the-top style by Armand Assante that the viewer is left to wonder if the actor really is crazy. The scenery's also chewed by Rob Schneider, who provides a nicely frantic comic foil to the deadpan Sylvester Stallone, Jürgen Prochnow for the unsubtle role of Judge Griffin, James Remar as the raging Block Warlord, and Christopher Adamson as the memorably grotesque Machine Angel (of course, when you're playing a cannibalistic cyborg, you don't exactly want to play him as "reserved"). | |
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Baten Kaitos is yet another outstanding example of a cult game with really spotty voice acting, made worse by the main characters, especially Xelha and Lyuude, being the worst of the lot. The one exception is Walter Roberts as Emperor Geldoblame, whose scenery-chewing, larger-than-life performance perfectly encapsulates the raging, insane megalomania of the maniacal ruler of Alfard. | |
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"Broken" Matt Hardy. Think eccentric millionaire mixed with Professor Moriarty and a fair bit of Complexity Addiction. He clearly enjoys the gimmick because it's almost entirely of his own design. | |
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There is a terrible Made For TV horror movie based on a Dean Koontz novel called Intensity. It is a movie littered with awful actors and a ridiculous plot for the ages, containing so many nonsense plot points and moron characters that it is virtually unwatchable... until you see that the killer is played by none other than John C. McGinley, who makes it his business to play the Ax-Crazy villain so over-the-top entertaining that you giggle with delight virtually every moment he's on screen. | |
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24 had its very lackluster seventh season that was part of a multiple-season Audience-Alienating Era where one of the primary memorable scene stealers was Jon Voight as Jonas Hodges, an over-the-top Corrupt Corporate Executive that had little to no trouble chewing the scenery whenever he showed his face in a scene. Not too shockingly, after Hodges was taken out of the picture the majority of the fans felt that the rest of Season 7 completely nosedived. | |
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Irons and Malkovich also co-hammed in The Man in the Iron Mask, along with Gérard Depardieu, playing aging Musketeers. All three must have been paid per cubic meter of scenery devoured, although Jeremy Irons takes the cake for delivering lines like "It's Judgement Day" and making them So Bad, It's Good. | |
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For that matter, his sons. Goldust has won numerous "worst character of the year" awards, but he goes so over the top in his portrayal and voice that it's such a joy to watch. And for "Dashing" Cody Rhodes...well...just hit him in the face. You can clearly see how much fun he has in his responses. | |
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Diabolik Lovers, in terms of its sadomasochism and the misogynist nature of the series, many are left disgusted at the fetishized abuse. That being said, it is generally agreed that the anime would have been less enjoyable if it wasn't for the overly dramatic voice acting in the English dub, particularly Chris Patton's Ayato and Maggie Flecknoe's Yui. Given that Sentai Filmworks seems to have licensed it for contractual reasons, and the general reputation of the series, they seemed to have put as much intentional ham as they could, knowing it's not exactly an arthouse masterpiece. | |
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The film adaption of Spawn is considered lackluster at best, with a weak story and special effects that looked old when it was released in the '90s. Among all this however is John Leguizamo, who seemed to realize what he was acting in, and hammed up his scene-stealing role as The Clown/The Violator. | |
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The same goes for the sequel, despite recasting nearly everyone, just about all the non-hero roles are played with zero regard for subtlety. | |
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SLC Punk! is a basic stoner movie, but Til Schweiger shows up as Mark, an unhinged wealthy European, and steals his scenes with this weird wild-eyed enthusiasm (as seen here), even though he's not super-loud, like some examples on this list. | |
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One of the few enjoyable parts of Max Keeble's Big Move is Larry Miller's relentless scenery chewing. | |
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Pan is widely criticized for being a boring, Cliché Storm-riddled Origins Episode that completely misses the point of the original source material. However, even the negative reviews give credit to Hugh Jackman's portrayal of Blackbeard, whose Large Ham tendencies is both entertaining and menacing at the same time. | |
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Congo was a book by Michael Crichton without much comic relief to speak of. Then, in The Film of the Book, someone got Bruce Campbell to show up for five minutes just so killer gorillas could throw human eyeballs at him and then slaughter him off-camera as he screams. Then they brought Tim Curry in as a "Romanian Philanthropist" who is "Travelink de vorld und doink goot!" - and the gorillas kill him too! Delroy Lindo shows up too, asking for "More" money, calling Tim Curry a "Big Bag of Shit" and telling him to STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE! He stays home, so he doesn't get killed by gorillas. And finally, Ernie Hudson as the "Great White Hunter" of the group though he "happens to be black!" Don't forget Joe Don Baker screaming every other line. |
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Chris Jericho has made a career out of trying to out-do them both. | |
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In Resident Evil 5, it is quite clear that D.C. Douglas was having a good time as Albert Wesker. QUITE clear. Such a good time that he kept finding hilarious new ways to be Albert Wesker long after the game was completed. |
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Sir Michael Gambon (Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies) plays the ghost of 16th-century knight Sir William Hawksmoor in Ghost Hunter, his only video game appearance to date. Whether he's threatening the heroine, "I want FLESH", performing William Shakespeare on a high-school stage (yes, seriously), giving orders to the ghost of a killer who died in the electric chair, pleading for his unlife with an unseen Parliament, or negotiating with modern day military, it's pure Ham and Cheese. He's not the only one. Rob Paulsen, Joe Morton, Andre Sogliuzzo, Michael Cochrane, and Veronica Hart are all chewing the scenery at one time or another, including a ghostly high school librarian breaking into the school song. |
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Highlander: Endgame features Bruce Payne (who also hammed it up as Jeremy Irons' lackey in Dungeons & Dragons (2000)) as the main villain, Jacob Kell, who gives one of the most questionable performances of the entire series. | |
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No Holds Barred is a Narm-heavy star vehicle for Hulk Hogan, released in 1989. It's basically Hulk being an Ink-Suit Actor and playing the same All-American Face he already was, with a plot about a Corrupt Corporate Executive trying to sign him to his fledgling network. It failed to make Hogan into a prominent leading man in Hollywood, since Hogan's acting skills were... let's say, limited. But the villain of the movie, Zeus, was played by Tom "Tiny" Lister, who establishes himself as a Wrestling Monster with huge, incoherent screams, chest-beating, lazy, googly eyes and absolutely No Indoor Voice. He's easily the most entertaining performance in the film, simply for how insane he acts nearly every time he's on screen. | |
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In Smallville, Callum Blue's Axe-Crazy portrayal of Zod is pretty much the only redeeming thing in the atrocious season nine. | |
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The entire cast of Gilligan's Island was painfully aware of the show's caliber, and often turned to this trope for solace. Jim Backus still managed to stand out. | |
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On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Our Man Bashir" forced the main cast to act out the roles in Dr. Bashir's James Bond holosuite program. Avery Brooks, in the role of an intentionally campy Omnicidal Maniac Bond villain, wolfed down the scenery and went back for seconds. | |
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As well they should. If you watch an episode of the old show, the original cast was having a blast, too (especially Dwight Schultz as the original Murdock). | |
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Final Fantasy Dirge of Cerberus: Dirge of Cerberus is a bad game with a bad story and an Audience-Coloring Adaptation of Final Fantasy VII, but it also cast Paul Eiding as a giggling, howling gothic-horror themed mad scientist who has survived after his death by downloading his body into the internet, something that it's hard to argue wouldn't improve basically any work of media. Cast as a ripoff of Sniper Wolf and given nonsensical dialogue to read, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn takes it through the ceiling with sinister cooing, yelling and Orgasmic Combat moans in one of the most deliciously silly Russian accents burned to a disc. |
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Someone informed Travis Fimmel and Ben Foster in Warcraft that this was the best option to take if you found yourself in a video game adaptation. Fimmel as Anduin Lothar brought a very Large Ham, while Ben Foster as the villain Medivh paired it with perfectly aged Cheese. Paula Patton as Garona Took the Bad Film Seriously which makes the Unfortunate Implications sex scene with Lothar go down reasonably well despite the Fridge Logic. This is a film best enjoyed with a bottle of your favorite Gargle Blaster and good friends, whether you've played Warcraft or not. | |
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Malkovich got into the whole silly, OTT atmosphere in Con Air as well. To the point where he's standing on the ramp of a plane in flight, holding a pistol to the head of a soft toy and yelling at an assault chopper. | |
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The Batman movies have a history of this. Batman Forever has Jim Carrey babbling about "brainwave manipulation", stating that his neon wardrobe keeps him "safe while he's jogging at night." Ham and cheese on rye. One gets the impression that Tommy Lee Jones was using the film as an excuse to enjoy himself as well - mostly trying to surpass Carrey when they share the screen. Case in point, the entire sequence involving the attack on Wayne Manor. Uma Thurman's performance in Batman & Robin. She clearly thought she was signing up for something good (Batman? And George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger are gonna be in it? Sounds awesome!) ...And then she got the script. And saw the sickeningly neon costumes. She plays Poison Ivy as a completely over-the-top villainess, and she's clearly having a fabulous time doing it. One of the very few saving graces of that movie. The same goes for Schwarzenegger, who admitted to hating the Mr. Freeze armor he had to keep wearing. He sure looks like he's having fun though. Really, most of the cast. The film ends up feeling like a giant prank on George Clooney, who Took the Bad Film Seriously. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was widely criticized for being overly dark and dreary. However, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor is the sole exception, portraying the character as completely insane and more akin to The Riddler. Needless to say, he's one of the few sources of humor in an otherwise extremely bleak and depressing movie, which is part of the reason his performance was criticized for being jarring and ill-fitting. |
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Star Trek has lots of this, being such a Long Runner. Star Trek: The Original Series has "The Omega Glory," which has a climactic scene where Captain Kirk reads the Constitution to Human Aliens, who just happened to independently develop one just like Earth's United States. William Shatner didn't care for this particular episode, so he just hammed it up mercilessly, resulting in one of the most uniquely Shatner moments ever put on tape. Just the way he says "WE... the PEE-ple..." "The Doomsday Machine" is an interesting case. Guest star William Windom thought the episode "seemed kind of silly, with the planet eater and the spaceships", and acted as though he was playing in a cartoon. He wound up giving the episode the energy and emotional depth it needed, and it's now one of the more popular episodes of the original series. On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Our Man Bashir" forced the main cast to act out the roles in Dr. Bashir's James Bond holosuite program. Avery Brooks, in the role of an intentionally campy Omnicidal Maniac Bond villain, wolfed down the scenery and went back for seconds. As does Nana Visitor, who in this interview, said she was in heaven because her Bond girl role called for a comically terrible Russian accent and coming out of a wall on a round bed. Over in Star Trek: The Next Generation: You are Patrick Stewart. You have a dodgy script that isn't likely to be filmed very well for an episode called "Masks". You also have a prop with a distinctly phallic shape. What do you do? a) Try manfully to turn in a good performance; b) Sleepwalk through the episode or c) Hold the prop with its base right in front of your crotch, emphasize the words that make the best euphemisms in that scene, and make Jonathan Frakes crack up ? Speaking of Next Generation: an early episode, "Code Of Honor," gained infamy in the fanbase for its use of Darkest Africa stereotypes to represent the Ligonians as an alien race. None of the regular cast members have anything good to say about this one, especially Jonathan Frakes who wanted it pulled from syndication. At the very least, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, playing the Ligonian leader, Lutan, has tons of gusto as the villain, one of the episode's few redeeming features. Season 7 has "Sub Rosa," a ghost story where Beverly Crusher falls in love with a "ghost" hidden inside her deceased grandmother's lamp. The episode is infamous among fans for its sheer strangeness, even ridiculousness, by Star Trek standards. Gates McFadden is a little more unhinged and less reserved than her performances usually are, likely as a result of having to spend several long shots all by herself reacting to a disembodied voice. McFadden still openly mocks this episode to this day. Star Trek: Voyager provides an In-Universe example with the Show Within a Show holoprogram The Adventures of Captain Proton, specifically designed by Tom Paris to be as over-the-top as possible. Speaking of Voyager, there's the infamous "Threshold" where Tom Paris breaks the warp 10 barrier, and is somehow everywhere in the universe at once. He winds up right back at the ship, somehow, and the aftereffect of this experience causes Tom to become allergic to water. Then, in Sick Bay, he pulls out his own tongue and slowly turns into what can only be described as a salamander-like creature, which the Doctor says (with a straight face) is the future of human evolution(?). Absolutely none of the science in this episode makes a lick of sense, and even big fans of the show still treat this episode as one of the worst episodes in the whole franchise. Tom Paris' actor, Robert Duncan McNeill, didn't get too many focus episodes, so he still made the most of it and spent his transformation sequence acting his heart out, going stir-crazy and shouting as loud as he ever has in the series. |
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Eragon: Subverted with Irons here as his performance is surprisingly restrained by his standards, probably in an attempt to give Ed Speelers' acting career a chance. The guy who plays Murtaugh is clearly having the time of his life. He's only in a few scenes, the title for the largest ham in Eragon has to go to John Malkovich, who, along with his silly over the top costume, emphasizes every single syllable and sound. The RiffTrax for Eragon refers to John Malkovich as "the ham's ham. He makes Al Pacino look subtle." Chris Egan had only a bit part as Roran, but managed to spin it into a starring role on the vastly superior but tragically short-lived Kings alongside the legendary Ian McShane. |
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a cheesy, stupid movie. Nobody took that film seriously, but Christopher Eccleston and Joseph Gordon-Levitt realize exactly what kind of movie they're in and have fun with it. The problem is that there's not much Hammy latitude for the good guys. Marlon—"Whoo!", Storm Shadow and Baroness actually seem to be enjoying themselves immensely, though. It's part of the reason why it's so fun. | |
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Pictured above: Julia as M. Bison in Street Fighter. He succeeded in completely stealing the show and both naming and codifying an utterly awesome trope. All the more so because he was dying of cancer, and wanted his last roles to go out with a bang (as well as leave something for his kids to enjoy; they were fans of the video games). See the Best of Bison part one and part two — That's right, Youtube's not powerful enough to contain all that ham in a single video. | |
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The series in general has Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. While the Adventure-to-Heroes-era and 4Kids voice actors were much criticized, Deem Bristow and Mike Pollock respectively stood out in doses of awesomely cheesy ham and memorable catchphrases. In fact, when Sega finally gave in to fan complaints and replaced the 4Kids actors in 2010, Pollock – by far the most popular and least criticized of the cast – was the only one of the bunch to keep his job. | |
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Kevin McCarthy in Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College! is obviously aware of exactly what kind of film he's stuck in and that he's about the only spot of dignity in it, so he has tremendous fun with his part. | |
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In the Name of the King has Ray Liotta as the villainous Gallian, gloating about declaring himself king of the orcs - er, Krug, and Matthew Lillard as the slightly less villainous Duke Fallow, whose drunkenness is overplayed to ridiculous extents. This served as a contrast to Jason Statham, who plays the hero as though his most emotionally affecting experiences cause mild flatulence or a faint headache, and Ron Perlman, who mostly limits his acting to pretending he gives a damn. | |
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Even people who love the Police Academy series will admit they're not exactly commedia dell'arte, but if there's one genuinely enjoyable aspect to them, it's Lieutenant (later Captain) Thaddeus Harris. His hammy, Jerkass Drill Sergeant Nasty persona and desperate attempts to maintain dignity in spite of the protagonists' antics make him a perfect Love to Hate comic foil in the better movies and pretty much the sole bright spot in the bad ones. | |
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The Bratz cartoon is considered So Bad, It's Good at its best, but Wendie Malick's gloriously hammy performance as main villain Burdine Maxwell dominates every scene she's in, and is the main reason why the fans Love to Hate her. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series has "The Omega Glory," which has a climactic scene where Captain Kirk reads the Constitution to Human Aliens, who just happened to independently develop one just like Earth's United States. William Shatner didn't care for this particular episode, so he just hammed it up mercilessly, resulting in one of the most uniquely Shatner moments ever put on tape. Just the way he says "WE... the PEE-ple..." | |
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Little more needs to be said about Troll 2 - it's infamous for its insanely poor quality. Amongst the cast, which was made up of no-name actors thinking they were going to be extras, only Deborah Reed stood out as the villain, Creedence Leonore Gielgud. Given little proper direction by the Italian directors, she simply opted to bite huge chunks out of the scenery through her entire performance. | |
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In Jupiter Ascending, Eddie Redmayne clearly enjoys himself as Balem, with his borderline Camp Gay demeanor and his Suddenly Shouting moments. All three of the Abrasax siblings are hammy in their own way - Balem's rage is certainly matched by Kalique's seductive pout and Titus' earnest deceit. Jupiter's uncle is a beautiful slice of Lzherusskie ham. YOU DO NOT! TREAT! YOUR COUSIN! LIKE CHICKEN! Sean Bean and Channing Tatum are both having a lot of fun playing grizzled military men. |
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"Spider-Man, Spider-Man! George Takei should be Spider-Man!" | |
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In Les Misérables (1998), Geoffrey Rush as Inspector Javert steals the show, and manages to be awesome despite his character being forced to play the villain instead of the original noble antagonist. But man, does he enjoy! And then he suddenly gives us that Tear Jerker ending. | |
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The A-Team: The main cast looks like they're having an absolute blast, especially Liam Neeson and Sharlto Copley. As well they should. If you watch an episode of the old show, the original cast was having a blast, too (especially Dwight Schultz as the original Murdock). George Peppard hams it up like crazy in this show, but his interviews after the show ended made it clear it was a perfectly miserable experience for him (especially his relationship with Mr. T which was fractured until just before his death). |
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Aasif Mandvi plays Admiral Zhao in The Last Airbender the same way he usually portrays himself on The Daily Show or other comedy-based productions. Thus, lines that were supposedly serious come across as hilarious when he reads them ("This is a SCROLL FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY!") | |
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Unlike the other games done by Animation Magic, I. M. Meen has one extremely enjoyable actor, who has the fortune of appearing more than anybody else. That being Peter Berkrot, voicing the titular character himself, I. M. Meen. There's never a moment where Meen isn't Chewing the Scenery, and sweet Jesus, that LAUGH. | |
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Mega Man X4 is one of the most infamous examples of directionless voice acting, with flat and misspoken deliveries all around. The only one who seems to know what he's doing is Jeremy Felton as Double, who captures both of his personalities of a meek and mild-mannered sidekick, as well as a psychotic, megalomaniacal assassin with tact and grace. Of course, his performance has just enough ham to it that it doesn't quite fall under Took the Bad Film Seriously. | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy Dirge of Cerberus: Dirge of Cerberus is a bad game with a bad story and an Audience-Coloring Adaptation of Final Fantasy VII, but it also cast Paul Eiding as a giggling, howling gothic-horror themed mad scientist who has survived after his death by downloading his body into the internet, something that it's hard to argue wouldn't improve basically any work of media. Cast as a ripoff of Sniper Wolf and given nonsensical dialogue to read, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn takes it through the ceiling with sinister cooing, yelling and Orgasmic Combat moans in one of the most deliciously silly Russian accents burned to a disc. Due to the magic of Product Placement, Final Fantasy XV was forced to include a sidequest where the characters must go on a journey to find quality ingredients to top a delicious, great-tasting Nissin Cup Noodle®. The English voice actors recorded two readthroughs - one sincere, one ultra-sarcastic and bored, as if the characters can't understand why they're saying these stupid things. The sarcastic take is used in the eventual game. |
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Almost none of the actors from The Room (2003) knew how to handle their roles, aside from Greg Sestero and Kyle Vogt Taking the Bad Film Seriously with their roles as Mark and Peter respectively, which already made the film memorably bad on its own. That said, there's one actor who adds the extra ham to the cheese sandwich, being Dan Janjigian playing the role of drug dealer Chris-R. In the short minute and a half that he's on-screen, he absolutely Chews the Scenery by threatening to blow Denny's brains out with a pistol for not having his drug money, and his role was so passionate, that the other actors were outright scared of Janjigian, thinking he was actually that violent. Janjigian pulled off the rare feat of combining this trope with Took the Bad Film Seriously since despite being the only person in the cast who wasn't a professional actor (he was a motivational speaker who did the role as a favor to his roommate) went as far as to read up on Uta Hagen and Stanislavsky (the latter one of the codifiers of Method Acting) and kept character even off camera. |
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The Guardian acts ludicrously over the top in every scene he's in Highlander: The Source. As Spoony pointed out, every word out of his mouth is a wisecrack. | |
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Rampage, for a video game movie that's also a giant monster one, takes itself too seriously, and the cast follows suit (including Dwayne Johnson, but he is playing by his strengths). There are three exceptions: Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a smug man in black with a cowboy drawl, hamming up every single time he appears on-screen (and Morgan added that once the director gave him free reins, he had to “embrace the ridiculousness of it all.”); Jake Lacy as a fraidy Harmless Villain who's constantly mugging and panicking (the scene where he and Morgan are together is a sight to behold); and Malin Akerman as Lacy's sister, a smarmy Corrupt Corporate Executive who knows whatever she's doing is evil and is not afraid to act sultry and mean. | |
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His performance in a production of Kiss Me, Kate (a take on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew) is a wonderful example of it; he takes the over-the-top Petruchio and manages to turn the hamminess up. | |
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Only the Brave Can Rescue the Kidnapped Princess is a generally forgettable children's adventure game, but Sir John Standing provides a memorable performance as the King, a hammy Fat Bastard who he clearly had a blast playing. His performance was a major part of why the character's musical number, "I Love My Food," briefly became a popular YouTube Poop source in 2010. | |
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The Transformers Film Series is rather full of actors letting it loose, such as John Turturro in the first three movies, Malkovich hamming it up in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Stanley Tucci in Transformers: Age of Extinction and Anthony Hopkins in Transformers: The Last Knight. | |
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Hook: Dustin Hoffman was clearly having a ball playing the titular character. To this day, he actually likes having "Hook" as a nickname for himself. | |
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Most of the cast of R.I.P.D. seem to get into hamming it up or playing their roles in a tongue-in-cheek manner. | |
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He is outdone by a fan of Troy in this scene commentary: "The greatest battle of all time! MWHAHAHAHAHA!" | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Out of the train wreck that is Sonic '06, Dan Green's gloriously over-the-top performance as Mephiles the Dark is easily the most enjoyable part of the game. The series in general has Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. While the Adventure-to-Heroes-era and 4Kids voice actors were much criticized, Deem Bristow and Mike Pollock respectively stood out in doses of awesomely cheesy ham and memorable catchphrases. In fact, when Sega finally gave in to fan complaints and replaced the 4Kids actors in 2010, Pollock – by far the most popular and least criticized of the cast – was the only one of the bunch to keep his job. The Deadly Six from Sonic Lost World were not the best villains, ranging from boring to flat to even offensive - so voicing Zavok, basically Bowser-Lite, probably wasn't easy for Travis Willingham. Still, he gave it his all, and Zavok is one of the more memorable members of the Deadly Six because of it. |
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While Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is remembered as a beloved PS1 classic, its voice acting... isn't. However, out of the cheesy mess that is the directionless voice acting, one shines above the rest, being Michael Guinn as the role of Dracula. His insanely hammy performance opposed to the flat deliveries of every other actor has gone down in infamy as complete Narm Charm, with his three opening quotes alone reaching meme levels. | |
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Peter Dickson, the famous Voiceover Man of shows such as The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, is well known and loved for his overdramatic voiceovers, most brilliantly amplified in a BBC comedy bit where he does the voice at home to a long-suffering wife. | |
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The Core: Had a cast of veteran actors, including big-profile stars Aaron Eckhart and Oscar winner Hilary Swank. Yet Stanley Tucci seems to have been the only person in it that was aware of the utter ridiculousness of the plot and thus provided a really campy performance. He is arguably the most entertaining thing in the movie. You can't necessarily tell from his performance, but Aaron Eckhart later admitted in an interview that he could barely keep a straight face through most of his lines. The director himself gives as good as his cast in the DVD Commentary. It's either exquisite Self-Parody, or he really believes he was "staying true to his vision" and that the movie is untrammeled, if under-appreciated, genius. Either would explain a great deal. |
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Bad News Barrett. While it isn't enough to redeem the gimmick in some fans eyes, he clearly enjoys it. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior is regarded as a so-so First-Person Shooter following the lead of what else was popular at the time. But it featured Tom Baker narrating the intro: | |
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Kenneth Mars as Voltor in The Adventures of the American Rabbit. The script is garbage, but Mars is shamelessly over the top in every one of his lines, automatically making his role the most enjoyable. | |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was widely criticized for being overly dark and dreary. However, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor is the sole exception, portraying the character as completely insane and more akin to The Riddler. Needless to say, he's one of the few sources of humor in an otherwise extremely bleak and depressing movie, which is part of the reason his performance was criticized for being jarring and ill-fitting. | |
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After Hulk Hogan's star vehicle, No Holds Barred, was released in 1989, Vince McMahon was eager to promote the film on television, so he brought in Tiny Lister, who played the Wrestling Monster Zeus in the film, to continue playing Zeus on WWF TV. If you're thinking that sounds nonsensical, it was. For his part, Lister's appearances as Zeus were filled with the same incoherent screams, chest-beating and googly eyes that he did in the film. | |
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Much of the severely reduced budget for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace apparently went to the actors' salaries to get them to return to the series after the Troubled Production of Superman II, and Gene Hackman was one of the actors in question. But he still has a ball as Lex Luthor, with lots of fun villainous one-liners. He pulls double duty as the voice of all-brawn, no-brains baddie Nuclear Man and his grunts and roars have this trope written all over it. As the Nostalgia Critic/Linkara joint review points out, it's funny to imagine what must have gone on in the recording studio. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Celestial Toymaker" was a script heavily hampered by No Budget conditions and the fact that the plot's central point had been made impossible by copyright disputes, leading to much of the story being basically Padding. On the other hand, Michael Gough chews on the scenery hand over fist and is obviously loving the opportunity to be an over-the-top, hammy villain. He even takes the script seriously in some places to deliver some surprisingly intense interactions with the Doctor. Professor Zaroff in "The Underwater Menace" is likely this. Most fans (and the cast and crew) find "The Underwater Menace" hokey, nonsensical and generally stupid, but Joseph Fürst played Zaroff so outrageously over-the-top and with so much Chewing the Scenery that he becomes an entertaining and memorable villain (although the interview with Anneke Wills on the reconstruction audio suggests that she thought he Took the Bad Film Seriously, and that she and Troughton would constantly make him repeat his line "NOTHINK IN ZE VORLD CAN SHTOP ME NOW!!" to laugh at him and he never realized they were mocking him). Elisabeth Sandifer thought that Patrick Troughton, as the Doctor, was hamming it up out of boredom in "The Dominators", a story that most people find excruciatingly boring: Patrick Troughton spends a lot of "The Space Pirates", a rather convoluted story in which he has virtually nothing to do, hamming it up as much as he can get away with. This involves a lot of Took the Bad Film Seriously, as he plays his scene where he nearly kills everyone perfectly and terrifyingly straight but also involves him extending his vowels as far as he can while trying to look clever in front of Zoe. Tom Baker was, according to the special features on "Robot", specifically cast for this — as the future of the show at that point was uncertain due to the lead actor and entire production team changing (and there had been several attempts to kill the show off), the casting director's brief was to find someone who was "a very good actor" and "so charismatic that he is fun to watch even when nothing else is". Before Tom Baker got to the point where he could change lines in the script, he tended to really overact stupid lines of dialogue or unfunny jokes he would have to say — usually delivering them by fixing the camera with his eyes and overacting the line with a contemptuous "can you believe I am saying this shit?!" expression, as if asking the audience to laugh at the show itself. This draws a lot of attention to the clunkers, unfortunately, but pushes at least a few of them into So Unfunny, It's Funny. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen hated everything they had to say in "The Android Invasion", and so rewrote all of their dialogue together. Both of them are clearly having a lot of fun. Both Sladen and Baker (especially) have an absolutely wonderful time overacting their way through the incredibly out-of-character and cynically recycled audio drama Dr. Who and the Pescatons. Tom Baker delivers his bad lines with an audible smirk, comes up with all sorts of fun ways of interpreting a "generic Doctor"-type script to fit the Fourth Doctor's character and even bursts out into song at one point. "The Invasion of Time" had No Budget, catastrophic Special Effects Failure, enforced Lighter and Softer tone, truly awful BBC Quarry sets, a mediocre script hinging on an "event" most people wouldn't care about and a very angry Tom Baker who felt that his show was imploding and was struggling with his personal life. The kicker is that the script required him to act like an insane megalomaniac, which he pretty much was even out-of-character at that point. The result is the biggest, loudest, most swivel-eyed and self-indulgent overacting a Doctor has ever been responsible for, with much of his dialogue openly addressed to the camera. Depending on how funny you find him, it's either making a washout story hilariously watchable or the worst thing in his whole tenure. "The Creature from the Pit" features Special Effect Failure, No Budget, a kindly monster that happens to look like a giant cock and balls, and Tom Baker cracking himself up by cramming as many knob jokes and fellatio innuendos into his performance as possible. The 1979 story "The Horns of Nimon". Despite Graham Crowden's legendary chewing of scenery, there was plenty of the set left for other actors to dine on. One of the other characters — the co-pilot, played by Malcolm Terris — has the catchphrase "WEAKLING SCUM!" that he delivers in increasingly over-the-top pantomimic ways. Even more delicious is that during his death scene, he overacts so spectacularly that his trousers visibly split. According to Doctor Who Magazine, "WEAKLING SCUM!!!" wasn't even in the script, Terris came up with it all by himself. Pop him between two slices of bread and you'd have a ham and cheese sandwich you could use to beat a bear to death. Colin Baker: no matter how awful the Sixth Doctor's attitude (and Baker's personal life at the time) got, his truly marvelous overacting always made up for a lot. "Timelash": Paul Darrow gives a performance that has to be seen to be disbelieved. He later said that this was revenge for Colin Baker's Large Ham tendencies when he appeared on Blake's 7 as Bayban the Butcher. Kate O'Mara is clearly having a wonderful time playing the vampy, Campy Mad Scientist villainess the Rani in all three of the godawful TV stories the character was in. In fact, many people think that easily the worst story out of them — "Dimensions in Time" — had the best Rani. Richard Briers openly admitted that he took his role in "Paradise Towers" to have the opportunity to act badly. Eric Roberts seemed to be doing this as the Master in the TV Movie. The Sycorax Leader and David Tennant in his debut role as the Tenth Doctor during "The Christmas Invasion". Killer Santas and killer Christmas Trees meet a bellicose alien who wants to sell humanity into slavery. When he meets Ten, it results in Ham-to-Ham Combat. And when the Sycorax Leader is practically frothing at the mouth, Ten decides to mock him and takes the ham through the ceiling. |
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How about John Travolta and Nicolas Cage? The premise of Face/Off is that Travolta plays the hard-nosed cop and Cage plays the Laughing Mad terrorist, and through slightly contrived circumstances they get their faces switched onto each other's bodies. This leads to Travolta being the maniac pretending to be a cop, and Cage being the cop pretending to be a maniac. The film is just a little bit ludicrous, but Cage and Travolta take turns hamming it up mercilessly, making what could have been a silly John Woo work into a successful action flick (the film was an commercial success and scored an impressive 92% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes). | |
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When The Sheepherders left the territories for the WWF, they were repackaged as the Bushwhackers. Much to the despair of those who followed them around the territories, they went from hardcore icons with several brutal matches to their name, to bumbling idiots who licked fans and bit opponents. And yet Luke and Butch got really into their roles, making them household names in the Golden Age of the Federation. Part of why they got into it is attributed to a) similar to Dusty Rhodes, wanting a break from all the blood they spilled in the territories and b) being very popular with the kids, which at that time meant plenty of merch sales. | |
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He pretty much did it again for TRON: Legacy — his maniacal, campy David Bowie impersonation made him one of the great highlights and sources of comedy in an otherwise dreary, over-serious film. | |
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New Generation Pictures were the first to try this with Ikki Tousen. The cast and crew working on the dub knew how trashy the show was... and had a glorious time with it. The writing was very self-aware, and the performances were exaggerated to hell and back. Headline's very straight dub for Season 2 was really underwhelming in comparison. New Generation returned for Seasons 3-4 and the movie and went right back to their original hammy style. | |
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Although most of the cast of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters seems to be invoking this trope, Famke Janssen is playing it to the hilt as the head witch. | |
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Klonoa: While most people find the English dub of the Wii game Narmy, you have to admit that JB Blanc and Dave Mallow are having a lot of fun as Ghadius and Joka respectively. Ghadius does some dramatic speeches about how he sees the world as worthless, and tops them off with some truly magnificent Evil Laughs. Joka fully embraces his role as a Villainous Harlequin, keeping a silly and clownish, yet still menacing, tone of voice throughout the game. | |
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Blade: Trinity was unquestionably the low point in the series. It did, however, give us this exchange: | |
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In Demolition Man, Wesley Snipes is having the time of his life as over-the-top bad guy Simon Phoenix. | |
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The Deadly Six from Sonic Lost World were not the best villains, ranging from boring to flat to even offensive - so voicing Zavok, basically Bowser-Lite, probably wasn't easy for Travis Willingham. Still, he gave it his all, and Zavok is one of the more memorable members of the Deadly Six because of it. | |
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Sean Connery realized how much Highlander II: The Quickening was sinking into Sequelitis, and made his performance one big raised middle finger to the producers who brought his character Back from the Dead so he could appear in the sequel. | |
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Under normal circumstances, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 would be seen as B-movie schlock that wouldn't warrant any mainstream attention, but throw in one Eric Freeman who treats the role of Ricky as seriously as a pest controller would treat a ladybug, and the film is a cheesy experience worth remembering. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons (2000): Jeremy Irons, who manages to out-ham the entire cast and special effects department by virtue of his eyebrows alone. There is also his aide, Damodar (Bruce Payne), who manages to chew almost as much scenery as him despite never raising his voice during the entire movie. Thora Birch however, Took the Bad Film Seriously and her scenes with Irons are a sight to behold. |
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Once Upon a Time: Robert Carlyle manages the rare feat of being both this and Took the Bad Film Seriously due to the dual nature of his character Rumplestiltskin. One moment he's giving a heart-wrenching performance as a tragic villain, only for him to chew the scenery for all it's worth as the Dark One in the very next scene. In a series which has been suffering from Seasonal Rot, many found the over-the-top performances of Rebecca Mader as Zelena and Greg Germann as Hades to be the only saving graces of the fifth season. |
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In Godzilla (1998), Jean Reno's Gallic disdain for American coffee, cigarettes, and doughnuts, along with his extreme competence, make him far and away the best thing in the movie. He's cheesier than a croque-monsieur, and yet his diet consists solely of scenery. | |
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The Highlander series has this trope in spades... Sean Connery realized how much Highlander II: The Quickening was sinking into Sequelitis, and made his performance one big raised middle finger to the producers who brought his character Back from the Dead so he could appear in the sequel. Michael Ironside's portrayal of Big Bad General Katana. The statement from him at the top of the page is quite possibly the most explicit admission of engaging in this trope in cinema history. Highlander II also features John C. McGinley (who, by his own admittance, was channeling Orson Welles) as The Dragon. Spoony, in his commentary for his review of the film, stated that although he hated the film overall, he gave credit to McGinley's performance. Highlander: Endgame features Bruce Payne (who also hammed it up as Jeremy Irons' lackey in Dungeons & Dragons (2000)) as the main villain, Jacob Kell, who gives one of the most questionable performances of the entire series. The Guardian acts ludicrously over the top in every scene he's in Highlander: The Source. As Spoony pointed out, every word out of his mouth is a wisecrack. |
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The Addams Family too, but then, the whole cast was hamming it up except for Anjelica Huston, and that's probably because her character just didn't work that way - Morticia, just by virtue of sitting back and letting Gomez chew scenery, ends up being the funniest one by treating the silliness around her as perfectly normal. | |
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The English dub of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is a glorious slab of glazed ham exactly for this reason. Not because it's a bad series, far from it, but given its reveling in some of the most suggestive dialogue and gross-out humour this side of South Park, they're all clearly having a blast, especially the two leads who take all the double-entendres and filthy lines of dialogue coming from the angelic divas as passionately as they can. Case in fucking point, here's the digest. May contain spoilers. |
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Bray Wyatt post-WrestleMania 35 came back as...a Mr. Rogers-like children's show host. The concept may have been strange at first, but it's clear that Bray absolutely revels in his role, being so over the top in his portrayal that it's hilarious...until he reveals his Dark Secret to the world. | |
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action gave us Steve Martin as the ACME Chairman (no name given), who was undoubtedly a Dr. Evil-esque parody of James Bond villains, combined with corporation owner (arguably based on the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies). While the film wasn't exactly the greatest Looney Tunes piece ever made (quite the opposite, according to critics), Martin just went all-out with his character. In some of the developer reels, they talked about how Martin genuinely liked being silly with his character so much he would even stay in character during breaks for no other reason than because he could. Half the stuff they threw in because he ad-libbed it on the set. | |
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The cast of Canadian Musketeer series Young Blades used to veer madly between narm-tastic attempts to take the bad show seriously, and bouts of outrageous tongue-in-cheek ham. The latter approach was a lot more successful, as it was often damn hilarious to watch and caused the series to tip over into So Bad, It's Good territory. Robert Sheehan (King Louis XIV) was probably the only cast member with Ham and Cheese as his default setting - his camp and outlandish performance was easily the most entertaining part of the show. | |
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The Rock seemed to be trying to top him during his later appearances. | |
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Alien: Resurrection is often considered one of the sillier entries in the Alien franchise, and has Ron Perlman, J. E. Freeman and Brad Dourif invoking this trope. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager provides an In-Universe example with the Show Within a Show holoprogram The Adventures of Captain Proton, specifically designed by Tom Paris to be as over-the-top as possible. | |
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The Karate Kid Part III is generally considered the weakest part of the franchise, and to only have one redeeming feature; Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry Silver. Silver is the closest thing to a Captain Planet villain we'll ever see in a live-action work, and seeing him switch from maniacal giggling to Suddenly Shouting at the drop of a hat, milk the giant cow and go through props like a fat kid in cake is a thing to behold. When he returned in the Sequel Series Cobra Kai, the writers had him explain that he was out of his mind on cocaine the whole time to retroactively justify his cartoonish, cackling villainy. | |
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The 1964 adaptation of Lord Jim is pretty boring... until you meet Eli Wallach's Calvera-like Arab overlord "The General", a lisping, mincing man with an awful buzzcut, who struts around in a black vest, pretty much having the time of his life. | |
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Over in Star Trek: The Next Generation: You are Patrick Stewart. You have a dodgy script that isn't likely to be filmed very well for an episode called "Masks". You also have a prop with a distinctly phallic shape. What do you do? a) Try manfully to turn in a good performance; b) Sleepwalk through the episode or c) Hold the prop with its base right in front of your crotch, emphasize the words that make the best euphemisms in that scene, and make Jonathan Frakes crack up ? | |
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