EW Lists the 20-Worst Comic Book Movies

Entertainment Weekly lists out what they think are the 20 worst adaptations of comic books into movies.

Running through the list, I have to agree with them on most entries. I haven’t seen them all, but knowing the characters and the plots I can’t imagine how some of those films could be watchable. (Brenda Starr? – wow.)

I do take exception with the inclusion of The Phantom on the list though. That is a film I really enjoy watching and which, I think, does a very good job at capturing the pulp adventure tone of Lee Falk’s original Phantom comic strips. Even if you think the movie is more Indiana Jones than Phantom, I think it is unfair to lump this flick in with the likes of Batman & Robin, Supergirl, and Howard the Duck.

And I was surprised they put Barbarella in their list of 20. Barbarella? I thought that was a campy romp that never even aspired to be anything more than a late-night cult film. It seems silly to spend time rating it as a bad comic book movie because I don’t think it ever tried to be anything more than what it is – a vehicle for a guy to film his (then)wife having sex in space.