Razzie outrages: ‘Yogi Bear’ and ‘Jackass 3D’ got snubbed!

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Yogi may be smarter than the average bear and his namesake flick beloved by moviegoers ($89 million at the U.S. box office), but ‘Yogi Bear’ got skunked by the Razzies.

‘Yogi Bear’ was certainly worthy of the ridicule, according to some critics. USA Today blasted it, saying, ‘’Yogi Bear’ is a big boo-boo,’ and the Chicago Tribune harrumphed, ‘’Yogi Bear’ gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry.’

But ‘Yogi Bear’ is among the many surprising omissions on the list of Razzie nominations. There are so many shockeroos (‘Little Fockers’ and ‘Jonah Hex’ aren’t up for worst picture! Where’s ‘Jackass 3D’?) that we think it’s best to break them down this way. Below is the short list of contenders sent to voters. Their choices for nominations are marked by bullets.

WORST PICTURE
● ‘The Bounty Hunter’
‘Clash of the Titans’
‘The Expendables’
‘Grown Ups’
‘Jonah Hex’
‘The Killers’
● ‘The Last Airbender’
‘Little Fockers’
● ‘Sex and the City 2’
● ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
● ‘Vampires Suck’
‘Yogi Bear’

WORST EYE-GOUGING MISUSE OF 3-D
‘Alpha and Omega’
● ‘Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore’
● ‘Clash of the Titans’
‘Gulliver’s Travels’
‘Jackass 3D’
● ‘The Last Airbender’
‘My Soul to Take’
● ‘The Nutcracker in 3D’
‘Piranha 3D’
‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’
● ‘Saw 3D’ (a.k.a. ‘Saw VII’)
‘Step Up 3D’
‘Yogi Bear’

WORST ACTOR
Dan Aykroyd (voice only), ‘Yogi Bear’
Josh Brolin, ‘Jonah Hex’
● Gerard Butler, ‘The Bounty Hunter’
Robert De Niro, ‘Little Fockers’
● Ashton Kutcher, ‘The Killers,’ ‘Valentine’s Day’
● Taylor Lautner, ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ ‘Valentine’s Day’
● Robert Pattinson, ‘Remember Me,’ ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
Adam Sandler, ‘Grown Ups’
● Jack Black, ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
Benicio Del Toro, ‘Wolfman’
Josh Duhamel, ‘Life as We Know It,’ ‘When in Rome’
Jake Gyllenhaal, ‘Prince of Persia’
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, ‘Tooth Fairy’
Sam Worthington, ‘Clash of the Titans’

WORST ACTRESS
Christina Aguilera, ‘Burlesque’
● Jennifer Aniston, ‘Bounty Hunter,’ ‘The Switch’
● Miley Cyrus, ‘The Last Song’
● Megan Fox, ‘Jonah Hex’
Katherine Heigl, ‘The Killers,’ ‘Life as We Know It’
Jennifer Lopez, ‘The Back-Up Plan’
● Kristen Stewart, ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
Kristen Bell, ‘When in Rome,’ ‘You Again’
● The four ‘gal pals,’ ‘Sex and the City 2’
Angelina Jolie, ‘The Tourist’
Milla Jovovich, ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’
Brooke Shields, ‘Furry Vengeance’
Renee Zellweger, ‘Case 39’

WORST SCREEN COUPLE/WORST SCREEN ENSEMBLE
● Jennifer Aniston & Gerard Butler, ‘The Bounty Hunter’
● Josh Brolin’s Face and Megan Fox’s Accent, ‘Jonah Hex’
The entire cast of ‘Expendables’
● The entire cast of ‘The Last Airbender’
● The entire cast of ‘Sex and the City 2’
The entire cast of ‘Vampires Suck’
Katherine Heigl and EITHER Josh Duhamel (‘Life as We Know It’) or Ashton Kutcher (‘The Killers’)
Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift, ‘Valentine’s Day’
The entire cast of ‘Clash of the Titans’
The entire cast of ‘Grown Ups’
The entire cast of ‘Jackass 3D’
The entire cast of ‘Little Fockers’
● The entire cast of ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
The entire cast of ‘Yogi Bear’

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Pierce Brosnan, ‘Remember Me’
Anthony Hopkins, ‘Wolfman’
Ken Jeong, ‘Furry Vengeance,’ ‘Vampires Suck’
Cam Gigandet, ‘Burlesque’
● George Lopez, ‘Marmaduke,’ ‘The Spy Next Door’ and ‘Valentine’s Day’
John Malkovich, ‘Jonah Hex’
Mickey Rourke, ‘The Expendables,’ ‘Iron Man 2’
● Dev Patel, ‘The Last Airbender’
● Jackson Rathbone, ‘The Last Airbender,’ ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
● Billy Ray Cyrus, ‘The Spy Next Door’
Cary Elwes, ‘Saw 3D’
Liam Neeson, ‘Clash of the Titans’
Ben Kingsley, ‘Prince of Persia’
Eric Roberts, ‘The Expendables’
● Rob Schneider, ‘Grown Ups’
David Spade, ‘Grown Ups’

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
● Jessica Alba, ‘The Killer Inside Me,’ ‘Little Fockers,’ ‘Machete,’ ‘Valentine’s Day’
Gemma Arterton, ‘Clash of the Titans,’ ‘Prince of Persia’
Christine Baranski, ‘Bounty Hunter’
Kristen Bell, ‘Burlesque’
● Cher, ‘Burlesque’
● Liza Minnelli, ‘Sex and the City 2’
● Nicola Peltz, ‘The Last Airbender’
Taylor Swift, ‘Valentine’s Day’
Emily Blunt, ‘Gulliver’s Travels,’ ‘Wolfman’
Anna Faris, ‘Yogi Bear’
Bryce Dallas Howard, ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
● Barbra Streisand, ‘Little Fockers’
Joyce Van Patten, ‘Grown Ups’

WORST SCREENPLAY
‘Bounty Hunter’
‘Burlesque’
‘Clash of the Titans’
‘The Expendables’
‘Grown Ups’
‘Gulliver’s Travels’
‘Jonah Hex’
● ‘The Last Airbender’
● ‘Little Fockers’
‘The Killers’
● ‘Sex and the City 2’
‘Skyline’
● ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
● ‘Vampires Suck’
‘Yogi Bear’

WORST DIRECTOR
Steve Antin, ‘Burlesque’
● Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, ‘Vampires Suck’
Jimmy Hayward, ‘Jonah Hex’
● M. Night Shyamalan, ‘The Last Airbender’
● David Slade, ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
Paul Weitz: ‘Little Fockers’
Dennis Dugan, ‘Grown Ups’
Louis Leterrier, ‘Clash of the Titans’
● Michael Patrick King, ‘Sex and the City 2’
Robert Luketic, ‘The Killers’
● Sylvester Stallone, ‘The Expendables’
Andy Tennant, ‘The Bounty Killer’

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIPOFF OR SEQUEL
‘Cats and Dogs 2: Revenge of Kitty Galore’
● ‘Clash of the Titans’
‘Gulliver’s Travels’
‘Jackass 3D’
● ‘The Last Airbender’
‘Little Fockers’
‘The Nutcracker in 3-D’
‘The Killers’
‘Marmaduke’
‘Nightmare on Elm Street’
‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’
‘Saw 3D’
● ‘Sex and the City 2’
● ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
‘The Wolfman’
● ‘Vampires Suck’
‘Yogi Bear’

-- Tom O’Neil