The 10 Worst Accents in Movie History

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 9:28am

Parts 1 & 2 via nerve.com's wonderful "Screengrab".
Enjoy!

[ABSteel]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 9:33am

"Eeeh, I go to Ah-MEEEEEE-riccaaa!”

Best part of TITANIC, by far. Love it.

I also love watching Mickey Rooney in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. It's so bad it's great.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 10:10am

I really don't understand why people think Van Dyke's cockney accent is distracting, I didn't find it distracting, it was more comic than anything. He was excellent. I am sure the English found it annoying but still Van Dyke's charm is wonderful!

[MimiJudith]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 10:12am

I thought Gwyneth Paltrow's English accent in "Sliding Doors" was the worst!!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 10:25am

I don't know what they were thinking with the Mickey Rooney character in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". That character isn't even in the book. I think several people were smoking wacky weed when they made that decision and filmed it.

[ABSteel]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 10:27am

Hardly any of that movie is in the book.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 10:51am

The accent coach on DRACULA was drinkin'!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 10:55am

Helen Hunt in AS GOOD AS IT GETS. And girlfriend won an Oscar for that. Oy.

[ABSteel]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:01am

I don't remember her having an accent. The only thing I remember about the movie was the gay guy. And a dog.

[peach]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:03am

Good list! Adding my own nominations...

Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond.

Also, a lot of the Boston accents people go for in the movies end up sounding more like New York accents, or a way overdone "pahk the cah" accent.

Note to movies - not everyone in Boston has a thick accent, but if you're going to use it in a movie, at least get it right!

The cast of The Departed did a better job than most, though!

Updated On: 3/22/07 at 11:03 AM

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:08am

Hugh Grant in "Our Sons."Generic American accents almost always sound weird coming from British actors, but this one is uber bizarre. Julie Andrews was his mother, dammit. He could have kept his own accent.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:13am

Speaking of Boston accents, Robin Williams, although surrounded by Bostonians in Good Will Hunting, deigned to drop an R or two and expected us to accept that as an accurate dialect.

And won an Oscar.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:19am

i found Tom Hanks' Boston accent in Catch me if You Can to be very very distracting and almost comical at moments that shold have been serious. i didn't know if it was really BAD, it was just overblown, maybe.

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:23am

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Madonna's terrible british accent in that Guy Ritchie Movie No One Saw.....oh maybe that's why...


Oh and even though I didn't waste time or money on Pink Panther...isn't Martin's accent supposed to be comically over the top? Kinda like Cohen in Talledega Nights?

Updated On: 3/22/07 at 11:23 AM

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:26am

Or Colleen Camp in "Clue"? Although it turns out she's not really French...

[fflagg]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:29am

Or Barbra Streisand.

Do you know she is really British? That was her real speaking voice in the British scenes in "On A Clear Day. . . "

In all of her other films her Bklyn/NYC accent is a fake to make her more mainstream.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:30am

I don't get the Dick Van Dyke thing either. I've heard lots of Americans attempt a cockney accent, and his doesn't sound particularly bad to me. Oh well.

But yes...Leo in Blood Diamond. What the hell was that? Was it supposed to be Australian??

[ABSteel]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:32am

She's playing a French maid. In a very slutty French maid costume. Of course she needs the slutty French accent!

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:32am

What was the movie where Brad Pitt did the Irish accent?

[erikaamato]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:34am

Leo's accent in Blood Diamond is quite good, imho. It's white South African. (Afrikaaner) It's a very hard accent to get, and his was pretty much spot-on.
Updated On: 3/22/07 at 11:34 AM

[Pip]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:35am

Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood"...Yikes...

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:36am

But ABSteel, why is it that when she whispers to her killer right before she gets killed, the accent disappears? (yet it seems to return as she cries out "It's you!" before she gets strangled)

I've seen that movie WAY too many times, it seems.
Updated On: 3/22/07 at 11:36 AM

[chicolini]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:38am

Brad Pitt's "Irish" = Devil's Own.

I hate myself for knowing that so easily.

[circusliz]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:38am

Leo in Blood Diamond. What the hell was that? Was it supposed to be Australian??

Actually, the Afrikaaner and Australian accents do sound remarkably similar. I work with a sumber of white South Africans, and when I first met them I was unsure of their background. I haven't seen Blood Diamond so I can't judge Leo's accent, but from your comment it would seem he did a pretty good job.

Updated On: 3/22/07 at 11:38 AM

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 11:38am

Calvin, it was SNATCH. Brad ruled in that movie.