An attractive cat burglar in a tight leather suit should have made this one easy. Yet Catwoman is regularly named one of the worst Hollywood films ever made. Halle Berry’s titular character and her terrifically inappropriate-for-fighting suit were simply not able to meet the high expectations set by promotional images of said catsuit. Featuring the predictable tale of loss and revenge, and a brief foray into Egyptian mythology, Berry’s antihero uses her newfound powers to take down an evil cosmetics company. Whether it was this seemingly trifling struggle, or the fact that the feline hero bar was simply set too high by Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman in 1992′s Batman Returns, ticket sales were poor. Although the film reportedly lost nearly $20 million for Warner Bros., it did not discourage the studio from making more terrible movies from second-tier D.C. comic characters. (See Green Lantern.)
Top 20 Worst Summer Blockbusters
Maybe it's the heat, but there's something about the dog days of summer that sends people running to bad blockbusters in droves. TIME takes a look back at the worst big-budget flicks of steamy seasons past.
Catwoman (2004)
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Top 20 Worst Summer Blockbusters
- The Last Airbender (2010)
- Knight and Day (2010)
- Hudson Hawk (1991)
- Avengers (1998)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
- Stealth (2005)
- The Haunting (1999)
- Howard the Duck (1986)
- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
- Green Lantern (2011)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- Catwoman (2004)
- Wild Wild West (1999)
- Waterworld (1995)
- Godzilla (1998)
- Batman & Robin (1997)
- Battlefield Earth (2000)
- Sex and the City 2 (2010)
- Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
