Top 10 Accents That Are So Bad They're Good

[@MsMojo]

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[@ashtontk-rw7mo]

Leo's one is sexy. You said Rhodesian it's actually Boer. A very popular Afrikaans accent😂 Thanx for always trying to pronounce African names and things correctly it means alot❤

[@sallyoakes7709]

Dick Van Dyke is my favorite; I haven't seen any of the others and I've never heard a pure cockney accent, so I'd never be able to tell the difference, anyhow. How about TV characters (Kraus in the so-so sit-com "Benson," some of the accents on shows like "Dukes of Hazard")? i don't watch much TV any more, so I don't know today's shows, but I'm sure they're there.

[@UltraRage86]

Boris and Natasha from the live-action Bullwinkle movie

[@UltraRage86]

Hugo weaving accent was pretty bad in Captain America: First Avenger

[@ChristoAbrie]

you guys should do a video about actors attempting a specific accent while in the presence of another actor that is from that region. For example: Catherine Zeta-Jones vs Antonio Banderas in Mask of Zorro, both characters are from Mexican-Spanish decent, and Antonio is actually Spanish, and Catherine does a flawless Spanish-accent

[@saikoormike]

Brad Pitt's accent is so indecipherable it's actually accurate to accents in Ireland. And I'm *FROM* Ireland.

[@seantlewis376]

Yeah, the Traveler accent is actually pretty accurate. Plus, if you pay attention, when he's talking with other Irish, it is less intense than when he's talking with the English. He's intensifying it to mess with the English.

[@davidbrennan5973]

Brad Pitt’s Irish traveller accent is actually pretty accurate.. you have to understand Irish and Irish traveller while we have similar dialect we have different accents

[@Sileaine]

And also just coz someone doesn't understand an accent doesn't mean the accent is bad He did a great job

[@badkitty4922]

Was the accent being referred to as Pikey an insult? I thought Irish Traveler and Pikey were different. American here so, I'm just curious. 😘

[@brookelynnenewcomer943]

​@Sileaine I thought he did good cause i couldnt understand him lol 😅

[@davidbrennan5973]

@@badkitty4922 yea don’t call a traveller a pikey if u wanna keep your teeth…

[@davidbrennan5973]

@@badkitty4922 pikey is a slur

[@elliotanders2363]

Gaga's accent was actually accurate to the woman she was portraying... Italians have regional accents just as Americans do. Not everyone sounds like Mario and Luigi.

[@KittenUndercover]

She sounded Russian though. That’s not a region of Italy.

[@elliotanders2363]

@@KittenUndercover Have you watched interviews with Patrizia? Gaga sounded just like her.

[@jas0206]

It’s true that Patrizia’s accent wasn’t the stereotypical Italian accent we’ve all come to know, but Gaga’s imitation still wasn’t accurate. She didn’t roll a single R. That was her biggest mistake.

[@lexkanyima2195]

​@@jas0206 what ?

[@jas0206]

@@lexkanyima2195 it’s true that Patrizia’s accent wasn’t the stereotypical Italian accent we’ve all come to know, but Gaga’s imitation still wasn’t accurate. She didn’t roll a single R. That was her biggest mistake.

[@markalexander3659]

Brad Pitt's Irish traveller accent was actually fairly accurate lol. Just because Americans couldn't really understand what he was saying, doesn't make it bad.

[@Username4real]

I heard that Brad Pitt’s accent in Snatch was actually super accurate for the area and time period

[@ricHard.18]

Exactly! He's also a gypsy. In the movie it's even said that they basically have their own dialect.

[@patrickkirkham]

@@ricHard.18 yes. This is what I came to say too, it seemed to me like the accent had its own moments intentionally

[@ashleydowney1222]

@@ricHard.18 The term gypsy is a slur.

[@Hilz28]

​@@ashleydowney1222 That's literally what they're called in the movie's script 🤦‍♀️

[@NYChica23]

@@ashleydowney1222 Take that up with the screenwriter, because they refer to Brad's character as a gypsy in the movie

[@JuanVillalobos]

Lady Gaga’s accent is great. Yes it does sound Russian but if you hear the real Patrizia speaking, she nailed it 100%. Italy has many accents and Patrizia’s was one of the most eccentric ones. A quick watch of a real video from her would add a lot of context. Sad you didn’t bother.

[@ashleydowney1222]

I don't think they bothered with a few of the accents. Even the Brad Pitt's accent.

[@ghw7192]

Historically, this channel hasn't bothered with a lot of things.

[@Denis-89]

Exactly. Seems that people think she was meant to have a general Italian accent but she was meant to have a specific Italian accent for one specific woman.

[@BadWilf]

Brad Pitt wasn't doing Irish. He was doing Irish-traveller. It's a very different thing and he did a pretty decent job

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent may be inaccurate, but boy is it endlessly charming. And Al Pichino's Cuban accent is just iconic.

[@aick]

Pacino*

[@neilgerace355]

Also, there wasn't just one Cockney accent. In London at that time, the accent changed almost from street to street, as Bert's kind of people didn't usually move from where they were born. Professor Henry Higgins, in My Fair Lady, summed it up: "I can place a man within three miles in England, and three streets in London."

[@asummerphoenix]

Leo’s Rhodesian accent is very accurate tbh. So was Brad’s Irish Traveller accent (different to Irish), I’m starting to think ya’ll think these are bad because you’ve never heard them before 😭

[@ashleydowney1222]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@NerkTwin9]

Argh...Leo's accent is not great. He slips out of it too much and he sounds (sort of) South African, not Rhodesian/Zimbabwean.

[@fr3088]

i hate mojo. i think they both were convincing

[@fr3088]

he does slip, but it's not top 10 worst accents material as this list purports@@NerkTwin9

[@theilluminaughty_]

My favourite bad accent is Hilary Duff’s Italian accent in the Lizzie McGuire movie!

[@chasehedges6775]

I wonder what Italian viewers thought of it?

[@Ebichuchu]

the worst, but I love her for it 😭

[@badkitty4922]

You know a bad accent becomes beloved when even Cubans quote Pacino in his accent!😂😂😂

[@Dlnqntt]

Never had a problem understanding Brad Pitts accent in Snatch. Found it extra funny that the DVD came with an option for subtitles only for Brad Pitts scenes, though!

[@fordandk4840]

Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. I want to laugh out loud every time.

[@mactiger1983]

I was just about to comment on this too! 😂

[@nadinemoses8240]

Sean Connery playing a Russian with a Scottish accent in The Hunt for Red October should’ve made this list.

[@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

He wasn't playing a Russian.

[@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

@@kimthecat Yes

[@Elitist20]

Lithuanian

[@phil4208]

Brad Pitt as mickey is classic, Jason stathams perplexed looks always makes me laugh, I've seen snatch multiple times and I'll watch it again

[@cheyennebrennan966]

Let me settle this once and for all: Dick Van Dyke is one of the UK's national treasures too! We absolutely adore him AND his God-awful accent! 😂❤❤

[@jeffreylindahl5895]

I think Dick Van Dyke is a national treasure in several countries if not the entire world.

[@Paige-pk8dr]

​@@jeffreylindahl5895he's like America's grandpa

[@jeffreylindahl5895]

@Paige Yes he is.

[@sapphire7424]

Opinion is still divided there hon. Smh

[@jeffreylindahl5895]

@Sapphire 74 No it has been decided. You may nit like him or his God awful accent but everybody else does. I know for a fact that the UK has forgiven him for it.

[@Axemantitan]

I first saw Con Air in a movie theater in Tallahassee, Florida. People came out of the theater laughing and joking about Cage's attempt at a Southern accent.

[@amandaredd3057]

Talladega Nights still cracks me right tf up! 😂 Every character is funny and they all play so well off of eachother

[@ThatCoalSoul]

* each other *

[@lilit1poghossyan]

Nobody does an accent better than Hank Azaria. Sometimes I think he can effortlessly pull off any given accent even if he hears the language for the first time! A truly talented and gifted actor!

[@marvelfan8996]

As an Italian woman, the language is difficult and it depends on the dialect. Each part of Italy has a different dialect. Its quite tricky.

[@Lon.BedStuyforLife]

I completely agree. It is the same in America. As a black woman, born and raised in NYC, I can attest that pinpointing where someone is from by listening to them speak can be tricky at best. When many people think of about northeastern American accents, their minds immediately go to the American-Italian accent or the "Boston" accent -- the accents we are most associate with in movies. However, it isn't that cut-and-dry. Many fail to understand that everyone born and raised in this region of the U.S. is not Italian or Irish, and so northeastern-American accents actually has an EXTREMELY wide group of "New York accents". There really is no one-size-fits-all here. There is not ONE "American accent" - we have more than a few! So, @marvelfan8996 I understand what you are saying. My country's primary language is English (obviously); however, as you move throughout the U.S. the dialect changes -- in many cases, drastically. It is a tricky topic. Personally, I wouldn't touch this topic unless I was a linguist or some other professional in the language and speech area. Over my many years, I've seen accent portrayals from actors/actresses ranging from outstanding to cringe-worthy, but I will say that they all did their best -- after all, "accent-acting" takes a lot of work and is HARD AS EFF!!!"

[@marvelfan8996]

@@Lon.BedStuyforLife language is a hard thing. Thanks for your reply. 😄

[@kachkodziob_obabich_dorohy]

Cate Blanchett was imitating russian accent not Ukrainian. People in the east of Ukraine don't speak like that (judging from my experience as a teacher of English who taught students from Donetsk)

[@erinlizzie09]

I literally always thought that Leo's character in Blood diamond was South African.

[@Dancestar1981]

So did I

[@janetkorsak]

Cate Blanchett reminds me of Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle.

[@UltraRage86]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Dancestar1981]

I thought so too

[@Chechab]

The funny thing about Gaga's accent is that her family is Italian so she should be familiar with it.

[@a.ran_blvd]

Gaga's Patrizia Reggiani accent was on point. You clearly didn't do your homework this time, Ms. Mojo.

[@ashleydowney1222]

That seems to be the norm for them.

[@ashtontk-rw7mo]

Leo's Boere accent was too sexy. Im Cape Coloured but Leo made me extra proudly South African❤

[@Yunuet]

I’m Italian myself and Gaga was on point.

[@elizabethhirst9419]

John Malkovich has always been an awesome actor!

[@That_JK]

No Robert Pattinson? That’s crazy! He had no business going so hard in The King and Devil All the Time and I love every second of it.

[@djdarbary]

Peter Sellers: French (All the Pink Panther movies) 'Indian' (The Party & The Millionairess) Arte Johnson: German on Laugh-in 🍀

[@neilgerace355]

James Coburn (Australian) The Great Escape Why couldn't they employ a real Australian like Peter Finch, Frank Thring, Rod Taylor, Chips Rafferty or even a young Barry Humphries.

[@lindenidit845]

Every word or accent lady gaga will say. I will be there for it

[@louisataylor3938]

Brad Pitt isn't doing an "Irish" accent. He is doing a "Pikey" accent. Traveller is the correct term but I'm pretty sure they call him a Pikey in the film which is the only reason I am using the word. It's a different accent, defined by the lifestyle of a Traveller. Yes it's an Irish Traveller accent but it's not the same. He did a really good job.

[@barb-jm7990]

The one you missed that is my favorite is Richard Dimitri who played Roman Moronie is Johnny Dangerously. No one who saw that movie can forget Moronie's "You lousy cork-soakers" or "You have violated my farging rights" or when he said mugger farging, iceholes, bullshtein, bastages, or son-a-ma-batches all with a thick Italian accent.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

My favorite accent is Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent, he's very funny to listen to. Happy thursday Ms Mojo, and i hope to see you soon for more. Take care and God bless you, greetings from Colombia.

[@jamalvargas6146]

Damian Chapa (Mexican Accent) Blood In Blood Out (1993) being half Mexican helps

[@djs_specs]

Oh c'mon now, Baron Cohen's accent in 'Talladega Nights' was never meant to be accurate French.

[@RhaegarTargaryen1st]

Bianca Lawson as Kendra, The Vampire Slayer. Bette Davis's cockney accent in "Of Human Bondage" (Great performance anyway) Keanu Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

[@sgtpuff]

Bianca Lawson was soooooo bad lol!

[@dish_cup]

How dare you speak ill of Lady Patrizia Reggiani 😂😂😂😂

[@UltraRage86]

I really love Cate Blanchett

[@texas2step266]

I have lived in four different southern states, as well as in many other parts of the US, and have lived with a lot of different accents. It is very rare to hear an actor pull off any believable southern accent. Many of them sound like cartoons, and not in a good way. They grossly exaggerate what they believe a southerner sounds like, and it comes out like they are mocking people from the south. Note: Next time you watch the first Lethal Weapon film, listen to Mel Gibson trying to shed his Australian accent. He works at delivering his lines in American English, but bits of Aussie keep slipping in.

[@Hilz28]

Mel Gibson isn't Australian...

[@texas2step266]

@@Hilz28 I know. He was born in the US, but his dad moved the family to Australia when Mel was young, and he picked up the accent. I was born in Yakima, Washington, but I have lived in many places, and now speak with a mostly south Texas accent. Gibson's Aussie inflections are very noticeable in his early work.

[@mtaylor7307]

In fairness, Gibson is a drunk.

[@texas2step266]

@@mtaylor7307 True, but maybe not when that movie was made.

[@mtaylor7307]

@@texas2step266 Gibson always used alcohol and was controlling in his relationships which worsened when drinking. Who can forget his "accent" or how his voice changed when drunk on those racist rants?

[@liztetixo]

Maybe do research to Patrizia Reggiani’s accent and you’d see it wasn’t bad it was spot on to the character she was playing.

[@djdarbary]

Peter Sellers: French (All the Pink Panther movies) 'Indian' (The Party & The Millionairess) 🍀

[@tarahanson1321]

What always cheers me up is watching West End Productions or UK touring productions of Mary Poppins. Dick van Dyke is so iconic, that even young men playing Burt in London, who could probably pull off a more convincing cockney accent by being from the same country as where Burt is supposed to be from, actually choose to go all 'apples and pears, pand of plums, market stall Cockney. It never fails to make me smile 😁

[@neilgerace355]

Michael Caine (Australian) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels It was meant to be bad. Janet (Glenn Headley) threw Lawrence into the deep end to challenge him.

[@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

I'll add Florence Pugh as Yelena. But only from the Black Widow movie. Her accent was so hammy, it's adorable. But her accent in the Hawkeye show was just flatly bad. I love Yelena but I think Pugh should just settle with an American accent from now on. Or practice Russian with a dialect coach.

[@israelalvarez4884]

I will add Natalie Portman british accent in V for Vendetta, and the Other Boylen Girl

[@peterfrank3365]

Blanchett's accent was deliberately cartoonish. It's to add the pulpy quality, as all 'Indiana Jones' movies are.

[@debralazarus1809]

Lady Gaga’s Italian accent was pretty accurate since she’s also Italian

[@markalexander3659]

No, it's bad. She's Italian but obviously normally has an American accent. Her Italian one is not good.

[@aus_tube]

it really was. people say it doesn’t sound anything like it but it’s completely spot on to the person she was portraying they just don’t know and are speaking on it without knowing lol

[@welcometothemovies9157]

​@Mark Alexander but if you see interviews with real person, she sounds just like real person

[@KittenUndercover]

She’s American. Her heritage is Italian. My family was Russian but I’m not attempting that accent.

[@peterfrank3365]

Don Cheadle did Cantonese better than Cockney.

[@markfinley3703]

Pitt's character was a Pikey. And he sounded a lot like my mom's Uncle Joe when he had half a case of Heinekens in him. I understood him fine. Practice!

[@mervyngreene6687]

I always thought that Blanchett was playing "Natasha" from the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoons.

[@jamesmendonca2900]

Al Pacino's Tony Montana is my favourite performance from the actor, and I would hate to think that his accent was bad at the slightest.

[@LilFiremaster]

The Devil's Own is the movie that had Brad Pitt with a bad Irish accent. His accuracy on Snatch was supposed to make up for it.

[@happyChappy96621]

Brad Pitt wasn’t really the stereotypical Irish person. It’s traveller talk. Most if not all travellers across the UK and Ireland talk like that.

[@markalexander3659]

I would argue that Sasha Baron Cohen's accent was deliberately bad

[@amandaredd3057]

Nick Cage's horrendous southern accent may still be better than Liam Neeson's! 😂

[@isaganipalanca8803]

Brad Pitt in Snatch was doing more the accent of a Traveller living in Ireland, not necessarily Irish.

[@sdpnz]

"Put the bunneh back in the box."

[@chasehedges6775]

😂😂😂😂

[@hugoyuugo1300]

As a French citizen, honestly, the accent from entry 6 isn't that bad 😂 It's just the French words (names) that should be pronounced in French not French read in the English way. Not so bad that they 're good. Not so bad. haha In Raimi's Spider-Man 3, the supposed French Maitre D' however... Oh mon Dieu. What a disaster. It's actually quite insulting 😂

[@BigFella117]

“I’ve heard better Irish than this.” - My Irish friend on Brad Pitt’s performance in Snatch

[@KrazyC2008]

What about Keau Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"?!

[@techman8817]

Matt Damon said that Malkovitch’s accent was kind of a joke in Rounders, but the director liked it. Damon said he almost couldn’t stop laughing.

[@noemistephanie93]

Leave Dick Van Dyke alone! He did great!

[@irawilliams343]

Seeing that Brad Pitt's Austrian from "Seven Years in Tibet" accent isn't in this list proves that it was really bad. But I still love that movie so much.

[@wonderland2285]

Brad Pitt…That is how Northern Irish folks speak

[@haleyrose-tq8ck]

Leonardo DiCaprio [Rhodesian] Don Cheadle [Cockney] Lady Gaga [Italian]

[@Xtianisms]

now we understand why Kevin Costner stuck to his American accent in Prince of Thieves

[@playtoearngaming4858]

John Malkovich in Rounders leaned over and whispered into Matt Damon's ear "I have no idea what the hell I'm doing" LOL true

[@mtaylor7307]

"Burn After Reading" with Malkovich, Pitt, McDermott...under rated.

[@Queenfan-kh1bz]

Tom Hanks in Elvis is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

[@UltraRage86]

That accent was terrible

[@hannahboldewijn]

Yes, it’s not a Dutch accent at all

[@lexkanyima2195]

​@@hannahboldewijn it was Southern though, it was not that bad

[@hannahboldewijn]

@@lexkanyima2195 Accent wasn't terrible, but it wasn't the right accent for the character

[@lexkanyima2195]

@@hannahboldewijn who's gonna be Colonel Parker if it wasn't for Tom Hanks.

[@tiffanystarbeck2279]

My best friend's Family is from South Africa. Her name is Cheree. Their accent and the words that they use are so different from ours, and they are very cute. For instance, in the 90s, of course, we didn't have cell phones, so when I would call and ask to speak to my friend, her mother would say " Sha-ree is not home so if she calls, I will have her call you back from a call box" 😂 Anyway, it is a tough accent to nail , I like I said, being around friends and family he pretty much got it spot on. He is pretty talented if you ask me! of course I'm not South African but I have to disagree on this one but he is a pretty damn good actor so whatever part or action that he is trying to makes up for it! Kudos to him! 😊😊

[@TaraLyz]

Another French accent I didn't care for was Ewan McGregor as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. NO ONE will ever touch Jerry Orbach's Lumiere. I learned my French accent from listening to him voice the character so well. Do I think my accent is perfect? No. But I still convinced my choir teacher when I was 15 that I was the right person to deliver his monologue at the beginning of a medley of songs from the movie we were going to perform at our spring concert my freshman year of hs. This was before the medley was switched to Godspell by our student teacher we would gain shortly after I nailed my audition for the original medley. I was not familiar with the material from Godspell, so did not get that audition. Still waiting for a way when I can use my French accent in a performance.

[@MarissaFloro]

I don't think I have seen any of these shows or movies but at the same time. I think I can use this list as a reference to what to watch in the future

[@missjoshemmett]

Brad Pitt was dead on. Mel Gibson in Braveheart was dead OFF!

[@TheWifeRottenRomance]

How did Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc not make the list, if not at *least* get an honorable mention? Is it because it’s deliberately bad? Because we know from Logan Lucky that he can actually do a genuinely good southern accent.

[@JudithARobinson]

I'd love to know what the thinking was behind that accent!! It nearly made me stop watching as it really grated on my nerves for some reason!

[@TheWifeRottenRomance]

@@JudithARobinson I think they were trying to subvert expectations. That everyone expects the British gentleman detective. So they went with the most absurd accent they could think of. I am *really* sensitive to accents, so I expected to hate it, but I honestly wasn’t bothered by it. It was so over the top that I liked it instead.

[@anzioc]

idc about the accent but damn dicaprio looks so hot in that movie

[@jamesm654]

I thought DiCaprio's accent was fantastic.

[@johngowans9406]

As a South African I can say Leonardo does a very good job of the accent

[@acbanalytics]

I'm not a DiCaprio fan. At all. But I honestly think he did a great job in that role.

[@JoJo86155]

Dick Van Dyke on "Mary Poppins"

[@chelseacanales8763]

Nobody says that doing accents is easy.

[@calliebirch2977]

Loved Bad Pitt in Snatch.

[@chrismedina6778]

How was Clark Gregg's Foghorn Leghorn and Christopher Walken accent from knives out didn't make this list🤨

[@texas2step266]

Another actor struggling against an Aussie accent is Heath Ledger - God rest his soul - in 10 Things I Hate About You.

[@sdseals2076]

Don Cheadle should have been 3. I agree whole heartedly with number 1.

[@andrewpelechaty7634]

One of the best bad accents is Ted Danson’s Australian accent in “The Good Place”. Though it’s supposed to be bad, which kind of makes it genius.

[@YoSpiff]

Glad to see Nick Cage in Con Air made the list, but for me it just never turned that "so bad it's good" corner. It's just like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

[@Jeeperrandy]

I can't believe you didn't mention Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[@michellecrocker2485]

Moral of the story, if you gotta do an accent; do your homework, listen to the actual language and what that accent actually sounds like

[@carleakins2153]

Brad Pitt's approximation of the Irish Traveler accent is pretty spot on. Unlike DiCaprio, who seems to have trouble nailing his own American accent.

[@sophiaisabelle027]

God bless everyone. Have a good day.

[@blindvisionary118]

Where was Kevin Costner's English accent in Prince of Thieves or, Danny Dyers english accent in Vendetta?

[@y0lka]

Don Cheatle is damn good (I've been living in the UK for 10 years and it's sooooo familiar)

[@richarddesiderio1863]

You missed Sean Penn in Casualties of War. All time accent wtf?

[@angelasilvi9090]

I don't care what anyone says! I still think that Lady Gaga should have won an Oscar for House Of Gucci.

[@kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061]

How about top ten best drag moments in a film and/or movie?

[@hannahboldewijn]

Patrick Swayze is my fav

[@mtaylor7307]

Directors have the final say on those accents. You study but you do as directed.

[@barrellracer]

Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams along w Elizabeth Olsen as Audrey Williams... I Saw The Light movie... The movie was ok BUT... As much as they both tried... It just didn't work... Bama folks like myself do give them MAJOR PROPS for the extreme dedication & effort for our LA (Lower Alabama ) accent❤❤❤

[@NYChica23]

I'm surprised Kevin Costner's attempt at an English accent in Prince of Thieves didn't get a mention on this list. You know it's in the so bad it's good category when Mel Brooks added a reference to it in Men in Tights