Top 10 Worst Movie Accents

[@Marvin8861]

You know how I know Brad Pitt's accent in Snatch was good? Because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.

[@not_henry_the_fifth]

Absolutely! I thought it was pretty spot on actually

[@Auroralights321]

+Marvin8861 I never watched the movie, but from this clip I had no idea what he even said. xD

[@not_henry_the_fifth]

Silent Warrior dont know if youre american or other, but in britain we have pikeys and that is who he was playing. Its sort of irish crossed with nonsense! And he did it quite well really. I guess the people at watchmojo could be forgiven for not knowing what he should have sounded like, they probably thought he was just doing a bad irish accent!

[@Auroralights321]

Rossi the Bossi I didn't say it was bad or anything, I just couldn't understand what he was saying. I'm not very familiar with a variety of different accents, but I'll take your word for it that he did well. Yeah, Watchmojo may have thought it was bad, but no one has to agree with them, lol.

[@melissafechner009]

There is an Irish KZbin channel called Facts. There is a video where Irish people judge Irish accents in movies done by Americans and they said Brad Pitt was the best and that they could understand him in snatch.

[@Slimkidd730]

Brad Pitts accent in "Snatch" was golden. I loved that accent

[@nateone6632]

That's exactly what I was thinking he can only do that type of accent idk if it's gypsy like talk/British or an area in Britain

[@joelm6632]

Nate one gypsies are travellers who go around Britain in caravans, and for some reason they speak in an Irish accent, Brad Pitt does it well

[@ef692]

@Rebecca McGoldrick in "Snatch" they acknowledge that their gypsie accent is a combination of Irish, English, and jibberish

[@djquinn11]

@Rebecca McGoldrick : I’m Irish as well and I thought it was class... I loved the film.

[@djquinn11]

@Rebecca McGoldrick : Absolutely, I just enjoyed the movie and I thought Brad Pitt’s character was hilarious.

[@BillBurrAnimations]

Scarlet Johansson speaking Russian in Avengers. my god that was terrible. I mean how hard is to learn couple of words?!

[@TheAwesomeLena]

that was pretty crap too (seeing as im russian myself). But honestly I could not even understand alec baldwins supposed "Russian" XD

[@thehumanconsensus]

TheAwesomeLena What part of Russia? Black Widow's accent speaking in English is non-existant I'll agree, but I've heard from a friend in St. Petersburg that was the first she's heard true Russian spoken in an American film. Ironic given her origins.

[@TheAwesomeLena]

Well both my parents are from the far-east side of Russia (i was born in Aus but i speak fluently). But it was some of the best ive heard from any actor/actress (Scarlett Johansons russian, not Alec Baldwins. His was absolute piss lol) given the circumstances. hahaha

[@aussieman3021]

Scarlett Johansson didn't even try to sound Russian in that movie. She just stuck to her native American accent when she was Black Widow. I agree, she should have tried to do a Russian accent considering she was portraying a Russian Marvel Comics character.

[@burn435353]

the best russian ive heard from an american actor was viggo mortenesn from eastern promises, dude not only sounded russian, but sounded like a russian ganster

[@Aurora-yc9vb]

I laughed to tears when I heard supposed Italian accent of Nicholas Cage XD

[@Blodia1990]

me too sister oh lawd

[@1958PonyBoy]

+Flores Amarillas Which is even more hilarious when you consider that fact he IS Italian. Real last name is Coppola. Yes, he's the nephew of Francis.

[@nachoschg]

1958PonyBoy Nowadays, Francis Ford Coppola would be soooo thankful to his Nephew Nicholas, for avoiding using his original last name for casting... Cage became so much a joke of himself & Coppola family, that he's not worthy of using Coppola as last name anymore. Setting aside the name of Nicholas Cage's son (Kal-El, lol!!)

[@urracojalpa4481]

Brad Pitt was waay worse: "corre*c*to". Btw, I'm Italian and he didn't sound too off in this clip (I didn't see the movie though). Oh, and why do say that he's Italian? He was born and raised in the USA, just because your granpa is Italian doesn't make you one, ask Scorsese. (it works the other way around too: if a person with American parents was born and raised in Italy I wouldn't say that he's American).

[@lukejones7164]

@@urracojalpa4481 Cage is ethnically Italian, so yes that makes him Italian. There are many 2nd and 3rd generation Italian Amercians who could pull off an Italian accent way better than Cage can, so that makes Cage's performance look even worse lol. And why bring up Scorsese? He himself identifies as an Italian American. And "American" is not an ethnic group, so of course a person born to "American" parents in another country wouldn't be American.

[@ar9n]

As a half Irish guy, I feel like I can say that Brad Pitt's accent wasnt even all that bad, he tried his best. Tom Cruise, however, sounds like a bloody racist person trying to do a stereotypical Irish accent.

[@cookephsh91]

much agreed. Brad Pitt's wasn't bad at all.

[@JamUpYourLife]

As someone who was born and raised in Northern Ireland where Brad Pitt's accent is supposed to be from, I can honestly say it was perfect. Same with his accent in Snatch. Two of what I think are the most difficult (or at least the most often butchered) accents to fake, and I think he did them perfectly.

[@ZachariahPvP]

As someone who had the 'fortune' many years ago to work in a bar frequented by a whole caravan-park-full of Irish 'travelers', I'd have to say Brad Pitt was spot on :D

[@NatalieBruce24]

I thought that too. But then I'm not Irish so I thought maybe I just didn't really know what I was talking about.

[@ar9n]

lloyd watkinson I'm not trying to put you down or anything, but I have two things to say to you: Firstly, pikey is a racist word for Irish people, so you should use the term 'traveller' when referring to those people. Secondly, you said that 90% of travellers were born in England which is absolutely absurd. The majority were born in Ireland, please look it up.

[@DylanOB]

Brad Pitts accent in Snatch is perfect. He sounds exactly like a pickey.

[@melissawright1979]

That is true. I work in a betting shop and we get Pikeys in all the time, they all talk like that lol x

[@macman975]

What's a Pickey?!.

[@laurabeaton490]

Irish gypsy/traveller

[@macman975]

@@laurabeaton490 Sorry, I was just messing around as he spelt 'Pikey' as 'Pickey'.

[@laurabeaton490]

Oh haha I didnt notice the spelling !

[@ProfessorBondage]

Brad Pitt's accent was supposed to be Irish Gypsy, and he nailed it

[@manglemetamorphis2629]

Every attempt at an Australian accent ever.

[@shelookstome8727]

Mangle Metamorphis HAHAHAHA yes, pretty much :P

[@TheMimiSard]

Mangle Metamorphis Except Robert Downy Jr. Watch the Mojo video about actors who are good at foreign accents, RDJ has two movies he did an Aussie accent in - it was the best I have ever heard.

[@MrYetiman82]

Mangle Metamorphis I think the worst "Australian" accents I heard were in Pacific Rim

[@maxkho00]

+Mangle Metamorphis It's very easy to do - It's like the generic British one but you say "eh" instead of "ah" as in "man" and also make a HUUUGE accent on "o"s as in "hello" - instead of saying hello you say something like "helllahoy"

[@MrYetiman82]

Max Khovansky "Helllahoy"? Um, dude, I am an Aussie and even I have no idea what you're talking about...

[@nkfanning]

Brad Pitt’s accent in snatch is INCREDIBLE. Any Irish person could understand every word, it was a perfect pikey accent

[@leoa4c]

Uh... no. That was not a pikey accent. Not at all.

[@oisinvg]

It was fuckin dogshite sounded like he had a paperclip in his gob the whole film

[@KidFury27]

❤😂

[@tehsma]

The 'Scarlet Witch' character in Avengers: Age of Ultron was one of the worst faux accents I've heard in recent time.

[@alexriverside1981]

Funny cause after tht one movie she stop doing it.

[@MajiggerRose]

As much as I love her, Halle Berry deserves an honorable mention for her African accent as Storm (Ororo Munroe) in the X-Men movies. I assume she was going for a Kenyan accent, but it was atrocious and faded in and out.

[@dogoboi]

Im irish and I think Brad Pitts accents in The Devils Own and Snatch are brilliant.

[@kjay40]

I'm surprised Don Cheadle's butchered Cockney accent in the "Oceans 11, 12 and 13" movies wasn't included in the list. (At least he did apologize for it after the fact.)

[@c-nikskemez3982]

I honestly expected Don at No.1... not even an honourable mention smh

[@AdZS848]

I didn't think Don Cheadle was that bad. In the beginning of the movie I actually thought he may be British. Then later he accidentally dropped it a few times.

[@nomdeguerre247]

I didn't think he sounded that bad. I thought his character was cool!

[@AKindOfAJerk]

Pitt's accent in Snatch was freaking awesome.

[@Shogo-ib2nc]

Just like his southern accent in Kalifornia

[@jeremyparker6920]

Absolutely. Brilliant work in Snatch.

[@kasperdahl1565]

Brad Pitt's Italian accent in inglorious bastards was awesome :D

[@wallyatnite]

"Gor-LA-ME!!"

[@MGPLyrics]

I did not hit her it's not true, it's bullshit! I did not hit her I DID NAAHT. Oh hi Mark.

[@LicenciadoEnVlogs]

Oh hi Jhonny Wasup

[@kristinholland06]

You are tearing me apart Lisa!

[@JP-ATV]

Ok my mom is born in Raised in Dublin Ireland, i have been there 3 times, I have heard both normal and gypse accents. BRAD PITTS ACCENT WAS AWESOME!! Why the hell did they put him in this ??

[@Morain42]

I'm from Ireland and live there, his accent was ridiculously bad.

[@cleish85]

I live in a town in Ireland with a lot of pykies and the accent is spot on! Great job he did!

[@Morain42]

Maybe by chance his accent is the same as the people in the town you live in, but he's on this list for a reason

[@Devilyaki]

Brad Pit in Snatch, made that movie a gem in my eyes.

[@hotsauce3888]

"You're not goin anywhere ya thick lump, you'll stay until the jobs done" and "Did you do it?", are one of the few lines I understood from his dialogue

[@ShanesAutos]

You were wrong about Brad in Snatch.

[@BENFICAISLIFE]

Brad Pitt was doing an Irish gypsy accent on Snatch I think he pulled it off

[@button4boy]

I don't think a lot of these are bad accents necessarily... I just think that we're SO used to certain actors' voices and normal accents that hearing them do another is often strange and sounds weird and takes away the believability... but they're not necessarily bad. :)

[@catcobbler]

They're bad in that it's so easy to tell they are being faked.

[@typalmer6850]

Aaron H. Go back to your cave.

[@USERNAMEfieldempty]

Kevin Costner was doing a British Accent in Robin Hood??? Fuck me backwards... I've seen that film half a dozen times and loved it, but I thought he was just doing his normal American voice.

[@noR10swDBaur]

Well isn't that racist.

[@USERNAMEfieldempty]

Is it? Danged if I know.

[@Jaclyn_Lizzi]

noR10swDBaur I'm not sure any races were involved in that comment XD

[@biggingeryeti]

The jury is not out on Snatch. Pitt's accent was epic.

[@lugwalder]

Brad Pitt's gippo's accent in snatch is good, that's just how pikey's sound, mix of English, Irish that's hard to understand

[@ajwaters9877]

Definitely. I have traveller friends who sound just like that. I thought he was brilliant.

[@fatwall16]

Brad Pitts accent was intentionally in audible, did you fuckers not watch the movie? He's a piker, the accent isn't Irish, it isn't British, it's piker.

[@Jimmyjimb123]

It's Irish traveler I dope

[@fatwall16]

What?

[@dredericktotem1245]

LOL Irish Traveler or Gypsy, otherwise known as "pikey". A "piker" is something more familiar on the stock exchange/trading floor/sales ☺

[@fatwall16]

That's not what they're called in the film, it's English English, not American English. So that definition is irrelevant.

[@dfm6868]

Yeah that's why they didn't include snatch but only devils own and seven years in Tibet

[@jay45ecp76]

What kind of movie accent did Sylvester Stallone do during the last four decades?

[@adamgordon6435]

That would have been too hopeless to even attempt.

[@juhaniaho6698]

jay45ecp Uhh, it’s not an accent. There were complications at Stallone’s birth, which led to half of his face getting paralyzed.

[@joelercoaster]

Absolutely cannot take Nicholas cage seriously 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dettigs]

+joelercoaster he should've called it quits after "raising arizona"!!!

[@reneye1813]

Nicholas Cage in general just shouldn’t be on any screen. He’s a curse

[@vegetalover9297]

​@@reneye1813how dare you Cage is a legend

[@dumpywhite]

​@@reneye1813his recent movies prove that sacrilege false. I read that the reason he did pretty much any movie he could was because he was severely in debt. Now he's not, and chooses movies that suit him much better.

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

John Travolta's Serbian accent in 'Killing Season' (2013), too strong and got annoying after a while.

[@AdamFloro]

Brad Pitt's "Pikey" accent in Snatch is nearly spot on...

[@AdamFloro]

And the worst accent in this video has got to be 4:48..."Moose and Squirrel". haha

[@chadfurlong2919]

Brad Pitt didn't sound too bad in the clips shown and the jury has ruled that his Snatch accent was incredible. It was made to be uniquely indecipherable and yet at the same time he is actually saying words...he's kinda like Kenny from South Park in that regard.

[@leoa4c]

He slipped a couple of times in Snatch. But that "accent" is what made his character shine.

[@masterbulgokov]

100% agree. I liked the accent. If anyone does an Irish better (who isn't Irish), I'd like to see it. Irish is hard.

[@Sheehy223]

I feel bad for Keanu. Why would they put him in a movie that required thick accents when most people were fully aware he only sounded good when talking under his breath. So basically, every line of dialogue he has in "The Matrix"

[@HarryMudd]

Not to mention he has fewer facial expressions than Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris :D

[@goofiegoofie567]

As a Brit with a fairly standard British accent (BBC accent if you will), I can say that it is a hard one to fake properly. Mostly people sound awful.

[@2wingo]

Sean Connery's examples don't count because he wasn't even TRYING to do accents in those films. For that matter, he never attempts any accent other than his own, it's part of his appeal.

[@TheChaosDragoness]

Exactly. He's like "You know it, I know it. I'm Sean Connery, you're lucky I'm in this piece of shit, now let's get on with it."

[@Jubjubbles]

He didn't even ask "Do you speak Russian" from the clip as far as I can tell. would translate to "You are Russian?", and would also be very rude to boot as Ты is reserved for close friends and family members.

[@saraha180]

I honestly feel that Keanu's accent worked in Dracula, even if it is bad. The whole movie strikes a great balance at the center of serious artistry and serious cheesiness, with lots of exploitation and camp thrown in.

[@kathyuk28]

Are you pulling my leg? My husband is English, I lived there, and when I saw the movie I was like WTF? He's not the greatest actor as it is. Although it was cool when he bought me dinner.

[@saraha180]

Kathyuk28 I agree that, as a simulation of an English accent, it was pretty bad. But are realism & accuracy really that important in a Dracula movie? For me, 1992's _Dracula_ works as a movie because it embraces equally its triumphs, its cliches and its outright badness with arms clad in silky red lingerie and the warm gaze of a lover drunk with a rich red wine. The bad parts are so lusciously bad that they become good-Keanu's accent included. That's my take anyway. You're free to have a different one: it's just a self-indulgent horror movie. :-)

[@aussieman3021]

Keanu sounded like he was coughing when he said what he said at 8:23-8:29.

[@AkimboJoe]

Bew-dapest

[@andreaduhe5424]

As much of a Gary Oldman fan as I am Keanu's and Wynona's accents completely ruined the movie for me. I sat through it once in the theater and avoided it ever since.

[@SheilaDeBonis]

I was half-expecting Kate Winslet's accent in Titanic. Even though it['s not that great, it works because her character was living in the 1910s or 1920s, where word articulation was a bit more pronounced and quick in America then than it is now, and she kind of already does with her natural English accent.

[@nicolascage1261]

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[@Casarzino]

Sean Connery? But he ALWAYS does his own Scottish accent, that's what he's known for..

[@dynamokev4253]

Maybe he should stick to Scottish roles then

[@steveward6099]

@@dynamokev4253 But they give them to Australians and French though.

[@PostTraumaticChessDisorder]

I don't see how Brad Pitt in Snatch could be in this list: 1. It's not an accent, it's a language on it's own 2. It's meant to be funny and in a joking way. 3. Snatch is too badass a movie.

[@quantumblurrr]

It's really not another language mate..

[@ia5662]

As much as Kevin Costner's British accent was pretty laughable, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was and still is a classic action movie with a lot of humor, heart and some pretty clever bow and arrow work. Great cast, you gotta love it!

[@Thechad201]

Brad Pitt was PERFECT in Snatch.

[@diegoalaris]

I was gonna say the same thing... lol

[@Thechad201]

diego laris :-)

[@Thechad201]

***** HAHAHAHA! REALLY? I didn't know that. That's hilarious.

[@alfieford95]

was literally going to comment the same so i'll just thumbs you up

[@leighbert86]

love that movie

[@ComePlayVelouria]

I honestly thought Al Pachino's Tony Montana character in Scarface would be number 1 only because he actually admitted in interviews that Cubans said that his accent was so off that anyone could would he wasn't a true Cuban.

[@4exgold]

The strange thing about Schwarzenegger movies is that whilst nearly all his characters have English surnames like Quaid, Richards, Kimble and Tasker, he simply cannot do anything other than his own brand of an Austrian accent.

[@AbbeyEcstasy]

Touche

[@ZachAndFae]

pretty much the appeal of his movies are his quirky muscly characters who all share the classic "GET TO THE CHOPPER!" voice

[@Galenus1234]

That's not an Austrian accent. It's a Schwarzenegger accent. He sounds very much the same in English and in German. Being an Austrian myself I've never met anyone here who speaks like Schwarzenegger...

[@BURP39R]

Why is Connery on this list? Sean Connery has played English, Irish, Americans, Spanish, Russians, all sorts. At no point in his career has he EVER tried to alter his accent. Don't beat Connery down for being cast in these roles. I think it's quite apparent what you would be getting when casting him. Oh and point of order, check out Tom Hanks in Cloud Atlas (a film me no like) His Irish accent is crap

[@MIlknZombies]

So is his Russian.

[@Lengsel7]

Connery's accent is the 'shound ov loosh denshurrs"

[@MIlknZombies]

He has a voice that I want to eat, that's for sure.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

I have never heard Connery's undubbed voice. From what you wrote I gather that he never bothered with faking accidents and just spoke Connery?

[@BURP39R]

Schwarzer Ritter I's say at a push he's spoke "Smooth Scottish" for Bond. There's not one role he's managed an accent of any kind. But then he never tried! Ford however did try a Russian accent and failed miserably. Note: Lambert did try (ironically) a Scottish accent for Highlander opposite Connery (him supposedly Spanish) and was awful.

[@vins1979]

Brad Pitt's accent in the Snatch is AMAZING!!!! As well as his facial expressions, the ways he moves his eyebrows and smiles... I've lived in East London for four years and Brad Pitt manages to reproduce a perfect cockney accent and attitude... and he is American! Not even English people can reproduce that accent, sometimes! Brad Pitt was the sexiest man alive, but he has always been a great actor (perhaps too much underrated).

[@karlbyrne2478]

Eh its an Irish traveller accent he has in snatch.

[@casperchristensen8354]

LOL!! "The Snatch", ahahahahaha!

[@gregorybates9081]

Haha ya sap! He's an Irish traveler in Snatch not a cockney londoner lloooooooll

[@vins1979]

karl byrne touché! ... well, that's why not even English people can reproduce the accent he had in that movie, LOL!

[@RandomHelpingGuy]

vins1979 My father can. He has perfected both a cockney accent, and a Reading accent. My father was born in the West Ham area, known for its cockney accent, but he soon picked up on the Reading accent when he moved.

[@DRnab1983]

i think pit nailed a traveller accent in snatch

[@Ducksoup67]

Pitt's accent in Snatch buys him forgiveness for the rest.

[@robertglenn5398]

I thought this movie was Pitt's absolute best! The movie was great and he was almost too fun to watch!

[@AnyoneCanSee]

I've always thought Keanu's English accent was the worst accent ever. In British cinemas everyone was laughing out loud the entire time he was on. Russell Crowe in robin Hood should have made the list as his accent is a disaster. As for Kevin Costner in the UK everyone assumed he just decided to do it in an American accent. I would not put him on the list as I had no idea he was trying so an English accent at any point. Sean Connery doesn't care he just does the same accent regardless, it was absurd he won an Oscar for playing an Irish man in a Scots accent.

[@user-zc6ul8nv1j]

The only role Keanu Reeves ever played convincingly was Ted.

[@valmarsiglia]

Apparently Dick Van Dyke only had a couple of days to work with his dialect coach before filming his scenes. It's a shame that his accent has detracted from an otherwise incredible performance; his talent as a dancer and his gift for physical comedy are truly astounding. And Keanu's accent, uneven? No, it was very even: it was evenly shit from beginning to end.

[@XoSNo0GaNsoX]

Brad Pitt as a gypsy was awesome.

[@RThyrring]

Well, as Francis Ford Coppola once said in a documentary about "The Godfather" trilogy, growing up he watched how movies were representing Italian stereotypes, such as Chico Marx who "talk-a like-a this-a", while him growing up in an Italian family never heard any of his relatives "talk-a like-a this-a". So why Nicolas Cage, who IS in fact Coppola's nephew, would do a bad Italian accent is beyond me...

[@turkelafandiyev]

As a person who speaks Russian, I gotta tell that Ford's accent was decent, so was his acting. He really looked Russian.

[@blueshouse21]

John Travolta's attempt at a Southern accent in "The Generals Daughter" was horrific.

[@Jck9102]

So was his Texas in Urban Cowboy

[@youngsexynerd1]

really?? Brad Pitts Snatch accent is on this list?? I thought that was the biggest highlight of that film!

[@osamabad1000]

It wasn't on the list. They said the verdict was still out on it.

[@James-sk4db]

it was a very good and accurate accent, Pikeys do sound like that, its like irish but weirder and different

[@garrethdavis]

Pitt was perfect in Snatch! Coming from an Irishman!

[@thickbulge4uu]

I thought Julia Roberts had an ugly Snatch.

[@Timlin2012]

No man, defo not......its like he was trying to be a traveller, but had never spoken to one in his life! All he knew was to talk quickly, but he really hadn't the voice down........Coming from a Mayo beure!

[@thickbulge4uu]

***** He also said the same thing about Lucky's character on the commercials from the cereal Lucky Charms.

[@clarenceboddicker6679]

Vincent Azazel they're wonderfully delicious

[@jlovebirch]

Tarantino's Aussie accent in "Django Unchained" is highly suspect as well.

[@Maddolis]

I must say, most Aussie accents from non-Aussies in film aren't great.

[@jlovebirch]

Maddolis The irony is Hollywood is loaded with Aussies and Kiwis who flawlessly play American characters (like The Walking Dead, etc.). Am frequently surprised to hear in interviews these heavy accents suddenly emerge from so many actors.

[@MelkMan7]

As a South African chap I can confirm that he sounded more like a South African than an Aussie.

[@snakehands]

Hey, Dick Van Dyke's accent was perfect in Mary Poppins! XDDDDD

[@frididjurhuus]

Unintentionally funny and then you have Brad Pitt's role in Snatch?

[@paranoic4rap]

Brad Pitt was amazing in Snatch!

[@jformaldehydem]

HOW CAN YOU FORGET MERYL STREEP!? Her Australian accent in that movie about Lindy Chamberlain is so horrendous, it's an international joke. The funny thing is, whenever American actors try to do an Australian accent, they end up doing an almost perfect kiwi accent. Whenever they try to do a kiwi accent, a kitten dies.

[@SeasideDetective2]

My California-born mother was studying in Paris, France, in the early 1970s, and at least one French person there thought she was Australian. Our family don't sound like stereotypical Californians (most people would guess we were from somewhere in the Midwest, which some of us indeed are), but we sound NOTHING like Australians. We had some Australian neighbors on our block when I was growing up (New South Wales accent), and to me they sounded like ultra-casual Brits. (They probably thought we just sounded "American.") But, to be fair, it's pretty much the same the other way around. To me, there are only two French accents: Parisian and Haitian. (French Canadian to me sounds like Newfoundlander, and Cajun just sounds like "redneck" with a few French words.)

[@chinousmc2k4]

Brad Pitt's character of Mickey in "Snatch" is perfect, as Turkish puts it, "they speak that way so you don't understand them when you negotiate."

[@stevecollins1988]

Non British people might not get this....but Green Street is by far the worst accent in the history of acting. A guy from the North of England trying to act cockney and it comes off Australian at times, American at times and generally just all over the place. Not good.

[@jim191185]

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. That 'mockney' accent was the piss icing on the shit cake. The film was bad, but his 'crapcent' made it terrible.

[@ajwaters9877]

Totally agree! I love Charlie Hunmann (sorry if I spelled his name incorrectly) but yes, his cockney is fucking terrible.

[@sploofmcsterra4786]

It might sound Australian to non-Australians, a lot of people don't realise how bad attempts at Australian accents are.

[@thinglikejack]

Brad Pitt's accent in Snatch is intentionally gypsy, and it's actually quite good, considering Irish gypsies all have different variations on the Irish accent, none of which anyone who isn't a gypsy can ever understand.

[@weexen]

The narration running through that scene even explains that its a mix of different accents. I guess its hard to grasp for some people

[@Dublin17Ireland]

Millers Media Pitt played an excellent gypsy now his other Irish accent is crap

[@clairedonnan7306]

Dublin17Ireland His accent in The Devil's Own was a Northern Irish accent, which most people are unfamiliar with. I think he got it spot on! It's only crap if you're expecting him to sound like he's from Dublin (and not Belfast). Gypsy accent was excellent too!

[@duhlike]

I think all these examples are trumped by the narrator. She has the worst "Reporter's Accent" I have ever heard. It's excruciating.

[@richbaker8211]

John Wayne as Ghengis Khan!

[@Ferrante69]

hahahhahahahhahah

[@smallies7154]

that'll be the day pilgrim

[@cakestalker]

that movie is legendary when it comes to miscasting.

[@jerron182]

I can't believe Cate Blanchett didn't make this list for Indiana Jones 4. Her russian accent was hilarious

[@MaxDamageProductions]

You're going to mention Snatch? Pitt's accent was SUPPOSED to be bad and ridiculous on purpose.

[@JackRabbitSlim]

D'ye loike dags?

[@Darrylizer1]

Pitt's accent was perfect for the role.

[@CUCKOO9999]

YDafuk would i want caravan with no weeels??

[@Dravensdmf]

Val Kilmer - The Ghost and the Darkness. Horrendously bad Irish accent. Cate Blanchett - Indianna Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, she totally forgets to do her terrible Russian accent half the time. Also Brad Pitt's 'pikey' accent is absolutely spot on.

[@markusaurelious1150]

thankyou! pikey, not irish. he could have slurred a little more but as close as you'd get with a yank. it comes to something though when british actors do American dialects better than those from the damned place.

[@SeasideDetective2]

Speaking of Indiana Jones, it always makes me laugh in THE LAST CRUSADE when Harrison Ford says "No ticket" in his everyday voice and all the German people on the zeppelin think he's also German. What makes it worse is that we see in that very scene that Indy knows some German, so couldn't he at least have said "Keine Fahrkarte"?

[@HanginWitLucid]

Brad Pitt did a great job in Snatch with that accent

[@HanginWitLucid]

***** Agreed

[@ThemBuns]

absolutely right. he was amazing

[@dontcallmedaddy]

***** then dont watch them

[@DredgeMill]

Kyle Dixon even if he didn't watch the video WatchMojo would STILL be incorrectly stating that the accent is a bad accent. The whole "if you dont like it, dont watch/listen/pay attention to it" thing is so stupid and immature.

[@MrSynisclass]

Vinnie Jones in Strength and Honour, now that's a good traveller accent.

[@garthly]

What about Michael Caine when he is supposed to be upper class. Don't Americans realize that he has a working class cockney accent, and always has had?

[@nikolabari68]

Nicholas Cage is too goddamn funny

[@JoshDone]

This is not a popular opinion, but I think that Al Pacino's "accent" in Scarface is atrocious.

[@shakey215]

Dick van Dyke's impression is actually really good, considering I'm from London and I know guys who talk just like that

[@ilovecheese522666]

He said he was taught by an Irishman who taught him to do it like that. If you want someone to learn an accent you get them someone who has that accent.

[@allensilman4101]

Snatch is literally perfect. It is a more common jumbled Irish accent like you'd hear them speak to each other

[@stephenwells6434]

I don't think Costner was even trying to do an accent for Robin Hood. In fact, I think he deserves credit for making an American accent not seem too out of place in medieval England.

[@MS-ho9wq]

Agree. When it started, I was like huh? But then you just forget about it because it's just Costner speaking normally, and I was like kudos for just forgetting about the accent and getting on with the film.

[@EdgeMan]

Brad Pitt in Snatch was brilliant.... everyone on these shores knows this...

[@ChaoticCubizm]

Honourable mention to Quentin Tarantino in Dango: Unchained for his terrible Australian accent. I mean, yeah it was only a cameo and he directed a great film, but that accent was abysmal.

[@AValveFanboy]

***** Lots of directors do that.

[@AussieAsto]

Not to mention that it was based in the 1850's... meaning that that outback aussie accent didn't really even exist yet... most still had their British accents.

[@LivingDeadMan1972]

I couldn't agree more about Keanu in Dracula. I'm very surprised Sir Michael Caine's accent in 'On Deadly Ground' didn't make the list.

[@MontagoDK]

We here in Europe have gotten so used to Americans failing in British dialects that we don't care noticing anymore. British / Aussie on the other hand are always so thick that they get the evil roles or whatever stereotype that fits.

[@eggcorns9422]

Brad Pitt was perfect in Snatch

[@polarpol3324]

yeah...they dont make movies like that anymore

[@eyo9162]

they dont make movies like Guy Richie

[@GeezehV]

EYO neither does guy richie after he married madonna.....

[@charleneraymond4036]

I always wondered why Americans find it so difficult to do a British accent. Jonny Depp is one of the only one's I can think of who can pull it of pretty consistently.

[@TheJDfairy]

I agree. That's because Depp likes to observe people very carefully and does his research properly and prepares for his roles for a long time and very passionately. I don't know about Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves. It is difficult to do an accent but they're actors, that's their job.

[@TheEdp123]

Robert Downey Jr is the best American attempt I've seen in Sherlock Holmes

[@BarraÓBriain]

I'm Irish and when Americans try and do the Irish accent it's so cringe

[@elninodeoro167]

Yep lol

[@haha16solo70]

embarrassing indeed

[@haha16solo70]

You got to agree that Brad Pitt did well in snatch, am of the irish diaspora, travel over every year but cant make out travellers and I struggle with Dublin aswell

[@darraghkeary8267]

oh Jesus ya

[@brittanyr9471]

Lol it's not just Americans. You should here my Brit friends trying to attempt Irish. Actually pretty hilarious when doing an American accent too because they go to the extreme and mimic a cartoon version of a deep southern accent.

[@TheMasterOfOmni1900]

You forgot to mention every character in Les Miserables 2012. Non of the actors spoke with the French accent and the ones that did try, accidentally Spoke/sung in a British accent. It just humors me that for a movie about France, nobody sounded even remotely French and I guarantee someone actually knew how to speak French.

[@imurfangirl8842]

it's based on an English production of the French novel so they don't need French accents. it's a theater thing. same can be said for phantom of the opera- English accents in France. the dialects are used as a tool to distinguish social status than location. accents depend on the native tongue of the audience and where the original production was held- the British audience would recognize a cockney accent than a French equivalent.

[@WeAreLegion1904]

brad pitt was excellent in snatch and his accent was quite good in the devils own and I am Irish.

[@grungepolitics]

Kind of depends where in Ireland you live. If yer from Dublin, then yeah... He did a decent accent. But if yer from Cork then he was rubbish.

[@stephenc8]

***** thats bollox, im from cork too and i thought he did a great job, ffs sake we,re not film critics down here, you kind of make cork people look a bit stuck up with your comment, lithen up a small bit will ya

[@HyperHorse]

I love it when Brad Pitt does accents. What idiot decided to put him in this list? I'm of German descent and I thought his Austrian accent was pretty spot on in 7 Years in Tibet. Very impressive film.

[@zstick]

Hyper Horse 7 Years in Tibet was the film that showed me he wasn't just a pretty-boy "actor." Even as a pre-teen watching that I thought "Dang, he's got some talent!"

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

In partial defence of the actors in the list, getting a foreign accent right isn't an easy task at all; especially when they have to portray a foreign character who speaks English with a foreign accent, it's really easy to end up sounding like a mockery. Then again, cases like Costner not even trying to sound British in Robin Hood or how Connery made Russian sound Scottish were actually unintentionally funny.

[@RevoltOfAges]

Considering the fact that pretending to be someone else is their job, I think it’s fair to expect them to be good at it!

[@fromthesidelines23]

Denzel Washington's English accent from the film "Much Ado about Nothing" should be on this list

[@eflychique]

Aha! I know something. Keanu actually re recorded every line in a studio after the movie was shot. The accent he used wasn't correct to the time period so he had to do it all again after listening to his voice in one accent and then say the same line so it fit in the different accent. Probably not his strongest suit as an actor to do accents, the fact Dracula was the worst was probably the directors fault not Keanus. My college professor worked on the sound mixing for that movie.

[@Mister.Psychology]

The commentator talked to much. We nearly didn't get to hear any accents.

[@Diedpied]

WatchMojo, I know two that should be on here, Sean Bean's American accent in Silent Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio's in Blood Diamond (The film where he uses roughly 10 different accents in conjunction with the South African he was meant to)

[@Cesarser004]

But you see Dicrappio doesn't qualify because he hasn't won an oscar...hehehehe

[@jessemartin4946]

you're crazy Leo spent time in Zimbabwe to learn those accents and people from Zimbabwe have praised him from doing it correctly. He should've won an Oscar for that performance. Don't ever hate on Leo.

[@Diedpied]

Jesse, have you watched Blood Diamond? Even DiCaprio admits he didn't nail it as much as he wanted

[@localkauf]

I thought that his south African accent was pretty good

[@TheDigitalGheko]

Jesse Martin lol "Spent time in Zimbabwe to learn a South African accent" that right there is Oscar gold in itself. The accents are not even remotely the same. As a South African I do applaud his efforts as the ZA accent is incredibly hard to "fake" (often being very much mistaken for Australia / New Zealand). But of course, I still chuckle at the execution.

[@saketg5954]

How about Leonidas having a scottish accent in 300?

[@dirkbogarde44]

SaketG Better speaking in his own accent than trying Greek.

[@ybnrml8]

***** Yes! I absolutely love Gerry, but they should just cast him in roles where he can have his own accent. But PS I Love You is the worst. I kept trying to figure out what it was he was trying to do, until they said he was Irish. He has also since apologized to the Irish people for that attempt. LOL

[@gantzisballs]

+SaketG That wasn't a put on accent. He's just Scottish.

[@saketg5954]

gantzisballs Leonidas is Scottish?

[@gantzisballs]

SaketG Gerard Butler is.

[@unrealeck]

Sean Connery doesn't do accents. Every character he plays has the 'Sean Connery' accent. oh yes and also - STOP SAYING BRITISH ACCENT WHEN YOU MEAN ENGLISH. there.

[@kellenboyle86]

That was actually a good impersonation of a Irish/English gypsy in Snatch. A bit over the top, but it was supposed to be comedic

[@crazygeek4296]

I agree, I loved it considering I've come across a few "pikeys" in my day :P

[@venomnbk3326]

I really thought the Transylvania accents form Queen of the Damned would be on here, or at least Heath Ledger in Broke Back Mountain. It's almost impossible to understand him in that movie.

[@blazeofglory6674]

I agree with you on Queen of the Damned, but I think Heath Ledger spoke like he did in Brokeback Mountain on purpose as a way to show how awkward Ennis feels expressing himself

[@ScreaminSavior]

YES! Keanu in Dracula. Haha

[@TrasherBiner]

I'm sorry but Mickey's (Bradd Pit) accent on Snatch was spot on. I've been told this by irish and pickeys themselves.

[@basquat76]

But that wasn't the one he was on the list for? They said the jury was still out on that one.

[@lucyhenshall2544]

jd1060 ye because its not meant to be exactly irish, like a mix - its perfect

[@JediRouge]

Lucy Locket Wish I could sound like that and confuse them when I insult them..lol

[@philbateman1989]

In a lot of these cases, I can forgive the actor since if you're not from the country whose accent they're attempting, you can't really tell that their accent is awful, for example, I'm British, and Van Der Beek's southern US accent sounds OK to me, because I'm not used to hearing that accent very much, but to a person from the southern US, it probably sounds a mile off lol However, Keanu Reeves' attempt at a British accent is almost comically bad, it's literally the accent my American cousin does when he makes fun of my accent. It's not even mildly close. It's so bad that I'd be surprised if ANY person thought that was how a British person speaks :P

[@suntansuperman26]

According to Pitt's British co-stars he did a great job with Snatch.

[@Prideoffreedom]

James Bond Pikey..... not quite English, not quite Irish only a language that other "pikeys" can understand :-)

[@TheTryHardian]

Agree with the number 1 even though a lot of other awful jobs were omitted but it was a reasonable list. Keanu Reeves excelled at roles where he played very stoic characters like Neo and Constantine. No accents just slow paced and thought out dialogue. Not that thats a challenge for any actor but he owned those roles completely.

[@TrackpadProductions]

Jaden Smith in After Earth is without a doubt one of the worst I've ever heard. But, to be fair, his voice and vocal inflection doesn't really let him do any accents anyways.

[@DJKento]

I don't know if I'd count that since it's a voice for a people that technically don't exist from a planet that doesn't exist. It's odd, but it's not grounded in reality. TERRIBLE movie though.

[@Padatst]

DJ Kento With a TERRIBLE lead and a TERRIBLE director.

[@edmundtyrell4219]

the accents were the least of the problems with that movie. Seriously terrible movie.

[@ActiumFilms]

I'm not defending him or the movie, but they're meant to be speaking an accent that doesn't really exist, since it's 1000 years in the future.

[@StellaSweetLilly]

You can't say it's bad when it's not even suppose to sound like any accent at all. So how would you know what it should sound like?

[@geoffreysmart6801]

The jury is NOT still out on Snatch. Best Accent Ever!!

[@FionnMarr]

Damn right. He nailed a pikey accent ahnoomistyahk.

[@IcoKirov]

funny how the worst accents are from some of the most memorable movies ever...

[@JamUpYourLife]

***** tbh Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's accents were legitimately awful, and I say this as someone born and raised in Ireland. Brad Pitt, however, did his accent PERFECTLY. And I am really picky when it comes to Americans faking Irish accents.

[@ratassassin8779]

What about princess leia's weird Alderanean English accent that faded throughout the trilogy?

[@SeasideDetective2]

rat assassin What's even more absurd was that Leia wasn't even Alderaanian! So it's a fake fake accent!

[@gnarwhal7562]

That doesn't add up though, because if you were born in one country, and grew up in another, you WILL develop an accent based on the area you currently reside in. So yeah....

[@funtiems]

+rat assassin you're picking alderaan reasons to hate on star wars

[@BrevityLC]

+Oscar Somers HA

[@Killermike2178]

Rivaled only by Halle Berry's Jamaican accent in the first X-Men movie that conspicuously disappeared by the second movie.