{"id":85077,"date":"2026-04-27T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/5-movies-turning-20-that-wed-rather-forget-about\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:27:25","slug":"5-movies-turning-20-that-wed-rather-forget-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/5-movies-turning-20-that-wed-rather-forget-about\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Movies Turning 20 That We&#8217;d Rather Forget About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This year marks the 20th anniversary of iconic movies like\u00a0<em>The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan\u2019s Labyrinth\u00a0<\/em>and <strong>Meryl Streep<\/strong>\u2018s iconic <em>The Devil Wears Prada<\/em><em>\u00a0\u2014<\/em> the latter of which receives a highly anticipated sequel next month.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s plenty to celebrate from the film industry\u2019s output 20 years ago, there are also some particular movies that don\u2019t deserve to see the light of day again.<\/p>\n<p>Watch With Us wants to look back on five movies celebrating 20th anniversaries this year that we\u2019d actually rather forget about.<\/p>\n<p>Our first selection is none other than the abysmal <em>The Pink Panther\u00a0<\/em>remake starring <strong>Steve Martin <\/strong>and <strong>Beyonc\u00e9.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/the-devil-wears-prada-2006-runway.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1806px%2C1022px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/the-devil-wears-prada-2006-runway.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">5 Great Movies Turning 20 in 2026: &#8216;The Devil Wears Prada&#8217; and More<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCan you believe that it\u2019s already been 20 years since The Devil Wears Prada? 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of some of the greatest movies of the 2000s. Classics like\u00a0The Departed, Pan\u2019s Labyrinth\u00a0and\u00a0Borat might seem like they just came out yesterday, but time really flies when you\u2019re watching great movies. Watch With Us has rounded [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\u2018The Pink Panther\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pink Panther Official Trailer #1 - Steve Martin Movie (2006) HD\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dKxgj5FxmZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A ring featuring the priceless Pink Panther diamond goes missing after its owner, the coach of a French soccer team, is killed. To track down the missing gem, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (<strong>Kevin Kline<\/strong>) assembles a secret crack team of his best detectives while making the bumbling, dimwitted Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Martin) the public face of the investigation. Though both hopeless and hapless, Clouseau manages to get on the killer\u2019s trail through a series of misadventures.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from the classic\u00a0<em>Pink Panther<\/em> movies starring <strong>Peter Sellers<\/strong>,\u00a0this new\u00a0<em>Pink Panther<\/em> takes everything that was beloved about the original films from the 1960s and puts it through a meat grinder. What results is a mind-numbingly grating experience, full of easy, unintelligent gags, an overload of slapstick humor, terrible narrative writing and ultimately a poor showing from Martin as Clouseau, relying heavily on over-exaggeration that is less funny than it is obnoxious.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) Official Trailer # 1 - Breckin Meyer HD\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BLTnQko_Lz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Jon Arbuckle (<strong>Breckin Meyer<\/strong>) decides to propose to his girlfriend Liz (<strong>Jennifer Love Hewitt<\/strong>), he plans to do it by secretly following her to London for her business trip and surprising her. Despite leaving Odie and Garfield (<strong>Bill Murray<\/strong>) in a kennel while he\u2019s gone, Jon\u2019s pets manage to escape and hitch a ride in his luggage. When they traverse the streets of London, one thing leads to another and Garfield is suddenly mistaken for a cat who\u2019s the royal heir to a castle. Unfortunately, Garfield\u2019s lap of luxury is impeded by the conniving Lord Dargis (<strong>Billy Connolly<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Poor reviews from the first\u00a0<em>Garfield<\/em> movie didn\u2019t seem to inspire this sequel to be any better \u2014 in fact,\u00a0<em>A Tale of Two Kitties<\/em> sports an impressive 12 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, two percentage points lower than the first film. If you\u2019re a child who loves terrible jokes and fart humor, then maybe you\u2019ll be able to stand the cringe-inducing \u201ccharms\u201d of this film. Otherwise, <em>Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties<\/em> more than deserves its Razzie nomination for Worst Prequel or Sequel.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Eragon\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eragon (2006) ORIGINAL TRAILER [FHD]\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAqm-1zUyno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you were a fan of the YA fantasy novel\u00a0<em>Eragon<\/em> in the 2000s, then you were likely heartbroken by the dreadful movie adaptation that it received in 2006. The plot follows poor farm boy Eragon (<strong>Ed Speleers<\/strong>), who lives in the kingdom of Alagaesia ruled by the evil monarch Galbatorix (<strong>John Malkovich<\/strong>). By chance, Eragon finds a stone while hunting in the woods that he realizes is an egg when a dragon hatches from it. With the last dragon now having emerged, Eragon has a chance to bring peace to the world, bring back the order of the Dragon Riders and overthrow Galbatorix.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eragon<\/em> received poor marks from critics at the time for just about everything: script, faithfulness to the source material, acting and visuals, with the only true bright spots being Speleers, <strong>Jeremy Irons<\/strong>, and the creature special effects. Otherwise, <em>Eragon<\/em> is shockingly forgettable and incompetent for such a richly written novel, lacking in convincing world-building, textured production design or a story that has baseline originality. In the spirit of <em>Percy Jackson and the Olympians<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Eragon<\/em> is what <em>not<\/em> to do when adapting a YA book.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018When a Stranger Calls\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When a Stranger Calls (2006) Trailer #1 | Camilla Belle, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qktzRJ1BerE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over a hundred miles away, a teenager and the children she was babysitting are murdered after she received a series of strange phone calls. This information is unbeknownst to teenager Jill Johnson (<strong>Camilla Belle<\/strong>), who settles into what she believes will be an ordinary night watching over the children of a wealthy couple. But while the kids are fast asleep, Jill begins receiving mysterious phone calls in which the caller says nothing and then hangs up. As the calls become increasingly threatening, Jill soon realizes that her life is at risk.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0<em>When a Stranger Calls<\/em> is technically a remake of the 1979 horror film of the same name, it\u2019s really only a remake of the original movie\u2019s famous first 23 minutes, extended further into a feature-length film. The result? A movie that robs the original of everything that made it so iconic. The suspense feels manufactured and unearned, the script is unoriginal, the jump scares are fright-free and overall, the movie plays everything extremely safe. If you want to watch a horror movie that\u2019s just bad, look no further.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h2>\u2018The Da Vinci Code\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE DA VINCI CODE - Official Trailer [2006] (HD)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sU9MT8829k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>American symbologist Robert Langdon (<strong>Tom Hanks<\/strong>) is summoned by the Paris police to examine the body of murdered Louvre curator Jacques Sauni\u00e8re (<strong>Jean-Pierre Marielle<\/strong>), who\u2019s been posed like Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s <em>Vitruvian Man<\/em> and bears a hidden cipher readable only by UV light. At the end of the decoded cipher is a secret message implicating Langdon, and the police believe him to be the killer. Assisted by police cryptologist Sophie Neveu (<strong>Audrey Tautou<\/strong>), Langdon escapes on a quest to find the real killer and the site of the legendary Holy Grail \u2014 the location of which is encoded in da Vinci\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Last Supper.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/king-of-comedy.jpg?w=400&amp;h=225&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Sandra Bernhard in The King of Comedy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/king-of-comedy.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">5 &#8217;80s Movies That Are Worth Rewatching, Ranked: &#8216;After Hours&#8217; and More<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHere at Watch With Us, we love the \u201980s. With the recent premiere of Stranger Things\u2018 final season, we\u2019ve got the best of the \u201980s on the brain. Watch With Us wants to celebrate some of the decade\u2019s cinema offerings by highlighting five particularly rewarding movies that we feel are worth checking out a second [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like the original novel by Dan Brown, <strong>Ron Howard<\/strong>\u2018s adaptation of\u00a0<em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em> was highly controversial upon release, yet what made Brown\u2019s novel such an addictive read is evidently not present in this overstuffed film version. Aside from any claims of sacrilege you might want to make, the movie is just ploddingly dull and excessively ridiculous, bereft of any true star charisma or narrative excitement aside from a series of seemingly unending clues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 20th anniversary of iconic movies like\u00a0The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan\u2019s Labyrinth\u00a0and Meryl Streep\u2018s iconic The Devil Wears Prada\u00a0\u2014 the latter of which receives a highly anticipated sequel next month. 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