Top Five Miscast Movie Roles So Far This Year

Posted by Cynical Sarah on July 12, 2006

5. Sarah Jessica Parker in Failure to Launch

Matthew McConaughey is believable as a slacker still living at home, but Parker just isn’t the type of girl anyone is going to believe him falling for. She was more believable as the uptight ice queen in The Family Stone last year.

4. Paul Walker in Running Scared

This is one of the movie world’s golden boys. I suppose he may have been trying to shake that image a bit by playing a pseudo bad guy working for the mob who ends up the good guy anyway as he tries not to get himself and his family killed. But, it just doesn’t suit him yet. Wait a few year Walker when you’re looks aren’t so pretty-boy and your acting skills have matured, then we’ll see about grittier roles for you.

3. Kate Beckinsale in Click

Props to Adam Sandler for getting another ridiculous movie out there and of course, making a ton of money doing it. This time they went too far though casting Beckinsale as his wife. It’s believable when Sandler can get the cute girls, the weird ones and the little bit oddball ones, but Beckinsale is way out of his league, and she’s definitely selling her talent short by doing this movie.

2. Jon Heder in The Benchwarmers

It’s not so much that Heder was miscast in this role, but that I fear he’s been forever sucked to the nerd side and may never escape being typecast in these types of roles. He was brilliant in “Napolean Dynamite,” but he’d be better off veering away from the nerd roles for a while.

1. Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code

Even when it was announced that he was playing the main character, I groaned at how badly cast the role was. But, I gave Hanks the benefit of the doubt and went to see the movie anyway. My initial impression was correct though. He just doesn’t have the panache to carry off what is supposed to be an intellectual, yet sexy character. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones he isn’t.

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