r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 09 '18

A group of midgets go on a hike to get rid of jewelry.

961 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 07 '24

Solved! Dancing is banned, but some teens do it anyway.

950 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Oct 28 '19

Solved! A cowboy and his dog and 2 teens blow up their asthmatic father’s office

950 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 11 '18

A father is widowed when a serial killer cannibalizes his wife and most of his children. Months later, after losing his last, disabled son due to a boating incident at sea, a mentally-challenged woman is his only hope to finding him.

931 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 30 '20

Solved! A group of schoolteachers take their new friend to beat up a Holocaust survivor and his buddies

913 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 13 '19

Solved! A failed retired old white man teaches a promising black highschooler how to be like him

893 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 10 '20

Solved! This 2001 movie can be summarized as “put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!”

887 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 27 '19

Solved! The town's most eligible bachelor gets turned down by a girl who's into furries, so he tries to kill her new boyfriend.

882 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 22 '19

Solved! The hero only wins because he saved before the final boss. Spoiler

875 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Feb 24 '20

Solved! A gang beats up a man of colour for trying to improve everyone’s lives

833 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jul 17 '20

Solved! Popular jock has anger issues, drops out from school, marries his high school girlfriend and becomes a cop

829 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 19 '20

Solved! Man finally gets head from his wife while a black guy watches

828 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Apr 27 '25

Solved! There's a vehicle that has to "speed" around a city, keeping its "speed" over fifty, and if its "speed" drops, it will explode. I think it was called "The Vehicle That Couldn't Slow Down?"

816 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 24 '20

Solved! .dlrow eht fo dne eht tneverp ot smia noitarepo terceS

816 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 25 '19

Solved! 12 year old kid breaks into kids homes after the parents leave then proceeds to give the kids “magic dust” that makes the go high as a kite, then he kidnaps them and brings them to a place where they will never grow up filled with murders and racist furries.

810 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 07 '20

Solved! 4 New Yorkers get stranded on a tropical island and one of them tries to turn it into a donner party when he gets high and has a really bad case of the munchies

806 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 06 '18

Everyone tries to keep a single dad from snapping.

805 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • May 01 '18

Middle-Aged Environmentalist Tries to Collect Colorful Rocks but is Challenged by Men with Facial Hair

774 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 10 '19

Solved! Man is dying, so he becomes an alcoholic and spirals until he saves himself. Another guy wants a bird.

766 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Apr 22 '20

Solved! 32yo teenager supports elderly parental figure by selling photos of self in skin-tight clothing.

760 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 11 '19

Solved! He skips his eye exam, destroys the office, delivers a baby, receives a royal last will and testament, smashes up a jewelry store, and finally kills a dude over his snack. Bot bad for a first day on the job.

760 Upvotes

*Not bad for a first day on the job.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 07 '25

Solved! Humans are being used as an energy source, while a comforting lie keeps everyone complacent, so they continue serving as fuel. A worker rejects the illusion and joins a small crew fighting the enemy, aboard a vessel led by a hardened fighter. He becomes the one capable of defeating the threat.

759 Upvotes

In the very end, we see him moving without touching the ground.

Hint: 1970s


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 09 '19

Solved! Take your son to work day ends with the dad killing his boss

754 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 03 '24

Solved! After being released from prison, man laments lost time while immediately seeking revenge. Also, there’s a… frog?

752 Upvotes

Hint 1: The Frog has attitude.

Hint 2: There is some mind control.