Put A Sock In It! It's The Most Annoying Movie Characters Of All Time!
They're shrill or soppy and/or don't know when to shut up - they're the characters who leave you longing for the credits. And once in a while, they completely ruin a good movie. Or do they... ?
Mr IY Yunioshi (Mickey Rooney), Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Holly Golightly’s Japanese neighbour’s barely mentioned in Truman Capote’s novella. So what the hell is he doing stinking up this otherwise adorable film? So racist even Enoch Powell might have taken offence, it’s a wonder the resistible Rooney ever worked again.
Clifford Daniels (Martin Short), Clifford - Martin Short’s a perfectly nice person. But as a performer, he’s occasionally the living embodiment of that feeling you get when someone drags their fingernails across a blackboard. Cast as an 11-year-old boy in Clifford, his work here is excruciating in the extreme.
Ricky Slade (Vince Vaughn), Made - In Swingers, Vince Vaughn shone as the best possible best friend. In Made, he plays the buddy who’s guaranteed to land you in trouble by saying the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. A textbook portrayal of the associate we really shouldn’t associate with.
Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker), The Fifth Element - Luc Besson’s sci-fi saga takes everything to the edge. But while some of the gambles bay off, the decision to sign up the Helium-voiced Tucker proves an utter catastrophe. A turn to leave you reaching for your ear plugs or, failing that, your shotgun.
Gloria Clemente (Rosie Perez), White Men Can’t Jump - There are a lot of things to like about Ron Shelton’s basketball comedy. Whether these include Ms Perez depends upon whether you can cope with a voice that a sober Charlie Sheen claimed, “could drive me back to cocaine.” For me, Rosie’s fine in small doses. Like the flu.