It is difficult to overstate just how bad the upcoming movie with Brendan Fraser, Furry Vengeance is going to be if the trailer is any indication. 

“Welcome to Rocky Springs,” says the narrator, “home to the greenest community ever built.”  Brendan Fraser plays a construction expert who is attacked by animals bent on keeping their pristine nature home free of the grubby man-hands of the developers.  Fraser’s son sums up the movie: “Dad, you’re building on a nature preserve, and nature’s ticked off … I think the animals are out for revenge.”  

If this sounds like your type of movie, you are either a relative of the writer or Van Jones. 

Which got me to thinking – what are the five worst environmentalist movies of all time?  I’ll exclude documentaries here, since An Inconvenient Truth is perhaps the worst thing ever put on film; it’s as though Satan had explosive diarrhea on camera, and then the diarrhea talked at you for two hours (and don’t get me started on Winged Migration, which was literally pictures of birds, and which moved so slowly that time actually began moving backwards – the movie was released in 2001 and after watching it, you found yourself back in 1955). 

So let’s stick to dramas and comedies.  Not all environmentalist movies are bad (see Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the overrated-but-still decent The China Syndrome and Logan’s Run, the artistic-if-infuriating Wall-E or the vastly underrated Soylent Green, with the ever incredible Edward G. Robinson).  But there are plenty that are.  I’ve tried to avoid the most obvious picks (On Deadly Ground, anyone?).  Here are my top five ...

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