In a sadly-unshocking move, WB has hired Craig Mazin to write a third Hangover, less than a week after Part II, which Mazin co-wrote with Scott Armstrong and Todd Phillips, grossed more than $100 million in its first weekend.  I actually liked Part II better because it had an edge I thought was missing in the first one, but no one seems to agree with me.  Either way, a third installment puts it into Little Fockers territory, and Craig Mazin is the guy who wrote Scary Movie 3 and 4, so he should know a little something about milking a corpse.  Ooh, possible plot point?

Meanwhile, WB has also hired the writers of Rio to write a Yogi Bear sequel. The first opened with a soft $16.4 million, but eventually went on to gross $201 million worldwide, which isn’t that far behind Rango ($241 million), so WB wanting a sequel isn’t that surprising.  Plus, as we all know, great things come in bears.  Would you look at that, they don’t even have to change the tagline.  Might want to leave out the implied anal this time though.

VINCE’S DISCLAIMER: I didn’t make a list of worst movies this year because to do it fairly, I would’ve had to knowingly subject myself to terrible movies. I don’t care what anyone says, you do that often, eventually it’s going to mess you up.  Ever read a film critic who’s seen every Katherine Heigl ass-pile (or whatever the equivalent of Heigl was in 1983) for the last 30 years?  They slowly go insane, they start recommending films like Atonement. Poor Peter Travers used to be the best critic around.  Now he feeds his scabs to pigeons and buries herring in his garden to commemorate krystallnacht.  I don’t believe in seeing every movie and pretending I don’t already have a pretty good idea which ones are going to suck.  Snobby as it may sound, I’m trying to not ruin my taste buds by purposely scalding them on microwaved chili biscuits from Am/Pm.  But I know how people love lists of bad movies. Luckily, for that we have Burnsy. You think that guy worries about his taste?  Dude lives in Orlando. [/end disclaimer]

Putting together a Top 10 list is a grueling process in any genre, but I found the feat of selecting the 10 worst movies of 2010 to be downright painful. It’s primarily difficult because these movies are atrocious piles of cow flop that should cause unparalleled levels of shame to be cast upon the families of everyone involved in them. It was also painful because I watched so much crap this year, and there was so much more crap that I could have watched but just couldn’t. Seriously, The Bounty Hunter? I don’t have the will power to not throw my TV into traffic. But here’s the thing – I enjoy watching terrible movies so much more than great movies because I live to criticize. Vince can tighten his scarf and crank Florence + The Machine from his hybrid IROC while he raves about Hesher, but by all accounts Hesher is a great movie, so nobody’s going to argue.

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I’ve always thought, and I’m on record about this, that the Yogi Bear movie was a great idea. There’s just one problem, and it’s not 3D or slapstick or Justin Timberlake. It’s that CGI sucks. I mean, why all the stupid computers? There are bears everywhere. Just look around you, man. So for his latest video, our video editor, Oliver, began his work from a simple premise: CGI = sh*tty. Bear attacks = awesome. Really, can you argue with that logic? No, you can’t. And if you even try, Nic Cage will run up dressed like a bear and punch your girlfriend in the face.

If you thought that the brilliant Twitter campaign launched by Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger was a masterpiece of destroying what looks to be a terrible film, then make some more room in your Louvre because animator Edmund Earle has put together an alternate ending to the live action Yogi Bear film, which opens this Friday. Starring that guy from the TV show Ed and Anna Faris’ fine self and featuring the voices of Dan Aykroyd as the titular picnic basket thief and Justin Timberlake as his furry twink Boo Boo, this movie is 20 years too late and should only be viewed by death row inmates. However, Earle’s contribution – that he claims he put together with his coworker in their spare time and inspired by The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in the 21st and a Half Century – is almost enough to make me want to watch it if I knew that this was the real ending.

Video after the jump…

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For months, comedians Neil Hamburger and Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job) have been trying to raise awareness about the Yogi Bear movie, and the threat it poses to our society.  They recently compiled a series of tweets into an informational pamphlet.  Since this is such an important cause, I’ve included some of the best of them here.

timheidecker: AP reporting #yogibear Movie contains subliminal messages encouraging children to commit suicide!

Neil_Hamburger: Justin Timberlake drew on his experience as a human urinal for his portrayal of beloved Boo Boo. #f*ckyouyogibear

Neil_Hamburger: Tom Bosley’s dying final words: “Please don’t let Aykroyd voice Yogi Bear.” Died 1 min later. #f*ckyouyogibear

timheidecker: Long John Silvers stunner: “although we are aware that this means losing thousands of dollars a week, we will now refuse to serve dan aykroyd after hearing his embarrassing and disrespectful impersonation of #yogibear

timheidecker: Why is @burgerking offering free temporary swastika tattoos with purchase of #yogibear kids value meal?

Neil_Hamburger: “Yogi Bear” becomes first film to be banned in Poland since “Hitler’s Giant C*ck And Great Ideas Also” was banned from theaters in 1967

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