18 Movie Twists That Were Meant To Be Deadly Serious, But Actually Made People Burst Out Laughing

u/Pyode

"Oh, man. Where to begin?

Henry is a capital G Genius 11-year-old who builds quirky Rube Goldberg contraptions, plays the stock market and waxes on about how intelligence is unappreciated these days. His single mom Susan (Naomi Watts) is a waitress and he has a little brother named Peter. Henry is the REAL adult in this situation, reminding his mother that they have all this money from stocks and she doesn’t need this terrible job. 

He balances the checks and pays the bills, and she lives a life of “well if Henry says it’s okay...” So, just some slice-of-life movie where the snotty, too-serious 11-year-old genius should learn to enjoy being a kid like his mom who plays video games and lives a carefree life? Why no, because, plot twist: the neighbour girl next door who is close to the family and not her super stern and angry stepfather (Dean Norris) is being abused by the stepdad! But what’s this? He’s the police commissioner?! And his brother is in charge of social services?! What??!!! 

Anyway, so now it’s clear, Genius Henry has to devise a plan to stop this and the commissioner. But, SECOND PLOT TWIST, Henry has a brain tumour and dies. But not before he leaves detailed instructions down to the smallest detail for his mother to find on how to kill the commissioner and get away with it. She follows every step up until the moment before pulling the trigger and then realizes how silly this whole thing is and that Henry may have been a genius, but he was just an 11-year-old kid. Then at the same time at a school talent show, the principal of the elementary sees the stepdaughter perform a dance that convinces her that she MUST be abused. So she calls the cops. I’m not kidding.

This movie is so fucking bizarre and awful that I think it made Lucasfilm and Disney lose faith in its director, Colin Trevorrow, so he ended up not getting to direct the Rise of Skywalker." 

u/stallingsfilm