Top Ten "Best of..." lists are a dime a dozen, but finding reputable "Worst of..." lists is more of a challenge. Sure, it's easy to just slam ten random films - lord knows there are plenty of bad films being made - but creating an authentic, objective, official list of the Worst is not easy. Still, some of the best movie reviews are pans of bad movies, so it's worth hunting them down. For example, my favorite review of all time was when Elvis Mitchell declared Battlefield Earth to be the worst movie of the century. In the year 2000. Which still had 99 years to go at that point. Yea, it was a pretty bad review. This year, I mined metacritic's All-Time Low Scores movies list and parsed out the lumps of coal from 2008. Here's the list, with commentary and movie poster-worthy quotes (after the break) from a few of the best (worst?) reviews:

Metacritic Worst of 2008:

1. The Hottie and the Nottie
2. Meet the Spartans
3. Harold
4. Strange Wilderness
5. College
6. Disaster Movie
7. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
8. Surfer, Dude
9. Witless Protection
10. Prom Night

1. The Hottie and the Nottie. It's a Paris Hilton vehicle. Enough said. Or not...

• "A cinematic excursion so horrific that it's an insult to bad movies to call it a bad movie." - James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
• "Preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful."  -Maitland McDonagh (TV Guide)
• "Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar, idiotic, boring, slapdash, half-assed, and very, very unfunny." - Nathan Lee (Village Voice)

• "Hey, guys, when you repurpose a disco hit to poke fun at gay men, not only do you look like assholes, you look like assholes who rip their jokes off of YouTube." - Kimberley Jones (Austin Chronicle)
• "Witless, tasteless, formless spoof." - Aaron Hillis (Village Voice)
• "Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny..." - Joe Leydon (Variety)
• "Meet the Spartans is a mild improvement over their "Epic Movie," which is like saying that a debilitating fever is more fun than appendicitis." - Luke Y. Thompson (LA Weekly)

• "The question of who might find Harold even mildly entertaining looms large." - Michelle Orange (Village Voice)
• "A terminally lame puberty comedy." - Ronnie Scheib (Variety)
• "Harold is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television. At feature length it's enough to make you tear your hair out." - Nathan Lee (NYTimes)

• "Obviously the product of minimal effort by all parties involved, Strange Wilderness is a slovenly, slapped-together stoner comedy." - Joe Leydon (Variety)
• "No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it’s actually unexpected, I’ll admit to being amused exactly once, when Zahn gets deep-throated by a gigantic prop turkey who, despite the mouthful, keeps on flapping." - Aaron Hillis, (LA Weekly)
• "You'd have to be more than merely intoxicated to find anything about this dismal stoner comedy remotely funny. You'd have to be unconscious." - Ken Fox (TV Guide)

• "God-awful." - Nathan Rabin, (The Onion)
• "The grime, filth, slop, vomit, and crotch-nibbling pigs double all too easily as a recipe for this movie's failure. It hasn't been made so much as excreted." - Wesley Morris (Boston Globe)
• "Film critics never come home stinking of their honest labor, but the nearest equivalent is reviewing something like College, which leaves its stain on one's very humanity." - Nick Pinkerton (LA Weekly)

6. Disaster Movie. Meet the Spartans? Meet Disaster Movie. Same movie, different name, slightly better reviews. Which isn't saying much.

• "A horrific waste of time, money and oxygen." -Empire Glen Ferris (Empire)"It's too easy to say Disaster Movie deserves its title, but why put more effort into trashing it than the filmmakers did into writing it?" - Sam Adams (The Onion)
• "The filmmakers are idiots." - Michael Hardy (Boston Globe)
• "This carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores." - Jim Ridley (LA Weekly)
• "There's no nice way to say this, so I'll just say it: Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge." - Josh Rosenblatt (Austin Chronicle)

• "As numbing and depressing to watch as suits hammering out a film-packaging deal one venal clause at a time." - Jim Ridley (LA Weekly)
• "It's completely undone by its terrible screenplay, inept direction, oppressive musical score and muddy visual palette." - Frank Scheck (The Hollywood Reporter)
• "Is this movie so god-awful bad that it's hilariously good? Can't be bothered deciding. Figure that's an answer in itself." -Rick Groen (The Globe and Mail)

• "You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch." - Neely Tucker (Washington Post)
• "Lacking even the train-wreck appeal of a brainless stoner comedy like "Half-Baked," Surfer, Dude is a numbing experience at just 89 minutes." - LA Weekly Staff (uncredited, but I'd put my money on poor Jim Ridley)
• "Hapless, laughless movie." - Dennis Harvey (Variety)

• "It's mostly harmless dum-dum stuff..." - Ty Burr (Boston Globe)

• "A bland, timid and thoroughly un-thrilling teen thriller." - Jason Anderson (The Globe and Mail)
• "A nearly bloodless slasher film with fewer surprises than a broken jack-in-the-box." - Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)