Worst Accent!

[airbolt]

Who has the worst accent on film ? I saw this thread earlier and want to revive it ! To start the Ball rolling i nominate Don Cheadle as ' Basher Carr ' in Ocean's 11 - the least convincing Cockney EVER! - including Dick Van Dyke. Please include ' Wandering ' Accents such as Jason Statham in ' The Transporter ' which criss-crosses the Atlantic several times.

[IndieSinger]

Robert Carlisle's accent in the 51st State! It was Brummie, it was Mancunian, it was Liverpudlian... we went all over the shop before he settled on one. Which, in the end, was Brumanudlian.

[apricot]

Can I nominate an entire film? It has to be 'Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves' The entire cast spoke with phoney regional brit accents from all over the country. The landed from the Channel and walked to Nottingham in 1 day??? It was complete pants

[thelasthuman]

Oh, it's just gotta be Keanu Reaves in Dracula!

[andy hughes]

Sean Connery in any film where he isn't playing a Scot, or james Bond. My Favourite is 'The Untouchables' when he was an Irish (!) cop. He sounded about as Irish as Gordon Brown, and he got an Oscar for it! What's going on there?

[airbolt]

Sean Connery deserves a Wing to Himself in the Hall of Accents! I will never forget his Soviet Sub Commander from Peebles - " Thish Shubmarine ish the pride of the Shoviet Fleet !

[TK421]

Yes, I nominate Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

[tartanwiz]

Billy Connolly deserves a nomination for his unconvincing 'Irish' accent in The Last Samurai.

[Heraldeer]

Val Kilmer in the Saint had to try Russian, English, Irish and Aussie accents and was not good at any of them.

[SavageMonkey]

I'm going to give a slightly different answer. The way the guys talk in the film "Kids" got on my nerves at the start because they're just annoying accents. They lived in New York I think, so they had that weird style of talking. But I really enjoyed the film, and the accents by the end of it as well :-).

[mrsmith]

mike myers in shrek

[Addison]

Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules. Tom & Nicole - Far and Away

[dinger128]

Jason Statham in "The Transporter", yeah. I was 3/4 the way though the film before I figured out he was supposed to be an American character. I thought he was South African! Dunno why he couldn't have said, "Can't my character be British instead", would have solved a lot of embarassment.

I think Charlie Hunnam who played "Pete Dunham" in Green Street gets a special mention here.