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The 15 Most Hated Movie Trailers of All Time

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Ignacio Weil

Entertainment - July 11th 2026, 13:00 GMT+2

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YouTube removed public dislike counts in 2021, which means newer trailer numbers are not official platform totals but estimates based on archived data, third-party tools, and reported snapshots. That matters here, especially now that *The Odyssey* trailer is being described by some outlets as one of the most disliked movie trailers ever.

So how does Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic actually fare against infamous YouTube disasters like *Sadak 2*, *The Little Mermaid*, *Ghostbusters*, and *Cuties*? The answer is messier than a single viral headline, but the backlash is big enough to earn it a real place in this countdown.

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Moana 2026 — 15. Moana (2026) — 149K estimated dislikes

The live-action *Moana* trailer ran straight into the most obvious question imaginable: why remake a beloved animated movie that still feels recent? The footage drew criticism for its heavy CGI, Dwayne Johnson’s Maui look, and the odd sense that a “live-action” version was somehow still mostly artificial. Some viewers were open to the cast and the cultural care behind the project, but the trailer’s negative ratio showed how thin Disney remake patience has become. | © Walt Disney Pictures

Mufasa The Lion King 2024 — 14. Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) — 210K estimated dislikes

The *Mufasa: The Lion King* trailer had the awkward job of selling a prequel to a remake that many viewers already saw as technically impressive but emotionally underfed. Instead of instant nostalgia, it triggered complaints about Disney milking the Pride Lands, altering familiar backstory, and once again choosing photorealistic animals over expressive animation. For a billion-dollar family franchise built on childhood attachment, that many dislikes felt less like random trolling and more like a warning roar. | © Walt Disney Pictures

Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl 2020 — 13. Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020) — 297K dislikes

*Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl* was selling an inspirational biographical drama, but the trailer got pulled into Bollywood’s wider anger over star kids, industry access, and Dharma Productions’ public image. Janhvi Kapoor’s casting became the main flashpoint, even though the film itself was aiming for patriotic uplift rather than controversy. The dislike count showed how little control studios had once the anti-nepotism campaign turned YouTube trailers into public scoreboards. | © Dharma Productions / Zee Studios

Cropped Cats — 12. Cats (2019) — 302K dislikes

The *Cats* trailer remains one of the great “wait, what am I looking at?” moments in modern movie marketing. Universal’s promise of “digital fur technology” was supposed to sound revolutionary, but the footage landed somewhere between Broadway spectacle, sleep paralysis, and an expensive visual effects dare. Viewers did not merely dislike the trailer; they studied it, memed it, recoiled from it, and accidentally turned it into the only advertisement that could have prepared anyone for the movie itself. | © Universal Pictures

Peter Pan Wendy 2023 — 11. Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) — 345K estimated dislikes

The *Peter Pan & Wendy* trailer was not greeted with fairy dust so much as exhausted sighing, mostly from viewers tired of Disney turning animated classics into muted live-action remakes. The backlash focused on the gloomy look, the changes to familiar characters, and the general sense that Neverland had been sanded down into another streaming-content object. It was not the loudest Disney trailer scandal, but it absolutely belonged to the same tired, angry chapter. | © Walt Disney Pictures

Sonic the Hedgehog 2020 — 10. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) — 487K dislikes

The first *Sonic the Hedgehog* trailer gave the world human teeth, long legs, and a blue mascot who looked like he had escaped from a cursed theme-park commercial. Fans reacted so loudly that Paramount actually delayed the movie and redesigned Sonic, which almost never happens outside of fever dreams and studio emergency meetings. In a weird twist, the hated trailer became useful: it exposed the problem early enough for the film to save itself. | © Paramount Pictures

The Odyssey 2026 1 — 9. The Odyssey (2026) — 507K estimated dislikes

Christopher Nolan trailers usually arrive with the internet saluting like it just saw cinema invented again, so the reaction to *The Odyssey* was genuinely strange. The countdown trailer was hit with backlash over casting, tone, historical presentation, and the feeling that Nolan’s mythological epic looked colder than fans expected from Homer’s grand adventure. Whether the finished film changes the conversation or not, the trailer has already earned a very unwanted distinction in Nolan’s spotless marketing record. | © Universal Pictures

Cropped The Marvels — 8. The Marvels (2023) — 623K estimated dislikes

The teaser for *The Marvels* arrived during a shaky stretch for the MCU, and it quickly became a punching bag for franchise fatigue, Brie Larson resentment, and the usual bad-faith noise that follows female-led superhero projects around like a cheap fog machine. The trailer itself was bright, fast, and chaotic, but the reaction around it was heavier than the footage deserved. For Marvel, the dislike count felt like an early warning that goodwill was no longer automatic. | © Marvel Studios

Ghostbusters 2016 — 7. Ghostbusters (2016) — 1.1M+ dislikes

The *Ghostbusters* trailer became the original modern case study for a movie preview getting dragged into a culture war before anyone had seen the film. Some viewers hated the jokes, some hated the reboot angle, and some were very clearly furious that the new team was made up of women, which made the comment section feel like an archaeological dig through internet misery. The trailer’s massive dislike count turned the movie into a controversy machine months before release. | © Columbia Pictures

Cropped Snow White — 6. Snow White (2025) — 1.4M estimated dislikes

The *Snow White* teaser walked into a storm that had been building for months, from Rachel Zegler discourse to Disney remake fatigue to arguments about the dwarfs and the film’s overall visual style. Once the trailer dropped, the dislike count became less about a single preview and more about every frustration people had been saving for Disney’s live-action factory. It was a rough first impression for a movie already carrying more baggage than a royal caravan. | © Walt Disney Pictures

Cropped A Minecraft Movie — 5. A Minecraft Movie (2025) — 1.5M estimated dislikes

The first *A Minecraft Movie* trailer answered a question fans had feared for years: what if the blocky world of *Minecraft* was turned into a hyper-glossy live-action CGI fever dream? Jack Black yelling “I am Steve” instantly became a meme, Jason Momoa’s styling launched its own side quest, and the rounded, candy-colored Overworld did not calm anybody down. The backlash was fierce because the game’s charm is so specific, and the trailer looked like Hollywood had mined the IP without crafting the point. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

Khaali Peeli 2020 — 4. Khaali Peeli (2020) — 1.8M dislikes

*Khaali Peeli* was not the biggest Bollywood release on paper, but its teaser arrived at exactly the wrong moment and got flattened by the same anti-nepotism wave that swallowed *Sadak 2*. Ananya Panday and Ishaan Khatter became lightning rods for an industry-wide argument that was much bigger than one action-romance trailer. The result was brutal: a teaser with more dislikes than many studio channels had subscribers, which is never the kind of math a marketing department wants to do. | © Zee Studios

Cuties 2020 — 3. Cuties (2020) — 2.1M dislikes

The *Cuties* trailer became toxic almost instantly, largely because Netflix’s marketing framed the French coming-of-age drama in the worst possible light. The movie had already played festivals as a critique of premature sexualization, but the trailer and poster campaign made many viewers think the film was guilty of the very thing it was supposedly examining. That disconnect lit the fuse for a massive online backlash, a cancellation campaign, and one of the most punishing dislike ratios ever attached to a movie preview. | © France 3 Cinéma

The Little Mermaid 2023 — 2. The Little Mermaid (2023) — 2.3M estimated dislikes

Disney wanted a magical first look at *The Little Mermaid*, but the internet immediately turned the teaser into a referendum on live-action remakes, casting outrage, and whether every animated classic really needs a photorealistic second life. The backlash was ugly, loud, and often tangled in bad-faith complaints, but the scale of the reaction was impossible to ignore. For better or worse, Ariel’s return became one of Disney’s biggest modern trailer controversies before the movie even swam into theaters. | © Walt Disney Pictures

Sadak 2 2020 — 1. Sadak 2 (2020) — 13.67M dislikes

*Sadak 2* did not just get rejected; it became a full-blown YouTube event, the kind of digital pile-on studios pretend they are too sophisticated to notice while definitely noticing. The trailer landed in the middle of Bollywood’s nepotism backlash, and viewers used the dislike button like a protest sign with a Wi-Fi connection. Its record-breaking response turned a routine sequel promo into one of the most infamous movie trailer disasters ever. And the full release wasn't much better; Sadak 2 sits at a 1.2 on IMDb. | © Vishesh Films

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A movie trailer is supposed to make opening weekend feel inevitable; these did the opposite. From infamous YouTube dislike bombs to studio panic, emergency redesigns, culture-war pile-ons, and plain old bad marketing, these previews became bigger talking points than the movies they were selling. Because YouTube hid public dislike counts in 2021, newer entries rely on documented reports and third-party estimates, but the backlash around them was impossible to miss. These are the 15 most hated movie trailers of all time, ranked by how loudly the internet rejected them.

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A movie trailer is supposed to make opening weekend feel inevitable; these did the opposite. From infamous YouTube dislike bombs to studio panic, emergency redesigns, culture-war pile-ons, and plain old bad marketing, these previews became bigger talking points than the movies they were selling. Because YouTube hid public dislike counts in 2021, newer entries rely on documented reports and third-party estimates, but the backlash around them was impossible to miss. These are the 15 most hated movie trailers of all time, ranked by how loudly the internet rejected them.