favorite mistranslated movie title

lols for most of these, but "The Big Liar" takes it

kinda love Die Hard – Mega Hard (Die Hard with a Vengeance)

I Suck, I Suck, I Suck, Suck, Suck (Vampire in Brooklyn)

^accurate

His Powerful Device Makes Him Famous (Boogie Nights)

Mr. Cat Poop (As Good As it Gets)
much better description of the movie.

i voted for Flying Baby (Flipper)

these are backwards
Hannibal (Human Devil)
Demon 2 (New Human Devil 2)

apparently the "new" was written very small (i think in china) so as to confuse and sell copies of demon 2

i dont believe that any of these are real

they're real on the internet

I'm Drunk And You're a Prostitute (Leaving Las Vegas)
I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money (Pretty Woman)

^^was just going to single out those two

the thing is these are all probably poorly mistranslated english version of these bad translations so it's kind of hard to get a sense of how inaccurate they really are... im sure many of them involve idioms that make more sense if you know the language. i mean a literal translation of "die hard" in another language might sound completely nonsensical.

i mean even if they are they're at least twice scrambled: once when they change the title totally and then when a blogger or whoever retranslates it trying to be funny, but still...flying baby!!! and most of them were on a few different websites. they mostly seem plausible to me, esp if you consider how badly the original titles would translate in some markets.

yeah xpost

Imaginary Dead Baseball Players Live in My Cornfield (Field of Dreams)

The Young People Who Traverse Dimensions While Wearing Sunglasses (The Matrix)

I always thought The Eighth Passenger was a pretty good title for Alien. Doesn't really make sense for the sequels though.

An Unexpected End (Thelma and Louise)

Winner by a mile.

Mr. Cat Poop (As Good As it Gets)

wha-

A Twin Seldom Comes Alone (The Parent Trap)

^^^ Probability that this was also the title of the porn version is between 50-65%.

i remember seeing Total Recall on television in Chile once and it was called something like "The Avenger of the future".

Not as crazy as these ones but still pretty daft.

Least "mis"-translated: American Virgin Man

P.S. I really want to know the provenance of "I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money," because it sounds like it might actually be based on some local idiomatic practically Borat-reminiscent adage about the costs of prostitutes vs. the costs of marriage

would marrying a prostitute really save you money?
lol xpost

"Hal and The Big Love" is what Shallow Hal was called in Finnish. Here's some more translated Finnish movie titles (retranslated to English):

Total Recall = "Forget or Die"

The Running Man = "Run or Die"

Flirting with Disaster = "Super Cool Family Roots"

Blades of Glory = "Dudes With Skates"

Rules of the Game = Fuck the Rules (This isn't a Finnish translation. The 2003 movie which was originally called "Rules of the Game" had a different English title in Finland, it was called "Fuck the Rules". In English. I guess they thought teen audiences would find foreign profanities in the title cool.)

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles = "Quickly to Chicago"

Can It Be Love = "Hormone Mice in Bikini Paradise"

Private Benjamin = "The Girl Who Did Military Service"

Soylent Green = "World in the Year 2022"

Monty Python and The Holy Grail = "Monty Python and The Crazy World"

Going Greek = "Wankers"

Inspector Clouseau = "Hide the Chicks, the Police Is Coming"

When Airplane! was released in Finland, its Finnish title was "Hey, We're Flying!". Naturally, Airplane II was then called "Hey, We're Flying Again!". This lead to a flurry of comedies (which had absolutely nothing to with Airplane!) being given similar Finnish titles, so we got:

* "Hey, We're Diving" (Up Periscope)
* "Hey, We're Spying!" (Scandalous)
* "Hey, We're Doing Time!" (Doin' Time)
* "Hey, We're Laughing!" (Kentucky Fried Movie)
* "Hey, We're Clubbing!" (Police Squad)
* "Hey, We're Cutting!" (Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again)

* "Hey, We're Clubbing!" (Police Squad)

wait, what?

Clubbing, you know, as in hitting someone with a club.

lol

Total Recall = "Forget or Die"

The Running Man = "Run or Die"

Is this the formula for all Schwarzenegger movies in Finland?

Jingle All The Way = Christmas Toy or Die
Terminator = Kill or Die
???

Junior - Beget or die.

Satan Destroys Everything (Eraser)

some of these sound like MST3K movie titles

For some reason, Tuomas, that seems to speak volumes about the popular Finnic imagination of police forces

Flirting with Disaster = "Super Cool Family Roots"

I misread that as "Robots"

17-Year-Old Girl’s Medical Chart

I remember once me and my friends were at a video rental place looking for some movie to watch, and I spotted Flirting With Disaster and remembered reading some favourable reviews of it online, but you can probably imagine how hard it was to get my friends to agree to watch a flick called "Super Cool Family Roots". That moment I cursed all Finnish movie translators.

(x-post)

Going Greek = "Wankers"

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Again, I think that title was chosen to sell the movie for teens.

Captain Supermarket (Army of Darkness)

This is the one about the guy who goes back in time and fights marching skeletons with a chainsaw, right?

Yes, but he also works at S-Mart

i seem to have missed that on my first look at the poll. It has a wonderful simplicity to it.

An Unexpected End (Thelma and Louise)

looooool! killing me.

awesome thread :D

Just Send Him To University Unqualified (Risky Business)
^^underrated so far on this thread.

the original cantonese title of HARD BOILED basically translates to SPICY-HANDED GOD OF COPS

just throwin that out there

Little Robot Whose Heart Saves the World

awwwwwww......

I'd seen some of these on rinkworks.com years ago (Fargo and As Good as it Gets) but not a list this big hahaha ... are these all Cantonese translations?

These are mostly priceless, but No, I Don't Want a Doctor is some kinda next-level mistranslation for sure

the original cantonese title of HARD BOILED basically translates to SPICY-HANDED GOD OF COPS

just throwin that out there

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I recognize some of this as really bad back translations of not-that-bad German translations.

Mum, I Missed the Plane Again and This Time I Am Lost in New York (Home Alone 2)

I believe this is a genuine literal translation of the French version.

These are my faves:
I'm Not Stupid So I Have Something to Say (Babe)
I'm Well Behaved Because I Want to Go Abroad (Babe, Pig in the City)

I remember, from back, back, back...

"Hi-Hi-Hilfe" - "Help" the Beatles

"Yeah Yeah Yeah" - A Hard Days Night.

Both from Germany.

"Four Guys Caught in the Wind" - A Hard Days Night (French)

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I missed this the first time, but my favorite is definitely:

No, I don't want a Doctor (Dr. No)

Because it's so plausible. Like, someone read it as a Q&A. "Doctor?" "No."

Just to prove I wasn't lying about the "Hey, We're..." movie titles, here's a few video covers for them:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/lennet.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/taas.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/leikel.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/lusit.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/naure.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/pampu.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/pamput2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/sabot.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/shoot.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/tehd.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/sukel.jpg

In Norway, it was "Help, We're Flying". Which led to quite a few other similar titles here as well, notably "Help, We're in the Rock Business" (This Is Spinal Tap).

I just checked Wikipedia, it seems in Sweden Airplane! was called Titta, vi flyger ("Look, We're Flying"). I think it's possible the Swedes came up with the name first, and the Norwegians and Finns imitated them. (It sounds more likely than the Finnish title being based on the Norwegian one, or vice versa.) Though if I remember correctly there was some kind of big Nordic video distribution company in the 80s, maybe they came up with the names for all the versions of Airplane?

And in Finland Spinal Tap was called Hei, me rokataan! ("Hey, We're Rocking!").

xpost Yeah, either or both of those theories sound plausible.

So, Babe could either be "Hey, We're herding sheep" or "Be a sheep-pig or Fry"

Anyway, out of the movie titles I posted above, my favourite has got to be Hei, me sabotoidaan = "Hey, We're Sabotaging".

So, Babe could either be "Hey, We're herding sheep" or "Be a sheep-pig or Fry"

Sadly, this naming practice didn't continue after the 80s — it would've been cool to see movies like "Hey, We're Doping" (Trainspotting), "Hey, We're Deflowering" (American Pie), or "Hey, We're Reproducing" (Knocked Up).

And "The King's Speech" could have been "Hey, we're fff-fff--fff-ff ah bollox"

this is one of the most underrated threads on this site

Laughed out loud at Mark G's post above!

"Hormone Mice in Bikini Paradise"

Satan Female Soldier (GI Jane)
The Teeth From the Sea (Jaws)
Die Slowly, Now More Than Ever (Die Hard With A Vengeance)
Warm Shots (Hot Shots!)
He's A Ghost! (The Sixth Sense)

That last one should have been 'Hey, he's SHURRUP man spoiler!'