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50 Movie Titles That Got Lost In Translation Simon Brew Army Of Darkness is Captain Supermarket? Die Hard 3 becomes Die Hard: Mega Hard? And you don’t want to know what Boogie Nights turned up as… Published on Nov 21, 2008 On their journey around the international film markets, films have a habit of changing names, as local distributors target the flicks at their audiences. Sometimes, however, as this list shows, a new title doesn’t always quite capture the meaning of the original when it’s translated back into English. We’ve hunted round many corners of the Internet for this collection, and credited sources at the bottom. If you’ve got any more to add, do let us know. Meanwhile, we’ll start our tour in China, where they’ve got this little lot… ____________________ CHINA The Full Monty: Six Naked Pigs The Blair Witch Project: Night In The Cramped Forest As Good As It Gets: Mr Cat Poop Boogie Nights: His Great Device Makes Him Famous (Genius. Just genius) Leon: This Hit Man Is Not as Cold as He Thought Fargo: Mysterious Murder in Snowy Cream Austin Powers: Trump Card Big Liar Deep Impact: Earth And Comet Collide Knocked Up: One Night, Big Belly Nixon: The Big Liar Risky Business: Just Send Him To University Unqualified Free Willy: A Very Powerful Whale Runs To Heaven ____________________ GERMANY Airplane: The Unbelievable Trip In A Wacky Aeroplane or The Incredible Journey In A Crazy Airplane (depending on which translation you believe) K9: My Partner with the cold Snout Dragnet : Floppy Coppers Don’t Bite, or Yellow Coppers Don’t Bite (again, depending on which translation you go with) The Parent Trap: A Twin Seldom Comes Alone Die Hard: Die Slowly Die Hard With A Vengeance: Die Slowly, Now More Than Ever Dodgeball : Full Of The Nuts Girl, Interrupted: Cuckoo (Succinct and to the point…) Annie Hall: The Urban Neurotic ____________________ ISRAEL: Knocked Up: The Date That Screwed Me Superbad: Super Horny The Naked Gun: The Gun Died Laughing ____________________ ITALY: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: If You Leave Me, I Delete You ____________________ FRANCE: Fried Green Tomatoes: The Secret Is In The Sauce Dirty Harry: Inspector Harry Home Alone: Mom, I Missed The Plane The Matrix: The Young People Who Traverse Dimensions While Wearing Sunglasses ____________________ SPAIN: The Dark Knight: Night Of The Knight (we really like this one…) ____________________ PERU: Knocked Up: Slightly Pregnant ____________________ MEXICO: Juno: Juno: Grow, Run and Stumble. Snatch: Pigs And Diamonds Thelma and Louise: An Unexpected End ____________________ DENMARK: Die Hard With A Vengeance: Die Hard: Mega Hard (That’s just awesome, to be fair) ____________________ HONG KONG American Pie : American Virgin Man ____________________ ARGENTINA: Grease: Vaseline ____________________ PORTUGAL: Lost In Translation: Meetings and Failures in Meetings Die Hard: Skyscraper Attack Die Hard 2: Airport Attack ____________________ CZECH REPUBLIC Bad Santa: Santa Is A Pervert Hot Shots! : Warm Shots ____________________ FINLAND Big Momma’s House: The Cop In Drag ____________________ JAPAN: Army Of Darkness: Captain Supermarket (WTF?) The Horse Whisperer: Held by Wind in Montana Being John Malkovich : The Hole Of Malkovich Mr Holland’s Opus: The Sunny Classroom Jersey Girl: I Love My Dad The Best In The World ____________________ TAIWAIN: Get Smart: Is The Spy Capable Or Not -------------------- LATIN AMERICA: Rain Man: When Brother’s Meet

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