As 21 Jump Street rolls into theaters, we look back at some movies that didn't quite to make the transition from small screen to big. Wild Wild West Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Year Released: 1999 Studio: Warner Bros. Cast: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek Will Smith, coming off the back-to-back successes of Independence Day and Men In Black, owned the lucrative July 4th opening weekend. That is, until his streak was stopped dead in its tracks by a bloated action-comedy that featured a racist (and legless) villain, a casual attitude towards violence, and a giant steam-powered mechanical spider. Fun fact: Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix to work on this movie. ..." So we have a light comedy full of racial slurs and cripple jokes where the hero hunts down the mass-murderer who killed his parents. This is not unlike a wacky spy comedy where a U.S. spy hunts down Dr. Josef Mengele who may have experimented on the spy's parents during the Holocaust. It makes it hard to keep a light tone. ... Ron Wells, Film Threat, July 5, 1999 Next: The Last Airbender The Last Airbender Director: M. Night Shyamalan Year Released: 2010 Studio: Paramount Cast: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz The bottoming out in the sad and stupefying career trajectory of director M. Night Shyamalan came in the form of a live-action adaptation of a popular animated series (titled Avatar: The Last Airbender - the film was renamed to avoid confusion with the James Cameron movie). The production got some unwanted publicity over the decision to cast white actors for roles that, in the cartoons, were clearly Asian. ..." Shyamalan and his team have devised a fantasy environment that's both bland and murky; it's not a world that rewards the search for visual grandeur or eccentricity. ... The movie's lavish scale is matched by its amateur-hour naiveté - as if a Wall Street plutocrat had spent millions on a monumental pageant for his 10-year-old daughter's birthday party, then staged it himself on his country estate and invited his neighbors and their kids to play the leads. ..." Richard Corliss, TIME, July 2, 2010 Next: Bewitched