Julia Roberts - The year's worst: Our 12th twelve month Turkey Movie Awards: Break out a helping of leftover pumpkin pie. The top prize in The Post’s 12th annual Turkey Movie Awards is shared by a pair of siblings who appeared in two of the worst movies since last Thanksgiving — both of which landed with a thud on the same Friday in August.
Former box-office queen Julia Roberts was insufferable as the shallow heroine of the flop “Eat Pray Love.” Her character stuffs herself with pasta in Italy, seeks spiritual enlightenment in India and finds love in Bali, where her biggest problem is figuring out how to commute from New York.
Julia’s brother, C-lister Eric Roberts, gave the worst performance as the main bad guy in the ensemble cast of the action flick “The Expendables.” That’s not an easy feat when your competition includes such distinguished thespians as Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren. As a piece of filmmaking, “The Expendables” was even worse than “Eat Pray Love,” but it made money — and it’s been decades since Eric could boast he beat his little sister at the box office.
Another pair of siblings tied for the runner-up prize in our Turkey Movie Awards. Jake Gyllenhaal set back Middle Eastern-American relations several millennia with his performance in the title role of “Prince of Persia.” His sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, seemed adrift somewhere over the English Channel as a British farmer in the dire family flick “Nanny McPhee Returns.” And now, a drumstick, or drumroll, for the rest of Tinseltown’s list of the bad, the worse and the ugly . . .
WORST PROFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FILM WITH DOLPH LUNDGREN: In “The Expendables,” Eric Roberts proved himself expendable to Hollywood casting agents.
MOST APPITITE-KILLING PROFORMANCE IN A FILM WITH FOOD: Julia Roberts should pray her agent gets her work better than “Eat Pray Love.”
STILLBORN ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION COMEDIES WITH FADING STARS: The Jennifers couldn’t buy a laugh for “The Switch,” starring Aniston (below), or “The Back-Up Plan,” showcasing Lopez (bottom).
THE ONLY WAY IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE WOULD HAVE BEEN TO FILM IT IN 3-D: The crass and endless “Sex and the City 2,” which cast Sarah Jessica Parker and her rapidly aging pals as ugly Americans in the Middle East.
MOST DUBIOUS OPENING SEQUENCE OF AN ACTION COMEDY: Swiftly declining star Tom Cruise kills the crew and all but one passenger on a plane in the box-office bomb “Knight and Day.” And kidnaps the only survivor (Cameron Diaz), who, of course, falls in love with him. MOST QUESTIONABLE CAREER MOVE: Lindsay Lohan as a topless, coked-up heiress in “Machete.”