A constant source of hilarity is when cultures collide and the crossover isn’t as linear as everyone involved is hoping. A splendid example of this is most of the videos of western celebs joing Japanese commercials over at Japander.com. Who could forget The Governator’s commercial for what I can only assume is an energy drink of some sort:
Eastern Europe too produces some absolute corkers, and for some reason Cracked.com has compiled a list of 20 movie posters which somehow became casualties of translation.
This is allegedly the Russian poster for Star Wars:
It looks like some weird hybrid of Thundercats, Hellraiser, The Bird Cage, and possibly Time Bandits. Even so it seems far more on-topic than the Polish campaign to advertise 80’s masterpiece of corpse-puppetry, Weekend At Bernie’s:
[Cracked.com via thornae]