Often, fall can be a lean season for inessential films. Sure, we all realized how inessential The Hours and The Human Stain were after they came out, but in the months prior to their release, they had Potential Oscar Gold written all over them.

This year, however, we have a bumper crop of obviously skippable, clearly not-watchable films. Why? Counter programming! Don't go see some dreary, serious film this weekend! Go see a dreary, was-apparently-supposed-to-be-funny film, like Taxi!

Here, once again, Fametracker doesn't see the ten most missable films of the season, so you don't have to... either.

You're welcome.

10. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Release Date: Nov. 19
The Plot: Everyone's favourite daffy zaftig British singleton is back again! On the edge of reason!
The Pitch: Holy cow, is Renée Zellweger ever fat.
Why It's Inessential: Because we'll now have to live through another round of magazine stories about how Renée Zellweger is really fat. Then a round about how she lost all the weight. Then a round of her talking about how she hated putting on all that weight, and hated being fat, and boy, isn't she glad she's not fat anymore. Then a round of photos of her with her shoulder blades sticking out of her back like angel's wings, to prove she's taken off all that weight.

9. First Daughter

Release Date: September 24
The Plot: The President's daughter is, like, totally bummed out about all these restrictions, man! And the security guards! She totally can't have a decent slumber party!
The Pitch: If you liked Chasing Liberty...oh, wait. No one liked Chasing Liberty.
Why It's Inessential: Katie Holmes was reportedly reluctant to sign on at first because, according to producer John Davis, she "wanted to make sure it wasn't a kiddie pic, another Mandy Moore/Hilary Duff movie." Um, we're not experts, but perhaps the best way to make sure of that is not to make a movie that's nearly identical to a recent Mandy Moore movie.

8. Meet The Fockers

Release Date: December 22
The Plot: The crazy family you loved from Meet the Parents are back -- meeting another crazy family! It's two times the crazy! Fock me!
The Pitch: For everyone who sat through Meet the Parents thinking, "It's good, but it needs a touch more Streisand."
Why It's Inessential: If you want to see Ben Stiller in a funny uptight family meets funny hippie family movie, please rent Flirting With Disaster. It's 100% Dustin Hoffman-free!

7. Cellular

Release Date: September 10
The Plot: Kim Basinger's called a guy on his cell phone and he really can't get off that cell phone!
The Pitch: If you like Phone Booth...oh, wait. No one liked Phone Booth.
Why It's Inessential: Isn't the plot of this movie played out every single day in L.A.?

6. The Grudge

Release Date: October 22
The Plot: A big haunted house really, really doesn't like Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The Pitch: Ew! I've got a weird lump in the back of my head! Scooooby!
Why It's Inessential: Even if you are a huge Buffy fan, you will end up rooting for the house. And the lump.

5. Shall We Dance?

Release Date: October 15
The Plot: Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez star in a movie about an uptight guy who loosens up through dancing.
The Pitch: Richard Gere + J.Lo = sizzling chemistry, without the sizzle! Or the chemistry!
Why It's Inessential: Hey, what's that Jennifer Lopez up to? We haven't heard from her in awhile.

4. Surviving Christmas/Christmas with the Kranks

Release Dates: November 12/November 24
The Plot: Ben Affleck learns the meaning of Christmas. Meanwhile, Tim Allen learns the meaning of Christmas.
The Pitch: The meaning of Christmas is apparently so complex that we have to relearn it every year.
Why It's Inessential: Couldn't they just meld this into one movie: Surviving Christmas with the Kranks? Come on, people -- think synergy! Or, in this case,crapergy!

3. Ladder 49

Release Date: October 1
The Plot: John Travolta leads a firehouse full of brave men, all smeared with smoke, yet who emerge from myseriously smoke-free fires.
The Pitch: It's just like Backdraft, except it's not, because no one saw Backdraft. Please -- forget we mentioned Backdraft.
Why It's Inessential: Boy, everyone loves firemen. Yet firemen movies never do well. Why is that? And how to remedy this paradox? Of course! Travolta!

2. National Treasure

Release Date: November 19
The Plot: A secret treasure map is hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence. We the people...are ready to kick some ass!
The Pitch: It's just like The Da Vinci Code -- just think of it as The Declaration Code. Now stop thinking.
Why It's Inessential: This movie, like its title, feels like it was spat out by a computer. Computers are totally mocking us at this point. Once they beat us in chess, they lost all respect for us. Bonus Inessentiality: Choose your own alternate title: X-Patriot; Extreme Signatories; Maximum Constitution.

1. Taxi

Release Date: October 8
The Plot: Jimmy Fallon is a cop and Queen Latifah is a cabbie -- and together they've united to stop Brazilian crooks.
The Pitch: This movie is not at all like the TV show whose title it shares. At all. In the least. Are you psyched yet?
Why It's Inessential: Because this may well do for Jimmy Fallon what D.C. Cab did for Bill Maher.