A mother and son in China made Niu Lai, an animated cow movie that has been called the worst animated movie ever made. The film went viral across the internet for its awful animation. Film fans took up the project as a so-bad-it-is-good joke, circulating clips of the terrible animation across the web.
The film emerged as a surprise China box office hit, rivalling the box office performance of The Odyssey. Audiences grabbed tickets to view the poorly animated cow movie in cinemas. The project by the mother and son changed a viral internet joke about bad animation into an unexpected cinematic success.