Last week I looked at the highlights of 2010 – the films everyone should make an effort to see.

This week will serve as my public service announcement – the list of films that should forever be erased from anyone’s memory.

If you haven’t seen these films, consider this your warning. And if you happened to stumble upon this dreck, I sincerely apologize.

These are my choices for the very worst of 2010.

1. The Last Airbender

My 9-year-old son loudly announced his disapproval for this film after seeing the trailer and he proved to be correct about the latest from M. Night Shyamalan. This overindulgent, effects-driven disaster confirms that the man behind “The Sixth Sense” continues to believe he is the most important filmmaker working today – even though his films suggest otherwise. Perhaps most disturbing is the fact this made enough money to warrant a sequel.

2. Furry Vengeance

Brendan Fraser battles animals in this family film that left theaters about as quickly as it arrived in late April. Unfunny, horribly acted and borderline offensive – it avoids the top spot only because I know of at least one person who thoroughly enjoyed it (but again, he’s only 9).

3. Valentine’s Day

Director Garry Marshall’s attempt at a rom-com version of “Short Cuts” was utterly dreadful, wasting a huge cast that included Kathy Bates, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts and Shirley MacLaine. The plot threads felt like a rejected script from the 1970s TV series “Love American Style,” with Ashton Kutcher inexplicably asked to carry the film spouting Yoda-esque wisdom.

4. Yogi Bear

Another film that was on my son’s “this looks awful” radar. A badly CGI’d version of the popular cartoon that just reeks of awfulness – the first film I can remember that actually makes Anna Faris seem unbearable.

As this film unfolded my mind kept wondering, “Why does everyone seem to act like a talking bear stealing picnic baskets is normal?” and “What happened to the career of Dan Aykroyd (who supplies the voice of Yogi Bear)?”

5. The Bounty Hunter

A lifeless, humorless endeavor that was full of unlikable characters put into uncomfortable situations. Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston lacked any chemistry, with the film’s only redeeming quality being Christine Baranski’s bizarre turn as an aging Atlantic City lounge singer who looked more like a drag queen than an older diva.

6. Case 39

When your film sits on the shelf for a while before the studio releases it, that’s usually a huge warning flag. That’s the case with this would-be thriller that asks filmgoers to buy Renee Zellwegger as a social worker who takes in a child who might not be as innocent as she seems. This was as ridiculous as it sounds.

7. You Again

2010 wasn’t a good year for Kristen Bell, who also starred in the dreadful “When in Rome.” In this film she is tormented when a girl who bullied her in high school gets engaged to her brother.

Throw in an embarrassing performance from Jamie Lee Curtis – who has her own problems when the fiancee’s aunt (Sigourney Weaver) turns out to be the girl who tormented her when she was in high school – and you have one of the most contrived plots of any film in 2010.

8. Death at a Funeral

A remake of a 2007 British comedy that I found to be quite funny, this sucks all the humor out of the original – managing to be completely unfunny despite the presence of Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Tracy Morgan and Zoe Saldana. It was directed by Neil Labute, who has fallen pretty far after such a promising start with 1997’s “In the Company of Men.”

9. Jonah Hex

The biggest bomb of the summer, a horrible comic book adaptation, earns the distinction of having the single worst performance of the year, courtesy of Megan Fox. She plays the hooker with a heart of gold who befriends the title character, a bounty hunter who has the ability to talk to the dead. But she is so out of place in this period piece her character could have carried around a cell phone and a Gucci bag. I think it’s pretty obvious why she won’t be in the next “Transformers.”

10. Killers

Another summer bomb featuring Kutcher and Katherine Heigl that wasn’t reviewed in advance for critics. The studio claimed it wanted critics and audiences to “see the film simultaneously, and share thoughts in the medium of their choosing.”

Well it’s six months later and I still have the same thoughts I did when I saw it – your movie stinks.

It also didn’t help that the Tom Cruise vehicle “Knight and Day,” released three weeks later, covered the same material and was way better – even though it was mediocre at best.

— To get sportswriter/movie reviewer Micheal Compton’s up-to-the minute thoughts on all things movies, visit his blog at mcompton.wordpress.com or his Twitter page at twitter.com/mcompton428. You can also e-mail him at mcompton@bgdailynews.com.