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* DuelingMovies: ''Film/TheSandlot'', another nostalgic film set in 1962 was released mere months after this one.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: ''MANT!''
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: ''MANT!''
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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Sherry. Though she makes it clear early on she's eager to get racy.
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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl: Sherry. Though she makes it clear early on she's eager to get racy.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: GirlyGirl Sherry's dresses and bedroom wallpaper are bright pink, and she is also intrigued by pink ocean coral.
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* BringMyBrownPants: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] - while Mr. Spector likes the movie, he says he's confirmed about the atomic bomb at the end because for younger viewers, it could cause "seat wetness".
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Andy, the other Navy kid at Gene's school. As soon as Stan and the others realize Gene is actually pretty cool, they invite him to sit with them when he and Andy are heading for their table at the same time. Andy then goes to sit with a group of girls, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere who promptly leave]].
* TheGlomp: After the crowd flees the theater only to realize everything's all right, Mr. Ellroy hugs another man in relief. The man is not amused.
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* StandardSnippet: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
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* StandardSnippet: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".Tonight", which plays [[BookEnds both after the Cuban Missile Crisis is announced, and then at the end after it's all over]].
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* MisterSandmanSequence: Pretty similar to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' in this regard, but with more social commentary.
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* MisterSandmanSequence: Pretty similar to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' in this regard, but with more social commentary.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: When [[spoiler:Stan goes to rescue Sherry from her kidnapper Harvey, she is constantly struggling against him and eventually manages to knock Harvey's knife out of his hand and later break free from Harvey's grip with little help from Stan]].
* FallOutShelterFail: Theater manager Howard's supposedly impenetrable bomb shelter is easily pried open with a crowbar. Unusually, this is a good thing since [[spoiler:two kids are trapped inside the shelter without any air at the time]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Andy.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Sherry talks about how sweet it is that Stan (supposedly) came to the movie premiere to spend time with a little boy, then immediately snaps at [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling her own little brother]] for interrupting them to summon her back to the auditorium.
* {{Jerkass}}:Andy.Andy can be smarmy.
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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Sherry is the light feminine, with her vivacious demeanor, PinkIsFeminine wardrobe, and all the dolls and stuffed animals in her bedroom. Sandra is the dark feminine, with her modest {{Beatnik}} dresses and intense, contemplative attitude. While both girls are ultimately sympathetic characters, Sandra, the dark feminine, is more caring and mature.
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* PintSizedPowerHouse: 5 foot 5 inch Herb Denning easily pins hunky delinquent Harvey Starkweather to a wall in one scene.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Harvey vs. Herb and Bob, the "decency" committeemen who turn out to be tough-guy second-string actors on the run from UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Harvey vs. Herb and Bob, the "decency" committeemen who turn out to be tough-guy second-string actors on the run from UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist.UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist, rough up Harvey for picking Bob's pocket.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: ''MANT!''
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* OneMillionBC: Woolsey's speech comparing moviegoers to cavemen seeking enlightenment.
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[[caption-width-right:250:"Grownups don't know what they're doing either, kid. That's the real hustle."]]
[[caption-width-right:250:"Grownups don't know what they're doing either, kid. That's the real hustle."]]
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[[caption-width-right:315:"Grownups don't know what they're doing either, kid. That's the real hustle."]]
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''Matinee'' is a 1993 {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/JoeDante. Set in Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoia of the impending nuclear destruction, movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Creator/JohnGoodman) comes to town to premiere his latest creature feature ''[[ShowWithinAShow MANT!]]'' and uses his unique brand of showmanship to play off of people's [[https://youtu.be/EVEjdGQSzc8 fears.]]
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''Matinee'' is a 1993 {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/JoeDante. Set in
In Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the 1962 [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoiaof the impending surrounding possible imminent nuclear destruction, movie schlock-movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Creator/JohnGoodman) comes to arrives in town to premiere his latest creature feature feature, ''[[ShowWithinAShow MANT!]]'' MANT!]]'', and uses his unique brand of showmanship to play off of people's [[https://youtu.be/EVEjdGQSzc8 fears.]]
In Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the 1962 [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoia
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** In ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', Cedric gets turned into a shopping cart. [[TheyFightCrime He fights crime]].
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** In ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', Cedric gets turned into a shopping cart. [[TheyFightCrime He fights crime]].crime.
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* CreatorCameo: Charlie Haas, one of the screenwriters, plays Mr. Ellroy, a teacher at the school.
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I Love Nuclear Power is dewicked
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* ILoveNuclearPower: Actually, people hate it, but the trope is about how "MANT!" is formed.
-->'''Scientist:''' "Young man. I'm afraid you've suffered some of the worst of what our... ''mighty little friend, the atom'' has to offer! It can power a city... ''or level it!"''
-->'''Scientist:''' "Young man. I'm afraid you've suffered some of the worst of what our... ''mighty little friend, the atom'' has to offer! It can power a city... ''or level it!"''
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* RealitySubtext: In-universe. The film-within-a-film ''MANT!'' is all about the [[ILoveNuclearPower horrors created]] by nuclear testing. Meanwhile, nuclear war seems imminent.
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* RealitySubtext: In-universe. The film-within-a-film ''MANT!'' is all about the [[ILoveNuclearPower horrors created]] created by nuclear testing. Meanwhile, nuclear war seems imminent.
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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS
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* BalefulPolymorph: Two InUniverse examples:
** Bill, the title character of ''MANT!'', is transformed into a half-man, half-ant creature.
** In ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', Cedric gets turned into a shopping cart. [[TheyFightCrime He fights crime]].
** Bill, the title character of ''MANT!'', is transformed into a half-man, half-ant creature.
** In ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', Cedric gets turned into a shopping cart. [[TheyFightCrime He fights crime]].
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* ForcedTransformation: Two InUniverse examples:
** Bill, the title character of ''MANT!'', is transformed into a half-man, half-ant creature.
** In ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', Cedric gets turned into a shopping cart. [[TheyFightCrime He fights crime]].
** Bill, the title character of ''MANT!'', is transformed into a half-man, half-ant creature.
** In ''The Shook-Up Shopping Cart'', Cedric gets turned into a shopping cart. [[TheyFightCrime He fights crime]].
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''Matinee'' is a 1993 {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/JoeDante. Set in Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoia of the impending nuclear destruction, movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Creator/JohnGoodman) comes to town to premiere his latest creature feature ''[[ShowWithinAShow MANT!]]'' and uses his unique brand of showmanship to play off of people's fears.
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''Matinee'' is a 1993 {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/JoeDante. Set in Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoia of the impending nuclear destruction, movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Creator/JohnGoodman) comes to town to premiere his latest creature feature ''[[ShowWithinAShow MANT!]]'' and uses his unique brand of showmanship to play off of people's fears.
[[https://youtu.be/EVEjdGQSzc8 fears.]]
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''Matinee'' is a 1993 {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/JoeDante. Set in Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoia of the impending nuclear destruction, movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Creator/JohnGoodman) comes to town to premiere his latest creature feature ''[[ShowWithinAShow MANT!]]'' and uses his unique brand of showmanship to play off of people's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2Lbhwl23M fears.]]
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''Matinee'' is a 1993 {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/JoeDante. Set in Key West, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]], Gene and his little brother Dennis live on the military base with their mother while their father is deployed in the Navy. Amidst the growing paranoia of the impending nuclear destruction, movie producer Lawrence Woolsey (Creator/JohnGoodman) comes to town to premiere his latest creature feature ''[[ShowWithinAShow MANT!]]'' and uses his unique brand of showmanship to play off of people's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2Lbhwl23M fears.]]
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Herb and Bob (or so it appears), who give Harvey a lesson in not assuming.
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-->'''Dentist:''' X-rays, Carole. A form of radiation. An ant must have bitten Bill when he was getting his teeth x-rayed... Anyway, the ant's saliva must've gotten into Bill's bloodstream and gone straight to his brain -- just as the radiation, ''[[YesButWhatDoesItDo which is measured in units called Röentgens]]'', was released!!
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-->'''Dentist:''' X-rays, Carole. A form of radiation. An ant must have bitten Bill when he was getting his teeth x-rayed... Anyway, the ant's saliva must've gotten into Bill's bloodstream and gone straight to his brain -- just as the radiation, ''[[YesButWhatDoesItDo which ''which is measured in units called Röentgens]]'', Röentgens'', was released!!
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* BittersweetEnding: The ending becomes this when you realize [[spoiler:the copters coming in forebode the inevitability of the Vietnam War being not so far away and how much of an impact it will have on the younger characters moving forward.]] Otherwise, it’s a pretty clear upbeat ending with [[spoiler:Woolsey saving his career and his relationship thanks to the success of "MANT!"'s premiere, the Cuban Missile Crisis ending, Starkweather going back to jail, Gene being with Somdra and Stanley being with Sherry.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The ending becomes this when you realize [[spoiler:the copters coming in forebode the inevitability of the Vietnam War being not so far away and how much of an impact it will have on the younger characters moving forward.]] Otherwise, it’s a pretty clear upbeat ending with [[spoiler:Woolsey saving both his career and his relationship with Ruth thanks to the success of "MANT!"'s premiere, the Cuban Missile Crisis ending, Starkweather going back to jail, Gene being with Somdra Sandra and Stanley Stan being with Sherry.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The ending becomes this when you realize [[spoiler:the copters coming in forebode the inevitability of the Vietnam War being not so far away and how much of an impact it will have on the younger characters moving forward.]] Otherwise, it’s a pretty clear upbeat ending with [[spoiler:Woolsey saving his career and his relationship thanks to the success of "MANT!"'s premiere, the Cuban Missile Crisis ending, Starkweather going back to jail, Gene being with Somdra and Stanley being with Sherry.]]
