History TakeThat / FIlm

* ''Film/LightsOfNewYork'': A Take That from the first [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkie]] to all the silent movies (that weren't actually ''silent'': while lacking speech, they were accompanied by music). The first scene starts with a closeup of a playing radio, then a bootlegger walks in and tells his partner to "shut up that music".

** The ProductPlacement robots that appear in the first ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Film/{{Transformers}} movie]] are also AlwaysChaoticEvil due to the fact that all human technology since the 1930s is reverse-engineered from Megatron.
** Before the debut of ''[[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen Revenge of the Fallen]]'', some of the ''dozens'' of new toys released depicted a new Decepticon, Sideways, touted as the deadly adversary to Sideswipe. The toys never state what make of car he is (while nearly everyone else's does), but he bears a close resemblance to the Audi R8, made famous by ''Film/IronMan''. Now look how Sideways winds up in the movie. Or the opening of the movie, at least. It's worth noting here that Audi is a German company and the Autobots always transform into American (General Motors) vehicles.

** The character of Elias in ''Film/ClerksII'' essentially exists so Creator/KevinSmith can insist that ''Franchise/StarWars'' is better than ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/{{Transformers}}.'' He's [[StrawLoser an unlikable mama's boy]] and fan of ''Transformers'' and ''[=LotR=],'' while Randall is a mean yet likable guy and a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, and even [[WriterOnBoard copies Smith's statement]] that "''Lord of the Rings'' is just a bunch of people walking". They have a fight over which is better. Guess who "wins" and makes the other vomit.

** In "A Fistful of Yen", the CIA spy is utterly frightened of his ultimate torture: [[MotorCity Detroit.]]

* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' has one moment towards the trend of 2D characters becoming CGI (with some hints of SelfDeprecation). The Looney Tunes are actually offended when [[BigBad Al-G]] "upgrades" them (except for [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Daffy]]). Considering that they are hand-drawn 2D characters that have been around for years, they wouldn't be all to keen at being updated.

--->[[spoiler: '''White Goodman''': "Yep, I hope you're all happy now. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Big freakin' surprise! I love happy endings. You know, that's the problem with the American cinema. Can't handle any complexity in it, you know, 'Don't make me think, I just want to be entertained!'"]]

** The name Zilla is a Take That- the director of ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' named him such because he felt that the American film "took the god out of Godzilla". Also, note that 'Zilla was the only monster in the film to be rendered in CGI - and apparently [[StylisticSuck deliberately crappy CGI]], because man does it ever look awful. This in and of itself is ''yet another'' Take That! at GINO for being, well, ''really crappy CGI.''

* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Sonic views a planet covered in mushrooms with disdain, stating "I hate mushrooms" which has been confirmed by writer Patrick Casey to be a jab at a certain [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros other video game franchise]] which used a lot of mushroom imagery and served as [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog the Sonic games]] main rival for a long time.

** In ''Film/ZindagiNaMilegiDobara'' (Life doesn't come again), one of the actors says he's invested a lot of money to buy a Ferrari. He says if the investment doesn't work out, he'll be forced to settle with a Ford Fiesta. Ford did nothing.

* A scene in ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' features BigBad Ivan Ooze--as he is trashing the Command Center--lamenting the terrible things he missed out on while sealed away for a couple thousand years: "the Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition! ''Series/TheBradyBunch [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Reunion]]''!" Made funny by the grave emphasis he puts on the ''Brady Reunion''.