History YMMV / AWrinkleInTime

* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD cover features the three main characters on a winged ''horse'' above a medieval-looking castle, neither of which remotely resembles anything that appears in the film. TheyJustDidntCare.

* TheyJustDidntCare: TheMovie.
-->'''[[http://www.newsweek.com/2004/05/06/i-dare-you.html Newsweek interviewer]]:''' So you've seen the movie?
-->'''Madeleine L'Engle:''' I've glimpsed it.
-->'''Interviewer:''' And did it meet expectations?
-->'''L'Engle:''' Oh, yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is.
** To be fair, Kyle Secor does make a good Man With the Red Eyes.

* HilariousInHindsight: Most modern readers will wonder if working with the Tesseract makes Meg's father [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Dr. Erik Selvig or Loki]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Most modern readers will wonder if working with the Tesseract makes Meg's father [[Film/TheAvengers Dr. Erik Selvig or Loki]].

* GeniusBonus: Camazotz is [[ShoutOut also the name of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camazotz a particularly terrifying Mayan bat god]].
** Not just that Camazotz is named for a Mayan bat god - the fact that L'Engle (writing what amounts to Christian literature) named the world after a ''pagan'' god.
** Ixchel, the planet of the angelic, sightless [[StarfishAliens Beasts]], is named, appropriately enough, for a Mayan jaguar god of medicine and [[{{Irony}} rainbows]].

** Ixchel, the planet of the angelic, sightless [[StarfishAliens Beasts]], is named, appropriately enough, for a Mayan jaguar god of medicine.

* FridgeLogic: ''Wrinkle'' comes under scrutiny when the characters of ''Literature/WhenYouReachMe'' discuss it. Specifically, Miranda and Marcus discuss L'engle's portrayal of time travel. The three Mrs. W's promise Meg and the boys that they should be back "five minutes before you left." But as Marcus points out, if this is true then Meg should have seen herself returning, because Meg&co. landed in the garden, which in plain sight from wall, where they left. Marcus is arguing a StableTimeLoop is in effect, while Miranda (very defensive of her favorite author) maintains that the future hadn't happened yet, so of course they wouldn't be seen.
** FridgeBrilliance: There is a simpler explanation, which no one in ''When You Reach Me'' notices: Mrs. Whatsit says they'll be back five minutes before they left, unless "something goes terribly wrong." And something does indeed go terribly wrong.

* AreYouSureThisIsForKids: Scientists' reaction at the time of this book's first printing. They couldn't understand how something as advanced and theoretical as quantum physics and tesseracts could be accessible to children.

* FridgeLogic: ''Wrinkle'' comes under scrutiny when the characters of ''Literature/WhenYouReachMe'' discuss it. Specifically, Miranda and Marcus discuss L'engle's portrayal of tiem travel. The three Mrs. W's promise Meg and the boys that they should be back "five minutes before you left." But as Marcus points out, if this is true then Meg should have seen herself returning, because Meg&co. landed in the garden, which in plain sight from wall, where they left. Marcus is arguing a StableTimeLoop is in effect, while Miranda (very defensive of her favorite author) maintains that the future hadn't happened yet, so of course they wouldn't be seen.

* FridgeLogic: ''Wrinkle'' comes under scrutiny when the characters of ''Literature/WhenYouReachMe'' discuss it. Specifically, the time travel in it. The three Mrs. W's promise Meg and the boys that they should be back "five minutes before you left." But as Marcus points out, if this is true then Meg should have seen herself returning, because Meg&co. landed in the garden, which in plain sight from wall, where they left. Marcus is arguing a StableTimeLoop is in effect, while Miranda (very defensive of her favorite author) maintains that the future hadn't happened yet, so of course they wouldn't be seen.
** FridgeBrilliance: There is a simpler explanation, which no one in ''Reach'' notices: Mrs. Whatsit says they'll be back five minutes before they left, unless "something goes terribly wrong." And something does indeed go terribly wrong.

* AreYouSureThisIsForKids: Scientists' reaction at the time of this book's first printing. They couldn't understand how something as advanced and theoretical as quantam physics and tesseracts could be accessible to children.

* AreYouSureThisisForKids: Scientists' reaction at the time of this book's first printing. They couldn't understand how something as advanced and theoretical as quantam physics and tesseracts could be accessible to children.

* KarmaHoudini: IT gets away scot-free. Not so in the movie.
** Then again, the TV movie has [[spoiler:Meg free an ''entire planet'' from brain-washing by making one awkward, rambling speech.]] Talk about an AntiClimax.
** You sure IT's still okay? The book never specifies what happened to IT.
** Later books imply that IT and the other "forces of evil" out there have not ''escaped'' their karma per se; they will get what's coming to them as soon as one of the "good guys" gets around to gathering enough strength to fight them off. Which makes the entire climax of the book into something of a HopelessBossFight.
** It is intended to be rather real world, as if he was captured by a Earth nation run by a dictator, the battle between good and evil continues on after the story. In RealLife dictators sometimes get away and sometimes don't.
** In general, the plot of escape from the evil land or rescue someone from the evil land leaves the evil land and its evil rulers intact.
** The book used the phrase "IT's fatal mistake" to refer to the taunt that inspired Meg's winning strategy, and the text seemed to describe Meg and Charles Wallace being whisked out of there just ahead of an explosion. I don't think IT survived. No telling what that means for the people of Camazotz.
*** I always read "IT's fatal mistake" as a metaphor, indicating that IT clued Meg into the tactic. The text seemed to vividly indicate anger and the effects as Meg and Charles were tessered out through the Black Thing.
* LargeHam: IT in TheFilmOfTheBook.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A commentator on Mari Ness' [[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/12/there-is-such-a-thing-as-a-tesseract-a-wrinkle-in-time Madeleine L'Engle reread]] for ''Wrinkle'' argues that Meg's writing shows "far better portrayal of a profoundly gifted child than Charles Wallace was."

* AdaptationDecay: The less said about [[TheFilmOfTheBook the 2003 made for TV adaptation]], the better.
** To be fair, the book, with its [[StarfishAlien Starfish Aliens]], [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journeys To The Center Of The Mind]] as major plot points, and [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Mrs. Which in general]], is basically unfilmable.
** Still, difficulty in filming certain scenes doesn't explain the rather odd changes to character's personalities and motivations. Making Mrs. Which into a raging xenophobe, turning Charles Wallace from a boy desperate to save his father to a boy easily distracted by shiny alien novelties...one could go on and on.