History YMMV / Casper

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVQEAeRyIjI "One Last Wish"]] is completely beautiful.

* WhatAnIdiot: In the backstory, when Casper's father was haunted by his son's ghost and was building the Lazarus machine to bring him back to life:\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Him to keep his damn mouth shut about the entire business, working on his machine and interacting with his son in secret.\\
'''Instead:''' He spreads it around that he is being haunted by his son and is inventing a machine to bring him back to life, to the extent that it makes the local papers.\\
'''As a Result:''' Casper's father is declared insane and committed before he can bring his son back.

* MemeticMutation: Ray Stantz's cameo line [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0IXDaJ1Tc "Who you gonna call?...Someone else."]] has become a very popular phrase for dissing the [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters]].

* BrokenBase: The "can I keep you?" line from Casper to Kat as she's falling asleep. Some find it creepy and a little perverted, given that he kisses her while she's barely conscious. Others are more okay with it, since the movie treats his attraction to Kat as a PrecociousCrush and he is eternally twelve years old.[[note]]This is compounded by a pattern seen throughout the film, in which becoming a ghost seems to de-mature people: Dr. Harvey goes from being a middle-aged father to being a frat-boy wannabe, and Casper is a KiddieKid, who has a toy train named Hootie and sees a baseball as a "treasure".[[/note]] For what it's worth, him saying that in human form is what tells Kat that it's him - so she must seem to remember him saying it and appears to be okay with it.

* AssPull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed more like an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last minute so his romantic feelings for her would be genuine rather than a PrecociousCrush.

** Dibs crosses this when he betrays Carrigan by stealing the serum and the treasure for himself, refusing to revive her.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Say what you will about the rest of the film, but even after twenty years of technological development, the computer animated ghosts are still ''very'' convincing. It helps that animated ghosts are very well-suited to the CGI capabilities of 1995; they float in the air, they don't have shadows, they don't have reflections, etc.

* AlasPoorVillain: Though Vic played along with Amber's scheme, he was clearly against the idea from the start. In turn, it's easy to wish he had somehow avoided the comeuppance at the end of the movie.

** Devon Sawa plays Casper's human form. Years later, he spends an entire movie trying to [[Film/FinalDestination cheat death]].

* WTHCostumingDepartment: Why does Ray Stanz have a mustache in this? Potential copyright issue? Did Dan Aykroyd not want to shave it off? Either way, it kind of detracts from the cameo.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: When we finally see Casper as a living boy, he's dressed like a bishounen pirate.[[note]]He had previously mentioned playing pirates with his father in the lab. Could have been his old costume, and it was a ''Halloween'' party.[[/note]]

* AssPull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed as an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last minute so his romantic feelings for her would be genuine rather than a PrecociousCrush.

* WhatAnIdiot: In the backstory, when Casper's father was haunted by his son's ghost and was building the Lazarus machine to bring him back to life:
'''You'd Expect:''' Him to keep his damn mouth shut about the entire business, working on his machine and interacting with his son in secret.
'''Instead:''' He spreads it around that he is being haunted by his son and is inventing a machine to bring him back to life, to the extent that it makes the local papers.

** Music/JamesHorner's score for the first film, with a special shout-out to the haunting and touching "[[http://youtu.be/U9Az6dyE6zg Casper's Lullaby]]."

* NightmareFuel: The Ghostly Trio's first impression can be terrifying. Double for the way they scared Dr. Harvey, which also counts as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: When we finally see Casper as a living boy, he's dressed like a bishounen pirate.[[note]]He had previously mentioned playing pirates with his father in the lab. Could have been his old costume.[[/note]]

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The SNES/Famicom game is actually pretty fun and creative, playing like a modified version of "A Boy and his Blob". Casper takes various forms to escort Kat through his house down to the Lazarus Machine, fighting off his uncles and Carrie along the way. Only problem is that it came out at the end of the SNES lifespan, so cartridges are rare and super-expensive.

** Accounted for in the sequels, where the ghosts have robotic movements, are animated choppily and face-plant smack in the middle of the UncannyValley.

* AssPull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed as an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last minute so his romantic feelings for her would be genuine rather than a PrecociousCrush .

* AssPull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed as an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last minute so his romantic feelings for her would be genuine rather than a Precocious Crush .

* AssPull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed as an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last minute so his crush on her would be genuine rather than puppy love.

* AssPull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed as an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last moment so his crush on her would be genuine rather than puppy love.

* Asspull: The reveal that Casper died at the age of twelve. Considering how he was portrayed as an eight year old throughout the movie, it makes it obvious the writers made him closer to Kat's age (thirteen) at the last moment so his crush on her would be genuine rather than puppy love.