History YMMV / CatsDontDance

* {Adorkable}: Danny's optimism and energetic dancing and singing make him quite adorable. Also, when he becomes a couple with Sawyer after he realizes what she meant about the new item on his list "Get the girl".

* StrawmanHasAPoint: While Darla heavily overreacted during the filming of "Little Ark Angel", Danny ''did'' upstage her show and try to steal her spotlight, which would get most extras in real life fired hard. Moreover, he ruined what would have been a ''very'' complicated shot in the 1930s, wasting everyone's time and a substantial amount of money.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The scene where a furious Darla sics Max on Danny after he upstages her in the "Little Boat on the Sea" number is meant to show what a horribly spoiled brat Darla is and how she has no qualms about putting potential rivals back in their place through violent methods. However, quite a lot of viewers noted that while Darla's reaction wasn't justified, her anger was pretty understandable. Danny had not only ruined the entire scene by singing over his fellow extras, but also actively pushed Darla out of the spotlight and stole her solo (while Darla herself, though clearly irritated, had tried and failed to stay in character and pull the scene through to the end). Overall, Danny comes across as less trying to make a name for himself by breaking out of a restrictive role and more like a stage hog pushing everyone aside to have his moment. The fact that it was a very complicated, expensive scene doesn't help his case either.

** In-universal example: After giving advice to Danny about how to be great in a movie Darla Dimple floods the stage during his and the other animals' act, which realistically could have gotten many humans and animals killed, just to ruin the animals' chance to impress the director. After she accidentally reveals it to the audience, everyone is incredibly shocked and gets demoted to janitor.

** Is Darla really a little girl, or is she an [[OlderThanTheyLook adult dwarf passing herself off as a child]]? The French dub gives her a much deeper voice, and she seems to live without parents.

* MoralEventHorizon: Max crosses it in the climax when he outright attempts to murder Danny so he can't live to carry out his BatmanGambit. Up until that point, any evildoing he had performed was at the bequest of Darla, but when he hears Danny and Pudge setting up for the performance they were going to do when Darla's film was over, he resolves to stop them on his own free will, which nearly results in Danny getting killed.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Darla's fate at the end. [[spoiler: Is she reduced to working as a janitor after her reputation is destroyed? Or is she merely doing court-ordered community service to make up for the damage she caused to the studio, and eventually admitted? [[TakeAThirdOption Or Both]]?]]

* EvilIsCool: For many people, [[EnfantTerrible Darla]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dimple]] is the best thing about the movie.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Darla's fate at the end. [[spoiler: Is she reduced to working as a janitor after her reputation is destroyed? Or is she merely doing court-ordered community service to make up for the damage she caused to the studio, and eventually admitted?]]

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Darla crosses it when she floods the stage, which realistically could have gotten many humans and animals killed, just to ruin the animals' chance to impress the director.
** Max crosses it in the climax when he outright attempts to murder Danny so he can't live to carry out his BatmanGambit. Up until that point, any evildoing he had performed was at the bequest of Darla, but when he hears Danny and Pudge setting up for the performance they were going to do when Darla's film was over, he resolves to stop them on his own free will, which nearly results in Danny getting killed.

* LoveToHate: Darla Dimple and Max. Max is very popular despite being a minor character, and while a BaseBreaker, Darla has quite a large fandom.

** Creator/LaurenFaust had her first animated job in this movie. Decades later, her series ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' features an evil filly named Cozy Glow whom fans often compare her to Darla.

* MoralEventHorizon: Max crosses it in the climax when he outright attempts to murder Danny so he can't live to carry out his BatmanGambit. Up until that point, any evildoing he had performed was at the bequest of Darla, but when he hears Danny and Pudge setting up for the performance they were going to do when Darla's film was over, he resolves to stop them on his own free will, which nearly results in Danny getting killed.
* NoYay: The afore-mentioned "seduction" of Danny by Darla. "Get hot, Miss Dimple." Please don't, Miss Dimple.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The scene where a furious Darla sicks Max on Danny after he upstages her in "Li'l Arc Angel" is meant to show what a horribly spoiled brat Darla is and how she has no qualms about putting potential rivals back in their place through violent methods. However, quite a lot of viewers noted that while Darla's reaction wasn't justified, her anger was pretty understandable. Danny had not only ruined the entire scene by singing over his fellow extras, but also actively pushed Darla out of the spotlight and stole her solo (while Darla herself, though clearly irritated, had tried and failed to stay in character and pull the scene through to the end). Overall, Danny comes across as less trying to make a name for himself by breaking out of a restrictive role and more like a stage hog pushing everyone aside to have his moment. The fact that it was a very complicated, expensive scene doesn't help his case either.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The scene where a furious Darla sicks Max on Danny after he upstages her in "Li'l Arc Angel" is meant to show what a horribly spoiled brat Darla is and how she has no qualms about putting potential rivals back in their place through violent methods. However, quite a lot of viewers noted that while Darla's reaction wasn't justified, her anger was pretty understandable. Danny had not only ruined the entire scene by singing over his fellow extras, but also actively pushed Darla out of the spotlight and stole her solo (while Darla herself, though clearly irritated, had tried and failed to stay in character and pull the scene through to the end). Overall, Danny comes across as less trying to make a name for himself by breaking out of a restrictive role and more like a stage hog pushing everyone aside to have his moment.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The scene where a furious Darla sicks Max on Danny after he upstages her in "Li'l Arc Angel" is meant to show what a horribly spoiled brat Darla is and how she has no qualms about putting potential rivals back in their place through violent methods. However, quite a lot of viewers noted that while Darla's reaction wasn't justified, her anger was pretty understandable. Danny had not only ruined the entire scene by singing over his fellow extras, but also actively pushed Darla out of the spotlight and stole her solo (while Darla herself, though clearly irritated had tried and failed to stay in character and pull the scene through to the end). Overall, Danny comes across as less trying to make a name for himself by breaking out of a restrictive role and more like a stage hog pushing everyone aside to have his moment.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: There's plenty of comparisons someone can draw watching this movie to the plight of minority representation in film as represented by the animals. Considering it's in the golden age of all times could only strengthen this view since it took decades for non-white actors to reach prominence. The scene near the climax with Danny and the bigoted human bus driver only confirms the subtext, as the bus driver's comments about animals are peppered with lines like "you're one of the good ones" and "some of my best friends are," which is the type of stuff a racist person would say to avoid being perceived as racist.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: There's plenty of comparisons someone can draw watching this movie to the plight of minority representation in film as represented by the animals. Considering it's in the golden age of all times could only strengthen this view since it took decades for non-white actors to reach prominence.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The scene where a furious Darla sicks Max on Danny after he upstages her in "Li'l Arc Angel" is meant to show what a horribly spoiled brat Darla is and how she has no qualms about putting potential rivals back in their place through violent methods. However, quite a lot of viewers noted that while Darla's reaction wasn't justified, her anger was pretty understandable. Danny had not only ruined the entire scene by singing over his fellow extras, but also actively pushed Darla out of the spotlight and stole her solo (while Darla herself, though clearly irritated had tried and failed to stay in character and pull the scene through to the end). Overall, Danny comes across as less trying to make a name for himself by breaking out of a restrictive role and more like a stage hog pushing everyone aside to have his moment.

* EarWorm: Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop this song getting in your head!

** Creator/LaurenFaust had her first animated job in this movie. Decades later, her series ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' features an evil filly named Cozy Glow that fans often compare her to Darla.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: There's plenty of comparisons someone can draw watching this movie to the plight of minority representation in film as represented by the animals. Considering it's in the golden age of all times could only strengthen this view since it took decades for non-white actors to reach prominence.

* MemeticMutation: Videos where bad things happen to Darla Dimple seem to be popular on Youtube.

* PopularWithFurries: The show has been VindicatedByCable, leading to a lot of furries noticing a movie about {{Funny Animal}}s that originally went under the radar.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Yes, Darla heavily overreacted during the filming of "Little Ark Angel"... but Danny ''did'' upstage her show and try to steal her spotlight, which would get most extras in real life fired hard. Moreover, he ruined what would have been a ''very'' complicated shot in the 1930s, wasting everyone's time and a substantial amount of money.

* JerkassWoobie: Darla, if you stop and think about it. The Woobie part isn't really touched upon, as she's the BigBad, but she's a young child who is in the spotlight pretty much twenty-four seven, has no parents to speak of and at the end of the film becomes a washed-up janitor. Sure, [[LaserGuidedKarma she deserved it]], but she didn't become an EnfantTerrible by herself.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the Japanese dub of the film, Creator/EtsukoKozakura voices Pudge. Several years later, she would go onto voice [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} another penguin.]]