History YMMV / DrNo

** [[Creator/SeanConnery James Bond]] insists that there is [[Film/{{Dragonheart}} no such thing as dragons]].

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The movie was very violent for 1962, with much of the comedy, including [[BondOneLiner jokes after the kills]], to alleviate and make it less objectionable. Only a few parts, like Bond's execution of Dent can still be seen as ruthless, given [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove the very next Bond movie]] has a train fight more brutal than all of the ''Dr. No'' brawls. And the risque sexual content, with Bond's casual sex [[SexyDiscretionShot that is never on screen]] and Honey's SexySurfacingShot, is very quaint nowadays.

** The bikini where Ursula Andress emerges from the water ranked the film at #1 on Channel 4's "100 Greatest Sexy Moments".

*** Bond shoots Dr. Dent twice. Connery reprised his role in ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' and the Dr. No video game.

** The famous line "You shot your six" after Sean Connery finished his tenure in the EON Bond series with ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''.

** When Bond is in Dr. No's lair, he notices the 'Portrait of the Duke of Wellington' by Francisco Goya which had been stolen in 1961, a year before the movie was released. Its appearance implies that Dr. No had either stolen it or purchased it from the actual thief. The portrait was recovered in 1965.

* MagnificentBastard: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Julius No]] is one of SPECTRE's top operatives and a man of [[AffablyEvil charm and charisma]] who rules Crab Key, Jamaiaca with his two metal fists. Seeking to disrupt a rocket launch from America, No outplays everyone sent to the area until Bond's arrival, and even for much of the film Bond is entirely within No's power, only surviving thanks to outwitting No's assassins. When encountered by Bond, No reveals how he completely outwitted [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs the Tongs]] after [[FromNobodyToNightmare crawling up from nothing]] in Hong Kong as the son of a German missionary and a Chinese woman. Joining [[NebulousEvilOrganisation SPECTRE]], No seeks to help overthrow the orders of the eastern and western blocs alike, and remains one of the most dynamic and striking villains Bond ever faces.

* IdiotPlot: The entire plot relies on the United States ignoring the signals knocking their missiles off-course. Direction-finding for navigation is as old as radios, and direction-finding to locate enemy radio signals is just as old. This is especially egregious given Ian Fleming ''was an intelligence officer'' and would be aware of this sort of thing.

!!The novel

* DamselScrappy: Honey Ryder is loved by many fans, but others are much more critical of her, especially compared to other Bond Girls in the following films.
** Honey's incredible naivete and ignorance is ''not'' endearing, nor is her incredibly dumb way of trying to prove to Bond it could be a dragon (Note that Quarrel also thought it was a dragon, so she wasn't alone in that. They also thought the same in the book). In the book Honey has the physical body and sexual urges of a fully-grown woman but the mentality and naivete of a child. This is also combined by the fact that she never went to school, raised herself after being orphaned at a very young age and had little to no regular human contact. The problem with the film is that they keep in the key scenes from the book such as the battle with the tank, but leave out the context as to why an adult would be so easily fooled by such a pathetic forgery. Also, the Dragon in the film was a flame-throwing armoured car painted with some eyes and teeth, which didn't make it look very convincing. The book had the group being attacked by a truly massive tank--for starters, it had aeroplane tyres and it had huge fins and a neck and head to make it look like a dragon, with flames coming out of the head's mouth.

* IdiotPlot:
** The entire plot relies on the United States ignoring the signals knocking their missiles off-course. Direction-finding for navigation is as old as radios, and direction-finding to locate enemy radio signals is just as old. This is especially egregious given Ian Fleming ''was an intelligence officer'' and would be aware of this sort of thing.
** James Bond's sabotage of the reactor would have been short-lived if Dr. No had even one armed guard in the control room with them [[note]]Although the argument could be made that having guns inside a nuclear reactor is just as bad of an idea, if not worse[[/note]], or if all the rad-suited workers had rushed Bond ''en masse'' instead of fleeing and leaving Dr. No to fight him alone [[note]]Although one can possibly forgive them for wanting to put as much distance between themselves and a nuclear reactor about to blow as possible[[/note]]. It is also hard to credit that a nuclear reactor could be designed with so few safeguards that all that is necessary to blow it up is turning one dial too far to the right.

** The "metal" Buddha statue that Dr. No crushes during the disser scene is clearly made of rubber.