History YMMV / PodPeople

** The intro and outro, which are taken from a completely different film.

* RefrainFromAssuming: There actually was a [[https://www.discogs.com/Various-Los-Nuevos-Extra-terrestres-Extraterrestral-Visitors/release/3054922 soundtrack EP]] released, and the title of the song popularly known as "Burning Rubber Tires" or "Hear The Engines Roar Now" (or "Idiot Control Now") is listed in Spanish as "Rugen los motores" ("The Motors Roar").

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Trumpy is actually a fairly likable character. It helps that he never speaks, and Crow projects a very bizarre personality onto him.

* UglyCute: Trumpy once again.

* UncertainAudience: What happens when ExecutiveMeddling tries to force a horror movie into being an ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' knockoff? This. Because the movie is attempting to play (half-assedly) to the child demographic, they obviously can't show any gory or creative sorts of deaths. No gore means the movie can't appeal to fans of the KillEmAll {{Horror}} genre. At the same time, because people ''do'' still drop like flies throughout the film's runtime, it's far too dark for kids.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The music-and-magic scene with all the things flying around. Right out of nowhere. Especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} because you'd think a bunch of RealityWarper powers would come in handy when dealing with those poachers. They are never demonstrated by Trumpy's mother, or even by Trumpy except for that one segment.

* TearJerker: Tommy abandoning Trumpy actually manages to be a little heartbreaking.

* TheScrappy: Tommy and the fake band. So, almost the entire cast.

* CriticalDissonance: Despite how mocked the films been and how savaged by critics it was, it reportedly sold very well in France and remained amongst the top of the video sales charts for several months straight.

* TheWoobie: Tommy comes across as a very lonely kid who has no friends until he meets Trumpy. And while his aunt and uncle aren't outright abusive, they are still pretty uncaring jerks.

* UncannyValley: Tommy's dubbed voice doesn't fit him at all. It's actually more unsettling than you'd think.

** (''okay sign'') "It stinks!" [[note]]Once the band finishes recording their {{Mondegreen}}-laced song, the singer does the okay sign then says that the song stinks. It makes more sense in the film's native Spain, as detailed below in ValuesDissonance, but Joel & the Bot's repeated riffing of the gesture as made it meme-worthy.[[/note]]

** (''okay sign'') "It stinks!" [[note]]Once the band finishes recording their {{Mondegreen}}-laced song, the singer does the okay sign that says that the song stinks. It makes more sense in the film's native Spain, as detailed below in ValuesDissonance, but Joel & the Bot's repeated riffing of the gesture as made it meme-worthy.[[/note]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Let your rock musician boyfriend walk all over you and have an affair with a groupie. Eventually, he'll get bored of her and return to you. (To be fair, he has the lame excuse that she's a producer's daughter, but ''really''...)
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow:]]''' Yeah, try to be nice to your boyfriend's girlfriend.

* HollywoodHomely: One of the band girls complains that she's the only one with no boyfriend because she's not pretty. She isn't any worse looking than the other girls.

* EarWorm:
** "[[{{Mondegreen}} Idiot Control Now!]]"
** "Sara" (the song that plays when the band drives up to the mountains, which Joel claims is by Music/{{Morrissey}} and Servo says is Music/RingoStarr) is oddly catchy too.

* CriticalDissonance: Despite how mocked the films been and how savaged by critics it was, it reportedly sold well very in France and remained amongst the top of the video sales charts for several months straight.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Pretty much the entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Z_OWPe6fU "Hear the Engines Roar Now"]] song. The reason it's so susceptible to mondegreens is that the film's composer Librado Pastor is singing the song, dubbing Ian Sera, and slurring his words in an attempt to hide his thick Spanish accent.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Because the movie is attempting to play to the child demographic, they obviously can't show any gory or creative sorts of deaths. No gore means the movie can't appeal to fans of the KillEmAll {{Horror}} genre. At the same time, because people ''do'' still drop like flies throughout the film's runtime, it's far too dark for kids.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Pretty much the entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Z_OWPe6fU "Hear the Engines Roar Now"]] song. The reason it's so susceptible to mondegreens is that the Spanish composer is singing the song, dubbing Ian Sera, and trying to hide a thick Spanish accent.

** (''okay sign'') "It stinks!" [[note]]Once the band finishes recording their {{Mondegreen}}-laced song, the singer does the okay sign that says that the song stinks. It makes more sense in the film's native Spain, as detailed below in ValuesDissonance, but Mike & the Bot's repeated riffing of the gesture as made it meme-worthy.[[/note]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The music-and-magic scene with all the things flying around. Right out of nowhere.
** Especially JustForFun/{{egregious}} because you'd think a bunch of RealityWarper powers would come in handy when dealing with those poachers. They are never demonstrated by Trumpy's mother, or even by Trumpy except for that one segment.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Going forward, here's a tip for any [[ExecutiveMeddling meddling idiot executives]]: If you're going to doll up a crappy monster movie into a crappy kid's monster movie, you may want to also consider reducing the amount of horrible deaths by about 100%.

* ValuesDissonance: In Spain, the "OK" sign means "That was worthless" (it's not an "ok" sign, it's a zero). So Rick's sudden switch from giving an OK sign and smiling to "It ''stinks!''" makes a bit more sense (and his smile was obviously sarcastic). And that's not even getting into the gesture being adopted as a [[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll White Supermacist Dog Whistle]] in TheNewTens.

* ValuesDissonance: In Spain, the "OK" sign means "That was worthless" (it's not an "ok" sign, it's a zero). So Rick's sudden switch from giving an OK sign and smiling to "It ''stinks!''" makes a bit more sense (and his smile was obviously sarcastic). And that's not even getting into the gesture being adopted as a [[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll White Supermacist Dog Whistle]] in TheNew10s.

* ValuesDissonance: In Spain, the "OK" sign means "That was worthless" (it's not an "ok" sign, it's a zero). So Rick's sudden switch from giving an OK sign and smiling to "It ''stinks!''" makes a bit more sense (and his smile was obviously sarcastic).

* UncannyValley: Tommy's dubbed voice doesn't fit him at all. It's actually quite unsettling.