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* QuestionableCasting: Creator/MickeyRourke feels rather miscast as Darius Sayle.
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* EvilIsSexy: Nadia and Sayle, being played by Missi Pyle and Mickey Rourke respectively. Averted with Mr Grin.
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** Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is Number Four]].
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** Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is Number Four]].Four.]]
* QuestionableCasting: Creator/MickeyRourke feels rather miscast as Darius Sayle.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MickeyRourke feels rather miscast as Darius Sayle.
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* CantUnhearIt: Despite the failure of the film, the casting choices of Bill Nighy as Blunt and Sophie Okonedo as Mrs Jones are often widely praised as ''completely'' nailing the original characters.
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* CantUnhearIt: CantUnHearIt: Despite the failure of the film, the casting choices of Bill Nighy Creator/BillNighy as Blunt and Sophie Okonedo Creator/SophieOkonedo as Mrs Jones are often widely praised as ''completely'' nailing the original characters.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Alex's hair alone immediately dates this movie to the 2000s. But the then-state of the art technology includes no smartphones and very obvious 2000s flip phones - and they think they'll be able to pass Alex off as a contest winner purely with an altered magazine cover, and no mention of social media profiles etc. Alex is also given a Nintendo DS, with then-current releases.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is Number Four]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: HamAndCheese: Missi Pyle is really camping it up as Nadia - laying on a thick German accent and being quite over-the-top in parts. But she's clearly having a good time doing so.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is NumberFour]].Four]].
** Sarah Bolger ends up as a DamselInDistress in the climax. In ''Film/TheSpiderwickChronicles'' two years later, she plays a character who was a damsel in the books but becomes an AdaptationalBadass.
** Damian Lewis playing a secret agent is very amusing to fans of ''{{Series/Homeland}}''.
* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of Irish audiences tuned in just to see ''Film/InAmerica'' actress Creator/SarahBolger in a blockbuster role.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is Number
** Sarah Bolger ends up as a DamselInDistress in the climax. In ''Film/TheSpiderwickChronicles'' two years later, she plays a character who was a damsel in the books but becomes an AdaptationalBadass.
** Damian Lewis playing a secret agent is very amusing to fans of ''{{Series/Homeland}}''.
* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of Irish audiences tuned in just to see ''Film/InAmerica'' actress Creator/SarahBolger in a blockbuster role.
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* OneSceneWonder: Stephen Fry shows up for one sequence supplying Alex with his gadgets, and of course is very memorable.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** While she had attracted lots of press for ''Film/InAmerica'', Sabina's actress Sarah Bolger would become far better known for her television roles in ''Series/TheTudors'', ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'', ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and ''Series/AgentCarter''.
** Wolf, Alex's comrade in boot camp, is played by Ashley Walters - who was known for his music career (under the name Asher D) - but is now better known as an actor in ''Series/TopBoy'' and ''Series/{{Bulletproof}}''.
** Creator/DamianLewis did have the critical acclaim from starring in ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', but it hadn't done as well in live airings and would take a few years to acquire its strong fan base. He's of course more recognisable for ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', ''Series/{{Billions}}'' and ''Wolf Hall''.
* UncertainAudience: ''Better With Bob?'' [[https://youtu.be/K-uYK0SO0Nk?t=593 puts forth]] the suggestion that the film was released during a time when the spy genre was slowly transitioning away from the {{Camp}} and goofiness of the latter Franchise/JamesBond entries (the most recent at the time of filming was the widely panned ''Film/DieAnotherDay'') - but it had not fully undergone a {{Reconstruction}}, and therefore ''Stormbreaker'' tries to be two films at once; a child-friendly AffectionateParody of spy thrillers, and a {{Deconstruction}} of the KidHero like the books eventually became. The result was a film that was too sanitized to go deep enough with its deconstruction and therefore added nothing new, as well as not being spectacular enough to be enjoyable escapism.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** While she had attracted lots of press for ''Film/InAmerica'', Sabina's actress Sarah Bolger would become far better known for her television roles in ''Series/TheTudors'', ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'', ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and ''Series/AgentCarter''.
** Wolf, Alex's comrade in boot camp, is played by Ashley Walters - who was known for his music career (under the name Asher D) - but is now better known as an actor in ''Series/TopBoy'' and ''Series/{{Bulletproof}}''.
** Creator/DamianLewis did have the critical acclaim from starring in ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', but it hadn't done as well in live airings and would take a few years to acquire its strong fan base. He's of course more recognisable for ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', ''Series/{{Billions}}'' and ''Wolf Hall''.
* UncertainAudience: ''Better With Bob?'' [[https://youtu.be/K-uYK0SO0Nk?t=593 puts forth]] the suggestion that the film was released during a time when the spy genre was slowly transitioning away from the {{Camp}} and goofiness of the latter Franchise/JamesBond entries (the most recent at the time of filming was the widely panned ''Film/DieAnotherDay'') - but it had not fully undergone a {{Reconstruction}}, and therefore ''Stormbreaker'' tries to be two films at once; a child-friendly AffectionateParody of spy thrillers, and a {{Deconstruction}} of the KidHero like the books eventually became. The result was a film that was too sanitized to go deep enough with its deconstruction and therefore added nothing new, as well as not being spectacular enough to be enjoyable escapism.
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* CantUnhearIt: Despite the failure of the film, the casting choices of Bill Nighy as Blunt and Sophie Okonedo as Mrs Jones are often widely praised as ''completely'' nailing the original characters.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Always mixed with {{narm}}.
** Alex receiving a Nintendo DS with games that secretly have various useful functions. And he gets ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS''...just cuz.
** [[spoiler:Nadia]]'s death...underneath a giant jellyfish.
** Alex receiving a Nintendo DS with games that secretly have various useful functions. And he gets ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS''...just cuz.
** [[spoiler:Nadia]]'s death...underneath a giant jellyfish.
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** Alex receiving a Nintendo DS with games that secretly have various useful functions. And he gets ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS''... justcuz.
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** [[spoiler:Nadia]]'s death... underneath a giantjellyfish.jellyfish.
* HilariousInHindsight: Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is Number Four]].
** Alex receiving a Nintendo DS with games that secretly have various useful functions. And he gets ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS''... just
** [[spoiler:Nadia]]'s death... underneath a giant
* HilariousInHindsight: Alex, played by Alex Pettyfer stands behind a giant label '4' in Cornwall. [[Literature/IAmNumberFour He is Number Four]].
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* {{Narm}}: The Jack-Nadia fight scene. The fact that it's intercut with cartoon footage playing on a TV and is so generally chaotic and poorly choreographed kills all possible tension and just makes it really funny. [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Guess Alicia Silverstone just wasn't meant for action]].
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* {{Narm}}: The Jack-Nadia fight scene. [[FightSceneFailure The fact that it's intercut with cartoon footage playing on a TV and is so generally chaotic and poorly choreographed kills all possible tension and just makes it really funny. funny.]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Guess Alicia Silverstone just wasn't meant for action]].
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* TheDanza: Alex is this, being played by Alex Pettyfer.
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** The scene where Darius Sayle complains to Alex about how kids in school use to call him "Darius Smell" is incredibly silly and makes it hard to take him seriously as a villain. Though given that his motivation is supposed to be petty, this was presumably intentional.
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** The scene where Darius Sayle complains to Alex about how kids in school use to call him "Darius Smell" is incredibly silly and makes it hard to take him seriously as a villain. Though given that his motivation is supposed to be petty, this was presumably intentional.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MickeyRourke feels rather miscast as Darius Sayle.
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** Alex receiving a Nintendo DS with games that secretly have various useful functions. And he gets ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS''...just cuz.
** [[spoiler:Nadia]]'s death...underneath a giant jellyfish.
** Alex receiving a Nintendo DS with games that secretly have various useful functions. And he gets ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS''...just cuz.
** [[spoiler:Nadia]]'s death...underneath a giant jellyfish.
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* CompleteMonster: [[AdaptationNameChange Darius]] [[BigBad Sayle]] plots to use his Stormbreaker computers to release a deadly virus to [[WouldHurtAChild kill millions of schoolchildren all over Britain]], [[DisproportionateRetribution in retaliation for being bullied at school as a child for being a foreigner]]. When he discovers that security guard Ian Rider is actually a spy sent to find out about his plan, he has him killed by [[ProfessionalKiller Yassen Gregorovich]], and when Ian's nephew [[ChildSoldier Alex]] is caught as well, Darius has him thrown into his aquarium tank to be killed by his pet man o' war. When the control to activate the Stormbreakers at the launch party is destroyed, he tries to activate them himself with an override, and tries to kill Alex and his school crush [[AdaptationalEarlyAppearance Sabina Pleasure]] when they try to stop him.
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* {{Narm}}: The Jack-Nadia fight scene. The fact that it's intercut with cartoon footage playing on a TV and is so generally chaotic and poorly choreographed kills all possible tension and just makes it really funny.
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* EvilIsSexy: Nadia and Sayle, being played by Missi Pyle and Mickey Rourke respectively. Averted with Mr Grin.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Sayle crossed it when he revealed he was going to kill millions of completely innocent schoolchildren with the R-5 virus just because he was bullied as a child. He crossed it even further by ordering Alex thrown in the jellyfish tank and throwing Sabina off the roof of his tower. Alex catches her, but even so.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Sayle crossed it when he revealed he was going to kill millions of completely innocent schoolchildren with the R-5 virus [[FreudianExcuse just because he was bullied as a child.child]]. He crossed it even further by ordering Alex thrown in the jellyfish tank and throwing Sabina off the roof of his tower. Alex catches her, but even so.
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** MoralEventHorizon: Sayle crossed it when he revealed he was going to kill millions of completely innocent schoolchildren with the R-5 virus just because he was bullied as a child. He crossed it even further by ordering Alex thrown in the jellyfish tank and throwing Sabina off the roof of his tower. Alex catches her, but even so.
** MoralEventHorizon: Sayle crossed it when he revealed he was going to kill millions of completely innocent schoolchildren with the R-5 virus just because he was bullied as a child. He crossed it even further by ordering Alex thrown in the jellyfish tank and throwing Sabina off the roof of his tower. Alex catches her, but even so.
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** MoralEventHorizon: Sayle crossed it when he revealed he was going to kill millions of completely innocent schoolchildren with the R-5 virus just because he was bullied as a child. He crossed it even further by ordering Alex thrown in the jellyfish tank and throwing Sabina off the roof of his tower. Alex catches her, but even so.
