History YMMV / ThePoseidonAdventure

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It's a DisasterMovie with an AllStarCast made during the genre's heyday, featuring plenty of 1970s hairstyles on the characters, and the formal wear is very reminiscent of the period. Creator/LeslieNielsen also features in one of his dramatic roles before his CareerResurrection as a comedic actor later on.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It's a DisasterMovie with an AllStarCast made during the genre's heyday - featuring plenty of seventies hairstyles on the characters, and the formal wear is very reminiscent of the period. Creator/LeslieNielsen also features in one of his dramatic roles before his CareerResurrection as a comedic actor later on.

!!The 2005 TV movie:
* WhatAnIdiot: The Cruise Director, who gives away Rogo's purpose as a sea marshal, and insists that everyone stay inside the dining room, even after it's pointed out that the ship will inevitably sink.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Near the end of the film, the survivors have to cross over a pit of fire via a narrow bridge. The only ones who don't make it are [[spoiler: Badawi, who masterminded the terrorist plot, and Shoshanna, who was Richard's mistress]].

** [[spoiler: That and the fact that Belle died before she even had a chance to met her grandson.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: A tsunami that kills a lot of people on Boxing Day? Needless to say, it's even more horrifying after 2004...

* FunnyMoments: Early on, Robin fights with Susan and says "Shove it!". Susan tells him never to talk like that to her, prompting him to say "Shove it shove it shove it!".

* ValuesDissonance: The whole "Susan getting raped" subplot, full stop. Not only is the attack itself [[GratuitousRape completely superfluous to the plot]], but Susan's reaction to it (she sympathizes with her attacker, to the point of mourning his death, planning to meet his parents after getting rescued, and ''hoping she's carrying his rape-child'') could only be the product of a male author from a pre-feminist generation.

* TheScrappy: Nonnie for being TheLoad, and Robin for being a know-it-all.

* ValuesDissonance: The whole "Susan getting raped" subplot, full stop. Not only is the attack itself [[GratuitousRape completely superfluous to the plot]], but Susan's reaction to it (she sympathizes with her attacker, to the point of mourning his death, planning to meet his parents after getting rescued, and ''hoping she's carrying his rape-child'') could only be the product of a male author from a pre-feminist era.

* ValuesDissonance: The whole "Susan getting raped" subplot, full stop. Not only is the attack itself [[GratuitousRape completely superfluous to the plot]], but Susan's reaction to it (she sympathizes with her attacker, to the point of mourning his death, planning to meet his parents, and ''hoping she's carrying his rape-child'') could only be the product of a male author from a pre-feminist era.

* HilariousInHindsight: LeslieNielsen playing it straight as the captain of the ''Poseidon'' in a disaster movie, seven years before ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', a spoof of disaster movies. The [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome Syndrome]] was still [[Series/PoliceSquad a decade away]].

* HilariousInHindsight: LeslieNielsen playing it straight as the captain of the ''Poseidon'' in a disaster movie, seven years before ''Film/{{Airplane}}!'', a spoof of disaster movies. The [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome Syndrome]] was still [[Series/PoliceSquad a decade away]].

* HilariousInHindsight: LeslieNielsen playing it straight as the captain of the ''Poseidon''.
** The [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome Syndrome]] was still [[Series/PoliceSquad a decade away]].

** The [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome Syndrome]] was still [[PoliceSquad a decade away]].

* TheScrappy: Nonnie, for some.

* HellIsThatNoise: The groan the ship makes before settling upside down in the 2006 movie.

* NightmareFuel: The guy who falls ''into the ceiling light'' and its replacement in the remake, the ''disco electrocution'', for starters...

* AccidentalNightmareFuel

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The guy who falls ''into the ceiling light'' and its replacement in the remake, the ''disco electrocution'', for starters...