History YMMV / YoungEinstein

* AmericansHateTingle: The film was one of the biggest box office hits ever in Australia, so, hoping for another ''Film/CrocodileDundee''-like success, Creator/WarnerBros released it in the US in the jam-packed blockbuster summer of 1989 with massive hype, but it was a huge disappointment, limping to 8th place on its opening weekend and just barely turning a profit, and receiving a mostly negative reaction from American critics. This has largely been attributed to its style of humour not translating well overseas.

* AmericansHateTingle: The film was one of the biggest box office hits ever in Australia, so, hoping for another ''Film/CrocodileDundee''-like success, Creator/WarnerBros released it in the US in the jam-packed blockbuster summer of 1989 with massive hype, but it was a huge disappointment, limping to 8th place on its opening weekend and just barely turning a profit.

* HarsherInHindsight: Two of the people at the Science Academy Awards ceremony, Marconi (radio) and Edison (light bulb) are not the true inventors of their respective technologies. Edison had essentially ripped off Tesla when he had found a way to resolve a technical problem for him in exchange for $50,000 which Edison reneged on. Marconi had only improved on radio technology and patented it for commercialization. However, Tesla came up with the theories and actually built and demonstrated a ''radio-controlled boat'' in the 1890s! Only recently has Nikola Tesla's achievements gotten widespread public attention and recognition.

* AmericansHateTingle: Although the film was generally well-received in its native Australia, the reaction from North American critics was mostly negative. This has largely been attributed to its style of humour not translating well overseas.

* NightmareFuel: The kittens being placed into a pie to be ''baked alive''!

** The film's main antagonist was played by Creator/JohnHoward (not to be confused with the [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics former Australian Prime Minister]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]]), more recognizable nowadays as the People Eater from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''

* HarsherInHindsight: Two of the people at the Science Academy Awards ceremony, Marconi (radio) and Edison (light bulb) are not the true inventors of their respective technologies. Edison had essentially ripped off Tesla when he had found a way to resolve a technical problem for him in exchange for $50,000 which Edison reneged on. Marconi had only improved on radio technology and patented it for commercialization. However, Tesla came up with the theories and actually built and demonstrated a ''radio-controlled boat'' in the 1890s! Only recently has Nikola Tesla's achievements gotten widespread public attention and recognition.
* {{Squick}}: Just ''what'' was that slop that the asylum chef was serving?

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%% * SoBadItsGood: Seriously, go back and re-read the description for this movie.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The film's main antagonist was played by Creator/JohnHoward (not to be confused with the [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics former Australian Prime Minister]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]]), more recognizable nowadays as the People Eater from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''

* HarsherInHindsight: Two of the people at the Science Academy Awards ceremony, Marconi (radio) it was Nikola Tesla. In fact, Edison had essentially ripped off Tesla when he had found a way to resolve a technical problem for him in exchange for $50,000 which Edison reneged on. Marconi had only improved on radio technology and patented it. However, Tesla came up with the theories and actually built and demonstrated a ''radio-controlled boat'' in the 1890s! Only recently has Nikola Tesla's achievements gotten widespread public attention and recognition.

* HarsherInHindsight: Two of the people at the Science Academy Awards ceremony, Marconi (radio) and Edison (light bulb), weren't the true inventors of their respective technologies, it was Nikola Tesla. In fact, Edison had essentially ripped off Tesla when he had invented the light bulb for him in exchange for $50,000 which Edison reneged on. Marconi had only improved on radio technology and patented it. However, Tesla came up with the theories and actually built and demonstrated a ''radio-controlled boat'' in the 1890s! Only recently has Nikola Tesla's achievements gotten widespread public attention and recognition.

* HarsherInHindsight: Two of the people at the Science Academy Awards ceremony, Marconi (radio) and Edison (light bulb), weren't the true inventors of their respective technologies, it was Nikola Tesla. In fact, Edison had essentially ripped off Tesla when he had invented the light bulb for him in exchange for $50,000 which Edison reneged on. Marconi had only improved on radio technology and patented it. However, Tesla came up with the theories and actually built and demonstrated a ''radio-controlled boat'' in the 1890s! Only recently has Nikola Tesla's achievements been formally recognized by the general public.

%% * SoBadItsGood: Seriously, go back and re-read the description for this movie.
* Squick: Just ''what'' was that slop that the asylum chef was serving?

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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film's main antagonist was played by John Howard (not to be confused with the [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics former Australian Prime Minister]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]]), more recognizable nowadays as the People Eater from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''

* RetroactiveRecognition: The film's main antagonist was played by John Howard, more recognizable nowadays as the People Eater from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''

* SoBadItsGood: Seriously, go back and re-read the description for this movie.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Those who've seen the film either love it to this day or immediately blocked it from their memory after leaving the theater.

* CultClassic
* SoBadItsGood

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