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1* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: While Phillip himself seems to believe otherwise, it isn't too much of a leap to wonder if he might have a genuine undiagnosed memory disorder, especially considering the early scene where he's clearly having trouble recalling that he's even engaged, and that the rehearsal was the previous night. Creator/RogerEbert even opened his review of the movie by asking, "How absent-minded does a person have to be before they require clinical testing?"
2* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "Copacabana" [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber dance number]], which was pretty much just to show off the film's CGI.
3* CriticProof: The film was ''savaged'' by critics, but performed well at the box office. While it was not a particularly massive hit, it still made back $178 million dollars on a budget of $80 million.
4* DesignatedHero: Phillip is supposed to be "comically" absent-minded, but can often come off as a self-centered jerk.
5* DracoInLeatherPants: Wilson is often seen as the "perfect" husband for Sara; however, most people seem to forget or even ignore the fact that he never had any true feelings towards her. This is an overreaction to people being understandably annoyed by Phillip’s treatment of Sarah by never making it to her wedding, where it’s obvious that even if Wilson is a terrible awful person he’d still meet that very low bar of attending his own wedding. Sone people take this observation way too far and just erase all of Wilson’s faults entirely.
6* EnsembleDarkhorse: If there's any character people remember the most from this film, it's Weebo. Being voiced by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Jodi Benson]] probably helps.
7* EsotericHappyEnding: The ending with Phillip attending wedding #4 from his lab by video proxy was supposed to be a cute, fitting end to the movie. Didn't quite work for many people who felt this meant he STILL hadn’t gone to the wedding. Whether it is seen as his half-thought method to attend a wedding or he was preparing their Thunderbird just outside the wedding ceremony.
8* HarsherInHindsight: A wedding ceremony conducted via teleconferencing, with the bride and/or groom visible only on a video-screen, might not be so beyond the pale anymore now, in the age of [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic coronabug]].
9* HilariousInHindsight:
10** Weebo's tendency to show little video clips to display her reactions and moods is a lot like people in the 2010's and 2020's doing the same with reaction [=GIFs=] on sites like Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook.
11** Magazine/NationalGeographic magazines appear in the dance sequence, and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' appear in one of Weebo's clips. Through acquiring [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]], Creator/{{Disney}} now owns both the Creator/NationalGeographicChannel and ''The Simpsons''.
12* InformedWrongness: Despite the fact that Phillip has just blown off a ''' ''third'' ''' wedding ceremony due to his absent-mindedness, the movie attempts to make it look like Sara's TranquilFury response, and subsequent breaking things off, to his half apology/half "But look at this cool thing I made" exhibition was an emotional overreaction.
13* MisBlamed: Some of the particularly obnoxious plot elements, including abandoning Sara at the altar over and over, are carried over [[{{Pun}} unaltered]] from the original film. Of course, one could still criticize this film for not fixing them in the first place.
14* MoralEventHorizon: Wesson crosses it when he [[spoiler: kills Weebo.]]
15* RonTheDeathEater: Phillip missing Sara's wedding often gets portrayed like he's doing it on purpose. The reality is that he's legitimately ''that'' much of an AbsentMindedProfessor; missing all of his marriages was purely accidental on his part (with, it's implied, some assistance from jealous Weebo). And he's practically a saint compared to [[Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor his predecessor.]]
16* SpecialEffectFailure: The computer effects surrounding Weebo have not aged well since its release.
17* {{Squick}}: The subplot with Weebo's lust for Phillip, progressing into creating [[KissMeImVirtual a sexy female hologram]] so she can act out her emotions for him physically when he's asleep, and finally the admission at the end of the film that, upon her death, she gave Phillip a copy of her design called "our daughter" with modifications based on both Weebo and ''him''. In case the analogy hasn't bludgeoned you hard enough, Weebo's [[spoiler: final]] thought that allows Phillip to find the file? The word ''stork''. It's made even squickier when you realize that -- since Brainard ''created'' Weebo -- technically speaking, she's in love with her ''father''.
18* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Phillip's many flaws can come off as self-centered, instead of endearing. He would be about as sympathetic as the villains if they weren’t murderous and actually self-centered.
19* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Most women in Sara's position would've left Phillip and not looked back after one missed wedding, let alone '''two more''' (heartfelt confession of love or not). He doesn't even show up in person for his fourth wedding, but instead attends ''via video screen''.

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