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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Say what you will about the actual movie, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZh3k4MxxwU main theme]] is ''very'' cool.
2	* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Sir August de Wynter]] is a depraved, [[Franchise/JamesBond Bond]]-esque [[DiabolicalMastermind mastermind]] who heads Wonderland Weather as a front for his immoral activities. De Wynter starts the "[[Theatre/TheTempest Prospero]] Project" in a bid to control the world's weather, murdering two of his own minions by tricking them into backing out of the project and later killing even the loyal scientists who helped to devise his [[WeatherControlMachine doomsday device]]. Wynter, in the steps to his master plan, has an agent in [[ActionGirl Emma Peel]]'s likeness murder people to frame the Ministry while knocking out and attempting to rape the real Peel in a moment of lust. Wynter ultimately attempts to extort billions out of all the world's nations lest he manipulate the weather into creating natural disasters to ravage the entire planet and kill millions, trying to freeze all of London to death in order to prove that he is serious.
3	* FanonDiscontinuity: Fans of the original series have all but completely disavowed this film and tend to view it as an unfaithful adaptation.
4	* FridgeBrilliance: Yes, the bear suits are silly as hell. But then again, they have done a great job at distracting you from whatever de Wynter's conference was about, didn't they?
5	* HamAndCheese: Creator/SeanConnery as Sir August de Wynter. As dire as the film is, he's at least trying to liven things up and seems to be enjoying playing the kind of super villains his Bond used to fight.
6	* QuestionableCasting:
7	** Emma Peel, a role memorably played by the auburn-haired and English Creator/DianaRigg, was played by the blonde American Creator/UmaThurman.
8	** The utterly bizarre decision to cast Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard and ''[[Music/HappyMondays Shaun Ryder]]'' as a pair of henchmen. The former is utterly wasted in a role with hardly any lines.
9	* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/KeeleyHawes is Tamara, Agent of Sir August. Funnily enough, she would later appear opposite Creator/DianaRigg's daughter Creator/RachaelStirling in a contemporary television adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' and ''Series/TippingTheVelvet2002''.
10	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Ministry has an Invisible Man, and yet they simply hide him away in the filing room, instead of using him as an infiltration officer. For added WTF, the Invisible Man is voiced by Creator/PatrickMacnee, the original John Steed.
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