* AdaptationDisplacement: Very few people nowadays know there was a book.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The opening credits being set against a stylized version of the film's events, themed to Art/TheBayeuxTapestry. Bonus points for using Leonaidas as the stand-in for Harold's coronation and the football sequence for the stand-in of the Englishmen witnessing [[CometOfDoom Halley's Comet]].
** On top of that, there's even the use of the animated suits of armour stylized like William the Conqueror's men at the Battle of Hastings, as well as the aversion to NoSwastikas showing the U-boats arriving with the Nazi invasion.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBECKl0zFo Portobello Road]]" for most people, but "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rRPU_cvGg Substitutiary Locomotion]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcQ3vNOAk8k The Beautiful Briny Sea]]" have their share of fans.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xack0sgq2-0 The Soldiers of the Old Home Guard]]" deserves some mention, too, if you're a fan of military music.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** The Royal Cup Match on Naboombu. Seemed to only exist to give the animation department something to do and make Emelius Brown a ButtMonkey.
** The Portobello road sequence drags on quite a while and seems to have no greater link to the story than to display different cultures dancing. By the end of it, you might have forgotten why the heroes even stopped in. This is made worse by the expanded edition of the film, which drags the song sequence out to a full ten minutes in length. Quite a bit of that length is the merchants and groups of soldiers from all over the British Empire getting into an improvised DanceOff, each with their own arrangement of the tune to fit their style.
** Emelius's hazy vision of Miss Price on the railroad tracks, clad as the magician's assistant he envisioned her to be, comes out of nowhere (although a good case could be made it was a spell, whether conscious or subconscious, which she cast to summon him when she ended up in distress and couldn't call for help on the phone; it could also have just been a dream of his) and after it lets him escape the Nazis and make it back to the cottage it is never mentioned again.
** Professor Browne, after turning himself into a rabbit to rescue Miss Price and the Children from the Nazis is seen speaking the line "Jumping Jehoshaphat, more Jerries," when scouting two Nazis outside the castle, with his rabbit body noticeably mouthing the words. Not once did he or the many other characters turned into rabbits demonstrate the ability to speak, whether too themselves or to others, often just acting like the animal they have been turned into. And again after the scene, Professor Browne returns to acting like a rabbit, no speech, until he turns back into a man. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course, this could have been an editing error and Browne was merely thinking the line in his head.]]
* BrokenBase: Between people who prefer the 117 minute "general release version" and the 139 minute "25th Anniversary reconstructed version". People who prefer the longer cut argue that it was closer to the version that the film makers originally intended the movie to be [[ExecutiveMeddling before they were forced to cut it down]]; while people who prefer the shorter cut argue that [[ProtectionFromEditors it removes unnecessary scenes and makes the film's narrative work better]], and that the [[TheOtherDarrin redubbed voices]] (necessitated by lost vocal tracks) are jarring. Frustratingly, while Disney currently sells both cuts on DVD, they don't sell a set that contains both of them, leaving people to choose whether to buy a DVD of the 25th Anniversary Edition[[note]]referred to on the case as the "Enchanted Musical Edition"[[/note]] by itself, or the theatrical cut in a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack. The shorter version is also the only one currently available on Creator/DisneyPlus.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Australia, the film is loved and admired so much that it is considered to be equal to or even better than [[Film/MaryPoppins the film that frequently overshadows it elsewhere]].
* HilariousInHindsight: The Isle of Naboombu has more than a passing resemblance to [[Toys/{{Bionicle}} Voya Nui]].
* HoYay: Some read Eglantine Price's story as a [[https://headmistresspress.com/2018/09/18/bedknobs-and-broomsticks-and-the-sapphic-resistance/ lesbian parable]].
* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A common complaint about the film since it was released is that it tries to re-create everything that worked in ''Mary Poppins'', from the live-action/animated hybrid adventure to the musical styles.
* JustHereForGodzilla:
** Disney fans who prefer their animated works tend to only care about this film for the animated scenes on the island.
** Those who otherwise see the film as too much like ''Film/MaryPoppins'' usually watch for the SignatureScene battle between the enchanted suits of armor and the Nazis.
* MemeticMutation:
** "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop! That! Ball!!!!!!!!]]"
** "[[InnocentInnuendo What's that got to do with my knob?]]"
* MemeticBadass: Eglantine Price herself. Fans of the movie love pointing out the fact that she uses an army of animated suits of armor to stop a Nazi invasion of England, playing up the final confrontation.
* {{Narm}}: Ian Weighill's acting as Charlie. His delivery of most of his lines don't just play up the stuffy self-seriousness of his character, but sound very slow and stilted even when the lines themselves aren't really calling for that sort of delivery. Since he is a child, it's a bit understandable.
* NightmareFuel:
** Browne sleeping on a bench waiting for his train when he wakes up to an echo-y singing, and sees a ghosty lingerie-clad Eglantine walking on the railroad tracks before she disappears.
** The simple fact that a Nazi occupation of Britain - by the dreaded Waffen SS, no less - makes up much of the second half of the movie. [[spoiler:Part of Eglantine's house is even destroyed by a grenade in the battle scene.]] These scenes can be nightmarish, even as Disneyfied as it was depicted.
** The armored executioner is by far the scariest of the animated armors. That thing is almost eight feet tall, with a terrifying helm displaying an uncanny... face, slowly marching towards the Nazis and the camera, wielding a very big ax. This giant armor is not played for levity; this one is out for blood. One look at this armored monster’s face, and even the Nazi Colonel drops his anger and runs like hell.
* {{Padding}}[=/=]ShootTheMoney: The extended cut of "Portobello Road" is a serious endurance test, regardless of how talented the performers are.
* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** It's pretty easy to spot the black skinsuits the extras wore under some of the non-plate animated armors in the climax.
** Whenever Browne gets trampled in the soccer game, he simply vanishes from the frame rather than actually falling over.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/MaryPoppins''. Let's see, it's an effects-heavy musical fantasy with a period British setting, and it's about a magical woman taking children on a series of episodic adventures, one of which is a visit to an animated world. And that's not to mention the huge amount of [[ProductionPosse shared cast and crew]] between the two movies, including [[Creator/RobertStevenson the same director]] and [[Music/TheShermanBrothers same songwriters]].
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Despite being set during WWII, the traveling sequences are done with the super trippy and colorful visuals that are commonly associated with films of the 1970s, plus the "Beautiful Briny Sea" has a dance contest happen and while the music and clothing is period-accurate, the same cannot be said for the inclusion of a disco ball.
* ViewerNameConfusion: Sources differ on whether Miss Price's cat is named "Cosmic Creepers" or "Cosmic Creepus", like a taxonomic name. "Cosmic Creepus" is used is the subtitles on Disney+, and the phrase appears, with ambiguous context, in the original book.
* VindicatedByHistory: Somewhat - it didn't make ''quite'' the splash as ''Film/MaryPoppins'' or ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic''. Some thought it was trying ''too'' hard to be a ''Film/MaryPoppins''. As the years went on, people are a little more warmer to it (Especially [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in Australia]]) and point out that yeah, ''Film/MaryPoppins'' was ''quite'' a ToughActToFollow and that it's a good film on its own merits.
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