* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The epic OminousLatinChanting-like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0RHgjFl87Q&nohtml5=False "Enae Volare"]] by Music/{{Era}}, which is the franchise's most well known theme.
** The equally epic opening theme of the first film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTEBsfMFyQ&nohtml5=False "The Knight of Montmirail"]], which is ''heavily'' inspired by Music/MichaelKamen's ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' theme.
** The opening track of ''The Corridors of Time'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvCWLwgqQWw "Voices from the Past"]], also by Era.
** The films' ending scenes famously feature a snippet of Music/FelixMendelssohn's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c00KH3ZxJVc&nohtml5=False "Violin Concerto in E minor"]].
** In ''Bastille Day'':
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBQYA-KbhJ8 "The Mother of God"]].
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZ7vo-ezSo "À moi la garde!"]], with a variation on "Enae Volare".
*** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra5ZEOW2gaA electro remix of "Enae Volare"]] in the end credits.
* CriticProof: Critical reception to ''The Corridors of Time'' was lukewarm skewing negative. It still was the third highest-grossing film in France in 1998 with approximately 8 million tickets sold. It was only surpassed by ''[[Film/TheDinnerGame Le Dîner de Cons]]'' (9 million) and ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' (20.5 million) that year.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: ''Bastille Day'' was lambasted by critics, but many agreed that Nicolas Vaude playing UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre was probably the best thing about it. Probably a case of TookTheBadFilmSeriously.
* FirstInstallmentWins: The first film is still unanimously considered as the best. The least said about [[Film/JustVisiting the remake]] the better.
* FountainOfMemes: Both Jacquouille and Godefroy have generated many memes on French web communities and social media, making ample use of their [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe faux old French]] and Jacquouille's iconic antics.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the first film, Godefroy lying to Jacquouille about the fact that the TimeTravel has started to rot him from the insides to convince him to come back to TheMiddleAges. By ''Bastille Day'', the bodies of both of them are rotting ''for real'' (RapidAging then tumors) from too much {{Time Travel}}s.
* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The critical consensus regarding ''The Corridors of Time''.
* MemeticMutation: The film's tremendous success upon release in France, its multiple {{rerun}}s on TV up to this day and, of course, the Internet, helped cementing its memorable quotes in French pop culture:
** "OH-KAAAAAY!!!"
** [[BattleCry "MONTJOIE! SAINT-DENIS!" and "Que trépasse si je faiblis!"]]
** "Bourse molle!"
** "C'est diablerie!"
** "Sache que le Roy ne se prend point, même au jeu d'échecs !"
** "Messiiiire! Messiiiiire! Un Sarrasin!"
** "C'EST DES MALADES!"
** "Merci la gueuse! Tu es un laideron mais tu es bien bonne!"
** "Il pleut comme vache qui pisse!"
** "Jour! Nuit! Jour! Nuit! Jour! Nuit!"
** "Mais qu'est-ce que c'est que ce bin's?!"
** "Mais dehors les romanos!"
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Several ''Les Visiteurs'' video games were released by Creator/UbiSoft around the release of ''The Corridors of Time'', and none of them was well received.
** ''Les Visiteurs: La Relique de Sainte Rolande'' is a third-person adventure game that received negative reviews (mostly for its bad graphics, horrible camera angles, out-of-place {{fantasy}} creatures way beyond the LowFantasy approach of the films, and badly designed labyrinth-like levels). It has been reviewed by ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4XX3k8Sllg here]].
** ''Les Visiteurs'' on Game Boy Color didn't receive much better reviews.
** ''Les Visiteurs'' on PC, a boring and glitchy PointAndClickGame (and the characters' modelizations were pretty awful, even at the time). It uses a lot of bits from the first two films as cutscenes.
* ReplacementScrappy:
** Creator/ValerieLemercier's roles, Frénégonde de Pouille and Béatrice de Montmirail, were among the most lauded things about the first film, especially her {{Sour Prude|s}} portrayal of Béatrice, to the point she won a César Award for Best Supporting Role for it. She refused to come back for the sequel out of CreativeDifferences and was replaced in both roles by Muriel Robin (complete with a FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin) and it didn't sit well with fans and critics. Robin looks nothing like Lemercier, the writing of her Béatrice lacks the wit and nuance of Lemercier's version or interesting things to do, and she poorly tries to imitate the posh accent Lemercier had.
** Longtime fans were left wondering why Ganelon and Enguerrand le Balafré were replaced by two other men-at-arms in the medieval sequences of ''Bastille Day'', for no apparent reason (the actors had aged, but TheOtherDarrin could have worked).
* RetroactiveRecognition: The supermarket security agent who tries to stop Jacquouille's rampage there wll be familiar to ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' fans, he was played by Philippe Nahon, a.k.a. Goustan the Cruel in the latter series (and passed before [[Film/KaamelottPremierVolet the movie]] was made).
* {{Sequelitis}}: So far, none of the sequels has surpassed the original (or has even lived up to it). ''The Corridors of Time'' did not get anywhere near as good a reception as the first and ''Bastille Day'' was the most critically panned.
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