* DesignatedHero: Fingal. Even before anything has happened, he regularly harasses his coworker because he finds her attractive (and the feeling isn't mutual, which even bleeds into his fantasy version of her). You can't blame him for being upset at how things go for him later, but that doesn't justify his actions. He fights against Novicorp even as they're trying to recover his body (even if they're only doing it to save their stock value, as explained in a scene cut from the MST version) and even after Apollonia explains that his actions in the computer are affecting the real world he continues to screw around just to piss them off. It's clear he didn't know just how widespread the damage was, but he still knew he was doing ''something'', and considering the weather patterns mentioned, he had to have caused a massive amount of deaths. Even his original act of "rebellion" is wasting time watching movies on the clock; it's sort of half explained they've fallen out of fashion and he can't get them otherwise, but this is never really made explicit beyond his coworkers not being familiar with them. The conflict of the movie is almost entirely driven by the hero, and not one of the leaders of the implied corporate dystopia as one might expect.
* DesignatedVillain: Novicorp and the Fat Chairman. He's definitely a SmugSnake and it's pretty clear that he has ''something'' big planned for when they've buried Lexicorp once and for all. ("WE. WILL. WIN!") But the movie doesn't spend a whole lot of time explaining any of that, so as far as the audience knows the Chairman is just kind of a selfish {{Jerkass}} at worst. He takes a mostly passive role throughout the movie, usually acting to keep Apollonia from giving Fingal too many ideas (which he's entirely proven right on). He gives Fingal quite a few chances to behave and simply wait for the problem to be fixed. Even when Fingal refuses to accept his final offer, the Chairman's reaction is only to cut Fingal off from the access he wasn't supposed to have anyway. It's only when Fingal immediately hacks back into the system that the Chairman actually tries to have him killed.
** Also, their idea of disciplining a worker who's slacking off on the job? Mandatory vacation time.
* HamAndCheese: It might have been the first time Raul turned in an enjoyably hammy performance in a movie far beneath his talents. Happily, [[Film/TheAddamsFamily more wonderfully hammy performances]] [[Film/StreetFighter would follow]].
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Thanks to advances in technology, "scrolling up cinemas" is now a big problem in offices.
** One of the [[MegaCorp Mega-Corps]] is one letter away from [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Lexcorp]].
* {{Narm}}:
** Too many things to choose from, though the one thing that sticks out is this movie's hatred of anteaters.
** The constant repetition of the words [[InherentlyFunnyWords "Fingal" and "dopple"]].
** Creator/RaulJulia's talent as a an actor is well spoken-for, but there is one moment where Fingal is confused that the door lock in his simulated apartment won't let him leave and Raul gives a bizarre line read where he barks out the word "''What!''" in a way that doesn't remotely quizzical or interrogative.
** When reviewing the ApocalypticLog of a previous tech who got his mind sucked in an experiment, Apollonia says that the woman giving said log was "going too fast". Considering that the woman in question is actually delivering her lines in a very slow, halting manner, it ends up unwittingly painting an unflattering image of Apollonia's level of intelligence.
** The scene where Apollonia appears as Venus and gives Fingal the commandments is really bizarre and funny. For one, the "stone" tablets containing the commandments are [[SpecialEffectsFailure obviously made of styrofoam.]] For another, Apollonia talks in a [[SophisticatedAsHell odd combination of colloquial and extremely formal archaic language,]] e.g one of the commandments is "Thou shalt not screw around with things thou doth not understand", which is written verbatim on the tablets. Even the actress looks like she's [[{{Corpsing}} having trouble keeping a straight face.]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: Tooby the computech is played by a young Creator/GaryFarmer.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The film was designed to showcase then-cutting-edge video effects. However, it unwittingly demonstrates the problem of trying to showcase a nascent technology in this manner, as the effects look laughably cheap nowadays, and are far surpassed even by the visual effects in the host segments of its ''[=MST3K=]'' episode, despite it being produced on a fraction of the budget of the actual movie.
* {{Squick}}:
** Fingle's brain being left exposed, in an open room with other patients, where they let ''little children'' tour through with only the staffs' admonishments to protect the patients from children wiping their mustard-stained hands on their brain tissue.
** The one unsettlingly horny ''pre-teen'' who fondles a patient's breasts, then asks if where that patient is going is "sexy".
** The dopple process itself has some [[BestialityIsDepraved disturbing implications]] that go mercifully unexplored.
** In-universe, this is possibly the reason for the odd disdain towards anteaters; the idea of being stuck in the mind of an animal that subsists entirely on something unappetizing to humans is likely the reason characters treat getting doppled into one as the worst possible outcome.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Djamilla being TheMole for Lexicorp helps kick the plot off, but no one ever finds out, she stays to assist Apollonia throughout the whole movie, and it's otherwise never relevant to the plot.
** The concept of mandatory rehab by having one's mind ride shotgun in a wild animal's, with a severe class divide on who gets to possess what, is a ''bizarre'' enough concept that could have carried its own story, and is the entire driving point of the first act. But as soon as Fingle has to abort his time as a baboon only for his body to have gone missing, it ends up feeling like little more than a convoluted excuse to set up a story about a human mind transferred into a computer simulation.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Apollonia showing up as Venus and reading Fingle the riot act on how he should stop fooling around with the simulation and just wait for his body to be recovered is treated by both Fingle ''and'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Apollonia herself]] as her having gone to far. Given the amount of damage Fingle's meddling had been causing to weather across the globe and his constant brushing off her warnings, it's hard not to see it as at worst a playful reminder of how serious the situation was.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: We are clearly met to feel bad for Fingal, since he ends up trapped in a computer simulation for [[YearInsideHourOutside what seems like months from his perspective.]] However, his attempts to hack into the HX-386 and escape end up causing a bunch of weather disturbances (and likely killing people), and Apollonia even warns him that his hacking attempts could have a bad effect on the real world beforehand, so he comes across as more of a DirtyCoward than anything.
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