YMMV / Absolutely Anything

• Audience-Alienating Premise: No pun intended. The film's plot being too similar to Bruce Almighty and younger audiences not knowing who Monty Python are made it hard to find interested in it. The film's subsequent bad reviews didn't help either.
• Broken Aesop: Although the moral of the film might at first seem to be that absolute power will never bring you happiness. What the film actually shows is that if you have absolute power, making wishes without thinking them through carefully and poor phrasing will cause serious problems.
• Critical Backlash: While it is agreed the movie is okay at best, many watchers aren't convinced it deserved so much negativity around its release or a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite the fact that the film was an utter flop, those who watched it did so simply to see the final film of Robin Williams, and the fact that he was co-starring with the surviving members of Monty Python didn't hurt either. Many reviews openly said they were the only things worth watching.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The scene where Neil attempts to commit suicide... in front of his dog Dennis who is voiced by Robin Williams. It's also a tad morbid hearing Dennis plead to Neil not to go through with it.
• Just Here for Godzilla: As mentioned in Ensemble Dark Horse, a huge amount of people came to see the movie only because it was Robin Williams' last movie and/or the largest Monty Python reunion on film since the group's dissolution.
• Moral Event Horizon: At first Grant is simply a Jerkass who won’t take no for an answer when he harasses Catherine, however he ends up crossing from simple jerkass to full on evil when he kidnaps Neil and actually threatens to shoot the man’s dog unless he grants all his wishes.
  • For some viewers, Neil may have crossed it when he casually uses his powers to make Ray’s crush Miss Pringle worship him, effectively taking away her free will which he later only does unwillingly to Catherine in order to prevent Grant from shooting Dennis.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Even the defenders of Absolutely Anything tend to admit that it is essentially Bruce Almighty with even more adult humor and no religious theming. Its naysayers would also remark it has none of Bruce's charm.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Many felt the film would have been much better, and much funnier, if it had focused on Dennis the Dog and the Aliens instead of Neil, who the viewers are stuck with, and with a plot that was rather similar to Bruce Almighty, as mentioned above.

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