History YMMV / Ani

** Arguably an AudienceAlienatingPremise, since the whole point is it centers on Film/ThePhantomMenace as Anakin's GloryDays and takes place before any fan-favorite Star Wars characters like Luke, Leia and Han Solo enter the story.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Surprisingly, Joey Richter stood up for this show over the one he was in that season (Theatre/TheTrailToOregon), saying the soundtrack from this show is his favorite of all the Starkid catalog and the one he keeps in his car.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iTwTdHx7I This is not the first Star Wars parody where Obi-Wan is an alcoholic and Darth Vader compares the Death Star with a boob.]]

* SoOkayItsAverage: It seems to be the consensus that while ''Ani'' is funny and has likable characters, it isn't as good as the previous musicals for various reasons (songs being sung by the band instead of the cast, bland set design, melancholy tone, and a fairly by-the-numbers story being the main complaints).

* DiscreditedMeme: One complaint about why this show failed to land with fans is that a lot of the Star Wars jokes in the script were extremely tired when this show came out (in 2014, nine years after ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''). WebVideo/RedLetterMedia had already released what was considered the definitive takedown of the prequel trilogy in 2009 -- the same year as ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''! -- and at this point making fun of the prequels was seen as a bit of a lazy DeadHorseTrope. It's notable that, by contrast, both ''Theatre/{{Twisted}}'' and ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon'' were making fun of ''very'' old media -- a movie from 1992 and a game from 1985 -- and those parodies benefited from parodying the audience's childhood nostalgia more than the properties themselves, something ''Ani'' didn't really benefit from to nearly the same degree.

** MagnumOpusDissonance: Many Starkid fans were disappointed because they expected Starkid's take on Star Wars fandom to finish up the series of their very well-received pop culture parody takes on [[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical Harry Potter]] [[Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman DC Comics]], and [[Theatre/{{Twisted}} Disney]] (as predicted by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJkBGTbGuO0 Patronus scene]] in ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel''. It surprised everyone when it was the parody of ''Oregon Trail'' that became the big SleeperHit of the 2014 Starkid season.

** People surprised that Grand Moff Tarkin, of all people, is reinvented as a romantic heartthrob thanks to Creator/JoeWalker playing him might be interested to read [[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Darksaber]] by Creator/KevinJAnderson, which features a young Natasi Daala waxing poetic about her passionate affair with Tarkin.

* DiscreditedMeme: One complaint about why this show failed to land with fans is that a lot of the Star Wars jokes in the script were extremely tired when this show came out (in 2014, nine years after ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''). WebVideo/RedLetterMedia had already released what was considered the definitive takedown of the prequel trilogy in 2009 -- the same year as ''Film/AVeryPotterMusical''! -- and at this point making fun of the prequels was seen as a bit of a lazy DeadHorseTrope. It's notable that, by contrast, both ''Theatre/{{Twisted}}'' and ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon'' were making fun of ''very'' old media -- a movie from 1992 and a game from 1985 -- and those parodies benefited from parodying the audience's childhood nostalgia more than the properties themselves, something ''Ani'' didn't really benefit from to nearly the same degree.

** MagnumOpusDissonance: Many Starkid fans were disappointed because they expected Starkid's take on Star Wars fandom to finish up the trifecta of their very well-received takes on [[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical Harry Potter]] and [[Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman DC Comics]]. It surprised everyone when it was the parody of ''Oregon Trail'' that became the big SleeperHit of the 2014 Starkid season.

* SoOkayItsAverage: It seems to be the consensus that while ''Ani'' is funny, it isn't as good as the previous musicals for various reasons (songs being sung by the band instead of the cast, bland set design, melancholy tone, and a fairly by-the-numbers story being the main complaints).

* SoOkayItsAverage: It seems to be the consensus that while ''Ani'' is funny, it isn't as good as the previous musicals for various reasons (songs being sung by the band instead of the cast, bland set design, and a fairly by-the-numbers story being the main complaints).

** People surprised that Grand Moff Tarkin, of all people, is reinvented as a romantic heartthrob thanks to Creator/JoeWalker playing him might be interested to read [[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Darksaber]] by [[Creator/KevinJAnderson]], which features a young Natasi Daala waxing poetic about her passionate affair with Tarkin.

** It was also overshadowed by the much better-received ''TheTrailToOregon''.

* BaseBreaker: Some people didn't like how the cast didn't sing, while others appreciated the background music.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iTwTdHx7I This is not the first Star Wars parody where Obi-Wan is a alcoholic and Darth Vader compares the Death Star with a boob.]]

* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler: Jar-Jar Binks.]]

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* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler: Jar-Jar Binks.]]

* AlasPoorScrappy: Jar-Jar's first scene involves him broke, drunk, addicted to drugs, and ''trying to hang himself''. [[spoiler:After recovering a bit with Ani's help, Jar-Jar's story ends with him getting shot by Obi-Wan and dying a slow death]]. By the end, you practically ''can't'' hate him anymore.

* BaseBreaker: Some people didn't like how the cast didn't sing, while others appreciated the background music
* SoOkayItsAverage: Seems to be the consensus, that while it is funny, it isn't as good as the previous musicals