YMMV / Animal Crackers (2017)

• Adaptation Displacement: Not a lot of people are aware that this was based on a graphic novel. Granted, not many people are aware that the film was released, either...
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Did Horatio really want to take over the world? Or did the egotistical Big Ham look around and notice that, by becoming a monster, he finally had what he wanted... all eyes on him in fear and awe... and decide to grab the Villain Ball with both hands and run for the end zone?
  • The "wanting to take over the world" thing really only amounts to one line. Maybe he was just saying things in desparation caused by a Villainous Breakdown.
  • Or maybe he didn't mean he literally intended to Take Over the World, but figuratively take it over (as in, becoming such a famous celebrity that everyone in the world would know him,) which is in line with what his goal was all along.
• Awesome Music: "Could've Been Mine" is a catchy and epic jazz fusion song with the energy of some of Disney's most bombastic Villain Songs. In the song, Horatio establishes his Green-Eyed Monster motivations while his voice actor, Ian McKellen, hams it up in an almost Tim Curry-esque way. He also gets some hilarious dialogue with his henchman Mario Zucchini in the song. In addition, the creators hired a real barbershop quartet just for one quick gag in the song, where the quartet repeats one of Horatio's lines and he gets frustrated with them.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Even before the rules of the magic animal crackers are firmly established, it's fairly easy to figure out that Old Blue and Zena are actually Owen's uncle and aunt in animal form just by their designs and actions alone.
• Critical Dissonance: One look at Rotten Tomatoes tells the tale. The audience rating stands at 83, while the critical rating stands at 64%.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Chesterfield. Especially for being voiced by Danny DeVito.
  • Brock is quite well-liked, again his actor helps. Also, he's prominently featured in a memorable scene of him turning into a mandrill. Plenty found him more interesting as an antagonist than Horatio.
• Fridge Logic: Chesterfield explains near the end that since Horatio's henchmen ate broken cookies to become Mix-and-Match Critters, their human cookies are also broken, and the henchmen can't return to their original forms until Chesterfield figures out which cookie pieces go together. However, Owen had just given Horatio, who was previously a hybrid creature, a whole hamster cookie, turning Horatio into a hamster. Wouldn't that mean that Horatio now had a whole human cookie again, and that they could fix the henchmen's human cookies by giving them whole animal cookies too?
  • No, because the box doesn't generate a new human cookie every time a person changes into a different animal. If it did, Horatio's threat to destroy Owen's human cookie would have been meaningless.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many people couldn't care less about the plot, only watching the movie to see people turning into animals.
• Moe: Binkley, for being an Adorkable genius with a wispy voice, and Mackenzie, just for being a Cheerful Child.
• Popular with Furries: Duh. Long before the movie became more accessible, it was a Cult Classic within the Furry Fandom, for obvious reasons. And apparently, the fandom has Approval of God, make of that what you will.
• The Scrappy: It's widely agreed that Horatio is the weakest part of the film, considering how quickly he changes from someone who is merely jealous of his brother's successes to a bland Take Over the World villain. It's obvious that the writers tried to make him interesting, but his development was just too flat for many.
• Signature Scene: The scene where Owen first eats a cracker, turning into a hamster. Considering how much it's featured in advertising, it's easily the most well-known scene from the movie.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: It takes a solid 30 minutes before the titular snacks are used for the first time.
• So Okay, It's Average: The movie generally got a luke-warm reception, saying that while the concept is good and the animation is serviceable, the story is rather bland and uninspired.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Many agree that the movie tried to focus on too many characters and subplots at the same time, and the movie would've been a lot better if it just focused on a handful of characters.