YMMV / Attack the Block

• Cult Classic: Despite getting screwed by the studio, Attack the Block received high praise from critics and has a devoted following.
• Director Displacement: Edgar Wright was only an executive producer, yet his name was featured all over the advertising. Not to mention Nick Frost, one of Wright's most frequent members of his Production Posse, stars in the movie.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Probs and Mayhem. Brewis as well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • We see that the doors of the Block are not uniform in color. Therefore, it is quite serendipitous that Sam (played by Jodie Whittaker) has a blue door to her apartment.
  • Sam's initial refusal to acknowledge that the aliens are really aliens even in the face of overwhelming evidence (No, the gorilla-sized monsters with bioluminescent teeth and no eyes aren't dogs) is nearly identical to the response the Thirteenth Doctor gets when she tells her soon-to-be companions that she's an alien in her first episode of Doctor Who.
  • John Boyega would once again lead a group of kids to battle aliens with glowing blue mouths.
  • The moment when you realize that a Cluster F-Bomb-laden movie like this is going to be viewed by untold generations of Star Wars and Doctor Who fanatics who want to see how John's and Jodie's sci-fi careers got started.
• Memetic Mutation: I think it's safe to say a lot of the slang was mimicked after the movie came out. Trust.
  • "That's an alien, bruv, believe it!"
  • "Believe, bruv."
  • "Allow it."^note Often used on message boards for reaction shots over demanding more information from a user, however, you can translate it as "Leave [pronoun] alone!"
  • "Go home, lock your door, do your homework, watch Naruto."
• Moral Event Horizon: Hi-Hatz crosses this line when he still tries to kill Moses even after he sees the aliens himself.
• Nightmare Retardant: Do not watch the DVD extras until after you've seen the film as many times as you intend to. Seeing the alien-actors in their non-Vantablack monster costumes will be a serious let-down, compared to the creatures' finished "look".
• One-Scene Wonder: Most of the gang's families, such as they are, appear in this fashion.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • By 2015, John Boyega will be known as Finn, the newest Star Wars protagonist. Funny enough, he also fights like a samurai in that movie.
  • Franz Drameh would go on to be known for being Jax Jefferson, aka Firestorm.
  • As of 2017, Jodie Whittaker has been announced as the Thirteenth Doctor.
• Squick: Just before the camera cuts away from Hi-Hatz being killed by the aliens, there's a lovely shot of the lower half of his face being ripped off as he screams.
• Tear Jerker: Moses and the girls mourn the death of Dennis. The worst part is you never even see the state of the body, only the reactions of everyone nearby.
• The Woobie: Brewis
  • Iron Woobie with minor shades of Jerkass Woobie: Moses. After all we see him do and go through in the film, it's pretty sad to learn that he's only fifteen years old. He has Spider-Man bedsheets.