YMMV / Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation

• Awesome Music: "Forever Young", the end credits song, sung by the late Carol Parks.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Many a girl has admitted to having a crush on Dark Heart.
• Evil Is Cool: Dark Heart and Christy are probably the most fondly remembered parts of the movie. Dark Heart has his fun hammy personality and memetic lines. The fact that he's shown to be a legitimate threat and to have some complexity (for a Care Bears villain) with his eventual redemption through his caring for Christy also help. As his Dragon, Christy benefits from Dark Heart's popularity, and also from her sympathetic motivations and eventual Heel Realization and redemption. Finally, the two characters' dynamic helps their popularity, as it gives fuel to shippers.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: Dark Heart, lord of all evil, wears a red track suit for a majority of the film.
• Heartwarming Moments: After Dark Heart has spent the entire movie looking either sour or smug, it’s hard not to smile at the look of unmistakable joy on his face when he finds out Christy is going to be okay.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Christy and Dark Heart's relationship in the movie gives off some funny Twilight vibes now. Dark Heart even transforms into a wolf at one point so Christy can ride on his back.
• Jerkass Woobie: Christy becomes a Jerkass when Dark Heart makes her good at sports, but beforehand the poor girl didn't think she was good at anything and was bullied and mocked by the other kids at her camp. This is why she ends up assisting Dark Heart in his plan, 'cause if she doesn't, she'll go back to how she used to be.
• Narm:
  • "Time for a game of disappearing bears." Doubles as Memetic Mutation, due to the fact that Dark Heart's VA was practically impersonating Christopher Walken.
  • There's also DH's "Ahhhhh!" which sounds, as The Nostalgia Critic put it, like he laid an egg.
• Nightmare Fuel: The part at the beginning where Dark Heart attacks the ship carrying the Care Bears and their Cousins. If the Great Wishing Star hadn’t found them, he probably would have killed them.
• One-Scene Wonder: Despite his lack of screen time, some fanfic writers have expanded upon the Great Wishing Star's role as a Big Good.
• Padding: It has a musical number at the end that's pretty much just there to make sure it fulfilled the bare minimum for screentime. The song itself was over six minutes long, and over half of it consisted of endlessly-repeated chorus (ostensibly to cover the end credits).
• Parody Displacement: The song 'Flying My Colors' is far, far less known than the Lemon Demon remix 'Everybody Likes You', which loops the sample of the titular line (As well as the 'I Like You, I Like You' chorus) to create a disturbing Madness Mantra.
• Retroactive Recognition: The voice actress for Dawn is a young Alyson Court, who would later go on to star as Loonette on The Big Comfy Couch and Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The ending musical number.
  • The song about growing up, sung while watching all the characters we know better as mature Care Bears/Cousins grow, can also stir up some emotions.
  • The revelation that almost all the Care Bears/Cousins are orphans.
  • Dark Heart's Heel Realization when he almost kills Christy.
    Dark Heart: Oh no... what have I done!?