YMMV / Children's Party at the Palace

• Accidental Innuendo: When the other characters swarm around Mary Poppins, she replies with, "And don't crush me, I am not a garlic either, thank you very much." This may imply that she actually meant something else rather than literal crushing. Yes, even a pantomime like this isn't exempt from potential adult jokes.
• Adorkable: Tracy Beaker. Perhaps the most relatable character of the show, she first appears she has shades of nervousness and awkwardness as she and her friends have their doubts about attending the Queen's shindig, and when she encountered Horrid Henry. However, it decreases as she helps the other characters find Her Majesty's handbag, but is still very much present throughout the film. Not to mention she expresses so much excitement when she finds out she's going to present the Queen her handbag.
• Awesome Music: Especially that they’re all orchestrated and even featured the renditions and cast from the Mary Poppins musical.
  • "Chim Chim Cheree" and "Step in Time" at the beginning.
  • The battle music between Peter Pan and the Lost Boys versus Captain Hook and his pirates sounded astonishingly epic to many.
  • "He's a Pirate", which plays during the battle at the London Underground happens to have this charm too.
  • The theme of The Monkees plays during the garden hunt with Winnie the Pooh, Rupert, and Kipper.
  • Also, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" happens to be very well-executed.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: There really is no reason why all these extra characters suddenly showed up, and not to mention they really don't play any part in the plot of the play aside from being there to sing and dance on stage. Normally after the segment they appear in, they never make an appearance in the film again.
  • The "moving statues" at the Victoria Memorial during the "Chim Chim Cheree" segment.
  • The chimney sweepers dancing to "Step in Time" both on the Buckingham Palace stage-set and the rooftop of the real Palace.
  • Also almost all the characters aside from Mary Poppins and the duo of Jane and Michael in the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" segment.
• Epileptic Trees: Due to the loose, off-the-wall logic of the film, some people have come up with pretty bizarre theories about the events of it.
  • The idea that somebody somehow took one of the magic spells from Hogwarts (or the palace library...?) and used it to summon the literature characters into the real world, possibly by using their respective books in whatever ritual it was. Yes, it's actually staged and all the characters are actually famous actors dressed as them, but it seems like this theory was made as a "What if the events were actually real?" theory. Most likely candidate to perform that spell would be the Queen herself.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many people have watched this just to see the Harry Potter segment.
• Love to Hate: All the Baddies. Literally all of them. Sure, the audience may be jeering at them each time they appear or proclaim what evilness they brew up but in reality many people enjoy them because they’re...Baddies.
• Narm:
  • Cruella de Vil speaking in an opera-like tone possibly to emphasize that the Queen's handbag is a MacGuffin.
  "The handbaaaag?"
  • Especially the non-British accents.
    • The Grand High Witch and Child Catcher's overexaggerated German accents, pronouncing Ws as Vs and saying "ze" instead of "the".
• Narm Charm: Sure, there are some moments where this film would look pretty ridiculous for a British production (it is, after all, a Pantomime), it's well-put together and entertaining to both children and adults.
• One-Scene Wonder: Since a lot of cameo and one-time characters are memorable characters from specific literature (or TV series), Thomas the Tank Engine, Noddy, Fireman Sam, Kipper, Paddington, and Winnie the Pooh are amongst them, making only brief appearances.
• Questionable Casting: Harry Hill as...the Prime Minister's...owl keeper? What kind of position is that? Not sure if Eda would be impressed.
• Special Effect Failure: In the BFG segment where Sophie Dahl narrates a passage from the story. Closeups of the titular giant show the actor playing as him but when the BFG is in the background and Sophie, Mary, and Mr. Tibbs are in the focus of a shot instead, a not-so-realistic giant puppet of him is shown instead. Wow, did the BBC spend all their budget on the props? Or the other costumes? Disney surely did the better job with their film when it came to a scene like that.
• Squick:
  • "Down with children! Do them in! Boil their bones and fry their skin!" Holy crap, Grand High Witch, what's with you and eating kids?
  • Also Cruella's line: "Harvest their fur", as referring to the corgis.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Many popular British characters that only received One Scene Wonders such as Noddy and Fireman Sam would’ve been perfect as major characters of this play. Especially that they were main characters of their respective works.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Okay, not so much as being part of the major plot, but when Horrid Henry shatters a vase from atop a counter unintentionally, it is immediately dropped. This could’ve been the perfect opportunity to be another piece of evidence that a particular Baddie broke in the Palace and stole the handbag. Who knows, maybe Burglar Bill has his clumsy moments.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: The costumes are actually pretty high-quality and have so much detail if one thinks about it, but some may not like them as much if they’re expecting the characters to resemble their Disney counterparts (well...if they have one). Only Winnie the Pooh and Alice of all characters resembled their Disney counterparts.
• The Woobie: The Queen herself. Who wouldn't feel sorry for the Queen of England when she's lost one of her most cherished items? Poor Lizzie.

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