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  • Alternative Joke Interpretation: When the Wolf comments on Boingo's Villain Song, "The song was catchy, but the choreography was terrible", one can interpret this as the movie taking a jab at its own choppy animation.
  • Awesome Music:
    • Japeth's song "Be Prepared".
    • Also, Boingo's Villain Song, "Top Of The Woods", which has a jaunty triumphant feel to it, punctuated by Boingo's big Title Drop at the end.
    • The credits song "Critters Have Feelings" likewise really jams, being a fantastic alt-rock love song.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
    • The Schnitzel song. Amusingly enough, it's intentional; Kirk the Woodsman's story has nothing whatsoever to do with the main plot, except to establish his truck does an ice cream-style schnitzel jingle that is a Dark Reprise when the villains repurpose it.
    • Japeth's theme song "Be Prepared" would be completely irrelevant if not for the Brick Joke at the end of the movie.
  • Broken Base: The animation. Does its low quality make the movie less enjoyable to watch, or is said low quality part of its charm?
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: The movie hardly even tries to hide that Boingo is the true Big Bad, despite the film acting like it is a shocking reveal.
  • Critical Dissonance: The first movie was enjoyed more by the general audience than critics.
  • Cult Classic: A somewhat minor one, but while it was mostly disparaged back in its release for its shoddy animation and emphasis on Shrek-style "subverted fairy tale" humor, it retains a fanbase years later for some genuinely snappy writing.
  • First Installment Wins: The original movie is far more popular and well-known than its sequel.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Twitchy's apparent suspicion of Boingo while he was talking to him and wolf makes sense considering the circumstances at the time; given what Twitchy saw in the cable car through his camera and how Wolf's spy equipment made him misinterpret the conversation Boingo and Red were having inside the cable car before Red fell (affirming Wolf's (false) suspicion that Red was in league with the Goody Bandit), Twitchy most likely believed Boingo was feeding them false information to get them off of Red's trail.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With Igor, another independent CGI Fractured Fairy Tale made in the wake of Shrek's success. Both are considered two of its "better" knockoffs.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • In the extended version of "The Schnitzel Song", Kirk sings about wanting to be "the German Charlie Sheen". This was in 2005, before Sheen and his Two and a Half Men ranting began.
    • Granny's "Triple G" tattoo is funnier in hindsight of the Middleweight Boxing legend Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, who's commonly called GGG or Triple G.
    • In the Italian dub, Flippers is voiced by Paolo Buglioni, who later voiced Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This makes the final scene where he wants Red and the others to join his team even funnier to watch.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Boingo crosses it by trying to kill Red, a little girl, with dynamite.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Wolf roaring at Red when she refuses to hand over her basket can be quite intense, especially for younger viewers. It's later revealed that Wolf's tail was actually caught in Twitchy's camera's gears, causing him to scream in pain, however, but still.
    • The low budget CGI animation ends up making many characters, especially the humans, fall into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley. The Nostalgia Critic went as far as saying that Kirk resembles a Killer Klown without makeup, and when he smiles he looks like something out of We Happy Few. Boingo also looks quite disturbing during his semi-Villainous Breakdown in regards to his plan when he goes back and forth between crying with an exaggerated frown and Evil Laugh when he puts on a rather demonic Nightmare Face.
  • Special Effects Failure: Pay close attention to the scene where Wolf is playing basketball with two of the woodland inhabitants, and you'll notice that at one point the shot is badly lit, and the models of everyone involved in the scene appear to lose some of their textures.
  • Woolseyism: The film has a Germans Love David Hasselhoff reputation in Brazil on account of its very fleshed-out dub, adapting the jokes to better suit the cultural context. One example being the little joke Chief Grizzly and the Stork have about taking prisoners downtown ("We're in the woods, Chief, there's no downtown") being instead translated as a play of words with "chess" ("xadrez", Brazilian slang for jail) and how everything's green in the forest (and thus there isn't any chequered chess pattern anywhere).

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