YMMV / Kate & Leopold

• Cult Classic: When it came out, it was "another rom-com with Meg Ryan" and while reviews were favourable and audiences enjoyed it, it was seen as nothing to write home about. Since then, it has become "the last rom-com with Meg Ryan" and has a dedicated following, doubly so due to simply being a decent, but overlooked movie on its own.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: It's notoriously easy to pick apart the details of how well Kate could actually adjust to living in the past, with fans endlessly asking "Would a life with Hugh Jackman be worth losing the right to vote/tampons/penicillin etc.?"
• Hilarious in Hindsight: For all the complaining about test screenings and audiences presented in the film, applying those things saved Kate and Leopold from a whole lot of squicky, incestous implications and cut out a good deal of Infodump.
  Kate: We make (...) boring movies shorter.
• Just Here for Godzilla: The movie has a flimsy premise and (depending on your view) a rather unlikable female lead, but Hugh Jackman's performance is so endearing, charming, and heartwarming that no one cares. It's worth a watch just for how darling and enjoyable Leopold is as a character.
• Retroactive Recognition: Viola Davis has a small part as a policewoman.
• Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?: Kate is cynical to a fault, obnoxious, self-centred, prying, and an all-around annoying person, without any redeeming qualities at all. When she and Leopold have a fight about just how broken and bitter she is and how much it is bleeding into everything in her life, they both realise that they really have nothing in common, and essentially walk out of their respective lives. But Because Destiny Says So, they get together in the end.

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