History YMMV / KateAndLeopold

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/HughJackman and Creator/LievSchreiber working together, playing an OddCouple? [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine This does sound familiar...]]
** This won't the the last [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny film]] Creator/JamesMangold will direct involving time portals.
** 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}}.

* This won't the the last [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny film]] Creator/JamesMangold will direct involving time portals.

* This won't the the last [[IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny film]] directed by Creator/JamesMangold will direct involving time portals.

* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack: 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, Leopold realises that they really have nothing in common, and essentially walk out of their respective lives. But BecauseDestinySaysSo, they get together in the end.

* CultClassic: When it came out, it was "another rom-com with Creator/MegRyan" 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 good, but overlooked movie on its own.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/HughJackman and Creator/LievSchreiber working together, playing an OddCouple? [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine This does sound familiar...]]

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' debuted in 1879 three years after Leopold traveled to the present. The same is true with ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' which was written in 1895 nearly twenty years after Leopold's time travel.
** The real life Duke Leopold is not in fact the inventor of the elevator. He would have been a generation late.

* EsotericHappyEnding: 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/pennecillin etc.?”

* JustHereForGodzilla: Let's be honest: 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.

* ValuesDissonance: Leopold's belief that he cannot marry a woman without loving her is possibly anachronistic, and some level of progressive if not.

* EsotericHappyEnding: It’s notoriously easy to pick apart the details of how well 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/pennecillin etc.?”

* ValuesDissonance: Leopold's belief that he cannot marry a woman without loving her is possibly anachronistic, and some level of progressive if not.

** Not only does Leopold get the plot of ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' wrong, the opera debuted three years after he traveled to the present, so he never could have seen it in the first place. The same is true with ''Theatre/LaBoheme'' which was written twenty years after Leopold's time travel. Seriously, folks, couldn't you have hired someone who actually has an inkling of knowledge about musical theatre?

** The real life Duke Leopold is not in fact the inventor of the elevator.

** Not only does Leopold get the plot of ThePiratesOfPenzance wrong, the opera debuted three years after he traveled to the present, so he never could have seen it in the first place. The same is true with Theatre/LaBoheme which was written twenty years after Leopold's time travel. Seriously, folks, couldn't you have hired someone who actually has an inkling of knowledge about musical theatre?

* CriticalResearchFailure: Not only does Leopold get the plot of ThePiratesOfPenzance wrong, the opera debuted three years after he traveled to the present, so he never could have seen it in the first place.
** Same with Theatre/LaBoheme which was written twenty years after Leopold's time travel. Seriously, folks, couldn't you have hired someone who actually has an inkling of knowledge about musical theatre?
*** Possible FridgeLogic. He might have read early drafts of the plays and used that for his knowledge.
** Also, Leopold is not in fact the inventor of the elevator.

** Also, Leopold is not in fact the inventor of the elevator.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Not only does Leopold get the plot of ThePiratesOfPenzance wrong, the opera debuted three years after he traveled to the present, so he never could have seen it in the first place.

* FridgeLogic: How plausible is it that nobody else would've dreamed up the elevator in Leopold's absence? (In the real someone else ''did'' invent it. Modern-style safety elevators were actually fairly common in New York City by 1876.)
** If Stuart is Leopold's grandson and Kate and Leopold wind up [[spoiler: marrying in the 19th Century]], doesn't that mean that Stuart spent two years [[spoiler:boning his own grandmother?]]
** Being from the Victorian era, shouldn't Leopold be much more sexist? And at the end when [[spoiler: Kate goes back in time to 1876, doesn't she basically give up all human rights, being a woman and all?]]
*** [[spoiler: Women had rights in the Victorian era, though not many. Women couldn't even vote yet despite the fact that the monarch was a queen.]]