YMMV / Napoleon (1995)

• Awesome Music: The end credits version of "How Far I'll Fly".
• Cult Classic: Relatively unknown in America, but the people who have watched it as children have fond memories of it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This wouldn't be the last film where Jamie Croft spends most of it traveling with and befriending a talking bird. The two even had the same director.
• Nightmare Fuel: The film is filled with intense moments, including all of the scenes with the Ax-Crazy Cat, as well as Napoleon and the two dingo puppies being trapped in a flooding cave. Also, those afraid of snakes will be terrified about the snake in the sugar cane field, and the fire that happens afterward.
• So Bad, It's Good: Where to start? The Random Events Plot filled with wacky wayside critters? The very loud musical score? The fact that the animals seem to have not so much been trained to act as placed on the sets and filmed doing whatever they feel like until something close enough to what's in the script happens? The fact that it was re-dubbed in America despite being made in Australia? Here's the kicker: It came free in a box of cereal. And yet, there is something about it that draws attention: The main villain is an Ax-Crazy female cat who is insane enough to imagine every animal she encounters as a mouse she needs to kill and chases Napoleon in all The Hero's Journey. The owl describes the cat as Napoleon’s Evil Counterpart: a domesticated pet who escaped to the wilderness, learned how to kill, and didn’t know when to stop. A decent development, until you realize that out of all domesticated animal species, cats are the most accustomed to killing, which makes the villain's descent into madness redundant.
• Tear Jerker: After finding out the howling he heard wasn't actually wild dogs, but a lizard imitating them, Napoleon believes that his entire journey has been for nothing, and finds himself sadly wishing he could go home.

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