History YMMV / OceansEight

* MagnificentBitch:

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Casting Music/{{Rihanna}} has drawn skepticism from many people, given her previous acting venture in ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' had her acting among its criticisms. This died down a bit after the film was released. (It may help that she isn't called upon to do much, and handles it with aplomb.)
** Much like with ''Film/PeterRabbit'', Creator/JamesCorden's playing a serious, StraightMan investigator received this response as well, with many viewers feeling that [[{{Narm}} his performance took them completely out of the film]].

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Lou and Debbie are practically flirting for most of the movie. After Debbie gets out of jail, Lou greets her with a kiss, and at one point jokingly asks Debbie if she's proposing. To which Debbie says no... because she doesn't have a diamond yet.
* LGBTFanbase: Oh, yes! This movie has a ''massive'' fanbase of queer women, which really isn't a surprise -- it features not one, not two, but ''eight'' [[MsFanservice extremely attractive leading ladies]], there's bucketloads of LesYay, there's no heterosexual romance outside of flashbacks (and the guy in said romance is the closest thing the film has to an antagonist, having framed the woman he was dating in the backstory, so that hardly counts), ''and'' it has Creator/CateBlanchett, who has been nicknamed "Queen of the Lesbians."

** Lou Miller has been Debbie's partner in crime and closest friend for years in pulling scams and cons. Having watered down vodka at the bar she works in to make more money, Lou's run other hustles on the side since Debbie's been locked up and helps to plot the heist of the Toussaint—almost bowing out when discovering Debbie's running it as a revenge scheme against Claude and appreciating Debbie's planning when she's able to misdirect the investigation to keep the team from being given any focus at all. Lou on Debbie's behalf also brings in the Amazing Yen to help her steal all the Royal Jewels in the midst of the chaos so that every member of the team gets an even bigger share as a result.
** [[HiddenDepths Daphne Kluger]] is a temperamental actress, who proves herself to be [[SmarterThanYouLook much smarter than she first appears]]. Starting as an unknowing pawn in Debbie's plan to steal the Toussaint, she eventually sees through Rose Weil's "bad acting" to put together what is happening. Daphne allows the group to steal the necklace during the Met Gala, playing innocent even to the insurance investigator sent to find it. Wanting to make friends, Daphne joins the group and plays a vital role in framing Claude Becker by [[FemmeFatale seducing him]] and taking pictures of a piece of the Toussaint in his house. A gifted actress who uses her awareness of her surroundings to her benefit, Daphne ends the film making the friends she wanted and uses her share to [[EarnYourHappyEnding become a successful film director]].

** "Nine Ball", real name Leslie, is a skilled computer hacker Lou discovered and suggests to Debbie for the job. Nine Ball first manipulates an IT security guy into checking out a pop up about dogs—while disliking the tactic as she does it—so that she can hack into the system for the Met Gala and little by little create a blind spot in the cameras' views to be able to have a place to hide the teams' actions on the scene. In order to deal with the special lock that keeps the Toussaint from being easily removed from Daphne, Nine Ball also recruits her younger sister Veronica to recreate the special key that they need for it too.
* PresumedFlop: With the similarly female-centric reboot ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' having under-performed at the box-office, this film is often lumped in with that one and spoken of as a financial failure. In reality, the film made just short of $300 million worldwide on a budget of $80 million; not a mega-hit by any means, but certainly more than profitable, and about as financially successful as ''Film/OceansThirteen'' had been a decade prior (taking into account inflation in the intervening years, but ''Thirteen'' also having a higher budget).

* SpiritualAdaptation: Lack of {{Spy Catsuit}}s and lack of overarching quest for a missing father notwithstanding, it's perhaps the closest Western cinema has to a ''[[Manga/CatsEye Cat's Eye]]'' live action film.
* TearJerker: The ''very first'' place Debbie goes after getting out of prison is [[spoiler:Danny's grave. Doubly so when you realize that being in jail meant she didn't get to attend his funeral, either.]] Also not helping is Reuben showing up and telling her [[spoiler: that Danny thought her plan was genius and would work, but that he didn't think she should do it. It's implied that it's because he didn't want her to end up in jail again.]]

** Casting Music/{{Rihanna}} has drawn skepticism from many people, due to having been previously in ''Film/{{Battleship}}'', a film in which Rihanna's acting was among its criticisms. This died down a bit after the film was released. (It may help that she isn't called upon to do much, and handles it with aplomb.)

* OvershadowedByControversy: The announcement that Creator/MattDamon had a cameo in such a female-centric film got pretty questionable after his remarks on the "Me Too" movement, and a petition was even started to cut his cameo. This died down when his cameo was confirmed to be cut, though two other members of the original cast make cameos, too.

* IdiotPlot:
** The necklace being so famous means it would be impossible to fence, and even selling the diamonds individually wouldn't get the team anywhere close to the $150 million the whole thing is worth. [[spoiler: Which is why they steal more than one necklace.]]
** The team's success relies heavily on everyone responsible for the Toussaint being inexplicably lax on security, incompetent, or very short sighted. [[spoiler: They hired a security team to watch over the necklace all night at the gala, but Constance was able to get the necklace off of Daphne in the bathroom, where security couldn't enter, because nobody thought to hire any female security staff in the eventuality that Daphne would need to use the bathroom.]]
** [[spoiler: When the security team thinks the Toussaint fell off in the water, nobody immediately checks the necklace's locking mechanism to make sure it's still working properly. The also didn't think to have someone check the necklace's authenticity before they retrieved it from Daphne's possession.]]
** Despite the fact that cameras cover every inch of the Met-Gala with the exception of a small blind spot, [[spoiler: nobody looking at the footage spots that Daphne still had the necklace on her immediately before entering the bathroom, far past the water that it supposedly fell off in, despite the fact that such a detail is almost certainly one of the first logical things to check over.]]
** 9-Ball is able to hack into the security system of the security company by getting one of its staff to fall for some incredibly obvious clickbait.
** Debbie and John Frazier agree that she has an alibi for the theft, but she clearly and obviously does not: [[spoiler: Debbie is the one who jumps in front of the security team to prevent them from following Daphne into the bathroom, making her an obvious accomplice.]] Further, [[spoiler: Defauding the Met / Vogue to attend the party under a false identity would clearly violate her parole, but neither Frazier nor the totally absent NYPD bust her in for it.]]
* LesYay: Lou and Debbie are practically flirting for most of the movie. After Debbie gets out of jail, Lou greets her with a kiss, and at one point jokingly asks Debbie if she's proposing. To which Debbie says no... because she doesn't have a diamond yet.

* ActorShipping: In conjunction with the FanPreferredCouple below, shipping Creator/CateBlanchett and Creator/SandraBullock themselves together has become at least as popular as Debbie and Lou, thanks to their flirty, sarcastic banter in interviews, frequent physical closeness, and Cate's bad habit of [[ThatCameOutWrong accidentally making]] [[AccidentalInnuendo innuendos]]. Cate/Creator/SarahPaulson is probably the next-most popular, followed shortly after by, well, [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Cate and]] any of the other women.

* FanPreferredCouple: Debbie/Lou became the biggest ship in the fandom overnight over Debbie/Claude.

* WhatAnIdiot: You'd think a guy who works for a ''security company'' would know better than to click on a link from a source he doesn't know. But he does, which is what enables Nine-Ball to install spyware on his computer.

* TakeThat: Arguably, Debbie's speech about the little girl who wants to be a criminal is this to the "little girls need heroines too" argument of all-female remakes: sometimes you just want to see cool ladies do cool things. It's hard to involve a kid's admiration when said cool thing is an undefendable crime.