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• Complete Monster: Godfrey is a sadistic and ruthless knight, who enjoys killing people and burning villages, betrays England in the first place and slays poor and blind Sir Walter.
• Critical Backlash: The film has gotten mostly negative reviews, as collated by Rotten Tomatoes, some for not being a retread of the Flynn and Fairbanks films. While the film has underperformed in the US, it has taken about double the amount abroad. See also Internet Backdraft below.
• Internet Backdraft: The film's IMDB messageboard is mostly composed of negativity. Understandable to a point, given the mostly negative critical consensus, but many of the board's users appear to veer into Hatedom or HateDumb {not to mention Troll) territory. These think that Crowe is too old and fat, that his "Fightin' Round The World" history is cause for boycotting the film, and that the world does not need a Robin Hood "remake". At one point, if one tried to engage in reasonable discussion others would call him or her a studio plant. (See also Critical Backlash above). Some other negative complaints may be chalked up to lack of research. A prime example is thinking the Errol Flynn-style Robin Hood is the same as the real literary legend, taken as a whole; this leads to They Changed It, Now It Sucks.
• Memetic Mutation: "OUTLAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!"
• Moral Event Horizon: Godfrey was bad before, but killing Walter Loxley when he barely represented a threat, then locking all of the Nottingham villagers inside a building then lights the building on fire FOR NO REASON sends him flying over the edge of this trope.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Some of the negative sentiment about the film can be boiled down to this phrase. Ironically, people were already badmouthing the film before its release for being a Robin Hood "remake". Of course, not one Robin Hood film has been a remake of previous ones, but they all draw upon the same source material.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
  • Warring in the Middle East has led to financial troubles for England and are keenly felt by his successor.
  • Robin tells Richard that he doesn't think God would be pleased with his crusade. Not the crusade itself but the massacre of prisoners after the battle of Acre.
  • The American Tea Party movement, unsurprisingly, LOVES the story of a down-to-earth soldier fighting against both a menace to his nation's border and the oppressive and unjust leadership of his own government.
  • The idea of individual liberties and other enlightenment ideals (which won't really become popular for another few hundred years, but this is Hollywood after all) that were key in the American Revolution.