YMMV / Suburban Commando

• Awesome Moment:
  • While the opening to the film is full of cheesy moments, President Hashina saving Ramsy during his Defiant to the End moment was pretty awesome. Shame Suitor murdered the poor man a moment later... While Ramsey escaped, leaving Hashina to die at Suitor's hands.
  • While he did go overboard, watching Shep trash the car of the two teens who were so oblivious that they nearly ran over one of Charlie's kids was rather satisfying.
  • How does Shep deal with a man who tries to run away after stealing a woman's purse? He beats the guy up and carries him over his shoulder, just before bringing the woman's purse back to her.
  • While brief, Charlie ramming into Suitor with his car.
• Fridge Logic: Ramsey somehow thinks that an arcade console in the middle of a bunch of other arcade consoles being played by kids is somehow real. An interstellar supersoldier has never heard of a simulator?) This could turn into Fridge Brilliance if Shep thinks that the kid is piloting a remote-controlled drone, and the screen shows a computer-processed version of the drone's view. Or Fridge Horror if kids on Ramsey's world are seemingly trained Ender's Game style - and notice how Shep doesn't see a child partaking in what he believes to be a combat situation, drone or otherwise, as anything noteworthy enough to comment on...
• Informed Wrongness: Early in the movie, Charlie's refusal to run red lights is supposed to be indicative of his overcautious, submissive nature. His destruction of the traffic signal with one of Shep's weapons at the film's end is supposed to be Character Development and a great personal triumph for him. Never mind that: 1) destroying city property is a criminal act and the taxpayers will be paying for it, 2) the whole purpose of traffic lights is to prevent accidents, and 3) using that weapon was like "firing a flare" to attract attention from unsavory types all over the universe, and Ramsey is no longer on Earth to take care of them.
• Memetic Mutation: "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!", it even named an index.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • While most of the film is silly, even the Big Bad General Suitor is a Large Ham. The moment the general's "true form" is revealed is actually rather creepy. Especially since he looks like a bigger and more frightening version of the Gill-Man, from the Creature from the Black Lagoon film.
  • The tease we get of Suitor's actual form when his hand is cut off by President Hashina. His eyes glow an intense, sickly yellow-green and a reptilian hand grows back from the stump of the one that he just lost, which he uses to hoist Hashina up by the throat:
    "NEGOTIATIONS HAVE ENDED!"
• Questionable Casting: Christopher Lloyd as the straight man is a bit of a weird choice given, he's known for his◊ eccentric◊ characters◊.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • The Undertaker plays the beady-eyed bounty hunter who talks in a baby voice. Crosses with Hilarious in Hindsight, as his one line is "You're a dead man, Ramsey." No, Undertaker, you're a dead man. The Dead Man, actually...
  • Elisabeth Moss makes her feature film debut as a little girl whose cat Hogan rescues.
• So Bad, It's Good: And it's still The Hulkster's best starring vehicle, managing to hit the sweet spot that his other movies like Mr. Nanny and Santa with Muscles couldn't by being the fun kind of stupid.
• Watch It for the Meme: More than a few people have admitted to catching this movie on cable, waiting for "the line" and then immediately shutting it off.

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