YMMV / The Mouse That Roared

• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film did not perform up to expectations in the UK, but was a surprise hit at the US box office.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The entire premise of the film, that a small, impoverished country should want nothing more than to be invaded by the United States, makes sense in the aftermath of World War II and the Marshall Plan, but not in the light of Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, or a dozen other foreign conflicts the U.S. has become involved in since World War II.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • When Mr. Benter suggests to Helen that the policemen and General Snippet be released along with her and her father, she asks him, "Whose side are you on?" This would not be the last time someone asked him that.
  • This won't be the last time that Peter Sellers has to contend with a doomsday machine.
• Retroactive Recognition: The Mouse That Roared features William Hartnell in a prominent role as Sergeant Will Buckley four years before he played the iconic First Doctor in Doctor Who. Similarly, The Mouse on the Moon has a young Bernard Cribbins who is known to Whovians as Wilfred Mott.
• Values Resonance: The film version of The Mouse on the Moon has a surprisingly progressive message for the 1960s in that it does not matter which country makes it to the Moon first but rather that humanity itself accomplishes the feat.

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