YMMV / Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! The Movie: Happy Birthday in the Land of Sweets

• Accidental Aesop: In the End, You Are on Your Own can be seen as the true message of the story. This is the first Pretty Cure movie where only the lead Cure gets a power up (albeit a Combined Energy Attack).
• Base-Breaking Character: A couple depending on your point of view.
  • Mushiban can be seen either as the embodiment of Evil Is Cool as well as being a Magnificent Bastard, orchestrating the entire first act of the movie, fighting Milky Rose to a draw before single-handedly taking out all five of the Cures or a Generic Doomsday Villain with ill-defined goals.
  • Dry & Bitter are badass villains with awesome fight scenes and cool powers as well as being easy on the eyes or Flat Characters who spend the entire film's runtime Brainwashed and Crazy.
  • Chocola can be a Badass Adorable Woobie who is a great addition to the plot or a crybaby who takes a lot of screentime from other characters like Milky Rose/Kurumi/Milk and Nuts.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Bitter while fighting Cures Lemonade and Mint, abruptly states "Girls are weak!'' This is not foreshadowed, neither of his two opponents have a reaction to it and it never comes up again.
• Canon Fodder: There are tons of unanswered questions that are left unanswered during the film.
  • Mushiban's Mysterious Past. He lacks the animal ears the rest of the population of the Dessert Kingdom, marking as some type of foreigner. Beyond that, he goes on about how sweets taste bad no matter how many he eats.
  • Dry and Bitter share the same lack of ears and in contrast to Coco and Queen Dessert are only freed from their brainwashing after Shining Dream defeats Mushiban in the finale.
  • The Queen and Mushiban's relationship. While he goes on to mind-control her, he gently cradles her hand and is later moved by her words, though not enough to stop or surrender. On her end, she never seems to hold being brainwashed against her will against Mushiban, even promising to give him as many sweets as he'd like if he surrendered.
• Continuity Lockout: Downplayed. Like other Pretty Cure movies, it tries to avoid this by not including the season's villians (excluding Bunbee) or its Myth Arc, but it acts as if you are caught up on the episodes as newcomers Syrup and Milk/Kurumi/Milky Rose are treated as part of the gang.
• Cry for the Devil: Mushiban's Graceful Loser attitude as he Disappears into Light, coupled with Nozomi/ShiningDream's Tender Tears makes the scene quite the Tearjerker.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Evil Coco has only appeared in this film but the subject of many a Fan Art and Fan Fic.
• Evil Is Cool: All the film's villains completely exude this. From Mushiban's power, menace and baritone (courtesy of Akio Ōtsuka), Evil Dessert Queen's presence, Evil Coco's personal connection to Nozomi and Dry and Bitter's respective abilities.
• Fan Fic Fuel: A lot, but where are Mushiban, Dry and Bitter from, how did Mushiban get close enough to the Queen and her two guards to brainwash them and the true nature of the Queen and Mushiban's relationship.
• He Really Can Act: All the seiyuu definitely bring their A-game to this movie, but Takeshi Kusao tops them all with his performance as Evil Coco capturing an malevolent side the character has never had a making his struggle to break free sound so real.
• Iron Woobie: Chocola and mother her go through a lot throughout this movie and neither never give up.
• Les Yay: Karen and Komachi standing together and talking then proceeding to feed each other pudding can be seen as this.
• Love to Hate: While a brainwasher and a pretty bad guy, Mushiban really manages to make himself look charming the whole time.
• Moe: Chocola is a cute and innocent girl who definitely inspires protective feelings.
• Moral Event Horizon: Mushiban does a swan dive into it when he holds the Dessert Queen as a hostage and makes her daughter run from Bunbee and bring the Cures back home when they rescue her.
• Narm: Mushiban's various rants about the weakness of hope and love are on the cheesy side.
• One-Scene Wonder: What Milky Rose essentially amounts to. Kurumi Mimino/Milk is around for most of the film but only transforms once to give Mushiban a heroic Wake-Up Call Boss fight to a draw. Once she de-transforms into Milk, the only thing else she does in the movie to use a Miracle Light to bequeathe Nozomi with power in the finale with the rest of the kingdom's residents.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: To Yes Pretty Cure 5 The Movie The Mirror Kingdoms Miraculous Adventure. While the prior movie was not at all bad, it was really lacking in a lot of areas this film wasn't.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: It has its own page here
• Unexpected Character: Bunbee, full stop. While it's only in the opening scene before Bitter chases him out of the plot, this marks the first time a villain from the anime has appeared in a Non-Serial Movie outside of a cameo.
• The Woobie: Poor, poor Chocola. She is forced by Mushiban to to flee from Bunbee, take Pretty Cure to the Dessert Kingdom in gratitude and let them be split up and attacked by Mushiban and his men or else he'd hurt the Dessert Queen.
• Woobie Family: Mother and daughter the Dessert Queen and Chocola are put through hell during the film's runtime but ultimately end up happy and peaceful.

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