History YMMV / AlienResurrection

** Call being referred to as a "toaster oven" nearly a decade before BattlestarGalacticaReimagined.

* HilariousInHindsight: It's now quite easy to see the Betty crew as a dry run for ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. The latter may even be Whedon's attempt to show what he really wanted them to be like before the {{Executive Meddling}} he's complained so much about.

** Or simply kep titular Aliens in separate cells, so [[spoiler:they couldn't kill one of their own to use its acid blod as a way to escape the holding cell]].

* InferredHolocaust: Ripley saves the day by crashing the xenomorph-filled ship into the Earth causing an impact blast hundreds of miles wide, most likely destroying the biosphere in the process. NiceJobBreakingItHero. In the novelization (based on the original script) you learn that Earth was mostly screwed already, which is why one of the characters says, "Earth... what a shithole." The only people still on the planet are the ones that can't ''afford'' to leave for one of the colonies which may have some UnfortunateImplications of it own.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Dr Gediman bizarrely declares that the human reproductive system conferred on the Alien Queen thanks to the experiments has - somehow - made the creature ''better'', when in fact, it appears to drastically reduce the effectiveness of the Xenomorphs; Instead of producing batches of eggs and developing larger numbers of drones, she instead produces one child at a time in a prolonged and clearly painful parallel to human pregnancy; How this makes the creature superior - especially since the Newborn is an ugly, monstrous child that swipes it's own mother's face off - is difficult to discern.

* HilariousInHindsight: It's now quite easy to see the Betty crew as a dry run for ''{{Firefly}}''. The latter may even be Whedon's attempt to show what he really wanted them to be like before the {{Executive Meddling}} he's complained so much about.

* ContestedSequel: Increasingly so, since a lot of ''Alien'' fans deeply dislike how this is basically the same as everything else Joss has written.

* ContestedSequel: though ''Resurrection'' still has its fans, thanks primarily to Jeunet's unique visual style, the added humor of Joss Whedon's script, and the presence of cult actors such as Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinion and Michael Wincott.

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Captain Elgyn.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Johner - an action-oriented DeadpanSnarker played by RonPerlman.

* ContestedSequel: ''Resurrection'' has its fans, thanks primarily to Jeunet's unique visual style, the added humor of Joss Whedon's script, and the presence of cult actors such as Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinion and Michael Wincott.

** To some the Newborn is this, stealing the scene that should be of the xenomorphs and being introduced in the last 30 seconds. though many fans see it as TheWoobie, other think it utterly fails at being sympathetic: xenomorphs may be more dangerous, but they kill only when they need to, and favor a cold efficency over wanton brutality, the Newborn instead is [[AxCrazy utterly psychotic]] and kills for the sake of it, and many think that its big puppy dog eyes are simply a facade to [[WoundedGazelleGambit lower its victims's guard]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The special effects quality takes a major nosedive from the previous three films, mostly due to the film's whole-hearted embrace of CGI for nearly all the special effects outside of the individual Xenomorphs. Granted, even back in 1997 there were many films that made decent use of the technology, but the CGI in ''this'' film somehow manages to be vastly worse than what the likes of ''Series/BabylonFive'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' were doing on television at the same time (done by the [[Creator/BlueSkyStudios guys]] who would work on ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' years later). The actual Xenomorph effects are at least pretty decent for the most part... until the Newborn shows up (granted, most of the problems with that thing were with its very concept, but the execution didn't really help at all). The kicker is the ConspicuousCGI hand grenade that rolls down into an escape pod. Dodgy CGI on complex extraterrestrials is one thing; having a close-up on a poorly-rendered rolling grenade is quite another.

* LesYay: Ripley and Cal. After spending the previous three movies interacting exclusively with males and a surrogate child, Ripley wastes no time in becoming very chummy and touchy ''very'' quickly with the cute little [[spoiler:android]] girl whom she first meets when Cal attempts to kill her, while Cal goes from wanting her as dead as the rest of the aliens to letting Ripley stick her fingers inside of her (not like ''that'', perverts) and confiding her deepest feelings and fears [[spoiler:about not being human.]] From the same movie, there's some Ho Yay between Johner and Vriess, which goes from subtext to text when Johner kisses Vriess at the end of the film because they both lived through all of it.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The "Grand Failure of Effects" award has to go to ''Resurrection'', which features CGI that somehow manages to be vastly worse than what the likes of ''Series/BabylonFive'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' were doing on television at the same time (done by the [[Creator/BlueSkyStudios guys]] who would work on ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' years later). The actual Xenomorph effects are at least pretty decent for the most part... until the Newborn shows up (granted, most of the problems with that thing were with its very concept, but the execution didn't really help at all). The kicker is the ConspicuousCGI hand grenade that rolls down into an escape pod. Dodgy CGI on complex extraterrestrials is one thing; having a close-up on a poorly-rendered rolling grenade is quite another.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A handful of people consider the Newborn Alien to be this. In any case, it's a bit hard to watch it die.

* LesYay: Ripley and Call. WordOfGod says it was intentional. Given [[Creator/JossWhedon the scriptwriter]], [[AuthorAppeal that's not exactly surprising]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The "Grand Failure of Effects" award has to go to ''Resurrection'', which features CGI that somehow manages to be vastly worse than what the likes of ''Series/BabylonFive'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' were doing on television at the same time (done by the [[BlueSky guys]] who would work on ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' years later). The actual Xenomorph effects are at least pretty decent for the most part... until the Newborn shows up (granted, most of the problems with that thing were with its very concept, but the execution didn't really help at all). The kicker is the ConspicuousCGI hand grenade that rolls down into an escape pod. Dodgy CGI on complex extraterrestrials is one thing; having a close-up on a poorly-rendered rolling grenade is quite another.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A handful of people consider the Newborn Alien to be this. In any case, it's a bit hard to watch it die.

* ContestedSequel: ''Resurrection'' also has its fans, thanks primarily to Jeunet's unique visual style, the added humor of Joss Whedon's script, and the presence of cult actors such as Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinion and Michael Wincott.

* LesYay: Ripley and Call in ''Resurrection''. WordOfGod says it was intentional. Given [[Creator/JossWhedon the scriptwriter]], [[AuthorAppeal that's not exactly surprising]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The "Grand Failure of Effects" award has to go to ''Resurrection'', which features CGI that somehow manages to be vastly worse than what the likes of ''Series/BabylonFive'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' were doing on television at the same time (done by the [[BlueSky guys]] who would work on ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' years later). The actual Xenomorph effects are at least pretty decent for the most part... until the Newborn shows up (granted, most of the problems with that thing were with its very concept, but the execution didn't really help at all).
*** The kicker is the ConspicuousCGI hand grenade that rolls down into an escape pod. Dodgy CGI on complex extraterrestrials is one thing; having a close-up on a poorly-rendered rolling grenade is quite another.