History YMMV / EnemyMine

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Both Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/BrionJames appearing in this movie is interesting considering both actors would later be involved in the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' media. Quaid, who plays a human character who finds himself fostering an alien child, was one of the considerations to play Jonathan Kent (who also fostered an alien child who would grow up into who we all know and loved) in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' before losing to Creator/KevinCostner who ultimately took the role, while James, who plays the BigBad who is part of a team of miners who loved to suck dry planets of their resources and act as a threat to Quaid's character and his adopted alien child, would later voice the energy-sucking supervillain and one of Superman's rogues gallery the Parasite in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' up to his death in 1999 where afterwards the Parasite would be taken over by TheOtherDarrin Brian George in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
** Future voice actor Creator/BumperRobinson plays Drac alien Jerry's child Zammis in a sci-fi film that involves themes of humans and aliens working together and FantasticRacism. Robinson would later be known to younger viewers as the voice of Rook in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', which the general premise involves the human character Ben being partnered up with Robinson's alien character and features some episodes involving the Forever Knights, who bears FantasticRacism against anything alien.

** The crash landing on Fyrine IV is very clearly accomplished by miniatures with a very shallow depth of field exposing them for what they really are.

* NightmareFuel:
** The aforementioned Pit Fiend is incredibly creepy, and is a constant threat even outside their pit traps.
** Davidge nearly falling victim to said monster. We've already seen that the creature's long, ropelike tongue/feeler is very bad news, but Davidge has no idea what he's looking at as it probes nearby to locate its prey, as a mysterious and sinister leitmotif plays. Then it grabs Davidge and tries to pull him under; the awful bleeding from his ensnared leg and his terrified cries for help leave no doubt that death by Pit Fiend would be a ''horrible'' way to go, but Jerry thankfully comes to the rescue just in time.
** The opening effectively sets the tone of WarIsHell, with the frozen corpsicle of a human pilot whose fighter was shot up, drifting through space.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Upon being found by military, Davidge is taken for a Drac turncoat by higher ops. This is ''never'' brought up for anything and instantly ignored, just skipping over all of it. The very next scene has him ''stealing a ship, while damaging a military installation''. Which also goes nowhere. All of which could be used as another layer of anti-prejudice and anti-war message the story is clearly about. But instead, we've got a prolonged sequence in "[[SteamAndFlameFactory enemy mine]]", which then directly cuts to being rescued by fellow human pilots. Willis seems to have some serious HeroInsurance.

* FashionVictimVillain: The Dracs wear flimsy robes that look like they were made out of black trash bags.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Chapter 15 of the novella has a lengthy exchange between Davidge and Zammis where the latter, at barely a year old, starts discussing philosophy in a very heady and wordy manner that leaves Davidge flummoxed. It's especially odd since Zammis had to have learned the concepts and vocabulary from his Uncle, and the whole exchange seems like a complicated setup for a "Descartes before the horse" dad joke. After this, Zammis never displays such ludicrously advanced intellect again in the story.