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* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in.
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* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to [[ThatCameOutWrong come out completely wrong wrong]] under the context that they are presented in.
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* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
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* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take in.
**Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
**Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
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* AlternativeJokeInterpretation
In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
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AlternativeJokeInterpretation: In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
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In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
In an example of how this can go horribly wrong, the film's intention of trying to be a pastiche of children's morality tales gets undermined when the shifting tone of the film renders it an IndecisiveParody. Because of this, one of the film's defining problems is its tendency for its jokes to go horribly array in that a joke would be made that is supposed to land under a certain context, but because the film struggles with its tone, not only do most of its jokes fail to land, they actually have the tendency to come out completely wrong under the context that they are presented in. Take for example the scene where North's dad attempts to loosen [North's] pants in an attempt at CPR. Rather than being a joke about his line of work, It indirectly paints him as a MemeticMolester. Then when we see him at his factory workplace, the weirdness of the pants tryouts in the background unintentionally reinforces this trope, in that even after [[spoiler: the AllJustADream reveal,]] it appears to imply that he has a noticeable fetish for pants. As such, this problem repeats itself like a line of dominoes, as you see the problem come up again and again, with Betsy Lou, the Hawaiian billboard, and most of the scenes involving Bruce Willis's character. The result is a tonally upbeat film with a plot and story sequence so mean-spirited it winds up too nihilistic to be funny or inspiring in any way that helps its own case for standing out as a kid's morality-tale at all, even if intended ironically.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: ''North'', the Rob Reiner film, is one of the most notorious [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst#North_(1994) bad movies ever made]], yet ''North'', the 1984 novel by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' writer Alan Zweibel, which was adapted into this film, has fallen into obscurity.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: ''North'', the Rob Reiner film, is one of the most notorious [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst#North_(1994) bad movies ever made]], yet ''North'', the 1984 novel by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' writer Alan Zweibel, which was adapted into this film, has fallen into obscurity. (helps that the book is, [[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-13-ca-22210-story.html by Zweibel's admission]], "a worst seller" that only got an adaptation, let alone a second printing, because his friend Rob Reiner liked it so much he wanted to make a movie out of it)
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* BileFascination: Some people really want to see if the culturally-insensitive jokes really are as bad as they say.
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* BileFascination: Some people really want [[https://film.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-87-north-1798212891 As put by]] Creator/NathanRabin, "Ebert went into ''North'' expecting another winner from a talented filmmaker on a hot streak. I went in expecting one of the worst films ever made." In short, the ruined reputation means new viewers are only in to see if the movie is as bad as they say (particularly regarding the culturally-insensitive jokes really are as bad as they say.jokes).
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** The Bonanza-like musical number sung by Pa Tex and Ma Tex. It is the only musical number in the entire film and comes absolutely out of nowhere.
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** Bruce Willis dressed as a pink Easter bunny. That is all.
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** Rob Reiner never fully escaped the shadow this movie cast upon his résumé with its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "family-friendly"]] plethora of racially insensitive humor and unlikable characters.
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** During the song, it's stated that when North grows up, he'll "marry Betsy Lou". [[JailBaitWait An adult woman than appears and waves at him]].
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** Alan Arkin as Judge Buckle may count as another, whose performance Ebert also panned in his review.
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** Alan Arkin Creator/AlanArkin as Judge Buckle may count as another, whose performance Ebert also panned in his review.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Several instances, but perhaps most notable would be Kathy Bates' facial makeup and minstrel wig to make her look like an Eskimo (which earned her a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward nomination for "Worst Supporting Actress"), and Creator/BruceWillis dressed as ''a pink Easter Bunny''.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Several instances, but perhaps most notable would be Kathy Bates' Creator/KathyBates' facial makeup and minstrel wig to make her look like an Eskimo (which earned her a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward nomination for "Worst Supporting Actress"), and Creator/BruceWillis dressed as ''a pink Easter Bunny''.
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** North's friend Adam, who is the only child to come to his aid when North attempts to return home to his true parents, is played by a then-unknown Jussie Smollett. Yes, ''THAT'' Jussie Smollett.
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** North's friend Adam, who is the only child to come to his aid when North attempts to return home to his true parents, is played by a then-unknown Jussie Smollett. Yes, ''THAT'' ''[[Series/{{Empire}} THAT]]'' Jussie Smollett.
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** North accepting a ride home from Bruce Willis's character (whom he has only just met) at the end of the movie - especially since not getting in cars with strangers is one of the first things children are taught - definitely feels uncomfortable, especially in the wake of the above.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's supposed to be a kid's movie with some adult jokes in there, but the "child-friendly" scenes are too childish for adults and the "adult jokes" are too raunchy for kids... and that's not even getting into the stereotypes. In short, no member of the target audience is pleased.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's supposed to be a kid's kids' movie with some adult jokes {{parental bonus}}es in there, but the "child-friendly" scenes are too childish for adults and the "adult jokes" are too raunchy for kids... and that's not even getting into the stereotypes. In short, no member of the target audience is pleased.
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** North's friend Adam, who is the only child to come to his aid when North attempts to return home to his true parents parents, is played by a then-unknown Jussie Smollett. Yes, ''THAT'' Jussie Smollett.
-->'''Bruce''': Look, kid, just because I'm in a bunny suit doesn't mean I haven't--
-->'''Nostalgia Critic''': Yeah, yeah, it does. Whatever you're about to say, being in a bunny suit pretty much destroys all credibility.
-->'''Nostalgia Critic''': Yeah, yeah, it does. Whatever you're about to say, being in a bunny suit pretty much destroys all credibility.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Several instances, but perhaps most notable would be Kathy Bates' facial makeup and minstrel wig to make her look like an Eskimo (which earned her a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward nomination for "Worst Supporting Actress"), and ''Creator/BruceWillis dressed as a pink Easter Bunny''.
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Several instances, but perhaps most notable would be Kathy Bates' facial makeup and minstrel wig to make her look like an Eskimo (which earned her a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward nomination for "Worst Supporting Actress"), and ''Creator/BruceWillis Creator/BruceWillis dressed as a ''a pink Easter Bunny''.
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** [[Film/SinCity The next movie]] that featured both Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/BruceWillis appearing alongside an AllStarCast would end up being far better received than this one.
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** [[Film/SinCity The next movie]] that featured both Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/BruceWillis appearing alongside an AllStarCast would end up being far better received than this one.
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* {{Squick}}: North's butt shown in Hawaii's ad with that hideously grinning octopus. It's a parody of a famous Coppertone/Water Babies ad (which had a puppy and a little girl), but comes out wrong...
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** North's butt shown in Hawaii's ad with that hideously grinning octopus. It's a parody of a famous Coppertone/Water Babies ad (which had a puppy and a little girl), but comes outwrong...wrong...
** During the song, it's stated that when North grows up, he'll "marry Betsy Lou". [[JailBaitWait An adult woman than appears and waves at him]].
** North's butt shown in Hawaii's ad with that hideously grinning octopus. It's a parody of a famous Coppertone/Water Babies ad (which had a puppy and a little girl), but comes out
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* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:The fact that they dramatically-built-up North re-uniting with his parents before he is sent to an orphanage, and then had Winchell's henchman shoot at him could have made for an acceptable OneSceneWonder moment if Winchell somehow lost. Allas, all it does is deprive the film of any fridge brilliance recognition of it being AllJustADream and instead replaces it with a big cop-out that nullifies the whole plot and drama of the film, rendering the already tonally befuddled film little more than a waste of time for anyone unfortunate enough to have seen it.]]
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* AccidentalAesop: [[spoiler:TheReveal that North's wildly caricatured interpretation of the world was AllJustADream]] lends itself to the aesop "Just because you're a straight-A student, doesn't mean you have an accurate perception of the world", despite this not actually being the intended aesop of the film ("Home is where the heart is").
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* AccidentalAesop: The ''intended'' aesop was "Home is where the heart is". However, [[spoiler:TheReveal that North's wildly caricatured interpretation of the world was AllJustADream]] lends itself to the more-fitting aesop "Just because you're a straight-A student, doesn't mean you have an accurate perception of the world", despite this not actually being the intended aesop of the film ("Home is where the heart is").world".
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* AccidentalAesop: [[spoiler:TheReveal that North's wildly caricatured interpretation of the world was AllJustADream]] lends itself to the aesop "Just because you're a straight-A student, doesn't mean you have an accurate perception of the world", despite this not actually being the intended aesop of the film ("Home is where the heart is").
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* WhatAnIdiot: A lot of North's prospective parents fit this bill, quickly driving North away with all kinds of InnocentlyInsensitive actions that suffice to say, wouldn't fly in reality. Perhaps most egregious of these though is his parents in Hawaii, who try to promote their state by advertising North as their leading citizen on a billboard where an octopus ''pulls down his swim trunks on the beach''. Naturally, North is disgusted and when they can't supply any justification for why this would work, he quickly bails out to the next client.
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** North's panic attack; [[CriticalResearchFailure it's very unlike what a real panic attack typically looks like for those who've seen them]], but is still very unsettling.
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* {{Narm}}: North's panic attack. Apart from the fact the writers apparently didn't know what a panic attack looks like (i.e. not like a violent seizure), his dad's "Quick, loosen his pants" line just hammers the point home.
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** North's panic attack. Apart from the fact the writers apparently didn't know what a panic attack looks like (i.e. not like a violent seizure), his dad's "Quick, loosen his pants" line just hammers the point home.
** North's panic attack. Apart from the fact the writers apparently didn't know what a panic attack looks like (i.e. not like a violent seizure), his dad's "Quick, loosen his pants" line just hammers the point home.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Rob Reiner never fully escaped the shadow this movie cast upon his résumé with its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "family-friendly"]] plethora of racially insensitive humor and unlikable characters.
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** Rob Reiner never fully escaped the shadow this movie cast upon his résumé with its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "family-friendly"]] plethora of racially insensitive humor and unlikable characters.
** Rob Reiner never fully escaped the shadow this movie cast upon his résumé with its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "family-friendly"]] plethora of racially insensitive humor and unlikable characters.
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* {{Narm}}: North's panic attack. Apart from the fact the writers apparently didn't know what a panic attack looks like (i.e. NOT THAT), his dad's "Quick, loosen his pants" line just hammers the point home.
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* {{Narm}}: North's panic attack. Apart from the fact the writers apparently didn't know what a panic attack looks like (i.e. NOT THAT), not like a violent seizure), his dad's "Quick, loosen his pants" line just hammers the point home.
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* AssPull: [[spoiler: The fact that the whole movie is a dream]] may come across like this if the viewer didn't think about the movie's events being [[spoiler:the products of a kid's dream beforehand]].
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* EthnicScrappy: The main reason why this movie is hated. Texans, Hawaiians, Inuits, Amish, French: [[AcceptableTargets no race, state, or country is safe]].
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* EthnicScrappy: The main reason why this movie is hated. Texans, Hawaiians, Inuits, Amish, French: [[AcceptableTargets no race, state, or country is safe]].French. The Inuits in particular are the most reviled due to the use of {{Yellowface}} and their backwards tradition of leaving their old out to die in the sea.
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* TheScrappy: ''[[EightDeadlyWords Virtually every character in the movie]]''. However, North probably takes the cake for the many UnfortunateImplications regarding his fantasy as seen all across this page.
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* TheScrappy: ''[[EightDeadlyWords Virtually every North is ultimately not a very likeable character in due to [[spoiler:the reveal that the movie]]''. However, North probably takes entire movie was a dream giving the cake for implications that he's a self-centered bigot who cannot tolerate cultures as different such as the many UnfortunateImplications regarding his fantasy as seen all relatively tame Amish.]]
* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler: The fact that the whole movie is a dream by North]] may come across like thispage.since the movie didn't try very hard to imply that in spite of its fantastic themes.
* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler: The fact that the whole movie is a dream by North]] may come across like this
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* ValuesDissonance: Plenty to go around, but the early montage of moments where various children who go to school with North are negatively compared to North over minor offenses like a messy bedroom or eating cookies before dinner by their own parents probably won't sit well with those who recognize this as misguided parenting.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: One of the biggest complaints with the movie. Nearly everybody North meets ([[spoiler:and North himself given the unfortunate subtext of the plot]]) is either TooDumbToLive, vulgar, raunchy, self-absorbed, or just plain racist. The utter lack of good sense or empathy shown by the vast majority of them, among many examples the infamous scene with the elder Eskimos, will most likely have most in utter awe at the CrapsackWorld North seemingly inhabits rather than feeling anything, let alone sympathy, for his quest to find the perfect family.
* EightDeadlyWords: One of the biggest complaints with the movie. Nearly everybody North meets is a combination of being either TooDumbToLive, useless, vulgar, or self-absorbed, piled up with the majority of the families he meets being ruthless, outdated stereotypes.
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* {{Glurge}}: The film seems to think of itself as an uplifting morality tale. Instead it's the last thing you need to show either an abused child, a legitimately loving yet strapped-for-time parent, or anyone from one of several foreign/non-conventional (to the US) cultures. Unless they have a knack for drawing humor out of self-deprecation or train wrecks. There's a reason WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic called it "[[TheOldestProfession an ugly case of cinematic prostitution]]".
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* {{Glurge}}: The film seems to think of itself as an uplifting morality tale. Instead it's the last thing you need to show either an abused child, a legitimately loving yet strapped-for-time parent, or anyone from one of several foreign/non-conventional (to the US) cultures. Unless they have a knack for drawing humor out of self-deprecation or train wrecks. There's a reason WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic called it "[[TheOldestProfession an ugly case of cinematic prostitution]]".
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** The Bonanza-like musical number sung by Pa Tex and Ma Tex. It is the only musical number in the entire film and comes absolutely out of nowhere.
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** It was also the subject of one of the most infamously scathing reviews from critical duo Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, who both named it the worst film of 1994 and attacked its "cataclysmically unfunny" premise.
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* OneSceneWonder: Adam, the one boy who comes to help North after he makes the decision to return to his true parents. As one of the few remotely likable characters in the film, he sadly doesn't stick around for very long.
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** Bruce Willis dressed as a pink Easter bunny. That is all.
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** North's friend Adam, who is the only child to come to his aid when North attempts to return home to his true parents is played by a then-unknown Jussie Smollett. Yes, ''THAT'' Jussie Smollett.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Either North is a wonderful child whose parents don't appreciate him, or a raging egotist who doesn't get other cultures. [[spoiler:Consider the fact that all the cultures depicted in the dream would seem to indicate that is how he views them, not how they really are. This would seem to indicate the kid's a bigot, and, especially in light of his reputedly high intelligence (i.e., he ''should'' know better but apparently chooses not to), subsequently less sympathetic.]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Either North is a wonderful child whose parents don't appreciate him, or a raging egotist who doesn't get other cultures. [[spoiler:Consider the fact that all the cultures depicted in the dream would seem to indicate that is how he views them, not how they really are. This would seem to indicate the kid's a bigot, and, especially in light of his reputedly high intelligence (i.e., he ''should'' know better but apparently chooses not to), subsequently less sympathetic. Of course, the real world ending doesn't seem to vindicate North's accomplishments and intelligence, implying he is at best average if not straight up overcompensating.]]
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** North's dad comes across as one, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmIwlK-SQUU thanks to a very unfortunate scene.]]
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** North's dad comes across as one, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmIwlK-SQUU thanks to a very unfortunate scene.]]]] (which was probably intended to just be a joke about his obsession with pants, given that that's what he designs for a living).
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* ColbertBump: Outside of Creator/RogerEbert's famous review of the film ([[BeamMeUpScotty "I hated hated hated this movie"]]), the movie would not as be as well-known today had WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic not mocked it.
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* ColbertBump: Outside of Creator/RogerEbert's famous review of the film ([[BeamMeUpScotty "I hated hated hated this movie"]]), the movie probably would not as be as well-known today had WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic not mocked it.
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* ColbertBump: Outside of Creator/RogerEbert's famous review of the film ([[BeamMeUpScotty "I hated hated hated this movie"]]), the movie would not as be as well-known today had Series/TheNostalgiaCritic WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic not mocked it.
