History YMMV / TheLegendOfTheTitanic

* RootingForTheEmpire: Just about everyone who's seen this movie sympathizes with the rats because they want to get out of Atlantis and kill Pingo. It should be noted that they ''do'' want to take over the world, however.

---> "Yo yo yo! Look at my teeth!"

** One mouse accuses the others of FantasticRacism when they mock him for liking a human woman:
---> "There's one thing I'm not, and that's a racist."

* EsotericHappyEnding: The film has Elizabeth, Don Juan, Connors, Ronnie, and the dog happy living on a desert island despite the fact that they were given immortality without their consent and will never be able to see their friends and relatives again.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Both the romances in the film are pretty rushed.
** Don Juan and Elizabeth get together after he sniffs her glove. That's their entire interaction before they decide they're meant to be.
** Connors and Stella also only share one or two scenes of any meaningful interaction yet still end up getting hitched as well.

** One mice accusing the others of FantasticRacism when they mock him for liking a human woman:

%% * {{Narm}}: Pretty much the modus operandi of both movies.

** In the beginning of the film, Elizabeth, Don Juan, Smiley and the mice venture into the ocean on a submarine to see the remains of the Titanic which ends up being destroyed by shark and they nearly die at the bottom of the ocean because of it. In 2023, 5 men ventured to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine to see the Titanic, they disappear for a few days and are soon found dead.

* EsotericHappyEnding: The film has Elizabeth, Don Juan, Connors, Ronnie, and the dog happy living on a desert island despite the fact that they were giving immortality without their consent and won't be able to see their friends and relatives forever.

** Living in Atlantis had unintentionally turned into a terrible place to live. The fact that you're never allowed to leave and forced to drink an elixir that gives you eternal life. Your only way of contact of the outside world was a magic mirror that would allow you [[WhoWantsToLiveForever to see your loved ones grow old and die.]]

* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: The Sharks and dolphins have a fin placed in their crotch area.

* QuirkyWork:I n the first movie, you have evil shark gangs and magic moonbeams. The sequel takes this up to eleven with a scene where the talking dog is riding in a seahorse-driven chariot and shooting a magical flintlock pistol at some evil sharks.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: In the first movie, you have evil shark gangs and magic moonbeams. The sequel takes this up to eleven. There's a scene where the talking dog is riding in a seahorse-driven chariot and shooting a magical flintlock pistol at some evil sharks. It's either the most awesome thing ever made, or the crackiest thing this side of ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy''.

* HarsherInHindsight: "This liquid looks pretty! Let's drink it." The liquid in question is colored green. In these days, one of the more well-known drug detectors will turn the drink green when it discovers a date rape drug.

* HarsherInHindsight: "This liquid looks pretty! Let's drink it.". The said liquid is colored green. In these days, one of the more well-known drug detectors will turn the drink green when it discovers a date rape drug.

* HilariousInHindsight: The dog that resembles Lady sounding like Sam Elliot becomes funny as Disney would remake the movie in 2019 with Sam Elliot voicing Trusty.

** Don Juan acts bossy and condescending to the other protagonists whenever they show any doubt or fear and is a total YesMan in favor of everything the Atlantians force on them.

* BileFascination: If you were to watch one or both of these movies, you will be entranced by how bad they are.
* HilariousInHindsight: There's an old [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Saturday TV Funhouse]] short styling itself as a trailer for a fictional Disney musical about the Titanic called "Titey". After all, how ridiculous would it be if there was actually a Disney-esque musical animated film about the Titanic, let alone ''two'' of them from [[WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn completely unrelated studios]], right?
* {{Narm}}: Pretty much the modus operandi of both movies.
* SoBadItsGood: Some viewers might actually enjoy these movies for how badly ridiculous and nonsensical they are.
* TheScrappy: Don Juan's not particularly liked given his disturbing infatuation with Elizabeth despite only speaking to her once. The sequel only made things worse, as he acts like a dick to his companions whenever they're rightfully intimidated by their circumstances and shamelessly sucks up to the morally dubious Atlantians no matter what they do.

* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: Mr Ice, the leader of the shark gang, has a fin placed in a... suggestive position.

** The BigBad rat [[VillainHasAPoint makes the obvious point that the King of Atlantis is not someone to be trusted,]] and is only trying to escape because he was forced into the situation in the first place. By the end, he and his minions lose their minds and are ultimately reduced to a CassandraTruth type of person.

** A lot of "fans" (for a given value of that word) like to think that the story old Connors told was either completely made up to entertain his grandchildren and/or to spare them from the harsh reality, or completely deluded himself about what actually happened to the ''Titanic'' due to his trauma. [[TakeAThirdOption Or he's simply senile]].

** Taken to the extreme with Rachel and her sister's two cats. Unlike all the other animals, they are entirely [[FurryConfusion non-anthropomorphic]], and they spend all of their screentime either in the women’s arms or being carried around in pet carriers, [[AnimalJingoism never once do they cross paths with or menace the mice or cause trouble for Smiley and the other dogs]]. And yet they somehow still deserve to get lost (and presumably die) in the polar waters with the human villains, just because of CatsAreMean?
*** Connors does have a throwaway line where he tells Ronnie that they are "snotty rich cats who kill for fun". The thing is, [[ShowDontTell we never see them kill anything]], let alone for fun, and neither does Connors. So it just comes off like he's [[FantasticRacism profiling them]].
** The elderly officer who tells Don Juan that he needs to keep his dog on a leash. Mind you, the man was just doing his job and spoke to Juan in a polite manner, and yet the latter just snubs him and lets his entourage gang up on the poor man and basically cow him into submission with threats of violence. And then, Smiley comes back to ''piss'' on the man's leg, just for shits and giggles, and we’re somehow supposed to find this cathartic? ProtagonistCenteredMorality much?
* HoYay: The two young male mice, Connors and Ronnie, are quite touchy-feely throughout the film. Makes more sense than when Connors ended up with Stella, who he only shared a few lines with.

** Then there's Don Juan's apparent shyness about approaching Elizabeth personally, despite the fact that he’s a ''prince'', making it look like he has very lousy confidence.

** [[{{Kaiju}} Tentacles']] abrupt introduction during the third act of the film. You get the sense that the writers have never heard of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief?
** When the Carpathia shows up to rescue everyone, the film tries to have a serious moment where Connors sheds a tear and reminds Ronnie of the "heroes" who gave their lives to make sure everyone else survived. But it rings hollow given that the only ones who died in the movie were Camembert the mouse and Tentacles the octopus. Everyone else, ''including the captain'', survived. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that Camembert and Tentacles survived too.]]
*** Additionally, it's hard to take Camembert's death seriously given it happens due to having electric wires tied to his mustache.

* {{Padding}}: At one point, the movie cuts to an empty hallway, then the camera pans to another empty hallway (which is just the first hallway flipped horizontally) for no reason, and then pans back to the first hallway to show some characters walking along it.
** Honestly, the ''entire'' subplot about the whales, which takes up a massive portion of the plot for '''some''' reason could easily count as this.
** A whole scene is dedicated to a boy handing out newspapers about the Titanic's successful launch and the upcoming engagement of Elizabeth and Maltravers. A man asks for a copy. The boy gives it to him. We then get to watch the man silently reading the newspaper before it switches back to the actual plot. Bear in mind, the story starts with everyone boarding the ship safely and Elizabeth arguing with her father about Maltravers, so the newspaper scene isn't conveying anything that the audience doesn't already know.

** The dog urinating on the first officer's leg before boarding.

* TearJerker: When you get right down to it, it's depressing to see Captain Smith and the other passengers safely in New York, smiling and happy, when you know what happened to them in real life.

* AngstWhatAngst: Our heroes seem to care very little about the fact that they're stuck in Atlantis forever, even though on the surface Don Juan has his gypsy brothers, Elizabeth has her father, Connors has a wife, and Ronnie has a sister and family.

** Taken to the extreme with Re. He is depicted as the BigGood. However, he looks and (more important) acts like a BigBad.

* {{Narm}}: Oddy's attempt at a threat.
-->If something bad happens to my friends, I'll rip every tooth out of that shark and I'll make them into the most beautiful necklace you've ever seen!

--> "Yo yo yo! Look at my teeth!"
** When Connors (the non-Brazilian mouse) suspects the sharks are attacking, his "worried" statement about it is hard to take seriously due to the actor sounding far too happy and the animation showing the character ''smiling''. Try reading the below statement in a happy voice.
--> "There's something definitely wrong here. And we're in trouble. Trust me! It's really big!"

* RootingForTheEmpire: Just about everyone who's seen this movie sympathizes with the rats for [[UnintentionallySympathetic many]] [[LesserOfTwoEvils reasons]], namely because they want to get out of the utter madhouse that is this film's interpretation of Atlantis and kill Pingo. It should be noted that they ''do'' want to take over the world, but if the people on the surface are anything like our protagonists (Which is pretty likely given the radio-host calling the Titanic ''[[CriticalResearchFailure "mythical"]]''), then it's pretty easy to say [[TooDumbToLive they deserve to be taken over by rats.]]
* TheScrappy: Pingo has this reputation for being both quite creepy and annoying. And that's not even going into his song number.
* {{Sequelitis}}: While its predecessor was already one of, if not the most reviled adaptations of the ''Titanic'' sinking, this movie is largely considered to be ''[[FromBadToWorse even worse]]'', owing to a significant visual downgrade, characters that redefine TooDumbToLive and a plot that manages to be both unsettling and flat-out insane.

-->Your highness, if you carry on encouraging him like this, Pingo will become so vain he'll end up being totally unbearable!

** The King of Atlantis is a good example. He's intended to be a good guy, yet he does not allow Elizabeth, Don Juan, or the others to return to the surface, makes them immortal without telling them, and forces them to live in Atlantis forever.

* OvershadowedByControversy: This movie is remembered mostly for two things. First, it's an [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks obvious rip-off]] of Creator/JamesCameron's ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}'' that was [[FollowTheLeader made to cash in on its success]]. Second, and much more grievously, it treats the sinking of the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic with blatantly offensive disrespect, going so far as to state outright that the approximate 1,500 deaths never happened and were all a misunderstanding, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as well as fabricating talking mice, magical whales and evil gangster sharks]]. Keep in mind, the sinking of the RMS Titanic is ''a RealLife historical tragedy''.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: One of the most JustForFun/{{Egregious}} and utterly ''unforgivable'' examples in all of media. The very idea of a film where the ''Titanic'' disaster is not only treated as a "legend", but a '''misunderstanding where no one died''' would turn off pretty much anyone, especially those who were personally affected by it in some way.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: In the first movie, you have evil shark gangs and magic moonbeams. The sequel takes this UpToEleven. There's a scene where the talking dog is riding in a seahorse-driven chariot and shooting a magical flintlock pistol at some evil sharks. It's either the most awesome thing ever made, or the crackiest thing this side of ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy''.

* {{Sequelitis}}: While its predecessor was already one of, if not the most reviled adaptations of the ''Titanic'' sinking, this movie is largely considered to be ''[[FromBadToWorse even]] [[UpToEleven worse]]'', owing to a significant visual downgrade, characters that redefine TooDumbToLive and a plot that manages to be both unsettling and flat-out insane.

* {{Sequelitis}}: While its predecessor was already one of, if not the most reviled adaptations of the ''Titanic'' sinking, this movie is largely considered to be ''[[FromBadToWorse even]] [[UpToEleven worse]]'', owing to a notable visual downgrade, characters that redefine TooDumbToLive and a plot that manages to be equal parts immensely unsettling and flat-out insane.

* {{Sequelitis}}: While its predecessor was already one of, if not the most reviled adaptations of the ''Titanic'' sinking, this movie is largely considered to be ''[[FromBadToWorse even]] [[UpToEleven worse]]''.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The scene at the end, when the escaped rats are all seen in an insane asylum. Especially the nurse giggling madly while the doctor talks about how there's no hope of them recovering and makes a horrifying face]]. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality The protagonists all laugh when they see this.]]
** [[spoiler:And the BigBad rat, who's the only sane one (and who did nothing wrong) is also condemned to stay there.]]