History YMMV / TheNostalgiaCriticS12E33

* BileFascination: Some people have sought this out specifically because word of mouth got out about just how bad it was.

** The "In the Flesh" parody bizarrely claims that the song was meant to be an attack on UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, even though Thatcher was only Prime Minister for five months at the time the album came out and was nowhere near as controversial as she would later become. It goes on to claim that the whole bit is vague enough that it could be about anyone or anything the viewer dislikes; while it can certainly be ''applied'' to a number of different things, both the album and the movie make it very clear that the song/scene is meant to be about neo-Nazis.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: While some defend the review, many (especially fans of the original album) do not. On the video as well as the subreddits, many find the review cringey and totally missing the point of the album as well as insulting to Music/RogerWaters's autobiographical aspects. Not made better by the fact that many don't feel that it's actually being reviewed until a few seconds towards the very end. The outrage from fans of the movie/album, combined with confusion from non-fans, resulted in a staggering amount of dislikes on the video, negative for even his most divisive reviews[[note]]disregarding those that came out during [[OvershadowedByControversy the height of the Channel Awesome PR nightmare]][[/note]]. This backlash was so immense that some of his most vocal critics have and continue to use it as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not [[UpToEleven the "angry reviewer" format as a whole]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Another reason the review got so disparaged: while no one's going to say the Nostalgia Critic ever had the best effects -- and even some of the harshest critics of the review have admitted that the stuff done by Fenneh for this is pretty good despite the crappy greenscreening and obvious CGI version of Doug in a few shots -- the episode's attempts to imitate the still impressive animation of ''The Wall'' with some very subpar CGI and poorly done green screen effects just serves to highlight how cheap and amateurish it all is.

* MisaimedFandom: The most common accusations towards this review was that people felt like Doug Walker was missing the point entirely with the movie depicting Roger Waters's life, he was intentionally insulting Waters, and he made a mockery of the movie itself and didn't like it. According to Doug Walker when he was [[https://youtu.be/CLqtV9fai8w?t=2396 interviewed on Double Toasted Interviews]] it was that he wanted his review to be experimental just like the movie itself was. He explained that his idea for the review was to be comparing from the perspective how he saw the film as a young man and the perspective of watching it again as a cynical adult, and he openly admitted that people not getting what his intentions were with the review was his fault since he basically pulled a GambitRoulette on the review and didn't really do a good job with getting his point across. And he also stated that he does like the movie.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: While some defend the review, many (especially fans of the original album) do not. On the video as well as the subreddits, many find the review cringey and totally missing the point of the album as well as insulting to the Music/RogerWaters's autobiographical aspects. Not made better by the fact that many don't feel that it's actually being reviewed until a few seconds towards the very end. The outrage from fans of the movie/album, combined with confusion from non-fans, resulted in a staggering amount of dislikes on the video, negative for even his most divisive reviews[[note]]disregarding those that came out during [[OvershadowedByControversy the height of the Channel Awesome PR nightmare]][[/note]]. This backlash was so immense that some of his most vocal critics have and continue to use it as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not [[UpToEleven the "angry reviewer" format as a whole]].

* MisaimedFandom: The most common accusations towards this review was that people felt like Doug Walker was missing the point entirely with the movie depicting Roger Waters's life, he was intentionally insulting Waters, and he made a mockery of the movie itself and didn't like it. According to Doug Walker when he was [[https://youtu.be/CLqtV9fai8w?t=2396 interviewed on Double Toasted Interviews]] was that he wanted his review to be experimental just like the movie itself was. He explained that his idea for the review was to be comparing from the perspective how he saw the film as a young man and the perspective of watching it again as a cynical adult, and he openly admitted that people not getting what his intentions were with the review was his fault since he basically pulled a GambitRoulette on the review and didn't really do a good job with getting his point across. And he also stated that he does like the movie.

* MisaimedFandom: The most common accusations towards this review was that people felt like Doug Walker was missing the point entirely with the movie depicting Roger Waters's life, he was intentionally insulting Waters, and he made a mockery of the movie itself and didn't like it. According to Doug Walker when he was [[https://youtu.be/CLqtV9fai8w?t=2396 interviewed on Double Toasted Interviews]] was that he wanted his review to be experimental just like the movie itself was. He explained that his idea for the review was to be comparing from the perspective how how he saw the film as a young man and the perspective of watching it again as a cynical adult, and he openly admitted that people not getting what his intentions were with the review was his fault since he basically pulled a GambitRoulette on the review. And he also stated that he does like the movie.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The review has been routinely criticized for this:
** Doing any research on ''The Wall'' and Roger Waters' life can very well explain why the film tackles classroom abuse and World War II in the same film. The review shows that Doug Walker clearly don't understand why. The video acts as if Waters is comparing school to ''the Holocaust'' when that was clearly never the intention.
** He claims that "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" was meant to pander to rebellious teenagers who resent being made into productive members of society and want to feel victimized by their teachers. In reality, Pink Floyd's depiction of a school where students are abused and brainwashed into uniform clones devoid of individuality is startlingly accurate of UK boarding schools of the time (in fact, the teacher in charge of the children's choir in the song had to keep the recording a secret for fear of the head teacher shutting it down). It's likely that Walker is thinking of US public schools and Pink Floyd as the band beloved by school music snobs.
** He mocks "Goodbye Blue Sky" as an "[[AwardBaitSong Oscar bait song]]," despite it originally coming from the Music/PinkFloyd [[Music/TheWall album]], meaning it wouldn't have qualified for an Oscar when it was made.
** Before and in the above-mentioned "Goodbye Blue Sky" parody, Critic attempts to criticize following a song about how bad school is with one talking about the horrors of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, implying that the scene involving the train comes after the "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" scene. While "Goodbye Blue Sky" does come immediately after "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" on the album, it comes before it in the movie.
** "Bring the Runtime Down" decries the movie as being too long and should've been cut down -- even though, at a palatable 95 minutes, ''The Wall'' isn't really that long of a film. It also comes off as hypocritical considering that [[WebVideo/SuburbanKnights some of Doug's]] [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee own projects]] actually have longer run-times.
** "In The Floyd (Again?)" claims the Nazi rally was meant as a dig at the Thatcher administration which.... it wasn't. It was about Pink becoming the very thing that killed his father: a Nazi.
*** His version has him begin any kind of authorative figure that choses who people should direct their rage and ultrage, with the hammer symbol changed to smartphones making a [[{{anvilicious}} very obvious]] he's talking about Twitter cancel culture. Which makes it worse considering he and his website went through a huge controversy that had a backlash at Twitter.
*** Doug also ignores the actual historical context behind the Nazis. Economic downturn in the UK in the 1970s and early 1980s led to the rise in popularity of neo-nazi parties in Britain, skinhead like in the movie were depressingly common figures in daily life.
** A good chunk of "The Trial" is spent complaining that the animated characters weren't "properly developed", even though by and large they are merely animated interpretations of the people in Pink's life and the two that aren't (the judge and the prosecutor) are easy enough to figure out within the segment's context. [[{{Hypocrite}} Made even worse]] by the fact that the ''Satellite City'' characters involved in the parody had barely been set up and had not been developed in the slightest within the review's own narrative.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: While some defend the review, many (especially fans of the original album) do not. On the video as well as the subreddits, many find the review cringey and totally missing the point of the album as well as insulting to the Music/RogerWaters's autobiographical aspects. Not made better by the fact that many don't feel that it's actually being reviewed until a few seconds towards the very end. The outrage from fans of the movie/album, combined with confusion from non-fans, resulted in a staggering amount of dislikes on the video, negative for even his most divisive reviews[[note]]disregarding those that came out during [[OvershadowedByControversy the height of the Channel Awesome PR nightmare]][[/note]]. This backlash was so immense that some of his most vocal critics have and [[NeverLiveItDown continue to]] use it as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not [[UpToEleven the "angry reviewer" format as a whole]].

** His version has him begin any kind of authorative figure that choses who people should direct their rage and ultrage, with the hammer symbol changed to smartphones making a [[{{anvilicious}} very obvious]] he's talking about Twitter cancel culture. Which makes it worse considering he and his website went through a huge controversy.

** Doing any research on ''The Wall'' and Roger Waters' life can very well explain why the film tackles classroom abuse and World War II in the same film. The review shows that Doug and Rob Walker clearly don't understand why. The video acts as if Waters is comparing school to ''the Holocaust'' when that was clearly never the intention.
** He claims that "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" was meant to pander to rebellious teenagers who resent being made into productive members of society and want to feel victimized by their teachers. In reality, Pink Floyd's depiction of a school where students are abused and brainwashed into uniform clones devoid of individuality is startlingly accurate of UK boarding schools of the time (in fact, the teacher in charge of the children's choir in the song had to keep the recording a secret for fear of the head teacher shutting it down).

** A good chunk of "The Trial" is spent complaining that the animated characters weren't "properly developped", even though by and large they are merely animated interpretations of the people in Pink's life and the two that aren't (the judge and the prosecutor) are easy enough to figure out within the segment's context. [[{{Hypocrite}} Made even worst]] by the fact that the people involved in the parody are "freaky furry Deviantart Oh Sees" that have barely been set up and not been developped in the slightest within the review's own narrative.

*** That's the joke. The movie had Bob Geldof, a real life rock star, as the main character Pink, who doesn't sing at all in the movie.

** Some critical reviews pointed out that the sequence comes across as Doug Walker trying to get back at/make fun of the #ChangeTheChannel movement and the backlash he and Channel Awesome received; portraying those involved as nothing more than angry keyboard warriors, mindlessly following the latest outrage.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Another reason the review got so disparaged: while no one's going to say the Nostalgia Critic ever had the best effects -- and even some of the harshest critics of the review have admitted that the stuff done by Fenneh for this is pretty good -- the episode's attempts to imitate the still impressive animation of ''The Wall'' with some very subpar CGI and poorly done green screen effects just serves to highlight how cheap and amateurish it all is.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The review has been routinely criticized for this. Doing any research on ''The Wall'' and Roger Waters' life can very well explain why the film tackles classroom abuse and World War II in the same film. The review shows that Doug and Rob Walker clearly don't understand why. The video acts as if Waters is comparing school to ''the Holocaust'' when that was clearly never the intention.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Some viewers have questioned what was the purpose of [[Music/{{Slipknot}} Corey Taylor]] appearing in a musical-themed video if the only song he ended up singing was a cover of the ''Spongebob Squarepants'' theme at the very end of the video. The episode even lampshades this, as if to say that it was an elaborate joke to have a professional singer barely do any singing.

* CriticalResearchFailure[=/=]ShallowParody: The review has been routinely criticized for this. Doing any research on ''The Wall'' and Roger Waters' life can very well explain why the film tackles classroom abuse and World War II in the same film. The review shows that Doug and Rob Walker clearly don't understand why. The video acts as if Waters is comparing school to ''the Holocaust'' when that was clearly never the intention.

* {{Narm}}: Part of the backlash against the review is because of this. Much of it is seen as ridiculous -- for all the wrong reasons. The obvious green screen and ConspicuousCGI (especially in "The Trial", where Critic interacts with the ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'' characters) is perhaps unavoidable, but the effect of Sam Fennah's [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome beautifully elaborate and creative animation]] is mostly ruined by the fact that Doug seems to be [[DullSurprise barely summoning up the effort to pretend he's not looking at a green screen]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Another reason the review got so disparaged: while no one's going to say the Nostalgia Critic ever had the best effects -- and even some of the harshest critics of the review have admitted that the stuff done by Fenneh for this is pretty good -- the episode's attempts to imitate the still impressive animation of ''The Wall'' with some very ConspicuousCGI and poorly done green screen effects just serves to highlight how cheap and amateurish it all is.

** This episode also could have had a better review of the movie and avoided most of its criticism by keeping it at the usual Nostalgia Critic review format, and actually including accurate research of the album and Rodger Walters' life into the review.