History YMMV / TheNostalgiaCriticS12E33

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: While the Critic/Doug liked the movie overall, many (especially fans of the original album) absolutely '''hated''' this review. On the video as well as the subreddits, many find the review unfunny and to be 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[[note]]an opinion which boiled down to it being good, if a bit self-indulgent[[/note]]. 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 [[NeverLiveItDown continue to use it]] as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format [[GenreKiller as a whole]], and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: While the Critic/Doug liked the movie overall, many (especially fans of the original album) absolutely '''hated''' this review. On the video as well as the subreddits, many find the review unfunny and to be 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[[note]]an opinion which boiled down to it being good, if a bit self-indulgent[[/note]]. 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 [[NeverLiveItDown continue to use it]] as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The review has been near-unanimously panned by almost everyone who's come across it, but everyone who worked on it: Rob Scallon (for the soundtrack), ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'', the production designers, and, yes, even Doug himself really did work hard on it. As shown in the comment section of the episode's Behind the Scenes video, even several detractors at least commend the crew for working as hard as they can on the project.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The review has been near-unanimously panned by almost everyone who's come across it, but everyone who worked on it: Rob Scallon (for the soundtrack), ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'', the production designers, and, yes, even Doug himself really did work hard on it. As shown in the comment section of the episode's Behind the Scenes video, even several detractors at least commend the crew for work as hard as they can on it.

* UncertainAudience: Part of the reason why this review was received so poorly, both by fans of The Wall and those unfamiliar with the movie or the album it was based on. Those who fall into the former likely find the whole thing insulting due to how little Doug and his team [[ShallowParody seem to understand the movie/album]]. Meanwhile, those who fall in the latter category likely find it confusing due to the lack of any proper reviewing (and therefore context) being given for the movie.

** Some TakeAThirdOption by saying that they like the character designs and animation but find the Satellite City cast an inappropriate choice for this segment.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The animated segments, especially those produced by [[WebVideo/SatelliteCity Sam Fennah]], are widely seen as [[JustHereForGodzilla the only worthwhile part]] of the review.

* BrokenBase: Is "The Trial" segment, which features a crossover with ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'', a beautifully animated addition and the best part (or, according to some, the only good part) of the review, or is it a complete mess that comes out of nowhere and only makes things more confusing? To most, this will come down to their familiarity with Fennah's work and whether they find the character designs appealing or not.

* UncertainAudience: Part of the reason why this review was received so poorly, both by fans of The Wall and those unfamiliar with the movie or the album it was based on. Those those who fall into the former likely find the musical segments to be insulting due to how much Doug and his team [[ShallowParody seem to "not get" the movie/album]]. Meanwhile, those who fall in the latter category likely find said musical segments confusing due to the lack of any proper reviewing (and therefore context) being given for the movie.

* UncertainAudience: Part of the reason why this review was received so poorly, both by fans of The Wall and those unfamiliar with the movie or the album it was based on. Those those who fall into the former usually find the musical segments insulting due to [[ShallowParody how little the team seems to understand what the movie/album are about]]. While who fall in the latter category usually find said musical segments confusing due to the lack of any proper reviewing (and therefore context) being given.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: While the review has become notorious in all the wrong ways, the ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'' cast's appearance and song generally stole the show and were found to be much better than the rest, if generally weird and perhaps out of place.
* 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 unfunny and to be 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 [[NeverLiveItDown continue to use it]] as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

** While even some of the harsher critics of this review have admitted that the scene for The Trial is the best part of the review, it's been argued that it should've featured other characters who are actually in Critic's other reviews (i.e. Chester A. Bum, Devil Boner, Hyper Fangirl, etc.) to make it more personal and thematically similar to what's being parodied instead of using a cast of characters that come out of nowhere and have nothing to do with the Critic's work.

* TookABadFilmSeriously: The review has been near-unanimously panned by almost everyone who's come across it, but everyone who worked on it: Rob Scallon (for the soundtrack), ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'', the production designers, and, yes, even Doug himself really did work hard on it. As shown in the comment section of the episode's Behind the Scenes video, even several detractors at least commend the crew for work as hard as they can on it.

* 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 unfunny and to be 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 [[NeverLiveItDown continue to use it]] as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

* 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 [[NeverLiveItDown continue to use it]] as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

** When discussing "The Trial", Fennah accuses the monsters of being underdeveloped and existing only for {{spectacle}}. In the film, none of the monsters in "The Trial" are actually meant to exist beyond being personifications of Pink's self-loathing, meaning that accusing them of not being well-developed is rather baffling when they're not meant to be characters at all--indeed, three of the five are pretty clearly just preexisting developed characters from the film run through a monstrous filter (the puppet is Pink's schoolmaster, the scorpion is his wife, and the bomber is his mother); the film doesn't even try to ''hide'' this, as the line ''right before the first verse'' is "Call the schoolmaster!"

* 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 [[NeverLiveItDown continue to use it]] as their main argument against the entire ''Nostalgia Critic'' series, if not the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format [[UpToEleven as a whole]], and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

* 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 the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format [[UpToEleven as a whole]], and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

* 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 the "[[CausticCritic angry reviewer]]" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

* 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 the "angry reviewer" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name [[BrokenPedestal since that branding had been inspired by Walker]].

** He refers "Goodbye Blue Sky" as an "[[AwardBaitSong Oscar bait song]]" when it was one of the tracks on the original album and thus wouldn't have qualified for an Oscar when it was made. He also accuses the song's placement as insensitive due to being a song about World War II coming right after "Another Brick in the Wall", a song about high school (claiming it's arguing high school is as bad as the Holocaust). In all versions, there's at least one song separating the parts of "Another Brick in the Wall" from "Goodbye Blue Skies"--on the album, it's "Mother", in the film, it's "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "When the Tigers Broke Free" (these do both deal with school and World War II, but again, it's a film about a British boy born in the early 40s whose father died in the war; those two topics would overlap a lot).
** The "In the Flesh" parody bizarrely claims that the song was meant to be an attack on UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and her government, even though Thatcher had only been 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 (along with the far-right [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(UK) the National Front,]] which was enjoying a degree of electoral success around the time the album was written). In fact, the symbols the movie used for the neo-Nazis in the movie wound up IRL being co-opted by ''actual'' Neo-Nazis.
** When discussing "The Trial", Fennah accuses the monsters as being underdeveloped and existing only for spectacle. In the film, none of the monsters in "The Trial" are actually meant to exist beyond being personifications of Pink's self-loathing, meaning that accusing them of not being well-developed is rather baffling when they're not meant to be characters at all--indeed, three of the five are pretty clearly just preexisting developed characters from the film run through a monstrous filter (the puppet is Pink's schoolmaster, the scorpion is his wife, and the bomber is his mother); the film doesn't even try to ''hide'' this, as the line ''right before the first verse'' is "Call the schoolmaster!"

** 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 ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' 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.

* 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 of 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.

** The "In the Flesh" parody bizarrely claims that the song was meant to be an attack on UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and her government, even though Thatcher had only been 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 (specifically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(UK) the National Front,]] which was enjoying a degree of electoral success around the time the album was written). In fact, the symbols the movie used for the neo-Nazis in the movie wound up IRL being co-opted by ''actual'' Neo-Nazis.

** Broadly speaking, the entire review completely misses the running societal commentary the movie tries to make. Discussing the after effects of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and how the systems that arose in countries who patted themselves on the back for beating the Nazis only for themselves to turn towards authoritarianism and Fascism, as well as the commodification of people.

* 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 the "angry reviewer" format as a whole, and the review caused [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] to abandon his original brand in favor of his real name.

* 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 the "angry reviewer" format as a whole; [[WebVideo/CrashThompson one critic]] even abandoned his original brand in favor of his real name in response to the review.

* 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 the "angry reviewer" format as a whole.

** The "In the Flesh" parody bizarrely claims that the song was meant to be an attack on UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and her government, even though Thatcher had only been 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. In fact, the symbols the movie used for the neo-Nazis in the movie wound up IRL being co-opted by ''actual'' Neo-Nazis.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The obligatory attack on "outrage culture" -- despite being totally unrelated to ''The Wall'' in any way -- seems like it's a few years too late to be as scathing as it was intended to be, not helped by how out-of-touch it comes across as in practice. The montage of nerds dressed in stereotypical "hipster" clothing mindlessly chanting "hashtag" at their computer screens is especially cringeworthy, since it's hardly something you'd expect out of someone who's as Internet culture-savvy as Doug Walker.
** 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.

** 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.

** He accuses "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2" of just pandering to rebellious high schoolers who resent being made into productive members of society and want to feel victimized by their teachers. Music/PinkFloyd'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), and the film includes a scene where a teacher physically beats the young Pink for writing poetry (which was based on an actual event in Waters' youth). He also declares that the film is saying that ''all'' teachers are {{sadist teacher}}s, despite "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" only claiming this to be the case for "certain teachers" and surmising that the Schoolmaster is who he is because of [[AwfulWeddedLife his decaying, abusive marriage]]. Roger Waters clarified that he's actually ''for'' education; what he's against is the kind of education shown in the film, steeped in rote memorization, squelching creativity, and allowing or even encouraging teachers to mistreat their students.

** Broadly speaking, the entire review completely misses the running societal commentary the movie tries to make. Discussing the after effects of WW2 and how the systems that arose in countries who patted themselves on the back for beating the Nazis only for themselves to turn towards authoritarianism and Fascism, as well as the commodification of people.

* {{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 CGI (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]].

** 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. In fact, the symbols the movie used for the neo-Nazis in the movie wound up IRL being co-opted by ''actual'' Neo-Nazis.

** Broadly speaking the entire review completely misses the running societal commentary the movie tries to make. Discussing the after effects of WW2 and how the systems that arose in countries who patted themselves on the back for beating the Nazis only for themselves to turn towards authoritarianism and Fascism, as well as the commodification of people.