| 1 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: If you remember anything about this film, it's probably sweet old Movie Mason. |
| 2 | * HarsherInHindsight: When Karen plans to ditch Bryan in their auditorium to go see another movie with her friends that their mom didn't approve of, Bryan protests that some guy might break into the theater and take him hostage. At the time, it just seemed a nice little joke about Bryan being a paranoid little kid. After the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shootings at a screening of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', it's no longer funny. |
| 3 | * {{Narm}}: The plot is focussed around the prestigious red carpet premier of a film called ''Midnight Mayhem''. Aside from the cheesy-sounding title, every detail we learn about the film paints it as BMovie schlock, yet it's treated in-universe like Hollywood's next big hit. |
| 4 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Out of the gate the film introduces Pete's cast of quirky co-workers, who then get pushed to the background to make room for his little brother and sister. Not one of them is teased as a suspect, and their quirks are surprisingly downplayed and underused; Scary Terri only gets to tell one story through the entire film without being interrupted, and pretty much all of Mark's questions are perfectly reasonable in context. |
| 5 | * TookTheBadFilmSeriously: In the midst of the harmless, cheesy antics (not much of which could be described as outright ''bad''), we have Movie Mason's shockingly heartfelt speech about the magic of movies, and how they recapture the imagination of childhood and provide a whimsical escape from the real world, delivered with total tear-jerking sincerity by Creator/MickeyRooney. |
| 6 | * TrappedByMountainLions: The subplot about whether or not Pete's mother will marry her boyfriend could be removed without much trouble. It's perhaps salvaged by the sweet moment of [[spoiler: Mason providing them an engagement ring.]] |
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