This is par for the course with any critic:
- In particular, his reviews of Transformers, The Matrix and Temple of Doom have drawn considerable flak from their respective fanbases.
- One complaint has people getting upset that Critic doesn't like Joel Schumacher, when that should have been obvious. In their defense, it's more due to Critic saying in his review of The Wiz "that everything [Joel] touches turns into dick" which can be meant as "Joel Schumacher only makes bad movies" even though movies like The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Phone Booth, and The Client are critically acclaimed and that the issues about Batman and Robin are more due to Executive Meddling rather than bad directing.
- Fans of The Hunger Games were annoyed at the "Battle Royale rip-off" joke in Bridge to Terabithia, though it more stemmed from confusion at Doug having originally gushed on it for being so good for girls and was now going for the Never Heard That One Before joke.
- While it wasn't panning, some have reacted badly to him saying he'd cut out quite a few scenes in The Big Lebowski.
- According to Rob (who also called people insane just for thinking it was good, so take with a pinch of salt), the “Vocal Minority” who enjoyed Jupiter Ascending crucified Doug for not liking it.
- In the real review for Last Action Hero they talk about Rob getting all the heat for the real thoughts on Mortal Kombat: The Movie. In terms of the former movie, Doug capslocked “FEED ME YOUR HATE” while putting on it on Facebook and started the video off with “I make no apologies”.
- Pokémon fans don't like him, but in their defense, he has a very condescending attitude towards the franchise in general, especially in "Conquest of the Commercials" when he proudly declared his hatred for the franchise, rooted for a bus driver to kill all of them, and got annoyed when they survived. It should be noted that the Canada rape statistic Running Gag happened again later on, and people were still more offended at his dislike of the franchise. Also, this reaction was mocked by Critic in his review of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, where he gets booed by Pokemon fans for one bashing comment about the franchise and gets off on it.
- This came full circle with his review of Pokémon Detective Pikachu, where he acknowledged just how old and lowbrow his constant anti-Pokemon jokes got. He went on to admit he was never really that familiar with the franchise, and that his jokes were inspired by how popular and exposed it was. In the end, though, he gave the movie a positive review.
- Fans of Blue Sky Studios also don't like him due to his harsh Take Thats towards them (E.g calling Rio a movie no one remembers in his Face/Off review), not giving any reasons for why he dislikes them and hating all of their films aside from The Peanuts Movie. It certainly didn't help that he eventually admitted in the Disneycember review of the first Ice Age movie to not have seen any of the films in the franchise.
- Noted by Doug in the million views post
for Osmosis Jones, as he says he was ridiculously sick while filming and had a difficult time, and it depends on whether you like the review or not that you think it's either tragic irony or poetic justice. - Much like Jurassic World, Rob complains over Doug's complaints about The Force Awakens (although he really liked the film, all the It's Been Done annoyed him), and hopes/tells him he'll be slaughtered by fanboys.
- Star Wars prequel fans can get pretty irked with Doug's repeated assertions that they're naïve for enjoying them, or that they don't actually like them and will realize that later.
- In the real review of Cats & Dogs, Rob likes Mystery Men and slaps Doug lightly in the face for not enjoying it.
- He's had people mad at him for saying Gene Wilder and The Rock can't sing, even though he also said they carry their respective songs with charm and he's the one with musical training, which even Rob admits.
- He also opens the review discussing how much he didn't like Beauty and the Beast (2017), and, in particular, Emma Watson's singing. He is greeted with boos and responds with an imitation of Emperor Palpatine, saying to "let the hate flow through you."
- The Event Horizon review ruffled some feathers on account of the film having a passionate cult following he dismissed and accused the film's true audience of being jocks.
- His reviews of various Stephen King products get varying levels of backlash, though it often depends on the film in question. The one that, at least Doug states, got the most backlash was It (1990), which a lot of people do have admitted nostalgia for. Doug notes that in spite of this that particular review is one of his most viewed.
- Ironically or otherwise, the Sibling Rivalry So Okay, It's Average review of It (2017) got arguably the most backlash, particularly with their constant insistence that Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise was hilarious, even though many more did find him scary.
- The actual Nostalgia Critic review of the film was better received, as it goes into greater detail, and mostly represents the opinion of Doug, who enjoyed the movie more than Robb, who did the most talking in the Sibling Rivalry review.
- Ironically or otherwise, the Sibling Rivalry So Okay, It's Average review of It (2017) got arguably the most backlash, particularly with their constant insistence that Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise was hilarious, even though many more did find him scary.
- With the exception of Pete's Dragon (2016), Doug has made it clear that he utterly despises all the Disney live-action remakes and even did an editorial review claiming that most people hate them, even though the audience scores and the box office earnings for most of them show that the people who love Disney's live-action remakes are in the majority. As a result, some have accused him of Opinion Myopia. Ironically, he's admitted to thinking that Dumbo (2019), one of the few remakes whose pitiful critical and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes would suggest that the film wasn't entirely beloved, actually wasn't as terrible as a lot of the others (especially Beauty and the Beast (2017) and The Lion King (2019)) and that he did get some enjoyment out of it.
- More specifically, Doug is super passionate about the original Mary Poppins, partly because he admits it was one of the few English films he had as a Military Brat in Italy and got super attached, and while most people enjoyed the review and Fanscriptions of Mary Poppins Returns, some dismiss them because of the above bias. He said himself that it's not the worst movie, but that it did get him super pissed.
- He also got bashed a lot for not liking The Jungle Book (2016), especially when the review opened with him not getting why the movie had such a high rating. He later amended the review during Disneycember, admitting that as someone who greatly enjoyed the original Kipling book, he couldn't get into either the original animated movie or the remake, but admitted he could understand why others who may have grown up with the animated version liked it.
- The reaction to his review on The Wall was overwhelmingly negative. 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 Roger Waters' autobiographical aspects. Not made better by the fact that many don't see what is being reviewed until the very end. The outrage from fans of the movie/album, combined with confusion from non-fans, resulted in a staggering amount of dislikes (nearly 4 times the amount of likes as of this writing) on the video, negative for even his most divisive reviewsnote , sparking a lot more discussion from his critics about the problems with the Nostalgia Critic format.
- The Thomas and the Magic Railroad review gained flak from the Thomas & Friends fandom. One of the major complaints about the review is that Doug repeatedly complains about the engine's mouths not moving, even though this was due to limitations with the models, and it wouldn't be until the show switched to CGI that the characters' mouths began moving. However, Doug admitted he didn't watch much of the show, thus explaining some of the issues Thomas fans have with the review.
- While his reviews of the Spider-Man films were well received, he got a good chunk of flak from his review of the first film due to having a minor critique about the scene where J. Jonah Jameson refuses to give up Peter Parker's whereabouts to the Green Goblin, saying there was no explanation given to why Jameson would protect Peter given how much lack of respect he has for him.
- For his Top 11 Worst Sequels, putting The Godfather Part III in the list and calling it a bad film. The film has many fans and the general consensus is that it is a decent and solid film on its own and only comes up as short as it does because the first two are considered two of the greatest films ever made. He claimed that even on its own it would still be seen as a standard bad film. Needless to say, fans of the film were not pleased by that statement.
- His bashing of Rankin-Bass's Christmas Specials in his review of "The King and I" ticked off fans of those specials, as many consider them Christmas Classics. He claimed people only enjoyed their Stop Motion Animation for So Bad, It's Good and/or Narm Charm reasons, which may only be part of the appeal for some viewers.
- Many viewers were angry about his review of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, especially the end where he declares that anyone who likes it is wrong. While the last part was meant to be a joke about how his character was a jerk, many still didn't find it funny and were still miffed. Not helping matters is how even after the review, he's taken several more opportunities to slam on the movie, even doing an "Everything Wrong With" video with CinemaSins about it, to the point that it's practically become the equivalent of beating a dead horse for him.
- While he probably expected it, his video panning the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie was disliked by many fans of those films. Despite the fact that the Critic's opinion isn't too far off most movie critics' opinions on those films either.
- In an inversion, their Sibling Rivalry complaining but also saying positive things about the 2016 Ghostbusters has a lot of comments bashing them for being "too SJW". The Awesome Comics review Doug did with Beth, Aiyanna and Heather (that went into more detail about the positives), got even more abuse. Even the Critic review, where he said you should be allowed to think what you want (but don't be sexist and let little girls enjoy it), got accusations of Doug being "whipped" and responding to the Evilina scene with "kids are naïve".
- Discussed in "The Ice King's Glasses Issue", where Doug pleads for people to not like him for all the actual reasons to not like a person, not because he has different opinions on a movie or TV show.
- With the hate he had for them in the Disneycember review, the Sequel Hook at the end of Small Soldiers, and the total joy about bashing them in posts and the "Long Live The Earth Queen" vlog, girls with fond memories of The Princess Diaries movies and a worry about his track record with female nostalgia (not to mention Hyper Fangirl) got extremely nervous before the episode even came out.
- Their, specifically Rob's, V-log review of the Grand Finale of The Legend of Korra revealing Korrasami being canon didn't exactly win them any fans as it comes off as a Straw Critic incarnate of the ignorant part of the fandom with all the Cultural Posturing that Japan's been doing the same thing for years,note and every "point" he made was already and eloquently refuted by Word of God three days after it aired.
- Rob gets the same frustrated feelings from the Steven Universe fandom, as while Doug mostly gets the importance of rep and keeps quiet, Rob can go on long rants about casual episodes like "Mystery Girl" aren't worth fussing over, ignoring that the fuss is people happy with it.
- The backlash to his Big Hero 6 vlog was so big (where he called it token and So Okay, It's Average) he referenced it in the first five minutes of the The Matrix review.
- The Disneycember and Dreamworks-uary reviews in general had a lot of these. In particular, Doug also got flack for disliking Monsters, Inc., and Monsters University, the first Shrek, The Emperor's New Groove and Hercules. And while he didn't pan it, some felt that his criticisms of Aladdin (claiming that it was too "modern") were unfair. This is actually inverted as well, as many were shocked by his liking The Wild and Bee Movie.
- His review of Hercules is one of the most disliked reviews of Disneycember, with a lot of viewers stating that his thoughts on the movie made no sense. He was especially given a lot of flak for his confusion on why the look and tone of the movie were based on Las Vegas, which made many viewers point out that Las Vegas looks like Greece and it was meant to be as a reference.note OneyPlays even made made fun of him for that.
- His review of Hercules is one of the most disliked reviews of Disneycember, with a lot of viewers stating that his thoughts on the movie made no sense. He was especially given a lot of flak for his confusion on why the look and tone of the movie were based on Las Vegas, which made many viewers point out that Las Vegas looks like Greece and it was meant to be as a reference.note OneyPlays even made made fun of him for that
- The Disneycember and Dreamworks-uary reviews in general had a lot of these. In particular, Doug also got flack for disliking Monsters, Inc., and Monsters University, the first Shrek, The Emperor's New Groove and Hercules. And while he didn't pan it, some felt that his criticisms of Aladdin (claiming that it was too "modern") were unfair. This is actually inverted as well, as many were shocked by his liking The Wild and Bee Movie.
- After Doug's giant rant on Jurassic World, he says he feels like Profion “feed me your rage” and Rob tells him he'll be on an FBI Most Wanted List before mocking most of his criticisms, which makes this an example essentially in-universe, too
- In Real Thoughts On Garfield, Doug insults The Phantom of the Opera (2004) fans (including telling people who like Gerard Butler's singing that they need therapy), Wicked fans, The Simpsons fans and Garfield fans, and Rob says generally to stop asking him on his Facebook why Doug doesn't like whatever thing.
- While not in the slightest panning (and they had built sets like the movie because they loved it so much, plus Walkers had squeeed in the Sibling Rivalry of it, along with Doug praising the representation and mocking MRAs like he'd do in the review), there's a lot of comments out there that assume he bashed Mad Max: Fury Road. At 'worst', he had some Hype Backlash and didn't think it was the best one, before Curiosa refutes his arguments and makes him change his mind.
- In the video "Top 10 Films I Hate But Everyone Else Loves", he put Matilda at number three and said that he originally was going to do a Nostalgia Critic review of it, but there was such a huge backlash that he decided not to. In the video "Career Dive: Danny DeVito", he said that he has come to love Matilda.
