YMMV / A Walk on the Moon

• Awesome Music: Regardless of the few temporal goofs with the music, the choice of tracks is splendid and fits very well. Whether you were around the 1960s or just love them, the songs that play really set the moods for each scene. Janis Joplin's "Summertime" makes you feel like you're right there in the Catskills trying to beat the heat, and Jefferson Airplane's "Today" playing while the moon is landing as Pearl gives in to Walker is incredibly evocative. Starting the movie with Bobby Darin's "More" and ending with "Purple Haze" also doubles as Ironic Echo.
• CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Pearl giving Marty a microscope, which he always wanted after having to give up his dream of being a scientist. Likewise, Pearl and Marty giving their marriage a second chance, while they both dance to Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze.
• Designated Hero: Pearl is an indulgent, selfish mother, who commits adultery (all because she "missed out on being young and carefree"), and won't even admit that she was responsible for "messing up her life", even to the point of informing her teenage daughter that she was an "accident," all to justify her rotten action of cheating.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Seeing Sabertooth and Rogue as father and daughter.
• Jerkass Woobie: It is very easy to feel angry and sorry for Marty at first. But then he goes from The Woobie to Jerkass right after finding out about the affair by displacing his anger at Pearl onto their kids and other people; such as nearly breaking TV sets he has to work on and he kisses another man's wife in retaliation. Marty then tries to take Daniel and Alison away in the middle of the night. Then he reclaims his Woobie status back in Brooklyn, sadly rummaging through his children's belongings.
  Marty: Gee, maybe you should screw the dress man instead, at least this way you'd have an entire outfit.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Martha Kent is married to Ted Winters
  • Their daughter is Sookie Stackhouse
  • Aragorn plays Walker Jerome.
  • Marge Simpson is the P.A. Announcer.
  • The movie was directed by Fitz.
• Shout-Out:
  • 1965 WWII flick King Rat is the movie that plays on the lawn for all the kids.
  • The screenwriter also intentionally put in a Shout-Out to Ruby the Knish Man.
• The Woobie: Alison, who is very devastated by her mother's actions and hypocrisy, and when she learns from her mother that she was an "accident." Anyone who has gone through a similar conflict with a parent as she had can really relate to her.