YMMV / Arthur and the Invisibles

• Americans Hate Tingle: The series is extremely popular in France, but poorly received internationally due to the changes made by Weinstein.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "Arthur, malédiction", one of the characters finds a human fused to a tree. This never gets explained.
• Broken Aesop: Malthazard's heinousness comes from him trying to steal Selenia's Sacred First Kiss and marry her along with it, as she has consented to neither. That doesn't stop her from forcibly kissing Arthur to make sure Malthazard can't have her powers without explaining the ramifications of this decision to him or asking if he consented to be married to her. Making matters worse, Arthur's only ten years old and would not be allowed to consent to marriage in most countries.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: The PlayStation 2 game based on the first film is actually pretty decent. It has rather beautiful graphics and dynamic environments for a PS2-era game, good voice acting, fun puzzles and a fair bit of unlockable bonus content.
• Questionable Casting: For some reason Madonna of all people was cast as the main love interest to the child protagonist.
• Squick: Arthur and Selenia are a gender flipped Old Man Marrying a Child pairing, with Arthur being 10 while Selenia is 1000. Making matters even worse, Arthur wasn't told about the Minimoys' Sacred First Kiss before Selenia kisses him, meaning he didn't consent. The age problem is somewhat subverted in that the years of the Minimoy calendar are much shorter, leading 1000 Minimoy Years to be equivalent to about ten years from the human perspective, but this doesn't change the fact that Selenia's obviously far more mature than Arthur is biologically.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Malthazard's main motivation in trying to steal Selenia's Sacred First Kiss is to stop himself from decaying alive after he was essentially date raped when he was drunk and given a G Rated STD that's slowly killing him. It's hard to not feel at least a little sympathy for his plight, even though Selenia's response to him shows the audience is meant to have No Sympathy.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The non-Weinstein release contain a surprising amount of adult humour.

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