YMMV / Dorbees: Making Decisions

• Accidental Innuendo: Pretty much any mention of balls, which is unfortunate for the show as they are what it revolves around.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Given that the school Jack and Mary-Jane escape from both has their teacher feeding them blatantly incorrect mathematics and a security system that legitimately tries to kill them the second they step out of their classroom, one could see the Dorbee world as a dystopian society where the government wants to make children ignorant by teaching them false information in schools, and should any of the students dare to go against this plan, they’re killed, either by elaborate death-traps or by having the Terminator sent to hunt them down. Also, Jack and Mary Jane may or may not have ended up in Silent Hill on their way to the mansion, judging by the Ominous Fog enveloping the area.
• Awesome Music: Much like with fellow Gaither-affiliated animation Gaither's Pond, the music is pretty much the only aspect of the film that everyone agrees is genuinely good. Unsurprising, seeing as the Gaither Vocal Band are an award-winning gospel group that was even inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame. "I Wanna Be Grown Up" is often considered the highlight of the whole cartoon, being an incredibly catchy and genuinely well-written ska-rock song.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • During The Mr. Poe und Yogul segment, Yogul begins singing different show tunes to keep his spirits up during his torture. And then he sings "U Can't Touch This."
  • Really, the entire Mr. Poe und Yogul segment may qualify. There's no follow-up segment nor is there any mention of the show before their segment. It just comes completely out of nowhere in the middle of the two main stories.
  • When it seems like the "I Wanna Be Grown Up" musical number is about to end with Jack and Mary-Jane singing the chorus together, two helicopters suddenly appear off-screen and shoot missiles at the kids. Then there's a white flash, and suddenly, there's a choir group of sunflowers singing backing vocals for one last part before the song ends for real. With how excessive the school's security system was, you'd assume the helicopters were sent to bring the escaped students back to class, but with how the kids don't try to escape them, are unharmed by the missiles, and the helicopters aren't referenced afterwards, so they're completely unrelated and just came from nowhere.
• Designated Hero: Mr. Poe. He chooses to save Yogul, which would normally be a good thing, instead of ending world hunger or initiating world peace. No reason is given why he couldn't press either button or all three at the same time, making him come off as either an Idiot Hero or very selfish.
• Paranoia Fuel: If the opening theme is to be believed, Dorbees are apparently everywhere and will not go away.
• Retroactive Recognition: Creator and lead voice actor Benji Gaither would go on to voice Japeth the Singing Goat in Hoodwinked!.
• So Bad, It's Good: Among those who don't scream in terror and run for the hills upon witnessing the monstrous form of the Dorbees, the film is considered to be this.
• Special Effects Failure: Even leaving aside the character models:
  • Oftentimes, the lighting of interior scenes is too dark to make anything out, even when things are clearly supposed to be legible for the viewer. Jack and Mary-Jane's escape from the school, Dig’s dance sequence, and the mansion are the most apparent examples.
  • Mr. Poe and Yogul's theme song features very out of place generic character models that are all in a T-pose, which is the default position for human-shaped CG character models. Granted, this may be Stylistic Suck as part of the key joke of the short, but it’s hard to tell with this film.
  • In the opening theme, when the singing Dorbee materializes and a microphone gets thrown into his hands, he doesn't actually catch it—it just clips right through his hands and is swallowed up by the floor, yet he still grips the air as if it were actually there.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: While watching the movie as part of "Wheel of the Weird", Vinny of Vinesauce points out that "I Wanna Be Grown Up" sounds very similar to "All Around the World" by Oasis.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Most notably the case with the character models and their distressing quasi-realistic faces that fundamentally clash with the primitive CGI, making many of them look unintentionally hideous and terrifying (compounded by how much the camera loves to zoom in on them extremely closely). The Dorbees also constantly stretch and distort themselves in eldritch ways, often blatantly clipping through the scenery or each other in the process.

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