YMMV / Kirikou and the Sorceress

• First Installment Wins: Although all works from Michel Ocelot's series have received a positive reception, Kirikou and the Sorceress is still the best remembered.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Kirikou "drowning" 26 minutes into the film. He turns up alive, of course.
• Narm:
  • Kirikou's mother and her utter lack of reaction to her unborn child talking from her uterus and helping himself out of it. It makes the viewer wonder if people in that tribe really see that shit everyday.
  • Kirikou pulls the skunk out of the squirrels' burrow to protect them. The image of a very tiny little boy pulling a skunk by the tail out of a burrow is funny.
• Squick: Kirikou (who, despite all of his deeds, is a newborn) wants to marry Karaba, a grown woman and the former evil sorceress. Not even his Plot-Relevant Age-Up makes this less creepy.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • There's so much nudity in this film that it can't be shown without an R-rating in the United States. Though most of its isn't sexualised, and much more acceptable in France.
  • And then you also have the underlying dark themes of the movie, with humanity's flaws being on full display. The villagers are consistently pretty awful towards Kirikou despite his heroic deeds and Karaba is only this way because of a horrific act that was done to her, with the spike driven into her back being quite possibly a metaphor for rape. Even after Kirikou returns to the village with Karaba having made a Heel–Face Turn, the two are almost lynched before Kirikou's grandfather intervenes.

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