YMMV / Ocean's 8

• Actor Shipping: Shipping Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock themselves together has become at least as popular as Debbie and Lou, thanks to their flirty, sarcastic banter in interviews, frequent physical closeness, and Cate's bad habit of accidentally making innuendos. Cate/Sarah Paulson is probably the next-most popular, followed shortly after by, well, Cate and any of the other women.
• Adorkable: Even though Amita's not a White Sheep (like Rose) and certainly isn't an innocent, having clearly assisted Debbie with her criminal schemes in the past, she's easily the sweetest, most traditionally girly and socially awkward of the gang. She swipes right on the very first guy she sees on Tinder because, in her words, 'he looks kind'.
• Ass Pull: Daphne figuring out the con and deciding to help them is done with little to no foreshadowing or anything implying that she's smart enough to do so or that she's nice enough to decide to help them. The twist that they stole the entire crown jewels exhibit also comes more or less out of nowhere, with the only foreshadowing being Lou grabbing the toy submarine.
• Base-Breaking Character: Daphne is perhaps the most love or hate figure in the main cast, mostly because she spends three quarters of the movie as a bitchy celebrity bimbo antagonistic figure before abruptly revealed to have figured things out and then blackmailed her way into the group. Some viewers enjoyed Anne Hathaway's performance throughout while others found her switch from basically a Hate Sink to one of the gang very jarring. A third group didn't mind the reveal that Daphne had Hidden Depths but felt having her accepted and forgiven essentially instantly wasted the possibility of Daphne being a cunning and dangerous opponent to Debbie's gang.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Constance's response to seeing a picture of Debbie's deceased older brother? "He's hot. Are you sure he's dead?"
• Dancing Bear: Some detractors have said this of the all-female main cast; dismissing it as an attention-grabbing gimmick meant to prop up an otherwise unremarkable heist film.
• Fanon: Pretty much the entire fanbase agrees that Lou is gay. Most people headcanon the other women as bisexual, pansexual, or lesbians, but it's practically impossible to find someone that headcanons Lou as straight.
• Gotta Ship 'Em All: The women are shipped in every possible combination, and it's not just limited to pairs.
• He's Just Hiding: Debbie Ocean herself casts doubts on the fact that her brother Danny is dead.
• Les Yay: Lou and Debbie are practically flirting for most of the movie. After Debbie gets out of jail, Lou greets her with a kiss and at one point jokingly asks Debbie if she's proposing. To which Debbie says no... because she doesn't have a diamond yet.
• LGBT Fanbase: Oh, yes! This movie has a massive fanbase of queer women, which really isn't a surprise — it features not one, not two, but eight extremely attractive leading ladies, there are bucketloads of Les Yay, there's no heterosexual romance outside of flashbacks (and the guy in said romance is the closest thing the film has to an antagonist, having framed the woman he was dating in the backstory, so that hardly counts), and it has Cate Blanchett, who has been nicknamed "Queen of the Lesbians."
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Deborah "Debbie" Ocean is Danny's younger sister who ended up in jail for five years after her partner and boyfriend Claude Becker turned on her to save himself when they were caught pulling scams. Falsely convincing the parole board she'll turn over a new leaf, Debbie celebrates her freedom by hustling a store out of beauty products and a hotel out of a room. Debbie concocts a heist with her friend Lou Miller and five other women in which they'll infiltrate the Met Gala after arranging for actress Daphne Kluger to be wearing the expensive diamond Toussaint necklace and then steal it while switching it out with a counterfeit, with each woman getting an equal share. The heist is successful, though Debbie deals Daphne in when she catches on to things and Debbie is also able to get revenge on Claude by framing him for the theft. Debbie also makes arrangements with Lou to have the royal jewels stolen at the same time so as to exponentially increase each of the eight shares between the women, with Debbie taking pleasure knowing full well that her brother would've been proud of her success.
  • Lou Miller has been Debbie's partner in crime and closest friend for years in pulling scams and cons. Having watered-down vodka at the bar she works in to make more money, Lou's run other hustles on the side since Debbie's been locked up and helps to plot the heist of the Toussaint—almost bowing out when discovering Debbie's running it as a revenge scheme against Claude and appreciating Debbie's planning when she's able to misdirect the investigation to keep the team from being given any focus at all. Lou on Debbie's behalf also brings in the Amazing Yen to help her steal all the Royal Jewels in the midst of the chaos so that every member of the team gets an even bigger share as a result.
  • Daphne Kluger is a temperamental actress who proves herself to be much smarter than she first appears. Starting as an unknowing pawn in Debbie's plan to steal the Toussaint, she eventually sees through Rose Weil's "bad acting" to put together what is happening. Daphne allows the group to steal the necklace during the Met Gala, playing innocent even to the insurance investigator sent to find it. Wanting to make friends, Daphne joins the group and plays a vital role in framing Claude Becker by seducing him and taking pictures of a piece of the Toussaint in his house. A gifted actress who uses her awareness of her surroundings to her benefit, Daphne ends the film making the friends she wanted and uses her share to become a successful film director.
  • Tammy is Debbie's fence who despite trying to get away from the game to raise a family still continued to swipe things here and there in order to store them away in her garage in plain sight. As part of the hustle, she provides Rose Weil with the computer glasses to study and take a picture of the necklace with so that Tammy can then model out the replica with a 3D printer and runs the mission itself with Lou as well. Getting herself appointed a temporary coordinator at Vogue to get the seating plans, Tammy also discovers Debbie's revenge scheme against Claude on her own and when it's revealed Daphne caught onto things and joins the team, Tammy plays it safe by at first treating her presence with scrutiny.
  • "Nine Ball", real name Leslie, is a skilled computer hacker Lou discovered and suggests to Debbie for the job. Nine Ball first manipulates an IT security guy into checking out a pop-up about dogs—while disliking the tactic as she does it—so that she can hack into the system for the Met Gala and little by little create a blind spot in the cameras' views to be able to have a place to hide the teams' actions on the scene. In order to deal with the special lock that keeps the Toussaint from being easily removed from Daphne, Nine Ball also recruits her younger sister Veronica to recreate the special key that they need for it too.
• Presumed Flop: With the similarly female-centric reboot Ghostbusters (2016) having underperformed at the box office, this film is often lumped in with that one and spoken of as a financial failure. In reality, the film made just short of $300 million worldwide on a budget of $80 million; not a mega-hit by any means, but certainly more than profitable, and about as financially successful as Ocean's Thirteen had been a decade prior (taking into account inflation in the intervening years, but Thirteen also having a higher budget).
• Questionable Casting:
  • Casting Rihanna has drawn skepticism from many people, given her previous acting venture in Battleship had her acting among its criticisms. This died down a bit after the film was released. (It may help that she isn't called upon to do much, and handles it with aplomb.)
  • Much like with Peter Rabbit, James Corden's playing a serious, Straight Man investigator received this response as well, with many viewers feeling that his performance took them completely out of the film.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general critical consensus was that the cast gave strong performances in an otherwise rote caper. Audiences were essentially split on the film, with a 5.2 Metacritic score.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Lack of Spy Catsuits and lack of overarching quest for a missing father notwithstanding, it's perhaps the closest Western cinema has to a Cat's Eye live-action film.
• Tear Jerker: The very first place Debbie goes after getting out of prison is Danny's grave. Doubly so when you realize that being in jail meant she didn't get to attend his funeral, either. Also not helping is Reuben showing up and telling her that Danny thought her plan was genius and would work, but that he didn't think she should do it. It's implied that it's because he didn't want her to end up in jail again.
• Unexpected Character: No one expected Yen to show up, much less to help Lou steal the crown jewels offscreen during the heist, only to be revealed later, and be smuggled around in her cart the rest of the time.

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