YMMV / The Movies

• Awesome Music: The whole damn soundtrack. Which is none too surprising, considering its inspiration.
• Cult Classic: The game still has a very good following, including a group of dedicated users making downloadable content to use to create machinima with.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Two of the timeline events that postdate the game's 2004 release involve world peace being achieved in 2007 and Man landing on Mars in 2015. Oh, if only...
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Another post-2004 timeline event involves computers mysteriously malfunctioning in 2012, which became more amusing once the 2012 doomsday predictions came and went.
• Narm: Some of the monster costumes look pretty cool. A shame that their faces don't actually move. Especially the first werewolf, whose mouth hangs wide open.
  • Try and make a serious movie with the game's limited sets and animations. Chances are it will end up like this.
• Nightmare Fuel: Some of the other costumes, in contrast, such as the Motion Capture Zombie, can be used to very creepy effect.
• Nightmare Retardant: Aside from some of the unmoving monster costumes, you can make legitimately creepy scenes with tremendously goofy twists, such as a zombie attack involving bunny suits.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: Many, if not most, players are more interested in creating machinima than in the business sim, to the point of using sandbox mode and editing the unlocking.ini file so they can focus exclusively on machinima.
• Tear Jerker: The game goes on indefinitely, but the timeline stops in 2020. KMVS shuts down after being there to entertain and update the player for a whole in-game century. It can be a little disheartening.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: You can unlock more than a few costumes that will almost never fit into your sets. There are no snowy sets for Santa Claus, for example.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Stunts and Effects introduced a miniature city set which allows for giant monster movies, but only includes one animation of monsters fighting with no variations to change up the action.
  • The game gives you dozens of props that have very limited use. So you've unlocked the new Horror pack and want to make a film about an axe murderer? Well, you can certainly have your actor walk around whilst holding an axe...
    • The lack of sets or lack of matching sets is a complaint that have some have taken to mods to help. For instance there is a school hallway set and a scene for mentors to teach students, but no classroom sets. And no bedroom outside of a set of hotel rooms.