YMMV / Unshaved Mouse

• Broken Base:
  • Over whether his constant running gags such as "Bahia" and "Lazy bastard kookaburras" improve the reviews or detract from them.
  • His jabs at Republicans. Some think they’re funny and well deserved, while others find them preachy and insulting. Doesn’t help that there has been a increase of them since the 2016 election. Nor does the fact that the author isn't American.
• Continuity Lockout: Even reading all the Canon reviews in order isn't quite enough to guard against this, as several of the most important pieces of the Meta Plot (and a few running gags) are established in non-Disney reviews or even seemingly run-of-the-mill status updates. The character of the Confused Newbie was created specifically to lampshade this.
• Funny Moments: In his review of Melody Time, during the appearance of José Carioca, he nopes out and starts reviewing JFK instead until the segment is over.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Mouse predicted in his Avengers: Endgame review that Black Widow (2021) would undo Natasha's untimely death. It doesn't.
  • In his review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Mouse decried the film's depiction of Namor for lacking his Extreme Omnisexual characteristics from the comics, seeing it as a distinct part of the character's personality. This criticism became a lot more awkward after Namor's actor Tenoch Huerta was accused of sexually assaulting a Mexican saxophonist in June 2023.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: He's stepped out of line with both big-name critics and the masses quite a few times on the quality of various films and characters. When his opinions start looking too radical, the Angry Mob tends to get called in. To wit:
  • He found most of Fantasia uninteresting, as he prefers things with more narrative.
  • He slammed the Disney adaptation of Peter Pan pretty hard, mainly in regards to the fact that it turned Captain Hook into an Adaptational Wimp.
  • He found Beauty and the Beast, while technically impressive, to be overly-lavish and soulless. Likewise he much prefers Ariel to Belle as a heroine, feeling Belle is almost too perfect, while he finds Ariel flawed yet still fun.
  • He finds Cinderella to be bland and unchallenging - lacking the artistic flair or daring tone of the movies that came before it. He also strongly disliked the mice, finding them to be annoying rather than cute.
  • Tiana as a Disney Princess was well-received by most critics. Mouse on the other hand found her dull and holds that one of the movie's biggest flaws is how little she has to do with the villain's plan.
  • Outside of Disney, he dislikes Felidae because of its inconsistent animation, recycling character model, and poor writing - pointing out that Francis solves the mystery due to Bat Deduction rather than any actual detective work, and that it went for shock value over quality.
  • He grades Doctor Strange (2016) lower than every preceding Marvel Studios movie, for essentially retreading Iron Man's plot beats in a less charming manner.
  • He calls Ant-Man and the Wasp a new low for Marvel Studios, with not enough substance or empathy connecting its size-shifting, ant-ridden setpieces.
  • He calls X-Men: First Class a mixed bag, saddling talented actors with a script that cobbles unfinished ideas to occasionally problematic results.
  • Most critics gave Raya and the Last Dragon glowing reviews. Mouse, on the other hand, considered its script to be dull and unimaginative.
  • His review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings admits that he couldn't grasp why so many critics and viewers love Tony Leung Chiu-wai's performance as Xu Wenwu, Combined with Mouse's disinterest in the fantastical elements, and inability to judge the movie as an adaptation of Master of Kung Fu, this resulted in the movie earning a lower score than every other MCU film, until it was "dethroned" by Thor: Love and Thunder.
  • Despite their large popularity overall, Mouse's disappointment with the MCU's Disney+ shows (with the finale of WandaVision in particular being a sore spot for him) was so great that he refused to do reviews for any of them, despite previously promising he would in mid-2021. While he did briefly summarize his thoughts on a few of the shows in his Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review, Mouse's blatant dismissal of both Hawkeye and Moon Knight without much elaboration did strike a few fans' nerves.
  • Mouse's review on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was surprisingly quite negative. Most fans took issue with how rushed and unfocused the review was, as well as his criticisms of Namor, which mostly amounted to complaints over his sexually predatory behavior being Adapted Out and not much else.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Mouse snarks in his review of Walt's Cinderella that Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" would more accurately summarize Cinderella's romance with Prince Charming than "So This is Love" does. Two years later, Jepsen would play the titular role in a Broadway production of Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) (although this telling has a more fleshed-out romance than Walt's did).
  • Mouse's rant about Disney pulling the Bedknobs and Broomsticks US theatrical cut out of print, in favor of the 25th Anniversary Edition Recut, includes a comment that accurately predicts the Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital HD combo pack shortening the movie again, and relegating the added footage to the bonus features:
    In the DVD era these would have perhaps have made interesting deleted scenes but incorporating them into the movie proper hurts the overall film hugely.
  • The Tangled review criticizes "When Will My Life Begin" for sounding too much like, "...the theme music for a Disney Channel sitcom called That’s So Rapunzel! In 2017, Disney Channel would premiere both a Tangled TV show and a That's So Raven sequel series.
  • His special review of Steven Universe mentions his personal theory that Pearl was the personal servant of Pink Diamond before being freed from her role by Rose Quartz. A year and a half later, the show premiered A Single Pale Rose... let's just say, he's not wrong.
  • Mouse spent years mocking Thanos as an apparently lazy, blank slate of a villain. After watching Avengers: Infinity War, he deemed Thanos one of the most threatening villains in the MCU.
  • In his review of Fantasia he said he found "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" to be creepy rather than whimsical. In 2018 Disney released a film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms where the Sugar Plum Fairy turns out to be the villain!
  • The Sleeping Beauty review portrays the Evil Queen and Maleficent as being friendly rivals. He had no idea that Once Upon a Time portrayed them this way either.
  • The new section in his MCU reviews post-Infinity War centers around what characters in the featured movie might be Skrulls in disguise, painting them with the same malevolent shapeshifting conqueror brush affiliated with the comic portrayal. Come Captain Marvel (2019), the MCU Skrulls are shown to be much nobler than both Mouse and the comics' interpretation...at first. Conveniently, Mouse's choice from Ant-Man and The Wasp, Janet van Dyne, still feels as plausible as before; she doesn't seem evil, either.
  • When reviewing The Little Mermaid (1989), Mouse becomes intrigued at the thought of finding out how Ariel first learned about Ursula, until he learns that he'd have to watch The Little Mermaid (1992) for the answer. He eventually reviewed the episode in question, "Against the Tide", for Shortstember 2021, and declared that Ursula's displays of power and dominance impressed him enough to call it his favorite episode of the show.
    • In the same review, Mouse points out that Ariel seems so lost and mesmerized by everything that he starts to wonder if Ursula took her memory too. In the live-action remake, Ursula does exactly this, taking away Ariel's memory as well as her voice so she'll forget her deal.
  • Mouse tends to exaggerate Mulan's craving for violence, to the extent of wanting to use killing as a form of Disproportionate Retribution. Mulan's speaking voice actress would later co-star on The Book of Boba Fett as assassin Fennec Shand; when Boba admits to her in Chapter 1 that he can't afford to pay tribute to the mayor yet, she unsuccessfully asks Boba if she can kill the majordomo for requesting the tribute in the first place.

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