YMMV / Victor/Victoria

• Adaptation Displacement: Most people don't know this is a remake of a 1933 film, especially in America where the Moral Guardians of the 1930s never allowed the film to be screened in the US.
• Award Snub: Julie Andrews was so incensed about being the lone Tony Award nominee for the musical, she rejected her nomination. ^note She accepted her Drama Desk Award, as Rachel York was nominated, too, as well as the set designer Robin Wagner. Both Andrews and York won.
• Awesome Music:
  • The theme song, "Crazy World". It's wonderful to hear in instrumental form and as sung by Julie Andrews, and certainly helped the movie win a well-deserved Oscar for Original Song Score.
  • Victoria's brilliant first performance of "Le Jazz Hot".
  • Victoria delivering another astounding performance of "The Shady Dame From Seville".
  • Victoria's emotional performance of "Crazy World" whilst in a secret relationship with King throughout her disguise as "Victor".
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In the film's ending during the final performance as "Victor" before retirement, Toddy tosses a rose to his new lover Squash who is touched by the gesture amidst a cheering and laughing audience.
  Toddy: Vous.
  (tosses rose from stage to a beaming Squash)
  • Despite having only just met one another, Toddy allows Victoria to stay over at his place with his offering of extra clothes and a hot meal while they are nursing a head cold and he consoles her when she cries over her coat being ruined and her financial woes. The fact that Toddy is a homosexual drag queen doesn't bother Victoria in the slightest.
  • King Marchand, a homophobic gangster, choosing to pursue a romantic relationship with a gay male drag queen in 1930s Paris. After escaping the bar fight and police raid together, King looks to "Victor" who is eyeing him nervously. Instead of outing "him" or reacting with physical violence and homophobia like one would expect given King's close-minded views and the film's time setting, King just says "I don't care if you are a man" and kisses "him" passionately on the lips. Even after Victoria/"Victor" admits that she isn't biologically male, King stands by his word and assures Victoria that even if she were a man, he still wouldn't care about the same-sex gender or society's expectations of them and pursues a relationship with her.
  • Squash's reaction after he breaks down the door upon hearing noises and catches King in bed with "Victor". He apologizes and excuses himself but when King tries to explain to Squash that it is not what it looks like, Squash cries tears of happiness, outs himself to King and, being a gay man himself, congratulates King on his bisexuality and accepts his relationship with "Victor".
• Signature Scene:
  • Julie Andrews singing "Le Jazz Hot!"
  • Robert Preston singing "Shady Dame From Seville"
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many fans have disliked the extra scene added in the 1982 film adaptation where King Marchand discovers that Victoria really is a woman while she is taking a bath, as it ruins any mysterious buildup to the moment where King professes his love for "Victor" and no longer care about his gender. Prior to this change, like the source material, King was supposed to fall in love with "Victor"/Victoria before being sure of "his" gender.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The film is rated PG in the USA ^note In the UK and Ireland it has the more restrictive 15 rating, and it does star Julie Andrews, and it's a musical, but it's intended for adults. (It helps that the movie came out in 1982. The PG-13 rating wasn't created until 1984.) That said, in terms of vulgarity, it's no worse than primetime TV or any given James Bond film. If parents are fine with mobsters, gay romance, Drag Queens, implied sex and a teensy bit of language ("Honey, I'm horny!"), there's nothing to stop them from enjoying it with their pre-teens.
• Values Dissonance: In 1930s Paris, homosexuality is condemned and/or punishable by murder.

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