YMMV / Waltz with Bashir

• Animation Age Ghetto: The director had a great deal of difficulty getting funding for a serious documentary about a massacre that is also animated.
• Award Snub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to Bolt and Kung Fu Panda, apparently because it's a documentary, and was ineligible for a documentary nomination due to a rule requiring documentaries to have had a qualifying run in both New York and Los Angeles by 31 August of that year. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.
• Awesome Music: "The Haunted Ocean" by Max Richter.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The German porn video probably qualifies as one of these, as it is animated in loving detail and leaves nothing to the imagination.
• Moment of Awesome: The eponymous "Waltzing with Bashir" scene. While The Squad is under fire, Frenkel rips an FN MAG machine gun from a squadmate and starts waltzing across the street while firing it at the general direction of the enemies with a huge picture of the Lebanese president on the background. Damn...
• Nightmare Fuel: Most of the movie. The first scene with the monstrous dogs is an example; But by far the most disturbing instance is the "slaughterhouse," a place where the Phalangists interrogated Palestinian suspects, executed them and collected body parts as trophies. The whole scene looks like a terrifying bad acid trip.
  • The ending: The movie ends with Folman standing with the other soldiers, realizing what part he played in the massacre as the survivors of the massacre walk past him, screaming. What makes it more horrifying is those are not the screams of the actors, but of the actual survivors, as the animation cuts to the archival footage of them wailing in horror and sorrow as they discover the piles of the dead bodies of loved ones and other victims.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Director Ari Folman once said that the most difficult part of making the film was not taking sides when discussing the war. He only wanted to say that war was terrible in and of itself.

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