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  • Adorkable: June being imaginative and young could have its perks in making her quite endearing to the audience.
  • Ass Pull: Given how June's mother was supposedly dead given how she grieves about her throughout the whole movie and is referred to in past tense, the fact she's ultimately alive in the end can come across as contrived.
  • Awesome Art: If nothing else, the environments of the theme park look really cool and creative.
  • Broken Aesop: One of the more infamous in animated film history. The film's message is about not letting grief destroy the things you love. As the "Darkness" surrounding Wonderland is meant to represent the main character, June's, feelings over losing her mother. The Darkness is eventually defeated, but a small dark cloud still looms in the distance, showing how the sadness related to grief can become smaller but never fully go away. The problem with this message is that June's mother is still alive, returning home fully recovered at the end of the film. While a loved one experiencing a health scare can be frightening to a young child like June, her behavior throughout the movie (throwing away any reminder of Wonderland, lashing out at family members, constantly fretting over her dad's safety, etc.) would make much more sense if her mother had passed away. The mother being alive and well by the end makes the film's message about accepting loss and overcoming grief completely arbitrary.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Steve became this among those who watched the movie, because many people think that John Oliver did an excellent job in his acting as the character, to the point where even people who hated the film tended to like him and said he was the best part.
    • Many people who watched the movie loved the Chimpanzombies. Many reviews from audiences wanted to buy the plushies if Nickelodeon sold them.
  • Epileptic Trees: With the trailers, many people have been questioning the exaggerated vibrancy of the park, deeming it Too Good to Be True for the protagonist. As such, they believe that this is her dying dream, or is going through a recent loss and imagining the park as a way to keep herself happy. Somewhat subverted in the final film, where the fictional version of the park was something she and her mother created, but upon her mother's cancer diagnosis, June immediately rejects all forms of fantasy and escapism in favour of being hyper-aware of reality: the park forcing its way back into her life is meant to symbolize that she's still allowed to be happy and creative despite bad events.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The amusement park featured in the film, despite what the title says, is called Wonderland. Paramount actually owned the Canadian amusement park "Canada's Wonderland" from 1993 to 2006.
  • I Am Not Shazam: The park in the movie is called "Wonderland", not "Wonder Park". The main reason it has that title was because the studio wanted to distance themselves from the film's original director (and also to avoid confusion with Alice in Wonderland).
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Jokes about the film essentially being a RollerCoaster Tycoon movie are not uncommon.
    • The Pi song also became popular after it was posted to Instagram in celebration of Pi Day.
  • Nightmare Retardant: The concept of a dark force possessing cute, little carnival prizes is pretty terrifying. However, it's hard to feel scared when the toys keep their cute appearance, even when they're attacking the heroes.
  • Overshadowed by Controversy: When people discuss Wonder Park its dominated by how it's one of the few animated movies credited without a director, due to the sexual harassment allegations levied at Dylan Brown, more than the actual work.
  • So Okay, It's Average: It was hated by critics and most audiences didn't like it either, but some of them found it passable thanks to its admittedly well-done animation and voice acting.
  • Tainted by the Preview: While some people are interested in the premise of the movie thanks to the first trailer (especially with its rendition of "What a Wonderful World"), they were turned off once the second trailer showed the celebrity-voiced Funny Animal sidekicks.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some reviewers said they would've preferred if the film focused more on June dealing with her mom's illness as opposed to her adventures in "Wonderland"
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The movie looks simply gorgeous, particularly the scenes at Fireworks Falls.

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