History YMMV / ItConqueredTheWorld

* {{Narm}}:
** Imagine how much better the film would have been had the BigBad not been a giant vegetable? It actually looks menacing when only seen in the shadows. Unfortunately the lighting for the cave broke hence the soldiers taking the fight outside where everyone can see the alien cucumber.
** Also narmy is the little girl dropping her doll.

* {{Narm}}: Imagine how much better the film would have been had the BigBad not been a giant vegetable?
** It actually looks menacing when only seen in the shadows. Unfortunately the lighting for the cave broke hence the soldiers taking the fight outside where everyone can see the alien cucumber.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Creator/PeterGraves, Creator/LeeVanCleef, and especially Creator/BeverlyGarland give the film ''way'' more credit than its cheap script and shoddy special effects deserve.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Creator/PeterGraves, Creator/LeeVanCleef, and especially Beverly Garland give the film ''way'' more credit than its cheap script and shoddy special effects deserve.

* MomentOfAwesome: Each of Claire Anderson's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for both the character and Beverly Garland as an actress. It's almost impossible to hear, "Look, I don’t know whether you can hear me or not, but if you can, you listen good! I hate your living guts for what you’ve done to my husband and my world, and I’m going to kill you! Do you hear that? ''I’m going to kill you!''" spoken by anyone else.
** Paul's PatrickStewartSpeech is one of the better, more thoughtful speeches you'll hear in a BMovie, if a little pretentious.

* CriticalDissonance: Holds an Website/IMDb rating of 4.9 while having a rotten tomatoes score of 80%.

* MomentOfAwesome: Each of Claire Anderson's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for both the character and Beverly Garland as an actress. It's almost impossible to hear, "I know you can hear me, so you'd better listen. I hate your living guts for what you've done to my husband and our world and I'm going to kill you! Do you hear me? ''I'm going to kill you!''" spoken by anyone else.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Creator/PeterGraves, Creator/LeeVanCleef, and especially Beverly Garland give the film ''way'' more credit than its cheap script and shoddy special effects deserve.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/PeterGraves, of course, later starred in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' TV series.

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* CriticalDissonance: Holds an IMDb rating of 4.9 while having a rotten tomatoes score of 80%.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Creator/PeterGraves, LeeVanCleef, and especially Beverly Garland give the film ''way'' more credit than its cheap script and shoddy special effects deserve.

** And LeeVanCleef went on to star in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and many other {{Spaghetti Western}}s.

* FridgeLogic: Okay, the alien is impervious to bullets and even a bazooka, but a blow torch finishes it off. None of the soldiers aimed for its eyes?
** More of a case of KillItWithFire being its weakness.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Peter Graves, of course, later starred in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' TV series.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Peter Graves, of course, later starred in the ''MissionImpossible'' TV series.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: PeterGraves, LeeVanCleef, and especially Beverly Garland give the film ''way'' more credit than its cheap script and shoddy special effects deserve.

** Also narmy is the little girl dropping her doll. And as the MST3K crew point out: a man takes his saxophone while being evacuated.

!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation contains these tropes:
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The riffers have their own for Graves' character.
-->''Dr. Paul Nelson guns down three men controlled by the Alien.''\\
'''Tom:'''(as Graves) I hope you're all bad guys.
* WhatAnIdiot: The riffers are not amused that Paul doesn't seem to notice the lights are working in one scene.