Magically animated British history is about to remind Adolf Hitler's troops why you don't invade Great Britain.
- The Magical Technicolor Journey to London.
- The Portobello Road street dance.
- As Professor Browne guides his friends through the black market, he reveals the truth about several forged pieces of artwork without even breaking stride.
- During the football game, there are several moments where the animals use their tails or trunks to whack the ball and thwart their opponents.
- The cheetah football player runs fast enough to set the ground on fire.
- When first beset upon by a pair of German soldiers at the train station, Emelius manages to incapacitate both of them with a single uppercut, sending them sprawling. Then he is finally able to perform magic and turns himself into a rabbit.
- Not only does he perform the spell, but it lasts long enough for him to walk himself as a rabbit from Miss Price's house to the museum. Much longer than Eglantine's spells transforming him or Charlie. And it's his first time spellcasting. It was also more than enough to fool several of the German soldiers; even when one of the German soldiers attempts to shoot the rabbit Browne with his gun for fun, that soldier ends up being stopped by another soldier, who furiously warns that doing so would only alert the Home Guard to their presence.
- Eglantine leading an army of Animated Armors and war uniforms from most of British history against the Germans. It doesn't get more awesome than that. Substitutiary Locomotion sneers at Nazi science.
- How would you like to see two thousand years of British military history marching towards you? Mind you that was a heck of a museum for a small coastal village.
- The entire scene of the armor approaching the Germans was one of the coolest scenes ever filmed in that decade. An entire army of British armor from medieval mail and plate armor all the way to redcoats, marching in tune with bagpipes and a faux Latin chant that sends shivers down the spine, with the Germans' bullets doing nothing except holes in them. It's enough to make you tear up if you're on their side and flee in terror if you're not.Possessed suits of armour: [chanting] Treguna, macoides, trecorum, satis dee. [The Germans are utterly speechless]
- It was so awesome, in fact, that most of the original trailers consisted of nothing but scenes from the climax (although that rather spoiled the surprise) and it remains one of the most memorable things about the movie to this day.
- It's never made clear exactly how the spell works, but considering both the flying garments when they first try it out and the armor seem to have personalities and quirks, a case could be made the inanimate objects are actually being guided/influenced/possessed by the spirits of those who own or once owned them. In which case it wasn't just an army of animated armors; it was an army of animated armors worn by the spirits of soldiers from every major era of British military history, putting aside all their differences to drive forces of Nazi Germany out of their country.
