YMMV / Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000

• Accidental Innuendo: One line in Dr. Zoom's Villain Song is "Just a squirt in your face!"
• Accidental Nightmare Fuel: Right before Chuck E. crashes into Harry's cave is this◊ Extreme Close-Up with Reflective Eyes. It looks even worse in motion.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Part of the song "Zoom Gas" implies that usage of the titular gas "scrambles your brain." This could explain the X-Racers' exaggeratedly bumbling and oafish behavior. The circumstances under which they come under its influence were never detailed. It could be just as likely that they were scientists who helped Zoom create the gas and unwittingly became test subjects or desperate, average joes down on their luck who made a Deal with the Devil as it is that they were muscleheaded hotshots all along.
  • Dr. Zoom himself may also be subject to the gas as well, considering how much he grabbed the Villain Ball in not imprisoning Helen more securely, thus allowing her to escape.
• Awesome Music: While slightly cheesy, "The Real Me" and "The Galaxy's For You and Me" stand out from all the original songs in the video.
• Cult Classic: Despite its notoriously poor quality, this video remains a favorite among fans of Chuck E. Cheese.
• Heartwarming Moments: Chuck E. stands up to the X-Pilots when they insult Helen and Jasper. He even comes close to fighting them until Dr. Zoom breaks it up. His willingness to defend his friends is sweet.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Helen's rant about chicken restaurants became this after Chuck E. Cheese's added chicken items to its menu in 2015.
• Moment of Awesome: Helen freeing herself from her cell using just her feather.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dr. Zoom crosses this when he tries to kill Helen (an anthropomorphic chicken) and juice her into Zoom Gas.
• Nightmare Fuel: Dr. Zoom attempting to murder Helen to juice her into Zoom Gas. What makes this worse is that Helen is anthropomorphic, and thus knows full well what's in store.
• Older Than They Think: Charlie Rockit originated in several early-1990s shows, but this is probably his best-known appearance.
• Refrain from Assuming: The "Gaining Confidence" Song is not called "Know That I Can" (as Chuck E. says), it's "I Know I Can". The closest he gets to mentioning the title is in the final chorus: "Now I know that I can."
• Retroactive Recognition: Christopher Sabat (who voiced Munch and the narrator for the Galaxy 5000 news report, as well as appearing on-screen as a piano player and co-writing various songs), Lydia Mackay (who played Astrid), and Mike McFarland (who performed Harry's singing) appear in this movie, years before their fame as voice actors for anime dubs and films. Likewise, this was one of the first Funimation projects for Duncan Brannan (who voiced Chuck E. at the time), before he became a regular voice actor in the company.
• So Bad, It's Good: This film is guaranteed to provide a good amount of laughter for its lame plot, poor CGI and songs, and its overall cheesiness.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • Pasqually and Harry's wigs, eyebrows and mustaches are very obviously fake.
  • Aside from the scenes of Helen in her cell, everything that isn't a person after the opening restaurant scene is CGI (with the characters shot in front of a green screen), and it shows; the CGI itself looks like the characters stepped into a PlayStation game.
  • In one scene where the camera zooms in on Jasper complaining to Chuck E. about the Songbird, the background does not zoom in with them, remaining the same wide still shot.
  • Right before Chuck E. runs on the hamster wheel again, you can see the background disappearing behind Harry for a split-second, leaving a solid white background.
  • The final musical number has a shot in which the background doesn't zoom out with the live-action footage, simply remaining still.
  • The heads for the costumes also fall into this, largely due to the remote signals being the same (or similar) between them, making the wrong character have his/her eyes or mouth move by mistake.
  • Chuck E.'s Extreme Close-Up just before he crashes into Harry's cave is obviously a still frame, with the exception of the eyes and background.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The music for the opening number "The Galaxy's for You and Me" is based on the 1948 orchestral piece "Twelfth Street Rag", which was frequently used on SpongeBob SquarePants.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The film has a Dance Party Ending, and then it cuts to the credits before we can see the characters returning to Earth (let alone Pasqually's reaction to their return and Galaxy 5000 victory).
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: While many of the performances are decent at best, Duncan Brannan and Jeremy Blaido really nail their respective roles as Chuck E. and Jasper. It helps that they'd already been voicing their characters in various media produced before this film.
• Uncertain Audience: Yep, a movie that is a tie-in to a children's restaurant but you'd be surprised what the movie has in store. This film contains a simple plot about Chuck trying to win the futuristic race just for money. Adults may not like the film for being childish due to having over-zany antagonists, some kiddie songs, some corny humor, and a premise that wouldn't sound too out of place for something like Barney, yet you still have some humor that feels off (like Jasper talking about a chicken restaurant in front of Helen), Zoom Gas being a G-Rated Drug, what Zoom Gas is actually made of, and implied zoophilia at one point. Of course, it's too immature for older audiences (especially since the restaurant itself is a children's place) yet it's too mature for younger audiences.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The designs of Chuck E. and his friends, the presence of an old CRT monitor in the opening scene, and an "America Onhold" logo on Chuck E.'s racing suit firmly date this film to the late 1990s.

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