YMMV / Detroit Rock City

• Cult Classic: Despite the film's underwhelming box office numbers, it's quite well-liked by KISS fans and fans of classic rock who view it as an underrated gem with lots of funny gags and a great soundtrack.
• Fridge Horror: Trip's idiocy may be mild brain damage caused by his mom using psychoactive drugs while she was pregnant with him (Lex mentions near the start of the movie "At least my mom didn't give birth to me while she was on LSD" and Trip corrects him by saying "Shrooms!").
• Harsher in Hindsight: When the film was being hyped before release, there was a large uproar that this would be THE film to bring rock music back into the mainstream. It never happened. The film bombed, but even so, rock had lost popularity to rap and other genres of music throughout the 90s, and even to this day it's still not regained the mainstream appeal it had in the 60s through the 80s- likely made worse by the recent rise in Dubstep, EDM and many other formats.
  • Although it should be noted that classic rock and heavy metal saw a resurgence in popularity from 2005 to the early-2010s due to the runaway successes of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video game franchises.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Melanie Lynskey (Beth) later plays an unpleasant, Bible-thumping, 1970s moral guardian like Jam's mom in Mrs. America only the target being feminism and gay rights rather than rock n roll.
• Retroactive Recognition: The dark-haired disco girl in the Trans-Am is Sloan.
• The Woobie: Jam. His mom makes his life so miserable that it's impossible not to feel sorry for him.