YMMV / El Arca

• All Animation Is Disney: Technically, Patagonik is part of Buena Vista International, which is Disney's global distribution company. In a roundabout way, it is a Disney film. However, the more adult themes that would likely fall under Touchstone Pictures, coupled with the fact it was distributed in the United States by Shout! Factory can give away that this isn't a typical kids' Disney film.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is Bombay Camp Straight, Camp Bi, or are he and Lilly just serving as each other's beards so they can survive the flood?
  • Did Dagnino try to take over the ark to eat the herbivores or did he do it so that his fellow animal would thrive until the flood is over?
• Angst? What Angst?: None of the animals left behind seem terribly upset about their impending doom before the flood comes, and the survivors on the ark don't seem to mind losing them, aside from Xiro lamenting Bruma being crushed by a hippopotamus.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: This film is best known for being a retelling of Noah’s Arc with highly curvaceous female felines, especially Panthy and her giant bust. To a lesser extent, Kairel and her giant bottom.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Xiro and his friends confront Dagnino's gang by performing The Hakka... yeah, no one really mentions this again. Even Dagnino's gang seems confused by this.
• Broken Base: The Bowdlerized Shout! Factory release. You can either say it's a safer alternative for kids, or a really bad edit of the original.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Panthy, given her Ms. Fanservice role, has gained many fans, and as mentioned in Best Known for the Fanservice, is the only part of the movie that some people are familiar with.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Kairel most closely fits this. She is chubbier than the other female characters insomuch as that her hips, butt, and belly are more pronounced. She is repeatedly called out for this by other characters, but in actuality is far from obese and actually not that much bigger than the other female leads are.
• Nausea Fuel: One of the scenes actually shows fully rendered animal feces.
• Popular with Furries: What could you expect from a movie featuring anthropomorphic animals?
• Uncertain Audience: It's an animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, but the movie seemed to have no idea who its audience was supposed to be. Christians who would have been interested in the film for its Biblical story were turned off by its blasphemy and raunchiness, the aforementioned sexual themes made the movie unsuitable for children when its art style seemed geared for them, and everyone except for a few members of the Furry Fandom were repulsed by a few heavily sexualised animal characters. And to cap it all off a large number of furries are put off by the biblical themes.
• Values Dissonance: A lot of the more adult themes can be chalked up to family-friendliness standards in Argentina and indeed most of Latin America being different than those in the USA, generally more tolerant of sexual humor. Even then, though, relatively few push the boundaries this movie attempts to cross.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Some of the things the characters say, some of the things they do, and references they make, makes one wonder.
  • One of the most blatant examples of this is in the beginning, when Kairel goes to address Xiro, who is with Bruma riding in a private litter, and when she opens the curtains and the two inside sit up, their hair is mussed and there is steam coming from some very...adult locations, making it obvious what they were doing. Kairel mentions that she's sorry to interrupt their 'important business', probably referring to the fact that it is going to be very important for them to produce as many cubs as possible.
  • Another example is when Panthy tells Xiro this:
    Panthy: I don't need to call. The door to my heart, and to my room, are wide open.
  • One of the most explicit references is the chicken stripper, if you look REALLY close, you can see that she has boobs before she takes off her top, but they disappear in the next shots.
  • Another scene, which is removed in the Shout! Factory release, shows a rodent telling Xiro and Kairel that they should regulate drug use.
  • It turns out the film is somewhat self aware, as in one scene where things start getting a little too hot and heavy between Xiro and Panthy, God has to chime in and remind his assistant that the Bible is intended to be suitable for all ages.

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