YMMV / Fly Away Home

• Awesome Music: This entire suite. Listen. To. It. Mark Isham, ladies and gentlemen.
• Designated Villain: The park ranger is clearly an environmentalist who simply wants to protect Canada's natural wildlife. He is very nice and friendly to Thomas whenever they speak, and is willing to help the family learn how to care for the geese. He isn't even trying to do anything bad when he tries to pinion the geese, Amy just doesn't want the poor birds to be flightless. He's only doing what the law says he should in order to allow Amy to keep the geese. The shadiest thing he does the whole movie is take the geese when the family isn't home, and given their aggressive attitude towards him by that point, he probably rationalized that this was the best course of action. Seeing as how the family never has trouble with him again, its implied that, since the geese have a migration route and won't cause damage to themselves/others, he allowed them to keep the geese.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The airforce's response to Amy and Thomas and their geese appearing on the radar would probably be considerably less pleasant post-9/11.
• Moe: Amy is quite adorable for a teenager.
• Narm: Thomas running out in his bright-red undies to yell at the construction workers. That was probably meant to be partly funny though...
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • For a pet owner, things like seeing some stranger getting too close to your pet baby with something sharp (even if it's just a nail clipper) or accidentally harming your pet seriously (like when Igor is hit by Amy's plane) is this.
  • For a parent, having your kid get into two major vehicle accidents in less than a year, including one that happens right in front of you but which you're helpless to prevent (Amy crashing Thomas' plane when she tries to fly it without any training), is similarly horrifying.
• Squee: The geese are a joy to watch, especially as chicks that one cannot help Squee-ing.

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