YMMV / Foodfight!

• Accidental Innuendo: When various icons are murdered, the other characters refer to it as being "rubbed out".
• Animation Age Ghetto: Notable for trying just as hard to defy this trope as it did to exemplify it.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: As early as when it was first announced, the idea of a kids' movie revolving entirely around Product Placement was rather controversial. When it came out, the large amounts of Toilet Humor and sex jokes, along with being a Whole-Plot Reference to Casablanca, didn't do it any favors in reaching its intended audience leading to it flopping financially.
• Awesome Music:
  • "It's Our World" is actually a pretty catchy song (even if it does sound similar to The Monkees' "I'm a Believer").
  • Walter Murphy's score, a case of Took the Bad Film Seriously.
  • And need we forget 'Wow' Performed By 'Good Grief' Featuring Shanna Crooks (even if it, too, sounds suspiciously like another song famously used in ''Shrek 2, "Livin' la Vida Loca"). This song, in particular, ended up being used as the background music for this demo reel video for Threshold Animation Studios.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The main cast sings a modified version of the French national anthem at one point for no apparent reason other than the obvious plot reference.
• Bile Fascination: This film is legendary among animation fans for its sheer awfulness, and there's no shortage of people who enjoy the film just to make fun of it.
• Ending Fatigue: Basically, the entire last third of the movie is nothing but the heroes and villains taking turns dumping slime on each other while generic triumphant music plays. Several Caustic Critic reviews seem to skip it over almost entirely. Not to mention the endless barrage of stingers playing during the credits.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mr. Clipboard, due to his twitchy movements and freaky appearance. It also helps that he looks like a certain video game villain, as well as being voiced by Christopher Lloyd who gives a much more entertaining performance than the rest of the cast.
• Ethnic Scrappy: The overabundance of offensive caricatures in the film leads to a lot of these.
• Fan Nickname: Cheasel T. Weasel is known as "Shitweasel" (or, in JonTron's case, "Poop Rat") due to his Unfortunate Character Design making him look like he's made of feces.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: The film is infamous for being the victim of some "industrial espionage" that resulted in the hard-drives being stolen. As a result, what would've originally been a computer-animated movie was soon redone in motion capture, along with other changes to the character designs and setting. For example, the animation would've originally been Looney Tunes-like "squash and stretch", and the supermarket battle originally had the flying soda bottle hanging from a string to justify the action. Those who have watched the movie seem to prefer the original concepts over the finished product, which is considered So Bad, It's Good at best; while nobody could be certain of how things would've gone, it's generally agreed that the animation would've been less creepy and some aspects of the plot would've made more sense.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: Outside of her fairly normal first dress, this trope applies to every one of Lady X's strangely sexed up outfits. Especially the schoolgirl one. As The Nostalgia Critic pointed out, who wears plaid gloves?
• Fetish Retardant: Lady X is ridiculously sexualized, but it's hard to be particularly attracted to her when she wears such bizarrely kinky outfits, is coming onto a canine with none too subtle innuendos, and, much like the rest of the cast, appears quite lifeless due to the poor animations.
• Genius Bonus: The entire film is an homage to Casablanca. Given how unlikely it is that the film's target audience has seen Casablanca, this leads to plenty of scenes that are more or less inexplicable (see: the random French national anthem near the end).
• Ham and Cheese:
  • Christopher Lloyd is clearly enjoying his role.
  • Eva Longoria to a lesser extent, especially during Lady X's Villainous Breakdown.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Brand X brings to mind an inverted Team Flare from Pokémon X and Y.
  • Be honest; you thought of this film in some way when you first heard about Sausage Party.
  • In 2018, the Lotte company released a series of Bishōnen human mascots called Gamu Kare! (and an Alternate Universe version called Gamu Kare! Shinsengumi) representing their various brands of chewing gum. They are members of a harem lead by a female love interest… who is a tooth. If that isn't absurd enough, the original series is getting its own manga.
  • A big brand and mascot being replaced and renamed to X
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The sheer hatred and ridicule this film receives is memetic in and of itself.
  • "LET'S STRAWBERRY JAM OUT OF HERE!" ^Explanation One of Dex's many food puns, this being the most infamous due to not making any sense.
  • SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, LEONARD! ^ExplanationAfter mercilessly stomping on a bag of chips (for no real good reason besides demonstrating that he's a villain), Mr. Clipboard says this to the owner of the supermarket. People latched on to it for how silly the prospect of brand recognition fighting for survival is (which makes an eerie amount of sense given Mr. Clipboard's true identity), as well as the over-the-top delivery of the line.
  • That was a perfectly good bag of chips! ^ExplanationLeonard's response to Mr. Clipboard's destruction of the aforementioned bag of chips, acting and cradling it as if he just watched a member of his family get gunned down in front of him. For much of the same reasons as above, this line really caught on with people, simply because mourning the loss of a bag of chips is just plain ridiculous.
  • You cold-farted itch! ^ExplanationWhat was supposed to be a Precision F-Strike from Dex to Lady X ended up sounding like a kindergartner's attempt at a serious insult thanks to a healthy dose of bowdlerization since this was being marketed as a kids movie. This laughably pathetic attempt to catch on with adults got the attention of plenty of internet users everywhere.
  • But enough about me, let's kill you! ^ExplanationLady X's bizarrely cheerful-sounding Pre-Asskicking One-Liner to Dex just before she begins walloping him seven ways to Sunday.
  • Similarities between Mr. Clipboard and I. M. Meen have been noted by some YouTube users (or more specifically, poopers). Case in point.
  • DEX IS *insert religion here*?
  • The movie is highly quotable due to the overzealous amount of Narm it features. Any party who watches it is bound to have an in-joke one point or another that originates from the movie's high quotability.
  • Fet...ish...mo....vie. ^ExplanationThe frankly disturbing amount of sexual innuendo crammed into this movie caught the attention of the Nostalgia Critic in his review of the movie. This particular quote comes just after Dex manages to flick a raisin down Lieutenant X's throat; after he swallows it, he mentions how he's apparently wet himself...and then goes on to comment that it actually feels kind of nice, resulting in a visibly perturbed Critic to mutter the line.
  • Brand X theme^ExplanationA clip from the movie where the Brand X mascots do a chant. This is become popular after Elon Musk took over Twitter and rebranded it to X despite most users disliking this decision, in addition to him pandering to far-right authortiarns and censoring his critics.
  • “¡Solo pienso en budines y pasteles cayendo sobre mí!” ^ExplanationA small segment from the Latin Spanish dub of the movie featuring General X doing a random dance while singing became very popular on Hispanic communities after John Miranda, aka El Critico Histerico, made note of it during his review of the movie. The meme mostly involves characters doing the same dance and song to show their complete disinterest to something serious.
• Memetic Molester:
  • Cheazel T. Weasel, slimy and phallic-shaped...
  • Lieutenant X, who is apparently a sub.
• Moe: Sunshine Goodness was intended to be this, because why else would her design be a wide-eyed, cutesy humanoid with cat ears?
• Moment of Awesome: Not one from the movie, but for the movie; the original version was said to have been stolen, so what did they do? Start the whole thing over from scratch. They worked on this movie for around a decade with what little resources they had left. Even though Foodfight ended up turning out to be...well, Foodfight, that's still pretty impressive.
• Narm:
  • Mr. Clipboard declaring "survival of the fittest" after stomping on a bag of potato chips.
  • Leonard's heartbroken reaction to the crushed bag of chips as if it were a person that was gunned down.
    Leonard: That was a perfectly good bag of chips... never opened... never enjoyed...
  • Even the dramatic music that plays when Mr. Clipboard squashes the chips is overdone.
  • Mr. Clipboard himself. The film tried to make him way too Obviously Evil that it backfires straight to Laughably Evil. And that's not even getting into his bizarre movements and speech patterns.
  • During the climactic battle, Dex unleashes a Big "NO!" when the penguin Ike gets "killed" by a drone.
  • Dex insulting Lady X the best way he could think of: "You cold, farted itch!"
  • The closeup on Lady X's eyes. It's supposed to be seductive, but they're so cold, unmoving, and devoid of life, audiences are more likely to laugh if they're not disturbed by the animation.
• Narm Charm: It's hard to appreciate given the shit-show surrounding it, but many people who otherwise hated the film have admitted that "But enough about me, let's kill you" is a legitimately funny line.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • By accident, it's filled with this to an enormous extent. There's a reason why I Hate Everything called this movie "the scariest horror film I've ever seen."
  • A more deliberate example is the plans of Brand X — systemic murder and removal of all opposing brands, all because no one likes their ugly prunes. And unlike in most children's movies where such evils may be implied but are in the background or not truly started yet, here they're pretty up front about the entire thing.
• Obvious Beta: A rare film example of this; this may be in part due to the original completed footage being stolen by an unknown party back in 2002, leaving the production team to restart with what they had left and hastily reconstructing what was lost in the theft.
• Older Than They Think:
  • A justifiably unintentional example. By the time this film was finally released, a short French film called Logorama about a world entirely made up of real-life brands and mascots had already been released, even winning an Academy Award.
  • More broadly, the idea of grocery mascots coming to life in a store at night has been explored by the Looney Tunes short "Goofy Groceries".
• Padding: Much of the third act of the movie is just endless shots of the ikes dumping food and gunge over the Brand X goons that takes up so much of the movie, many people who do video reviews of Foodfight! end up skipping these scenes entirely.
• So Bad, It's Good: To most, due to its unintentionally humorous character movements, unintentionally humorous dialog, blatant advertising of supermarket brands, a crazy amount of innuendos, and the existence of Mr. Clipboard.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • Between the dull textures, unrefined (if not outright broken) Motion Capture (and animation in general), dizzying camera pans, ugly lighting, lines that are quite literally phoned in, and downright bizarre character designs,^note by the character designer of Rover Dangerfield, no less. the movie has plenty of this to spare, to the point where it's essentially "Special Effect Failure: The Movie".
  • It's especially bad whenever the film attempts to show fluids, and when Sunshine and some kids play "soccer" with a 2D sprite of a watermelon that never changes perspective and is always in front of everything else.
  • While the animation itself is much better than the motion capture used in the final film and several attempts at exaggeration are less uncanny, the trailer featuring the original footage exhibits many of the same flaws as the final product and presents a few of its own. Such as the half-hearted attempt at Cel Shading, much of the ugly designs for the supporting characters being visibly there from the get-go, and several sequences that are virtually identical to the final product.
• Squick:
  • Dex and Sunshine's flirting can be this if you're aware Hilary Duff would have been 15 at the time she recorded her lines and Charlie Sheen 37. Not helped by the fact that Sunshine acts less like an adult or a teenager and more like a nine-year-old.
  • Lieutenant X enjoying wetting himself. Heck, Lieutenant X in general.
  • Cheasel T. Weasel's rather... phallic design. Also, he looks like he's made of shit.
  • Most of the sexualized dialogue could certainly count, not helped by the sheer ugliness accompanying it onscreen.
  • One of the mascots farting in his enemy's face. That mascot's face is also quite gross as it is.
• Suspiciously Similar Song
  • The main theme, "It's Our World", as pointed out by Obscurus Lupa.
    Lupa: Couldn't afford the rights/To "I'm a Believer"/But it was in Shrek/So like us, too!
  • Lady X's theme song is a similarly obvious ripoff of Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • A movie about advertising mascots might've actually had the potential to be pretty interesting. This, however, was not the right way to do it.
  • The story might have been somewhat better if Sunshine Goodness had been the antagonist instead of Lady X. Imagine if it had been Sunshine's product that was failing, turning her bitter and evil and leading to her abandoning Dex to join Brand X. This would make it clearer why she was so infatuated with Dex and wanted him to support her and Brand X, as they would have been in a relationship beforehand. Likewise, it would have made the Casablanca references slightly less out of place. Also, if Sunshine had been the villain the film wouldn't have had the Beauty Equals Goodness moral it's often criticized for.
• Uncertain Audience: The film tries to balance out a kid-friendly concept with a lot of Parental Bonus-type jokes and plot points, but a common remark about it is that it ultimately appeals to neither. Adults find the concept too stupid and nakedly cash grabbing to care about, while the adult-type jokes and elements are so thick on the ground that they make the film inappropriate for kids.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: In spades between Sunshine's and Lady X's cold dead eyes, the hideous human shoppers and stiff-as-rocks or seizure-like movements from everyone in the cast. In the case of Mr. Clipboard's spastic movement, it could be foreshadowing the fact that he's a robot. Some of the problems, such as some of the stiff movement and the uncanny-looking eyes, did not exist in the original version that is missing.
• Unfortunate Character Design: Cheasel T. Weasel is for some inexplicable reason rendered as shiny, making him look like a literal shitweasel. Not helped by his neck and its movements coming off less like cartoonish "Stretch-and-Squash" and more like a penis.
• Unintentional Period Piece: As JonTron and Nostalgia Critic note, the voice acting cast is chock-full of people who've mostly retreated from popular culture, or at least lack the prominence they had throughout The 2000s. Much of this is owed to the film's Troubled Production.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: There are actually some who see Lady X as being this since it's technically not her fault that some prune company was insane enough to think that the best way to sell their product was to emblazon the package with the scowling face of a bald, ugly old woman. One could see why she thinks she got a raw deal compared to the dozens of more appealing mascots seen elsewhere in the film.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Dex being unwilling to hit Lady X in the final fight is supposed to be seen as him having the decency to not beat up a woman. However, given Lady X is clearly far from helpless when it comes to fighting, is actively trying to kill him, and Dex had no problem going up against her male henchman before, he really has no excuse to not fight back other than clinging on to already outdated sexist beliefs. Additionally, everyone but Sunshine just watched as Dex was losing the fight count for doing nothing to help when Dex clearly needed it.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Contains a wealth of toilet humor, over-the-top sexuality/sexual references, and a plot about the most unsubtle Nazi Expies you could think of taking over a supermarket, as well as plenty of murders (albeit of the Bloodless Carnage variety). Let's not forget that the animation is so grotesque that it often presents horrible images and characters that are a good example of Nightmare Fuel. PG material indeed.

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