YMMV / Happy-Go-Lucky

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Opinions on whether Poppy is healthily happy or an annoying maniac vary widely.
• Award Snub: Despite winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress - Comedy/Musical and sweeping the Los Angeles, New York, and National Society Critics prizes for Best Actress, Sally Hawkins was egregiously left without an Oscar nomination for her work on the film. On another note, some found that Eddie Marsan would've made a deserving Supporting Actor contender.
• Fight Scene Failure: The scene where Scott and Poppy fight over the car keys is fairly convincing: the scenes of the children at school fighting are less so.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: At the end of the film when Poppy and Zoe are rowing a boat, she gets a call from Tim and jokingly tells him her bathroom got flooded.
• Jerkass Woobie: Scott and Helen (to a certain extent).
• The Woobie: Poppy alludes to this trope when she says she wants to give her dance instructor (who just had a meltdown over some shattering recent breakup and had to leave the classroom) a hug. Her friend notes that the instructor probably wouldn't know what to make of it, if one of her students hugged her.

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