YMMV / Home (2015)

• Adaptation Displacement: Raise your hand if you knew that this was based on a book.
• Adorkable:
  • Tip is a big nerd. The whole "teaching Oh jokes" solidifies her as one. She also proudly says more than once to Oh, that she got an A in geometry.
  • Oh is goofy, clumsy, and has weird speech patterns.
• Awesome Music: Rihanna's Towards the Sun and Jennifer Lopez's Feel the Light, both songs being very hopeful and heartwarming. There's also Coffee Clarence Jr.'s Run to Me and Dancing In The Dark.
• Critic-Proof: The film received generally mixed reviews from critics (47% on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest for a DreamWorks movie since Shrek the Third), but was successful at the box office, with an opening weekend of $52 million (the highest opening weekend for a DreamWorks movie since Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted).
• Crossover Ship: People have taken to shipping Tip with Hiro from Big Hero 6.
• Fandom Rivalry: Home fans seem to hold a major grudge against Big Hero 6, claiming that it's "overrated", "shouldn't have won the Oscar" and that it has "bad writing".
• Fanfic Fuel: Now Humanity has a fellow population of aliens both on Earth and the Moon who are likely sharing all their advanced technology such as interstellar space capability, what happens to Earth's society now (Especially with all other aliens coming to Earth to party as well)? There's also the question if there are any humans who still resent the Boov for their invasion of Earth.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The secondary character of the book is named J-Lo; this film has Tip's mother, Lucy, voiced by another J-Lo.
  • This isn't the last time Brian Stepanek would voice the father of an inordinately large amount of children.
• Inferred Holocaust: Just how many planets did the Boov lead the Gorg to that were then destroyed, and how many of them were inhabited?
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Some people consider the character of Tip to be the only thing that is executed well in the movie, given that she has a strong, likable personality and character arc.
  • On the other hand, some people (especially fans of The Big Bang Theory) only enjoy this movie because of Jim Parsons' voice acting as Oh.
• Nausea Fuel: There is a scene where Oh consumes a urinal cake and urine from a urinal.
• Out of the Ghetto: The film stars singer Rihanna as the film's black protagonist and was a surprise hit, opening at 54 million domestically and 99.7 million worldwide. The movie's opening weekend was touted as a much-needed success for DreamWorks Animation after the disappointing openings for Mr. Peabody & Sherman and Penguins of Madagascar.
• Questionable Casting: Rihanna's voice really does not fit a character that's intended to be a young teen; Rihanna was in her late twenties at the time and didn't make much effort to make her voice sound younger, while Tip is supposed to be fourteen. That said, some people were still won over by her performance regardless.
• Squick: Oh eating a urinal cake, then drinking out of an unflushed toilet. The poor alien even reacted as such.
• Tear Dryer: In the climax, Tip is left heartbroken after seeing Oh getting crushed by the Gorg mothership, especially after he gave her the egg containing the Gorg babies with Tearful Smile. To Tip’s relief, she sees Oh alive, as he was under the hollow part of the mothership’s foot.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: It's a kid's movie so it's understandable the subject wasn't broached, but how did the leaders of the earth and the members of the militaries take to being shuffled off to the camps? The people were evidently given a lot of freedom to mix and mingle - were they trying to gather together to take the planet back?
• Trailer Joke Decay: "My hands are in the air like I just do not care!"

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