YMMV / Imaginaerum

• Awesome Music: This is Nightwish we're talking about!
• Fridge Brilliance: The train track. Near the beginning of the fantasy, it's made very clear that Tom's mind is falling apart. A worker comes by complaining that he has to keep doing maintenance on a train track, before a little girl comes by and tells him not to bother, much to his delight. The girl is soon after revealed to be Tom's daughter, Gem, though he is unaware of it. In the real world, she discusses cutting off additional medical support with a doctor in front of his comatose body. It's quite likely that he picked this up subconsciously, and portrayed it in his dream as the scene above. Near the end of the film, he takes a ride on this track, and it eventually comes to a broken down dead end. What further drives this home is that the doctor and maintenance worker are played by the same actor.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Circus of Fear. Especially when Young Thomas is forced his old self have his head sawed open.
    • Circus!Nightwish to fit with that, even if they're just Large Ham. Hell, Circus!Anette makes this more creepy.
  • Mr. White himself, as the movie goes on and his appearance gets steadily more and more monstrous. He starts out creepy but not too much so, then loses the goggles and we see he has a skull for a face, then somewhere in the Circus of Fear we see that his mouth is full of enormous, tooth-like spines.
  • Theodore shooting himself in the head at the same time Thomas smashes the snowglobe. It happens in slow motion, which makes it extra horrific.
• So Okay, It's Average: Reviewers have said the film is more to Nightwish fans at that, but is still a relatively good film, just that it really should have been what it was supposed to be: A series of music videos for the album.
• Tear Jerker: The dénouement. Good Lord, the dénouement. After spending much of the movie trying to reach Gem in his Mental World, elderly Thomas wakes up in the real one with less than a moment to reconcile with his daughter. It gets worse when you recall Gem's rash decision to forgo his resuscitation.