Awesome Music: Most Genesis fans agree that the song and music video are a huge highlight of the post-Gabriel, post-Hackett era of the band's career; even those who dislike anything the band made after Peter Gabriel & Steve Hackett left tend to enjoy at least this song.
Covered Up: Similarly to what befell "The Sound of Silence", younger audiences tend to be more familiar with the Disturbed cover of this song than the Genesis-made original.
Friendly Fandoms: Where there's a bit of divide between the Collins-era Genesis vs. Peter Gabriel's era and his solo career, pretty much everyone will agree towards appreciating both the music videos for "Sledgehammer" and Land of Confusion, which were both famous for being incredibly trippy and being collaborations with other artists (Aardman Animations for "Sledgehammer" and the team behind Spitting Image for "Land of Confusion").
Ronald Reagan is portrayed as physically and mentally unable. Years later he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and would die from complications of it in 2004, nearly 20 years after the music video came out.
"Land of Confusion" is a Protest Song against the perceived excesses of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations and features a line where Phil Collins optimistically states that "my generation will put it right." While the line was intended as a Shout-Out to The Who's "My Generation" (as shown by it being immediately followed by Pete Townshend's puppet giving a thumbs up), it nevertheless rings more hollow in the 21st century, which saw increased generational conflicts between Baby Boomers (Collins' generation) and Millennials & Gen Z, with the latter camps accusing the conservative-leaning boomers and the neoliberal policies they voted for of doing more to exacerbate the problems that the song was railing against.
A pair of prosthetic hands open to show them holding a pair of hands belonging to a child, encouraging hope for the future and to raise the next generation to be better than the ones before them.
While most celebrity caricatures are portrayed in a humorous way that take jabs at who they're parodying, one notable exception is Pete Townshend, who's shown giving a thumbs-up after the line "My Generation will put things right", clearly a tribute to one of rock's most enduring bands.
Nightmare Fuel: The grotesque nature of the Spitting Image puppets can be a factor in this, but the shots of the swamp filled with unfinished puppet heads, with their empty eyes and vacant expressions, can be pretty unnerving already.
Values Resonance: The fact that the song's subject matter — uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is — remains relevant over thirty-five years later.
Visual Effects of Awesome: As can be expected from the creators of Spitting Image, the puppetry is top notch.
