YMMV / Mannequin

• Awesome Music:
  • "Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now" by Starship.
  • Don't forget "In My Wildest Dreams" by Belinda Carlisle.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Animated Credits Opening, which seem to imply Emmy somehow time traveled and got involved in various historical events. The only time any of this is alluded to in the film itself is one remark by Emmy about dating Christopher Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci.
• Critical Dissonance: Oh boy, critics tore it to pieces when it came out. Most notably, Roger Ebert gave it half a star out of four! Even nowadays, it currently holds a 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences were much more receptive to it, even if in a so-bad-it's-good way, and has become a Cult Classic.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Hollywood Montrose, the Camp Gay, Large Ham store window dresser, is one the most remembered characters of the first film, and is the only major cast member to be brought back in the sequel.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: BJ Wirt, his henchmen, and his entire department store Illustra collectively represent the most heinous 1980's fashion crimes all crammed into one setting. Wirt's love of tacky metallic fabrics is a particularly notable offense.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Given how she can only move when no one is directly looking at her (apart from her chosen 'partner'), Emmy is effectively a Weeping Angel. Eat your heart out, Steven Moffat.
• Misaimed Fandom: Hollywood Montrose has a complicated relationship with gay male viewers. While they generally acknowledge that he's a walking hodgepodge of every stereotype associated with gay men (especially gay black men) in the 1980s and take some issue with his less flattering traits, such as his vanity and perchance for emotional breakdowns, pretty much everything else about the character, such as his unfaltering confidence and witty one-liners, has kept him extremely popular in that demographic, especially since, some of his more outlandish actions notwithstanding, it's largely agreed that most people like Hollywood in real life are awesome!
• Moment of Awesome: Quite a few.
  • Jonathan battling the Illustra security personnel on their own turf. Almost singlehandedly. While this is never a smart or wise idea in Real Life, there's no denying that B.J. Wert (Claire's Evil Counterpart, played by Steve Vinovich) and Richards (his mole, played by James Spader) had it all coming. Hollywood helps out too, delaying the guards, Richards and Wert with a firehose.
  • Watching the conspirators (their employers) get carted off by the same personnel? Priceless, priceless, priceless.
  • From the sequel, Jason's saber duel with Count Spretzle. Plus the go-kart chase, and Spretzle's ultimate defeat.
• Retroactive Recognition: Kim Cattrall as Egyptian princess Ema Hesire/Emmy, years before her breakout role in Sex and the City.
• Sequelitis: On The Move has far fewer fans than the original, and critics were even less kind to it.
• So Bad, It's Good: Intentionally. It is a cheesy 80's film about a mannequin that comes to life, after all.
• Values Dissonance:
  • It's a 1980s film, so that means a stereotypical gay man, a white woman playing an Egyptian princess (though to their credit, the flashback sequence didn't have Kim Cattrall wearing Brownface), and Roxie's relationship with her boss at Illustra (definitely a no-go now, given the MeToo movement). Roxie's Laser-Guided Karma is a janitor forcibly kissing her (thinking she was a mannequin that came to life) and it's Played for Laughs.
  • At one point, Hollywood threatens to commit suicide if Jonathan is fired and he even opens a window in anticipation of this, only for the latter to pull him away. This is all Played for Laughs.

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