YMMV / Mune: Guardian of the Moon

• Alternative Character Interpretation: The snake spirits raise a lot of questions. When someone is corrupted by them, do the snakes actually, physically possess their bodies, or do the snakes simply manipulate them psychologically? For Necross, it seems like the former, but for Leeyoon and Sohone, it seems more like the latter. Maybe it's case-by-case. This makes it difficult to tell how evil Necross and Leeyoon really are. Is Necross' plan to destroy the sun his own idea, or was it formulated by the snakes? And while we're at it, you could also question if the snakes themselves are evil, or just following some sort of Blue-and-Orange Morality that involves corrupting people.
• Awesome Animation: The character and world designs are gorgeous, and the film makes excellent use of both CGI and hand-drawn animation, a rarity for modern animated films.
• Awesome Moments: Spleen, the Minion with an F in Evil, gets one late in the film. While sleeping, he sees Mune in the dream world and realizes that Mune has become a Dream Weaver. Spleen wakes himself up and warns Necross about this. After spending the whole movie as a typical, bungling henchman who doesn't accomplish anything, it's cool to see Spleen do something helpful. While this moment is bad news for the heroes, it's still nice to see Spleen's genuine loyalty to his boss.
• Cliché Storm: One of the main drawbacks of the film pointed out by viewers is that the characters' roles and personalities are rather generic (Mune being the protagonist who messes everything up and is unsure of himself, Sohone being the arrogant guy who learns to care for others, etc.) However, most viewers agree that the outstanding art direction, with the movie's beautiful character and world designs, is what makes the movie unique.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Mune/Sohone by a mile for their inherent moon/sun symbolic pairing.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Both this movie and Moana, released two years later, feature a giant, villainous rock/lava monster who is actually a benevolent nature spirit who was corrupted by some outside force.
• Just Here for Godzilla: American audiences probably found out about this movie when they heard that Jeff Dunham was in it.
• Questionable Casting: The additional celebrity actors in the American release of the film. While Christian Slater and Jeff Dunham do fine enough as Leeyoon and Phospho, respectively, many have found Rob Lowe, Patton Oswalt and Ed Helms' performances as Sohone, Mox and Spleen to be rather unfitting and not to the same par as the original voice actors.