YMMV / Re-Animated

• Alternate Character Interpretation: There's no denying Craig is a terrible friend, but since he knows of Jimmy's attraction to Robin, it's possible he thinks Jimmy is just using him to get close to her and thinks taking advantage of him at least ensures he gets something out of it.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • When Jimmy visits his dad, who also happens to be the principle of the school Jimmy goes to, in his office to talk about his lack of confidence to confess his feelings to Robin, Jimmy's dad decides to take off his own shirt and draw a face on his stomach while pretending to be Robin and telling Jimmy to ask him out... for whatever reason. The scene is just as creepy and awkward as it sounds.
  • The odd switch to all out cartoon in the movie's climax when Jimmy makes his way to the train. Granted probably a way to save production cost on doing it in live action but it still comes out of nowhere.
• Bile Fascination: Both this movie and the TV series were universally panned by critics and audiences alike for its acting, characters, writing, special effects and plot. Because of its negative reception, many watch the movie and the TV show to see just how bad they really are.
• Broken Aesop: Jimmy is portrayed as being selfish and unfaithful to his friends when he spends more time concerned with his new cartooning career than with Craig. All well and good, but nobody seemed to care that (similarly to Golly) Craig was pretty much treating Jimmy like dirt throughout the story for his own ends, constantly using him as a lackey so he could get in with the popular kids.
• Cry for the Devil: Even though Sonny Appleday's plan amounts to performing an encephalectomy on a child, his reaction to seeing Jimmy dressed as his father is one of the few scenes you won't feel contempt for. It's made clear Sonny simply wanted his dad to love him, something to movie made it maliciously clear he never got growing up.
• Designated Hero: Craig. He has a delusionally entitled view of friendship that Jimmy is just supposed to do whatever he says and never offers anything in return. Jimmy is condemned for leaving Craig to be the news spokesman for Appleday, even though he was better off without Craig in his life and Craig proved time and time again he didn't deserve any friends period.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: One of the executives, played by Tom Kenny. He is awesome.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Jimmy finally realizes that he needs to stand up for himself and for what he wants, as well as who to consider as his real friends. However because he came to terms with this on live TV in front of an audience, his film crew immediately ditches him, leaving him to be killed by Sonny. Even after surviving that whole ordeal and making it to Craig's party as planned, the other partygoers immediately leave, insulting Jimmy for choosing to throw away his fans and popularity. In the end, this leaves Jimmy with Craig and Robin as the closest thing to a friend (all things considered).
• The Scrappy:
  • Craig may in fact be the most hated character from the movie. He's a terrible friend who takes advantage of Jimmy and has No Sympathy for anyone as he tries to be a part of the popular kids. Far less so in the show, however.
  • Mr. Roberts is this for being the worst traits of the Bumbling Dad trope taken up to eleven, to the point of allowing the Big Bad to rent a room in the house, and somehow thinking Sonny was his wife in disguise despite having seen them right next to each other at several points during the movie. He's also constantly shoehorned into the more intense/emotional scenes for jokes.
  • Out of the Appleday cartoons, Golly himself is the least-liked due to being an egotistical prick for much of the film. By the time he Took a Level in Kindness, the movie's already almost over. Once again, Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in the show.
  • Milton Appleday is this for being an offensive potshot to Walt Disney and being a horrendous father to Sonny and being responsible for the way he turned out.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • The scene where Mr. Roberts drives Jimmy to school is supposed to show that he Drives Like Crazy but the way it's executed is just him driving like normal with cartoony car screeching sound effects slapped on.
  • As explained in Narm above, the scene where Jimmy gets is sent flying after being hit by a train moving at a moderately slow pace.
  • The animated characters most of the time don't have a drop shadow, being simply drawn on top of the scenes.
• Squick: The movie opens up with a closeup of Mr. Roberts mouth while eating cereal and then laughing with milk drooling out.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The movie had a rather quirky and interesting concept overall, about a boy who can see cartoon characters, with live action and 2D animation mixed together in a similar vein to Who framed Roger Rabbit?, and there are moments in the movie where it does try to show its potential. Unfortunately, it's widely agreed that the final product left an awful lot to be desired and was in desperate need of a better writing team.
  • Also worth mentioning is the idea of replacing a child's brain with the brain of a Walt Disney stand-in. This had almost unlimited possibilities of Appleday coming back to life, since one would assume transplanting his brain into Jimmy's body would turn Jimmy into Appleday, but instead we get a half-assed Hand Wave for Jimmy's memories and personality being unchanged.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Craig is supposed to be Jimmy's best and only real friend, and yet he keeps using him, brushing off his inputs, accusing him of being a bad friend for things that are out of his control, and only cares about hanging out with the popular kids... and yet we're meant to feel sorry for him when Jimmy can't go to his party and cheer when he chooses his so-called friend over his career as Milt Appleday's successor. At this point, we can pretty much assume Jimmy only hangs out with him because Robin's his sister.