YMMV / Rugrats in Paris

• Accidental Aesop: The movie shows how you shouldn't try to marry someone with whom you don't have enough familiarity (it helped that Didi did lampshade to Chaz more than once that he was rushing things and that marriage was a huge step not to be taken lightly). Chaz was acquainted with Coco for less than a month and he didn't realize how horrible she was until the wedding day.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Coco doesn't sound facetious when she mutters under her breath that she "must have [the heart of a child] in a jar somewhere". That implies heavily that she's at one point had at least one kid killed and collected their body parts—or at least collected the parts even without killing or having anyone killed. It's not hard to imagine she's done it for multiple people either—or given Coco's earlier comment as well about telling Jean-Claude to make sure no fingerprints were left behind, to have done other insanely criminal things too.
• Awesome Music:
  • When Chas and Kira get married.
  • The Chuckie Chan theme.
  • "When You Love", performed by the late Sinéad O'Connor, is a definite premier ballad when connected to this film.
  • "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever" performed by Cyndi Lauper is also a surprisinly soothing song.
  • "Life is a Party", sung by the late Aaron Carter, is a very danceable and catchy tune.
  • French-born Swedish pop singer Amanda's "You Don't Stand a Chance" is another undeniable pop.
  • "Final Heartbreak" by Jessica Simpson for how danceable but also emotionally provocative it is too.
  • T-Boz's "My Getaway" is also a catchy and fun song.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Chuckie Chan sequence.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Spike peeing on a wall? Gross. But then that wall turns out to be the Eiffel Tower.
  • Coco spends the entire movie abusing infants when not just being a generally repulsive person, though Susan Sarandon's over-the-top Laughably Evil performance makes her more amusing than disturbing.
• Draco in Leather Pants: A few adult viewers of this movie didn't believe that Coco was a villain due to her only wanting a job promotion. They ignore the fact that Coco was a sociopath who planned to get a promotion by deceiving an innocent man into believing that she loved him.
• Even Better Sequel: While the first movie is still beloved, In Paris is considered the better movie for providing not just a more concise and relatable story for both parents and children, but also a worthy antagonist in the form of Coco. Also compared to the jarring Mood Whiplash of the first film, the second is considered to do well touching earnest and poignant subject matter while still being fairly lighthearted and in tone with the series.
• Fair for Its Day:
  • During the parade, Chuckie comments on how "there's something kind of weird about a guy in a ponytail and a dress". Even coming from a nearly two-year-old toddler, a line like this can still come across as a little insensitive nowadays, with both the expanded awareness of different cultures and the normalization of gender nonconforming behavior.
  • Coco potentially getting passed over for a promotion because she didn't have a family is rather unusual for a career woman in the late 90s-early 2000s. While it does reinforce stereotypes of women needing to be motherly, it was (and, to an extent, still is) more common for a career man to get promoted for having a family while a woman would get demoted for the same. Justified since EuroReptarland caters to children, so, as Yamaguchi says, the new CEO would need to be familiar with children's interests. In addition, Mr. Yamaguchi never said Coco needed to have kids, just that she "have the heart of a child" — Coco was the one who came up with the engagement lie.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: This film marked Christine Cavanaugh's final performance as Chuckie before her retirement in 2001 and eventual death in 2014 ^note Though she had done voicework in advance for the whole following season of the show, and seeing how the plot is so focused on him that it's been nicknamed "The Chuckie Movie," it can be seen as a celebratory send-off to his original actress.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, the phone call Kira (voiced by Tânia Gaidarji) has with the groggy Stu (voiced by Élcio Sodré) can now come across as quite amusing, as years later, Gaidarji was cast as Saint Seiya Omega's Gemini Paradox, who notoriously had unreciprocated romantic feelings for Dragon Shiryu, also voiced by Sodré.
  • Stu's remark about online dating websites being "the future of dating" appears to have aged better than expected, as seen with the rise of dating apps like Tinder.
  • The film was released in the year 2000, and considering its many Take Thats towards the Disney corporation, it's interesting that it didn't premiere in February against Disney's own The Tigger Movie. While the two play out in vastly different ways (for one thing, Chuckie actually gets the new mother he was looking for, whereas Tigger's story concludes on a more status-quo-compliant It Was with You All Along note), they're both Character Focus stories where a character who usually is in a supporting role takes the lead and goes on a pursuit for family.
  • EuroReptarland was a bit of a Take That! to what was then known as the Euro Disney Resort (a foreign theme park based on popular children's characters that was out of touch with Parisian culture). Compare that with the turnaround that the real Disneyland Paris has experienced since the film came out, which has become one of the most popular destinations in Paris due to bringing more Parisian culture into the park.
• It Was His Sled: Chas marries Kira, and Kimi becomes part of the Rugrats.
• Jerkass Woobie: Angelica may have been the one who helped Coco in marrying Chuckie's dad, but that was only after she was tricked into doing so (at age 3) by Coco herself! When Coco catches her eating the fancy chocolates, she threatens Angelica in a forceful manner, to which Angelica then (out of desperation) promises to help her woo Chuckie's dad. And on top of that, she is bribed by both Coco and Jean-Claude into spilling all the details, as both villains promise her a float in the Reptar parade (with carnations and matching ponies) and to be the flower girl at the wedding. She later shows regret for agreeing to go along with it and sincerely apologizes to the babies and helps them escape.
• Love to Hate: Coco LaBouche, as horrible of a person as she is, is quite entertaining due to Susan Sarandon's over-the-top performance as her. Likewise with her assistant Jean-Claude, voiced by John Lithgow.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Jean-Claude pilots the Robo-Snail mecha against the babies' Reptar mecha and attempts to destroy it, knowing full-well the babies are inside and even gleefully going along with it.
  • Coco was pretty much unpleasant throughout the film, but she wrenched Chuckie's Tragic Keepsake out of his hands and then ordered Kira to destroy it, which horrified even Angelica. This is also when Kira realizes that Coco does not care about either Chas or Chuckie.
  Coco: Burn this moth eaten plaything! I never want to see it again.
• Realism-Induced Horror: While she isn't without comedic qualities, the idea of Coco marrying Chas, trapping him in a loveless and most likely abusive marriage, and being the mother to his child is quite terrifying.
• Signature Scene: "I Want A Mom" is perhaps the most memorable moment in the film for any Rugrats fan. The big climax between the babies and Jean-Claude and the wedding of Chas and Kira also stand worthy of mention.
• Toy Ship: As this is Kimi's introduction, this is also where shipping her with Tommy got started, particularly from the scene where they're watching the stage show and Kira places Kimi in Tommy's seat with him.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The clouds showcasing Chuckie and his mother are both poignant and beautifully crafted.

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