Judge Dredd (film)/YMMV

• Crowning Moment of Funny: There are a few genuinely funny moments, like Rob Schneider getting the green light to do his Sly impersonation. Also, this:

Hayden: Bitch!
Hershey: It's JUDGE Bitch! [headbutts her]

• • And one of the few moments which captures the satirical streak of the original:

Food Dispensing Robot: Eat recycled food! It's good for the environment and okay for you!

• Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The audience is supposed to cheer when Dredd is reinstated as an authoritarian enforcer of laws that he and he alone presides over.
  • Not familiar with the source material, huh?
• Ink Stain Adaptation
• Memetic Mutation:

Dredd: You-betrayed-the-LAW!
Rico: "Lawww!"

• • Sylvester Stallone's delivery of "I AM THE LAW!"
• So Bad It's Good: As... off-kilter as it is, it's fun to watch, taking into account Armand Assante's bombastic acting, the poor drama and the fact that no one can seem to say "law" properly.
• Tear Jerker

Rico: I was your brother, your blood, your friend! They're (the clones) your family! I'm your family! (voice cracks) I was the only family you ever had!

• Unfortunate Implications: Fargo tells Dredd that Rico "genetically mutated into the perfect criminal", suggesting that criminals are either a separate species to normal humans, or that criminality is innate and the Judges are therefore punishing people for crimes they cannot help committing.
  • Though this isn't necessarily individual to the movie, as this is a philosophical argument in Real Life as well.
  • This also creates a pretty gaping plot hole, as Rico and Dredd being genetically identical is the entire point on which the plot turns.
• What the Hell, Casting Agency?:
  • Chief Justice Fargo played by Max von Sydow, presumably in a case of Money, Dear Boy.
  • Ilsa Hayden played by Joan Chen?
    • Hey, it's the future.