Newsies/YMMV

• Audience-Alienating Premise: Exactly why did Disney think families would be interested in a musical period piece that's played mostly for drama?
• Awesome Music: The reprise of The World Will Know.
  • Seize The Day.
• Ear Worm: It’s a Disney musical, after all. King Of New York is particularly catchy.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Oy. Okay, rule out every main character. Then every female character. Then everyone everyone over the age of, say twenty-one and under the age of fourteen. That character will have enough fangirls to qualify as this.
  • Spot Conlon, especially.
  • The age thing is arguable, given that almost half the dancers that have fangirls were over twenty-one. And more than a couple of them were under fourteen. (Dominic Lucero, Brian Friedman, and D.J. Dell'Osa are all particularly well known examples.)
• Ho Yay: At the end of the movie, one protagonist gets together with the other protagonist's barely-there sister. Judge for yourself.
  • It could have something to do with the blatant sexual tension between the two leads...
  • Case in point: after the barely-there girl and David get saved from attackers, watch carefully. Jack gives the girl a perfunctory "You're okay, bro" slap on the back, while he almost caresses David while finding out if he's okay. The Ho Yay is strong with this one...
  • A case can also be made for David and Denton: Denton first goes to David, saying, "You look like the man in charge," when Jack Kelly is the one who just led the big song and dance number. David is the one Denton hands his card to. David seems irrationally angry when Denton is reassigned. And later, how do they know where Denton lives...?
  • Let's be real, this is a movie with almost an entire cast made up of young, nubile boys who live, sleep, and shower together (not to mention sing and dance). It's like a perfect storm of homoeroticism. If you took a shot every time something gay happened, you'd be drunk before the end of the opening song.
• MST3K Mantra: Among (many) other considerations, why do these kids have jobs as unskilled laborers? Look how well they can dance!
  • Meh, pretty much everyone could dance like that back then.
• Narm Charm: The movie tried to work Disney magic on atypical subject matter. For some, this results in the subject and tone of the film clashing in a very stupid way. For others, the fact that it's so over-the-top just makes it all the more awesome. Also, it has Theodore Roosevelt.
• So Bad It's Good