History YMMV / JoeVersusTheVolcano

* HilariousInHindsight: A Tom Hanks character being shipwrecked ten years before ''Film/CastAway''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/NathanLane plays the [[LargeHam scenery chewer Waponi]] that greets Joe upon arriving to the island. This was his second film appearance after ''Film/{{Ironweed}}''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Nathan Lane plays the [[LargeHam scenery chewer Waponi]] that greets Joe upon arriving to the island. This was his second film appearance.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Aside from The Reason You Suck Speech mentioned on the main page, Patricia's declaration of love for Joe just before he jumps into the volcano.

* InferredHolocaust: Lampshaded.

-->'''Patricia''': I love you!
-->'''Joe Banks''': I love you, too! I've never been in love with anybody before, either! It's great! I'm glad! But the timing stinks. ''(quick peck on the cheek)'' I've gotta go.
* OneSceneWonder:

** The jovial Graynamore, the ComicallySerious Dr. Ellison and Marshall the kind limo driver qualify thanks to the talent of veteran actors Lloyd Bridges, Creator/RobertStack and Ossie Davis.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Green screen work in the shot [[spoiler: where Joe and Patricia expelled from the crater of the volcano]] isn't Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic's best work by a long shot.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Green screen work in the shot [[spoiler: Joe and Patricia expelled from the crater of the volcano]] isn't Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic's best work by a long shot.

* VindicatedByCable: A bomb when it came out, but [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-year-of-flops-case-file-40-joe-versus-the-volca,14872/ better regarded]] in later years. Like a lot of sleeper hits, HBO was ''very'' kind to the film.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Meg Ryan is doing ''some'' sort of accent as Angelica, the red-haired and green-eyed Californian. It sometimes sounds ValleyGirl and sometimes sounds Irish. This might be intentional. It's unclear.

* AngstWhatAngst: Joe and Patricia seems remarkably unconcerned that the entire crew of the ''Tweedledee'' and every man, woman and child of the Waponi have all drown over the course of the last day or two.

* VindicatedByHistory: A bomb when it came out, but [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-year-of-flops-case-file-40-joe-versus-the-volca,14872/ better regarded]] in later years.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One of famed Georges Delarue's last scores, and setting John Patrick Stanley's lyrics to music, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRZDN3WgxQ4 "Marooned Without You"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8waaQta2s "Cowboy Song"]] sung by Hanks himself. Also the Eric Burdon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg047oJf1B4 cover]] of "Sixteen Tons" that plays over the opening sequence.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The score to the film is lush, and one of Georges Delarue's best -- until you listen to the soundtrack to ''Film/SteelMagnolias'' and find it's ''extremely'' similar.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One of famed Georges Delarue's last scores, and setting John Patrick Stanley's lyrics to music, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRZDN3WgxQ4 "Marooned Without You"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8waaQta2s "Cowboy Song"]] sung by Hanks himself. Also the rock arrangement of "Sixteen Tons" that plays over the opening sequence.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One of famed Georges Delarue's last scores. Also the rock arrangement of "Sixteen Tons" that plays over the opening sequence.

** The luggage salesman, who just '''''loves''''' luggage. It's a ''way of life''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keuhmY3tQ1A&feature=related See for yourself]].

* EsotericHappyEnding: Sure, [[spoiler:the island was wiped off the face of the Earth and its inhabitants likely killed in the process, but Joe and Patricia are happy, that's all that matters, right]]? [[AlternateEnding Something that was cut]] was [[spoiler:the Chief surviving with his Tobi, having saved his soul (in parallel to Joe saving it). Also, Joe and Patricia are rescued by the ''Tweedledum'', and both Graynamore and his doctor are stranded on what's left of the isle]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Aside from The Reason You Suck Speech mentioned on the main page, Patricia's declaration of love for Joe just before he jumps into the volcano.
-->'''Patricia''': I love you!
-->'''Joe Banks''': I love you, too! I've never been in love with anybody before, either! It's great! I'm glad! But the timing stinks. ''(quick peck on the cheek)'' I've gotta go.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: One of famed Georges Delarue's last scores. Also the rock arrangement of "Sixteen Tons" that plays over the opening sequence.

* OneSceneWonder: The luggage salesman, who just '''''loves''''' luggage. It's a ''way of life''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keuhmY3tQ1A&feature=related See for yourself]].

* TearJerker: Dying Joe Banks' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EOnVSSJYs eloquent prayer]] during a DreamSequence to God as [[WeirdMoon an impossibly large moon rises over the horizon]].
-->'''Joe''': Dear God, whose name I do not know -- thank you for my life. I forgot how ''big''... thank you. Thank you for my life.

** The jovial Graynamore, the ComicallySerious Dr. Ellison and Marshall the kind limo driver qualify thanks to the talent of veteran actors Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Ossie Davis.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: One of famed Georges Delarue's last scores.

** Graynamore and Marshall the limo driver qualify.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Sure, [[spoiler:the island was wiped off the face of the Earth and its inhabitants likely killed in the process, but Joe and Patricia are happy, that's all that matters, right]]?
** [[spoiler: [[AlternateEnding Something that was cut]] was the Chief surviving with his Tobi, having saved his soul (in parallel to Joe saving it). Also, Joe and Patricia are rescued by the ''Tweedledum'', and both Graynamore and his doctor are stranded on what's left of the isle]].

*** Ray Charles' version of "Old Man River" playing when Joe finds out he's dying.

* HilariousInHindsight: A Tom Hanks character being shipwrecked ten years before CastAway.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The score to the film is lush, and one of Georges Delarue's best -- until you listen to the soundtrack to ''SteelMagnolias'' and find it's ''extremely'' similar.

* TearJerker: Dying Joe Banks' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EOnVSSJYs eloquent prayer]] during a DreamSequence to God as an impossible large moon rises over the horizon.