YMMV / Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Does Calvin Carney bend over backward to accommodate Dorothy and her companions to distract them from how they've grossly overpaid him, or is he trying to show them a particularly good time to earn that money? He has a sly smile as he pockets Tin Man's emeralds and sings that they can come in for a "meager fee," but he looks more earnest and vibrant while singing that, as his guests, they'll get his best.
• Ass Pull: The Ruby Slippers being dependent on who wears them comes out of nowhere.
• Awesome Ego: Calvin Carney spends about 90% of his screen time singing about how awesome his carnival is and refers to himself as a "showman extraordinaire." As he whisks the heroes through the place, they (and the audience) have ample reason to agree with Calvin.
• Awesome Music: The movie has clever and energetic songs from beginning to end.
• Broken Base: Some people see this as a vast improvement and a step up in the film series as detailed in Win Back the Crowd. Other seem to find it's Limited Animation production values as a barrier to being able to enjoy it. Additionally, the Animation Purists don't really much care for the Oz references or the Retraux to an era they dislike and fans following Direct to Video movies of Hanna-Barbera characters do not place that much value on the looks of the technical animation.
• Heartwarming Moments: While she and Scarecrow are stuck in the dungeon, Dorothy feels down with the Scarecrow cheering her up with him saying "You're you. That's what's important.", Dorothy briefly smiling at his kind words.
• Hollywood Pudgy: The Cowardly Lion tells the Hungry Tiger than "your paunch is pretty puffed" during a song of Volleying Insults, but she actually has an Impossible Hourglass Figure.
• Love to Hate: The Nome King is a sadistic, Faux Affably Evil Bad Boss and Card-Carrying Villain, but it's easy to be entertained by his hammy Evil Gloating and catchy Villain Song.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Carnival barker Calvin Carney is only in one scene, which lasts less than five minutes (although his Oz counterpart appears more). Since that scene includes the well-liked song "A Mighty Fine Affair," he's a pretty memorable part of the film.
  • During the Villain Song, one Emerald City citizen makes a decent impression in just ten seconds of screentime. He does this by shooting an unflinching Death Glare at the notoriously dangerous and ill-tempered Nome King (who claims that all of the emeralds used to build the city still belong to him) while defiantly holding up a receipt that says "paid in full."
• Signature Scene: The scene where the main characters visit the carnival looking for the wizard, due to the "A Mighty Fine Affair" musical number, the wizard's attempts to adapt back to ordinary life and the employment of the twister device.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: While Tom and Jerry's previous Oz film wasn't as poorly received as other Tom and Jerry crossovers, it was still seen as a safe and unambitious remake of the original Wizard Of Oz film. The fact that this sequel actually has an entirely new plot with more elements taken from the original books was seen as far more interesting in comparison.
• Tough Act to Follow: The Surprisingly Improved Sequel nature of the film and how it stands above the average Tom and Jerry Direct to Video flick make it likely that any movie following it would have felt like a letdown. Franchise Killer Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory would have been poorly received by just about any standards, but coming on the heels of this film just emphasized that failure for many fans.
• Win Back the Crowd: A lot of complaints were waged about the first movie just throwing Tom and Jerry into the original movie as being lazy. This sequel actually introducing elements from the Oz books into this new setting the first movie established was a welcome improvement. This trend continued when WBA announced Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz continued this trend of mixing the 1939 with Oz Books although chose an entirely different version for it's continuity than the one in these films.