History YMMV / RaisingArizona

* TearJerker: H.I.'s dream at the end, where he and Ed sit down to dinner with their children and grandchildren.

* HilariousInHindsight: The fact that Nicolas Cage is pursued by a seemingly demonic biker who is introduced riding a bike that leaves a trail of flames becomes particularly amusing given that twenty years later, he would play [[Film/GhostRider2007 Ghost Rider]], a different demonic biker with a flaming bike]].

* VindicatedByHistory: The film received mixed reviews upon release and was not very successful but has since been recognized by many filmmakers and critics as a great comedy.

* EvilIsCool: C'mon, admit it -- you were rooting for [[BadassBiker Leonard]] [[ScarilyCompetentTracker Smalls]], weren't you? The main characters, while likable and funny, are largely incompetent, and Smalls is a [[CigarChomper cigar-chomping]] AmbiguouslyHuman ''beast'' of a man, covered in weapons, who comes across more like an extra from a ''Film/MadMax'' movie than a Coen brothers film, and [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not]] be from Hell.
* HilariousInHindsight: The fact that Nicolas Cage is pursued by a seemingly demonic biker who is introduced riding a bike that leaves a trail of flames becomes particularly amusing given that twenty years later, he would play [[Film/GhostRider2007 a different demonic biker with a flaming bike]].

* VindicatedByHistory: The film received mixed reviews upon release and was not very successful, but has since been recognized by many filmmakers and critics as a great comedy.

* SignatureScene: The hilarious over-the-top ChaseScene with it’s MANY examples of RecklessGunUsage.

* WhatAnIdiot: Glen telling a Polack joke to a cop named Kowalski.

** Also, Nicolas Cage would go from stealing a baby [[Film/NationalTreasure to stealing the Declaration of Independence.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: The director of photography was Creator/BarrySonnenfeld, whose free-floating, frenetic Steadicam style would serve him for his future films including ''Film/MenInBlack'' and ''Film/TheAddamsFamily''.
** The entire cast was pretty much unknown at the time, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/HollyHunter, Creator/JohnGoodman, Creator/WilliamForsythe, and Creator/FrancesMcdormand would all go on to much bigger things.

** The entire cast was pretty much unknown at the time, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/HollyHunter, Creator/JohnGoodman, and Creator/WilliamForsythe would all go on to much bigger things.

* HilariousInHindsight: Gale and Evelle escape prison [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption just like Andy Dufresne]]. And the fact that Nicolas Cage is pursued by a seemingly demonic biker who is introduced riding a bike that leaves a trail of flames becomes particularly amusing given that twenty years later, he would play [[Film/GhostRider2007 a different demonic biker with a flaming bike]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Gale and Evelle escape prison [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption just like Andy Dufresne]]. And the fact that Nicolas Cage is pursued by a seemingly demonic biker who is introduced riding a bike that leaves a trail of flames becomes particularly amusing given that twenty years later, he would play [[Film/GhostRider2007 a movie as a demonic biker]] himself.

* HilariousInHindsight: Gale and Evelle escape prison [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption just like Andy Dufresne]].

* VindicatedByHistory: The film received mixed reviews upon release and was not very successful, but has since been recognized by many filmmakers and critics as a great comedy.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The joke about Glen getting his comeuppance after telling a Polack joke to a Polish-American cop was funny to mainstream audiences in the 1980s. But in the wake of BLM and heightened attention on police misconduct, the joke about a cop using his authority to get petty vengeance on a citizen isn't as funny anymore.

%%* TearJerker: H.I.'s dream at the end.
%%* WhatAnIdiot: Glen telling a Polack joke to a cop named Kowalski.