YMMV / Johnny Tremain

• Ho Yay: There's plenty of Johnny/Rab fanfic out there.
• One-Scene Wonder: James Otis, after a whole book of being mocked and belittled by the other characters as a mentally-unstable loser while remaining off-page, gets a whole scene to himself at that last fateful meeting of the Boston Observers before the fighting starts. And, by God, it's a belter.
• Special Effects Failure: The film includes some very obvious matte paintings.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
  • The movie was released in 1957, and it's quite easy to see some of the political rhetoric in a pro-American Cold War context, particularly when James Otis describes how it will be America's mission to bring freedom to the world and refers to the "serfs of Russia" as some of the people in need of said freedom. Walt Disney was a fervent and well-known anti-communist.
  • Even earlier than that, the book was released in 1943, when the United States was mired in the Second World War to aid its ally, England. The book depicts the English as noble and honorable souls, except for the Lytes. One character in the Sons of Liberty meetings even says something about how their generation has a glorious cause to fight for, and not all generations are so lucky. This portrayal of the English is retained in the film, possibly because Walt was something of an Anglophile.

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