YMMV / Journey Back to Oz

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Early in the movie, Dorothy meets a talking signpost who points in three different directions to Emerald City but has no clue which is the correct way. He sings a whole song about his predicament, and...Dorothy just walks off and leaves him. He is never mentioned nor seen again, and his situation is never resolved.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Margaret Hamilton, the original Wicked Witch of the West, being cast as Aunt Em. Since Hamilton lamented a bit that her iconic role defined her as someone who could only play evil witches (though she did embrace the role even in her later years), Filmation casting her in a role that’s the complete opposite of the Wicked Witch comes across as a really sweet gesture.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Tip was originally intended to appear in the story and turn out to be Oz's rightful king. Cutting out Ozma aside, there are fans who would've wanted to see this, citing how if often felt like Tip was effectively erased in the original story and deserved a happy ending. Cutting out Tip also meant Mombi went from his Wicked Stepmother to a poor man's Wicked Witch of the West.
• Narm: The Green Elephants are already a bit hard to take seriously as a threat, but it doesn’t help that the only sound they make is just a stock elephant trumpet sound repeated ad-nauseam.
• Padding: Several of the songs, in particular the aforementioned Big-Lipped Alligator Moment and the Spelling Song for the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion in turn, seem to be there to get the runtime up to feature length. Indeed, the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion sequences could easily be cut from the movie since they end up serving no plot function and their characters have to be derailed for that to happen.
• Ugly Cute: Jack Pumpkinhead. It helps that he has the smoothest, most expressive animation in the movie.

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