YMMV / Tom Sawyer (2000)

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Friends for Life", a colorful, trippy musical number where Tom and Huck celebrate their friendship while stranded on an island. They ride on giant bees, are swallowed by sentient water before being spat out onto a shore, and are lifted up on the heart-shaped leaf of a huge smiling plant... among other weird things. It has no relation to the plot, and nothing from it is ever mentioned again.
• Complete Monster: Injurin' Joe is a savage criminal known and feared as a "cold-blooded killer" who will "gouge out the eyes and tear off the arms" of anyone who crosses his path. Introduced terrorizing a church to steal its poor box, Joe later forces the dimwitted Mutt Potter to dig up treasure for him, and when Deputy Bean tries to rightfully claim the treasure for the county, Joe responds by brutally murdering Bean then framing Mutt to hang for the killing. When Tom and Huck accidentally witness the crime, Joe kidnaps their beloved frog Rebel as a hostage so he can try to kill the kids to prevent them from saving Mutt. Even when the truth is revealed, Joe attacks Tom and Becky out of sheer spite, trying to tear them to pieces while their loved ones watch.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When Becky accidentally knocks over the ink with her tail, she says to Tom "Look what you made me do!"
• Nightmare Fuel: Deputy Bean's death scene. Injurin' Joe lifts him up and hurls him, screaming, through the air as lightning flashes. The next thing shown is his limp body against a tombstone.
• Retroactive Recognition: After playing Jenny McBride in The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue two years prior, voicing Becky Thatcher was only Hynden Walch’s second voice-over role before her Star-Making Role as Starfire in Teen Titans (2003).
• So Okay, It's Average: The music is mostly forgettable and the animation is so-so, but still the movie contains a surprisingly well-written story and has a memorable villain.
• The Woobie: Amy Lawrence. She is engaged to Tom Sawyer (as much as kids can be engaged, anyway) until Becky Thatcher comes to town and he immediately becomes infatuated with this beautiful girl (who obviously comes from a more well-to-do family than Amy). He doesn't even tell Amy the relationship is over. She finds out when she eavesdrops on Tom and Becky as they agree to become engaged. The look on Amy's face when she overhears Tom tell Becky "You're the prettiest girl I've ever known" is absolutely heartbreaking.

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