History YMMV / MeetJoeBlack

*** Even the actors admited to finding the scene hilarious and played it on a loop, laughing themselves silly.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBupO_Kjto Brad Pitt speaking Jamaican patois]].
* {{Padding}}: Detractors note the excess of it in this three-hour-long movie.

* UncannyValley: Creator/BradPitt's first appearance as Death is a three and a half minute scene, during which he blinks exactly ''once''. His inflection is also creepily wrong [[note]](most people's voices go ''up'' at the end of a sentence when they're asking a question - his voice goes ''down'')[[/note]].

* TearJerker: The ending. Not a DownerEnding, it's just touching.

* HilariousInHindsight: The scenes where Death speaks in patois with the old Jamaican woman become hilarious when one remembers that in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Death actually ''is'' Jamaican.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Essentially the entire score due to it being composed by Thomas Newman, but especially the majestic piece "That Next Place".

* UncannyValley: Brad Pitt's first appearance as Death is a three and a half minute scene, during which he blinks exactly ''once''. His inflection is also creepily wrong [[note]](most people's voices go ''up'' at the end of a sentence when they're asking a question - his voice goes ''down'')[[/note]].

* AwesomeMusic: Essentially the entire score due to it being composed by Thomas Newman, but especially the majestic piece "That Next Place".

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** Joe [[spoiler:getting Bill his company back]].
** Bill protecting his daughter from Death Incarnate while armed with nothing more than a eloquent command of psychological persuasion and the hard truth.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** When Joe meets the little sick woman in the hospital. It seems to be NightmareFuel for her at first but then it gets better.
** Joe. Peanut Butter. That is all.
** A line only Anthony Hopkins could pull off with class:
-->'''Parrish''': Don't blow smoke up my ass. You'll ruin my autopsy.
** Joe's intense offense when he hears the phrase "as certain as death and taxes" for the first time.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:
** Joe's [[spoiler: final words to Susan. And when he allows the guy who was in his body in the first place to come back to look after Susan.]] Also doubles as TearJerker.
** The little old sick woman's speech to Joe in her hospital bed. Depending on your view, it may also be a TearJerker.
-->'''Joe''': [[TearJerker But I not lonely here.]] [[TheWoobie Somebody want me here.]]
-->'''Old Woman''': It nice it happen to you. Like you come to the island and had a holiday. Sun didn't burn you red-red, just brown. You sleep and no mosquito eat you. But the truth is, it bound to happen if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe, we got some nice pictures to take with us.
** When Joe tells Bill he won't take Susan (really hits this dad).
** Just about the entire party scene full of goodbyes, hugs, and kisses.
** The scene when Susan realizes that her father is dead, but that she'll always have the good person she met at the coffee shop.
** Allison's speech to Bill, admitting to him that she knows Susan is the favorite.
---> "I've felt loved, and that's all that matters. So, never mind favorites. You're allowed to have one. The point is, you've been mine."

* DudeNotFunny: The death of... Death's eventual host to some people.
* {{Narm}}: As recounted at LookBothWays, the scene near the beginning where Death's eventual vessel meets a girl in a coffee shop, then proceeds to stare back at her as he walks away... while standing in the middle of the street. At that point, you're ''expecting'' him to get hit by a car, and indeed he does. But the true hilarity comes from him being flung around by the impact and hitting another car or two.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Joe, I mean...he '''is''' TheGrimReaper.

** Joe's intense offense when he hears the phrase "as certain as death and taxes."

* DudeNotFunny: The death of...Death's eventual host to some people.
* {{Narm}}: As recounted at LookBothWays, the scene near the beginning where Death's eventual vessel meets a girl in a coffee shop, then proceeds to stare back at her as he walks away... while standing in the street for what must've been several minutes. At that point, you're ''expecting'' him to get hit by a car, and indeed he does. But the true hilarity comes from him being flung around by the impact and hitting another car or two.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Joe, I mean...he '''is''' TheGrimReaper.

** And even Joe once or twice.

** Back when the film originally came out, this troper's friend recalls standing up and yelling DudeNotFunny to a theater full of laughing audience members.

* TheWoobie: Oh heck, ''everyone'' who's nice in this film needs a hug! Which they all get at the party come to think of it.