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Plot: Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
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MCT:October 6, 2008
return to oz was so mwell done and closer tho the real oz then the wizard of oz. sadly many ppl dont see how good this movie is due to its prequel
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MCT:August 7, 2008So very weird. If you are expecting a happy little prance back to Oz with everybody singing and dancing and enjoying life, this definitely isn't that. It is entertaining though.
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Dorothy Gale (Fairuza Balk) can't stop thinking about her friends: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman & the Cowardly Lion comes across a key was sent from Oz on shooting star back in Oz. Dorothy awakens to find back in Oz with Billina can talk (Denise Bryer) to walk up nearby forests to find everything is ruined: All civilians of oz, Tin Man, & Cowardly Lion turned into the stone when the Scarecrow (Justin Case) was King of Oz is missing. Dorothy & Billina meet the Royal Army of Oz, a clockwork robotic man named Tik-Tok (Sean Barrett). they meets a friendly stickman with a pumpkin-head named Jack Pumpkinhead (Brian Henson) to help to restore a wound-down Tik-Tok to build a flying machine using sofas & a moose-like animal named Gump (Lyle Conway) when Dorothy steals Mombi's Powder of Life to bring the Gump to life is able to fly. Dorothy & her friends venture into the Nome King's ornament room where the Scarecrow transformed into an ornament have three guesses but if they fail, they transformed into ornaments. Dorothy is the last guess frees the Scarecrow from his enchantment & Dorothy's friends are restored as 1 by 1. Dorothy wears a pair of ruby slippers to wish for all her friends to escape the mountain to restore the Emerald City & all the Citizens of Oz celebrate Dorothy's triumph to ask her to become the Queen of Oz but Dorothy denied but in favor to return to Kansas. The Blondie girl from the clinic appears in a mirror behind Dorothy is revealed she is the rightful ruler of Oz named Princess Ozma (Emma Ridley).
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MCT:July 20, 2008
Weird and pretty creepy, but definately worth a watch for those who have read the books, and not just seen the original film!
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MCT:July 17, 2008You don't fool with Mother Nature, spit into the wind, remake Casablanca, or trash the land of Oz. Perhaps that is why the 1985 live-action sequel split critics and audiences alike. The 1939 classic musical is so beloved that it's almost impossible to imagine seeing Dorothy in shock therapy, a crumbled yellow brick road, the ruins of Emerald City, and the Tin Man turned into stone. But L. Frank Baum, the author of the original Oz books, portrayed just that with his continuing stories of Dorothy. When you get by these tough facts, the film version is solid entertainment for the over-7 set.
Dorothy (a 10-year-old Fairuza Balk in her debut) is back in Kansas, where Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) is at the end of her rope: her niece is not sleeping and going on about a place called Oz. Therapy may be the answer, but luckily the scary clinic goes dark before Dorothy can be, er, cured (but the lead-up will scare the munchkins out of most kids). She wakes up in the land of Oz, now in tatters, and searches for its king, the Scarecrow. A new set of friends, including a tin soldier, a talking chicken, and a pumpkin man, help her against new villains, including Princess Mombi (Jean Marsh)--complete with a set of detachable heads--and the evil Nome King (Nicol Williamson with a great assist from Will Vinton's Claymation). The sole directorial effort of Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch is stuffed with marvelous effects that foreshadow later works by Tim Burton and the Henson non-Muppet films
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MCT:July 16, 2008this is a classic, though it does have sum problems. for instance, if this takes place after the wizard of oz then y did every1 get younger?? and this movie is really really creepy.
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MCT:July 12, 2008i love this film and how it's darker than the first film... sometimes hard to believe this was a disney film
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MCT:July 7, 2008This movie frightened me a child. Now I look at it with a mix of consternation and awe. It's not a good movie per se but the woman, with the changing heads, ridiculously attracts me. Check out the Scissor Sisters' song "Return to Oz" as well.
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MCT:July 6, 2008
Very scary, but amazing scene designs and an engrossing plot. This was one of the first movies I saw as a kid where I was immersed in all the hype leading up to what was perhaps the biggest movie event of the summer of '85.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
Totally underrated film! Dark and full of fantasy and brilliant effects! Great especially around Halloween!
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MCT:June 1, 2008
The sequel to The Wizard of OZ. Not very well known and they no longer produce it. I'm lucky enough to already own it.
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MCT:April 30, 2008
Muy malefica para ser su continuacion pero creo que hicieron algo maravilloso para sus tiempos. Tambien siento que Burton se baso en Pumpkin Head para hacer a Jack. Una pelicula maravillosa, que muero por tener en dvd.
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MCT:April 12, 2008
You might think that this would be a poor movie compared to the glory that is the original musical... but you would be wrong. This movie follows the source material closer than the musical ever did and gives you a haunting look into the world of OZ after Dorothy left in the first movie.
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MCT:April 4, 2008
Ambitious combination of the second and third books in Baum's Oz series. I think Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Gump, and all the other creatures were all brought to life as they were meant to be! The story is much much darker, but that undercurrent is there in the books. The tone and style of the books is somewhere in between this movie and the classic musical version. I wish someone else with this much respect for the material would make further live-action adaptations of the Oz series.
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MCT:March 13, 2008I saw this for the first time since I was a kid and it just wasn't the same. When I was a kid I thought this movie was one of the best ones out there, but now at 24 I realize that kids like stupid stuff. LOL. At best I would say it was a little entertaining. I'm glad I saw it again though so I knew what I would think of it now. I would say it is still way better then the original Wizard of Oz, but nothing I would watch again. Watching this film I understand that kids are truly easily entertained. If you haven't seen it then check it out just to say you saw it, but if you saw it as a kid and haven't seen it since then don't watch it again because you will be greatly disappointed. If you think it is one of the best movies ever made then definitely watch it again so you can come back to reality. I would definitely recommend it to kids though. They will love it.
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MCT:March 5, 2008
An excellent film in it's own right! it's a worthy follow-up to the timeless classic "The Wizard of Oz" but only more to the books. Fairuza Balk in her debut gives a great performance as Dorothy Gale, the special effects are spectacular and it's geniunely creepy good fun for anyone.
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MCT:February 11, 2008
I liked this more than I thought I would. I know it went way over-budget and was considered a box-office dud, largely because people compare it impossibly to the original bona fide classic film. But, for its time (the 1980s) the special effects and scenery are breathtaking (heck, even by today's standards some of the sets are great). Some have complained it is "too dark" or something -- but when I was a kid, I found many aspects of the original Wizard of Oz to be pretty dark and scary. This film justly has a cult following, in the real sense of the overused term "cult following." All we need now is a DVD transfer that does the original print justice; my DVD was scratchy and had blips and spot marks as if it were just being shown in a theater in 1986. Clean it up, guy! More extras and bonus scenes, etc.! Disney could really expand this into a nice DVD commodity if they wanted to.
Also, have heard it was based more on Frank Baum's book than the original Wizard of Oz, which is why some characters, like the Scarecrow, appear different. Some things are kept the same, though; for example, in the book, Dorothy had silver slippers, not Ruby slippers. This film keeps the ruby slippers thing intact but otherwise follows the book. It does have a dark, surrealist tone. I like it. -
MCT:February 3, 2008
Very dark. Walter Murch is the invisible man of the Coppola,Scorsese crowd. Shame he's not directed anything since.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
Pending Review...
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MCT:January 18, 2008
This was supremely creepy - scared me something chronic as a child. The Wheelers, the Deadly Desert, the headless statues. Ugh! Much darker than the saccharine-sweet original starring drug-runner extraordinaire Judy Garland...
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MCT:January 14, 2008I remember this from when I was a kid! I totally wanted to be Faizuza Balk! She was such a bad ass dorothy. I remember this film being very dark and actually kinda scary. The yellow brick road was all destroyed and some characters were wounded or banished. . .I'd like to take another look at this flick.
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MCT:January 11, 2008AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T RUIN ANOTHER CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
MCT:December 9, 2007
This movie has balls, although that's probably a poor choice of words for what seems to be a childrens movie.
Not so. Please, kids, stay away from this one. It's not specifically for adults, but it will inadvertently scare the crap out of kids without actually trying. Flying moose-headed couches, and some pretty creepy animation and characters all adds up to a well-done adaptation that captures the mood in Baum's original Oz books... a kind of threatening whimsy.
So for adults, how does it stack up? Well, it doesn't pull punches, at least for a "childrens" movie. Like the family films of old, they definitley weren't family friendly by todays sterilized standards. Plus, the plot is reasonably gripping, even though the deux ex machina is obvious from the very start. Either way, if you ever take the time out to revisit this rather familiar setting, you'll be happily suprised to find it strange, new and if not entertaining, than at least worth the new perspective.
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