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| The Wizard of Oz (68%) |
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Plot:
Dorothy, a young African-American kindergarten teacher leaves a large family dinner one night to chase after her dog during a New York City snowstorm and gets swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to...( read more 
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MCT:September 19, 2008Micheal jackson is my hero. was kinda cheesy but i love me some Michael Jackson (ease on down, ease on down the road)
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MCT:September 4, 2008
This was a cool musical. I loved that they used NYC and the World Trade Center as the backdrop for the Emerald City.
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MCT:August 2, 2008alot of hip in the wiz.....the african american version of the wizard of oz.....u dig it....very colorful indeed...
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MCT:July 29, 2008Ugh. I am not sure of what I watched there. It felt like a nightmare. It was a nice try to do something cool and unique, but it fails miserably.
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MCT:March 11, 2008
I love this movie!! i know 99.9% of the words and all the songs!! Micheal Jackson was so cute then!!
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MCT:February 27, 2008honestly, i was really bored until Micheal Jackson came into the movie. lol. but after his first scene i thought it was great, the music and dancing. a great take on the original.
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MCT:February 24, 2008
Saw it on video years ago -- Diana Ross was good, they could have done better with someone other than Michael Jackson in my opinion though
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MCT:February 3, 2008Want to see at some point in the future...
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MCT:January 23, 2008
A fun adaptation of the awesome play. I might like this version better than the Judy Garland one. This one is more hip or something. The songs are catchy and the scenery is awsomely '70s. I'd rather "ease on down the road" than go "off to see the wizard."
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MCT:January 8, 2008You haven't lived...if you haven't seen this (in the Eighties)...or gone to Woodstock (in the Sixties...BEFORE my time..) or gone several times & midnight movies showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show!! (70;s) 2001 Space Oddyssey (1970-1980's??) ALSO SINCE ???? every year in the Springtime they have shown on TV The Wizard of Oz (made in 1941 during wartime...when few films were made in color)!!
MUSICAL THIS MOVIE The Wiz...artist musical almost Ghetto vision of L. Frank Baum's classic tale The Wizard of Oz.
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MCT:November 29, 2007A nightmare-inducing combination of overacting and bad costumes in this Harlem-set bastardisation of "The Wizard of Oz". This is merely a flat-footed version of a jubilant show, putting Diana Ross as Dorothy in this miscast mess. The end result is an acid trip of bad dancing, garish sets, and a Joel Schumacher-scripted mess.
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MCT:November 18, 2007i saw watch it to say u show the black version of the wizard of oz
but beware u also see why it didnt do well in the theatre in the 70's. Michaeal Jackson and Diana Ross together . -
MCT:November 16, 2007
What can you say about the Wiz? It is a guilty pleasure. Some of the performances were awesome. Diana as Dorothy? Althought she kick the hell out of "Home" Amazing. Had some great creativity going on. Awesome cast. Quincy did some delightful work with the music. It did lack the feel from the play, however.
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MCT:November 4, 2007
Heck yeah baby!
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MCT:October 22, 2007Conversations heard while pitching this movie:
Studio Exec: "I'd like to remake the wizard of Oz, but I want to make it even gayer. How can we do that?"
Marketing Agent: "That's easy. Let's make it about Michael Jackson, and a band of singing negros! It'll stink the joint up AND shut up all those damn civil rights assholes"
Studio Exec: "That's brilliant! Now, let's see what else we can ruin..." -
MCT:October 1, 2007
The BEST redition of the Wizard of oz. "Get on down, get on down the rooooaaaad". Micheal Jackson b4 he bleached himself... oh!
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MCT:September 25, 2007
This is a "grand" musical but for some reason I just never really liked it. I guess that I'm getting old, or perhaps it's that I really don't like change but I just prefer the Wizard of Oz. It also falls under that category of why would you re-make a classic? Most people though think that this is a four star movie and I'll go ahead and give it those four on all the good people that I know that like it that much.
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MCT:September 13, 2007
My sister and I watched this a few years back for nostalgia purposes and were shocked at how dull it was, it dragged on and on and on, especially the Emerald City dance number.
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MCT:September 8, 2007
I only saw a little bit of this movie, BUT IT LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!! GO THE KING OF POP!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOO!! I LOVE YOU!!! well I mean I LOVE your music!!!
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MCT:September 4, 2007
We should give this movie the same treatment as ET on the Atari. Bury all copies of it in an underground vault.
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MCT:September 2, 2007
I'm a sucker for musicals although this one was a bit dark for me and felt more like the Return to Oz film released later on. Still, the rich music and the good visuals like their yellow brick road of sorts were cool. MJ wasn't too disturbing either, haha.
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terris85017posted 271 days ago -
For some reason i was kinda scared of seeing this movie (probably because of MJ) but its awsome!
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