Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell
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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DVD Release Date: April 13, 1999
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July 11, 2009Dorothy (Diana) is caught up in a cyclone when she chases her dog. She ends up in the urban version of Oz. Michael Jackson plays the scarecrow.
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June 29, 2009I read someone else's comments on the Wiz that I totally disagree on and would like to comment on. Someone said that the film was racist and that only black people appeared in the movie. That is very untrue. The movie has a mixture of both black AND white people, and if you think...( read more)
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October 25, 2008How the hell did anyone think this was a good idea? Much less someone like Sidney Lumet agree to direct the bloody thing? Simply put the idea of remaking The Wizard of Oz was a terrible idea that someone manages to have an even worse execution. I mean I love old school Michael Ja...( read more)
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December 2, 2007My 6th grade drama teacher showed this to the class. I enjoyed it very much!
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November 11, 2009This is the best movie in the world...Much better than The Wizard of Oz!
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October 31, 2009some good songs - "ease on down" and "brand new day". some good characters - michael jackson, nipsey, and ted ross. however, diana ross seemed really old. the overall feeling is dark and dirty, and a lot of songs are long and slow and drag on. can see some foreshadowing of mi...( read more)
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October 20, 2009i thought it was a pretty good remake of the original version and including a few twists and new featuers to the movie, i did think it was a bit long though it would have been better it if was a bit shorter, and it was different seeing it played by an all black cast which was goo...( read more)
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January 8, 2008You haven't lived...if you hadn'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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December 26, 2007For some reason i was kinda scared of seeing this movie (probably because of MJ) but its awsome!
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