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Summary: This DVD is missing parts of the movie.
Review: I've seen this movie every year since I was three. I finally bought the DVD and was very disappointed to find the whole part after the Wicked Witch melts isn't on this version!! No Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!
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Summary: Full screen? What were they thinking?
Review: Five stars for the movie--one for offering it in "full screen". I love this movie and was delighted to see it available on DVD...until I saw it was in FULL SCREEN! At least let there be a choice. To see this movie without "pan & scan" would be a joy. It will join my DVD collection the day it is available in widescreen.
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Summary: A classic movie that will live on forever! :)
Review: This is truly a classic movie! I've seen it when I was a little girl, about the age of 2 or 3, and I loved it. I would watch it 24/7, and couldn't stop singing "Over the Rainbow." I'm 13 now, and I still love it! Judy Garland is excellent as Dorothy Gale, her dog Toto is SOOO cute! The rest of the cast is great too, so are the song's. I recommend this movie to any movie fan! After 60 years, The Wizard of Oz is still one of my favorite's! BUY IT NOW!!
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Summary: My Absolute favorite movie!
Review: How can anyone not love this movie? It's terrific! The music, the acting, and the storyline. This movie is Based on the wonderful book by. L. Frank Baum. It's my favorite movie. I nknow you will love this movie. You will want to watch a million times. It's worth every penny.
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Summary: "We're Off to See the Wizard"
Review: So many have come before this review, that it's almost impossible to add anything to this, but this I will say - if you are in search of truly good entertainment, without all the trappings of our "modern film," this is a family place to land. If you've read the Frank L. Baum book, you won't be disappointed in this one. With Judy Garland in the lead (who, by the way was second choice - Shirley Temple was the first choice), and Frank Morgan as the Wizard, plus the ensemble cast of Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, and others, this ranks among the best. It is interesting, in a sort of historical way, because the studio back in 1939 didn't think that this movie was going to go anywhere -- and they planned on a "flop." My, has history proved them wrong. A great film for the entire family, with many of the classic elements which make for good entertainment, such as mystery, humor, edge of your seat suspense, and great music and dancing. Then there are the Munchkins and the Wicket Witch of the West. A fantasy tale come true!!! But, you know, there's no place like home, and there's not many movies like this one.
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Summary: Nifty
Review: Good movie for some kids I suppose, although I despised it when I was little. I don't know why. I can't help but giving it a low rating...I just can't stand it. HOWEVER...When played with Pink Floyds "Dark Side of the Moon" as the audio, I love it. Never mind kid stuff, it's scary. (To do this, make sure you find good directions)
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Summary: Wonderful Indeed!
Review: a beautiful tale of a lost little girl longing for home. On the way she finds true-friends not knowing that these are friends she already knows. It's a magnificent story to be watched with loved ones!
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Summary: the very best
Review: It doesn't matter what advances they have made in special effects since 1939, The Wizard of Oz stands out in every child's mind as the most magical, fantastical and, at times, frightening story ever told on film. Dorothy, who is apparently orphaned and living with a childless aunt and uncle, is swept away in her house in a tornado into the land of Oz (and from sepia and black to glorious Technicolor). All she wants is to get back to Kansas with her little dog Toto. Unfortunately, her house landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East and now her sister is swearing revenge. Dorothy is given ruby slippers to protect her (now on display in the Smithsonian) and told to follow the yellow brick road to the Wizard of Oz, who will help her go home. Along the way, she meets other friends in need of something they hope the Wizard will grant them: The Scarecrow who needs a brain, the Tin Man who needs a heart and the Cowardly Lion who needs courage. Judy Garland almost lost this part to Shirley Temple, whose contract didn't allow her to accept it. "Over the Rainbow" can never be sung by anyone other than Garland - that song BELONGS to her, in retrospect. It's interesting to see Dorothy's hair change in length from scene to scene because the costume people forgot how long it was supposed to be, and that Garland's chest was bound (Dorothy was supposed to be 12 years old), and that Toto made more money per week than Garland did. Strange but true! Still, the Wizard of Oz is a great telling of the fact that one girl wants to go home, and the journey she undertakes to achieve that. Although I always felt bad she wanted to return to grey old Kansas instead of staying in colorful Oz with all her friends.
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Summary: We're Off to See the Movie, the Movie called Wizard Of Oz!!!
Review: GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!! PLOT YOU CAN BITE RIGHT INTO!!!!!!!!!!
WONDERFUL MOVIE FOR ALL AGES!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THIS AMERICAN MUSICAL CLASSIC!
Review: By now, the tale of Dorothy (Judy Garland), the Kansas waif swept from her home to the mythical land over the rainbow by a cyclone in Frank L. Baum's immortal children's classic, "The Wizard of Oz" has become more than a literary or cinematic classic. It is folklore. When MGM acquired the rights they sought out Shirley Temple as their Dorothy. Fortunately, Fox Studios refused to loan their biggest little child star out to anyone, leaving L.B. Mayer no choice but to cast teenager, Judy Garland instead. The choice in casting was, of course, fortuitous. Upon its premiere, lines began forming at five in the morning for advanced tickets. The film galvanized Garland's reputation and gave her one of the great signature songs in film history (Over the Rainbow). Time has been powerless to erode the book or the film's poignant simplicity.
THE TRANSFER: Warner Home Video has outdone themselves on their Special Edition of "The Wizard of Oz". The disc features a newly mastered Technicolor print that positively glows. On rare occasions a bit of digital tiling is detected as well as pixelization. There is no edge enhancement. A new 5.1 digital soundtrack sounds decades younger than the original source material - but for the purist, the original mono tracks are also included.
EXTRAS: There is enough on this disc to fill two special editions, including trailers, interviews, test footage, deleted scenes, outtakes and the feature length documentary - "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" hosted by Angela Lansbury. Unfortunately, Warner has compressed all of their features onto one side of one disc. The result is a lot of compression related artifacts and problems, including tiling, slight aliasing and a harsh digital look to the documentary in particular and some of the other extra features as well. I'm surprised that the feature film doesn't suffer more heavily from the reduced bit rate.
BOTTOM LINE: Warner will eventually revisit Oz with another transfer and probably a 2-disc set. They will also probably do the same with "Gone With The Wind", another early transfer that doesn't quite hold up under close scrutiny.
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