Return to Oz

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Summary: Good,But just a few problems,,,,,,,,,,,
Review: While this movie has a dull first 10-20 minutes,the action picks up when Dorothy is swept back to Oz.Things are bad-The Evil Princess Mombi and The Nome King have taken over Oz.The Yellow brick road is broke to bits.The City is a slum.With hopes of finding the scarecrow,Dorothy sets out to Mombi's with help of Tik-Tok,a robot,and her Talking Chicken,Ballina.Things go okay at first,with Mombi in a nice-girl head.Soon as she changes her head,she's mean and angry.She Locks Dorothy and Friends in the Attic room of the mansion,Where Jack Pumpkinhead is introuduced.
However,In order to escape,Dorothy must go to Mombi's Head Collection,In Cabinet 31,With Mombi;s First head and a can of powder of life.She ties leafs to a chair and sticks a Stuffed Gump head on front.Than with the Life Powder,He is brought to life,and away they fly.Now the movie gets dull.They arrive at the Nome Kings Mountain.He has a large collection of ornaments.He makes a deal with the friends:You have three guesses to find the scarecrow each,Touch an ornament and say OZ.
No one but Dorothy Sucseeds,Who eventually gains back all her friends.She wishes Oz restored.Than goes home.
Don't Get me wrong,i like this movie,But a few plot holes are present:How could Ozma be in the mirror for awhile,but help Dorothy get to oz anyway?THat is my big question,
Otherwise:GREAT MOVIE!

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Summary: No captions?!
Review: I have loved this movie since the day I saw it in the theatre when I was about a year younger than Fairuza Balk was when she was in it. I loved that they had Fairuza Balk talking about her role and the experiences she had but I found that there was one drawback. The movie has not been closed captioned! I didn't know that they released movies these days that are not closed captioned. Very disapointing for my brother since he has loved this movie almost as long as I have and is hearing impaired. I hope someday they will release a closed captioned version so he can finally hear/read everything and understand the story fully.

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Summary: Return to the Marvelous Land of Oz With a Disney Twist
Review: Most people think that Oz ended when Dorothy clicked her heals together three times and said "There's no place like home". Little do they know that L. Frank Baum and other authors wrote Dorothy, Toto and friends in to 40 more adventures in Oz. Return to Oz is based on the next two books after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz(The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz). This wonderful adaption starts when Dorothy is back in Kansas. Although Dorothy is happy to be back with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, there is still an empty spot in her heart for her friends in Oz. Dorothy can't stop thinking about Oz and this leads her to loose sleep. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are sure the cyclone that carried Dorothy to Oz made her delusional. They think the only way to make Dorothy forget these sily fantasies is to take her to get shock treatment. Once at the clinic she meets doctor J.B. Worley who tells her the treatment won't hurt a bit. After the interview, Aunt Em returns home leaving Dorothy to stay at the clinic over night for treatment. Later that night, Dorothy is taken into one of the rooms for treatment. When the doctor is about to push down the switch, a lightning storm hits and the power is out. As all the doctors leave the room to check the power, Dorothy is rescued by Ozma, the princess of Oz who(in this world) only Dorothy can see. Before they are out the front door, Nurse Wilson sees them and persuses them all the way to a river. Ozma tumbles in leaving Dorothy to belive she has drowned. Dorothy climbs into a crate and heads down stream. Once in Oz with her now talking pet chicken Ballina, Dorothy starts out from the deadly desert to find the famous Yellow Brick Road broken, the Emerald City a mess and all the citizens, including the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, turned to stone. Dorothy goes on to meet many new friends like Tik-Tok(the clockwork man), the Gump(a creature Dorothy and her friends created that is a mooses head attached to a sofa) and Jack Pumpkinhead. Together with Dorothy's pet chicken Ballina, They venture together to conquer Mombi(a witch who choses one of her 31 heads to wear each day), the Wheelers(the nasty servants of Mombi) and the Nome king who has enslaved the Scarecrow(the current ruler of the Emerald City) and turned him into an ornament. This movie, made by Disney, features amazing claymation and an amazing cast including the unbelivable 10 year old Fairuza Balk in a better portrayal of Dorothy than Judy Garland(I do think though that Judy is unforgettable in her portrayal), Piper Laurie as a stunning Aunt Em that seems to have jumped from the pages of the book, Jean Marsh as the well acted part of Nurse Wilson and Mombi and Nicol Williamson in his amazing portrayal of doctor J.B. Worley and the Nome King. The plot is closely based to the books and ventures to the darker yet unforgettable side of Oz. The story may be a bit scary for younger children but still enjoyable. You will not be disappointed with the this version of Oz. Of course how could you be? It's got a great cast, amazing claymation, great scenes, great plot, and it's made by Disney. If I could, I'd give this movie 1,000 stars. Enjoy your Return to Oz.

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Summary: An outstanding and excellent sequel.
Review: Fairuza Balk ( The Craft) stars as Dorothy Gail who still thinks
about Oz after two months since her visit to that place. She can't get any sleep, so she goes to a Doctor for Shock Therapy
but then when she realizes the hospital is full of crazies, she escapes and magically is sent back to Oz where it's suddenly
ruled by the evil Princess Mombi and The Nome King ( Excalibur
and Spawn's Nicole Williamson). Entertaining and Great sequel to
one of the most beloved classics of all time, and this is a must see if you enjoyed the first one.

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Summary: The Most Under Rated Movie Ever.
Review: Return to Oz is and always will be my all time favorite movie. It is a pity that people around the world have failed to embrace this wonderful story. I saw this movie for the first time about 14 years ago and was totally blown away by the visuals and story. This movie combines the books The Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz into one story, featuring Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, Gump, and Billina the chicken, as well as the original characters. The reason people dismissed this beautiful movie was because it was not a Judy Garland, musical, technicolor marvel like the original they grew up with. It is clear that the film makers wanted to stay true to L. Frank Baums books, and not just make a sequel to the original. When I read the books as a kid, this is how I imagined Oz would be. The characters are believable and not just a guys in face paint.
This movie could be so huge if people would have just given it a chance. I can only dream how cool it would be if they made sequels to this based on the other books. The cast is great, the music is beautiful, the visuals are amazing, and I cannot recommend this movie highly enough.

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Summary: An Unappreciated Classic That Must Be Seen
Review: 1939. The Wizard of Oz musical movie sensation starring Judy Garland makes history. The timing was right. The U.S. and the whole world was entering WWII. We needed to laugh again, to fall in love with a timeless innocence, as is depicted with Judy Garland's performance, the Munchkin and the Romantic scope of the film. There is no doubt that The Wizard of Oz is a classic. However, L. Frank Baum wrote an extensive series, following the Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy returns to Oz and has further exploits. Return To Oz, starring Faureza Balk as Dorothy, is more or less faithful to some of the characters and darker aspects of Baum's Oz novels. In the novels, the evil Gnome King, a bearded greedy little creature similar to the character of Alberich in the Nibelung saga, has seized power and taken over Oz, casting it into darkness and ruins. The only hope lies in the liberation of Ozma, the beautiful and benevolent enchantress who has been trapped in a mirror. Mombi, a truly wicked spectre, is a princess with a fetish for putting on human heads as easily as wigs. These Gothic images, the haunting milieu of the film, are perfectly captured. The novels had dark moments, such as the broken Yellow Brick Road, the ruined Emerald City and darkened skies, Mombi's henchmen, all perfectly made into Muppets and Tim Burton-like creations. Faureza Balk, in the end, is a more believable Dorothy. Judy Garland was too old to play a little girl. In the Baum novels, Dorothy was only a prepubescent child. Perhaps the success of the 1939 film lay in the charm of Judy Garland's voice, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" became the no. 1 song of the 20th century, and in the fact that America did not want to see the spoils and ravages of war. However, as all good fantasies, and Baum's is no exception, the land of Oz is saved once again from evil by Dorothy and her friends. This is a terrific film, with dazzling special effects, haunting and beautiful music (which is similar to the same Gothic Romantic sounds of Danny Elfman who wrote music for Edward ScissorHands) and wonderful, believable performances by Faureza Balk and Jean Marsh as Mombi. Before you see Return to Oz, however, you'd best read the novels. They will help explain the drastic transition from the 1939 Oz we all love and remember to the 1985 Oz. Enjoy.

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Summary: Liked the movie, liked the actors, and liked the mandolin!
Review: Though I liked The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland as Dorothy better I did also like Return To Oz starring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy and though Return to Oz is very different it is good in it's ownright and not a terrible movie at all, I guess it's one of those movies that you either like or hate but I really liked it and I recommend this movie be watched and enjoyed and admired for it's own merits instead of being compared to A Wizard of OZ which was just an entirely different kind of movie. Retun To Oz also has given me a appreciation for the mandolin the unusual looking stringed instrument that Mombi played which another reviewer said was a piccolo but even though it's probably of little importance to anyone and probably being nitpicky but I wanted to point out that it was a mandolin and not a piccolo.

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Summary: True Following of the Books!!
Review: This takes us back to the dark ages of The Wizard of Oz, with the following up of Return to Oz which introduces actress Fairuza Balk. As a child I had read the Wizard of Oz novels by Frank L. B. this followes the stories rather than the movie "Wizard of Oz" with actress Judy Garland. People I think where split on the movie because they were expecting a sequal just like the first movie. However, I think it was brilliant because it still follows the imagination of the child Dorthy and what happened after her trip to Oz, and the coming back to Oz. What happenes to a child back when the come back from a world of their own imagination back at the time? The parents or aunt and uncle who has lost their own imaginations thinks there is something wrong with Dorthy espically when she can't sleep. So at the time of age for new technology they take her to get shock therapy. However, when she escapes through the help of a mysterious friend she finds herself back in the Land of Oz where everything is ruined by the Nome King and Princess Mombi who has lots of extra heads for fashion wear.
Dorthy is in the search of the locked up Scarecrow, and she meets new and fun friends along the way such as Tik Tok a helpful robot, Jack the pumpkin head, and a rather sort of strange Gump to save the Scarecrow and the rest of Oz. This also introduces the Queen Ozsma in which she was heavily played in the Oz novels.
If you are looking for this movie to be a sequal to the movie which stars Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz." Then you will be disappointed.
However, if you like the original novels for which Oz was really a bit darker than what the Hollywood Industry made the book title to be, and you want a fantastic adventure then you will love this movie.
Also the people who made the movie is Brain Henson of Jim Henson productions who put together glamerous re-creation and more added fairy tale backgrounds and creatures.
Fairuza Balk does an increadable job recapturing Dorthy. She was in movies such as "The Worst Witch," and then much later "The Craft."
This is really a great movie for children probably 13 and up. I just recently received this DVD for Christmas, and in my 20's I still find it fantastic. It also brings a lot of childhood memories back. And also including in the DVD is an interview with Fairuza Balk who explains the making of the movie!

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Summary: Return to Oz.......omg!
Review: This film has to be my favourite film. It's so scary for a childrens film and the acting and the directing are fantastic for a disney film. Everything about this film is magical. If you haven't seen it, see it! It's worth your time. I know every single line in this film and I must have seen it over 500 times (seriously, I never get bored of it.

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Summary: Return to Oz- a must see
Review: I am 16 years old and I absolutely love Return to Oz, infact, it is my favorite movie. The characters are portrayed in a new parallel compared to the original Wizard of Oz. Dorothy, Princess Maumbi, Tick Tock, the Wheelers and the Knome king bring the movie to life. I love how the characters in the real world are characters in Oz. For instance, Tick Tock being the shock machine, the doctor being the Knome king, Princess Maumbi being the wicked lady at the hospital and the men wheeling carts as the Wheelers. I also love the director's use of foreshadow throught the beginning. For instance, the scene where the blonde girl brings Dorothy the pumpkin. I definitley reccommend this movie to anyone who wants a different kind of fairy tale. The best part is watching it over and over and seeing things that you missed before! Watch it!!!!!