Category: Wizard of Oz movies
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Short on budget, long on enthusiasm OZ “sequel”–to the original book, not the famous 1939 movie adaptation–returns Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) to a very different Oz, where the bad guys have taken over since she left. She’s got to gather a new bunch of friends to save the old ones from the ominous Nome King (Nicol…
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By the time the door opens and Dorothy (Judy Garland) finds herself over the rainbow, The Wizard of Oz has already completed one full narrative arc and is starting another. The film opens with Garland in a crisis–she’s a teenage girl on a farm where no one has time for her (it’s a busy farm,…
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Fairly standard slapstick adaptation of L. Frank Baum dumps the Yellow Brick Road, the witches, and any recognizable version of the Wizard (but does have an awesome tornado scene) and instead is a political thriller. The slapstick’s well choreographed enough and there are other working parts–Dorothy (Dorothy Dwan) is good in Kansas until she gets…
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