Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Ortiz
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
clarkx
I had the misfortune to stumble on this god awful waste of film, electricity and time on cable television.It's literally unbelievably slow and stupid. There was this scene on a train where a blind man talks to the scarecrow and tin man and tells them simple and obvious stuff about "The Wizard of Oz" that we already know. It might be the single most boring scene ever committed to film.I sat there with my jaw dropped, wondering how any filmmaker can think anyone would want to watch something like that. And it went on and on and on and on .....................................It's getting distressing to think that the creators of today are so uncreative that all they can do is rehash old properties that have already been rehashed to death already.
dmong .
Billed as the 'much awaited sequel'. Should be billed as 'mumbling mannequins walk about a bit and talk about winkies'. OK I'll try and be positive. The DVD has a great sleeve, which is presumably where the budget went. Now for the negatives. No Wizard. Oz is a blink and you'll miss it quarry scene. Barely a Lion (did the costume budget not extend to a second day's rental?). Not really Dorothy. Not really Toto. No Munchkins. No witches. No yellow brick road. No songs. As stories go there is...nothing. My six-year old daughter could have come up with a better premise for a film. Nothing is resolved by the end of the movie, not that there is really any sort of mission or problem to resolve.The script is laughably mawkish and pretentious. My daughter found it really funny the way everybody talks about winkies and nobody even cracks a grin (For non-brits, winky = phallus). Which in my mind pretty much hits the nail on the head as far a microcosms go, in that how seriously can a movie - a kids' movie at that - as bad as this take itself? The answer is very. Unfortunately for the rest of us who shelled out 3 quid on a DVD the joke is on us.
Chris Cook
Pretty much nothing happens in the entire film! Oz is shown briefly and then it's just an old quarry, there are absolutely no sets or special effects. The Tin Man, Scarecrow & Lions costumes are awful.Dorothy isn't Dorothty (I think, but it's not clear). Toto isn't Toto. My 5 year old was left bored and slightly perplexed. Luckily the DVD was only £3 and that's over priced. Running out of things to say about it to make up the minimum 10 lines on here it is that bad.If you buy this film your kids will unfortunately be disappointed.Expect to see it in poundland soon! It really is a terrible terrible film.
drroller
It kept my kids attention but it was very disconnected and left some unanswered questions.The acting was not horrible, but could have been better.The costumes left much to be desired, I think the tin mans snow gloves would have been better as just painted skin.Who in their right mind portrays Oz by shooting the Oz scene in a quarry? It was like they drove around and said...OK, that looks good, and free lets shoot there!The Oz lore was way off, whoever wrote the script didn't keep true to the oz books.Peter Mark Richman portrayed a genuine character with some good morals to the story he told, he was very believable.