Return to Oz
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings
- Summary:
- Director: Walter Murch
- Genre(s): Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy, Family
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Positive: 1 out of 11
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Mixed: 6 out of 11
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Negative: 4 out of 11
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63First of all, it has no music. That aside, it doesn't have any wit, joy, or drive. Children who haven't had the pleasure of seeing The Wizard of Oz might enjoy this film, but it will also frighten them. There are some fine, Oscar-nominated special effects, but the excitement just isn't there.
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60Everyone who grew up with the full range of the Oz books is deeply in Murch's debt. However, the framework surrounding Return to Oz is dark and, I suspect, terribly frightening for very young children. [21 Jun 1985, p.1]
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60It’s enthralling as well as rambling, you do miss the songs, but there is clearly no place for them here. Best to see them as individual films with nothing in common apart from source material, one a classic, the other a strong enough picaresque amongst some decent fabulation.
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38The Nome King looks like a moveable Mt. St. Helens and he alone is magical. In fact, he blows Dorothy and her tacky-looking friends off the screen. So we end up liking the Nome King and hating Dorothy and her crowd, which I doubt was the intention of the L. Frank Baum series. [21 Jun 1985, p.1]
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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Ignore the critics. this movie is beast!
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