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Return to Oz : 3 of 5
9.28.2003 9:45 PM \| Link	Not many people know (and I didn't know until recently) that in the 80s Disney bought the rights to make a Wizard of Oz sequel and actually did it! The results are pretty unusual, because in this case Disney kept very close to the original Baum books, while MGM made everything much prettier. This is one bizarre movie, which opens with Dorothy's family in poverty after the tornado, and since everyone thinks Dorothy is crazy, Aunt Em takes her to electroshock therapy (no joke!). She escapes at the last minute and makes it to Oz, where she finds the Yellow Brick Road torn to pieces, the Emerald City in ruins, and everyone is turned to stone. This is like a dark Dorothy meets the Planet of the Apes or something! However, this is really the story as Baum wrote it, and they even go as far duplicating the look of the original book illustrations, so the Cowardly Lion is a real lion, the Tin Man is tall and lanky, and the Scarecrow kind of looks like Ernie from Sesame Street. Overall it's an entertaining movie, but be prepared for weirdness! Labels: dvds


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