Genre: Animation Family Musical
Cert: U cert
Director: Will Finn, Dan St. Pierre
Screen writer: Adam Balsam, Randi Barnes, Roger S. Baum
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, Kelsey Grammer, Lea Michele , Tacey Adams , Michael Krawic , Martin Short , Bernadette Peters , Randi Soyland , Oliver Platt , Hugh Dancy , Brian Blessed , Douglas Hodge , Debi Derryberry , Randy Crenshaw, Randal Keith, Megan Hilty, Richard Steven Horvitz, Tom Kenny , Pete Sepenuk , Betsy Roth , Patrick Stewart.
Running time: 88 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: none
Violence & Gore: Toy soldiers and other characters fight many flying monkeys that blacken the sky as they fly; the soldiers use long sticks and spears against the animals as they land (we see no blood), and a straw man takes a tin man apart and uses one metal arm as a boomerang to knock out a monkey while the tin man's head becomes a machine gun that fires gumballs at the camera and into the mouths of monkeys that stop and blow bubbles; a catapult shoots many sticky gummy balls to glue dozens of monkeys' arms and wings down, a chocolate soldier falls apart but his hands punch monkeys independently, and a tin man's arms rotate around his body like a propeller and knock away several monkeys.
A large funnel cloud fills the screen and twirls amid lightning and thunder, raising debris for a short time. A funnel cloud twirls fast as it is seen in several angles (side view, top view and moving away from the camera) and it carries away an evil Jester who shouts and "whoops" as he is taken away.
A gigantic rainbow chases a little girl and her dog, fashions a hand and grabs them up into the sky. A rainbow cylinder spins around a girl and her dog to magically transport them from Oz to Kansas.
An unscrupulous and pompous government worker and his assistant enter a town recently hit by a tornado and claim the US Government is evicting them for safety reasons; a young girl becomes upset and stops them and a police officer arrests them for fraud; a dog bites one of the con men on the leg (no blood is shown) and chases the other into the horizon.
A man is rude to people and knocks another man down when he opens his car door (no injuries are seen).
A large hand smashes through a wooden door toward the camera, followed by three flying apes that break down the door and tie up a good witch whom they take an evil jester; the jester turns her into a marionette and hangs her in a display case beside other marionettes in dimly lit glass cases. Many marionettes dance a macabre dance in a circle and sing, "All hail the generous Jester," and then float back to their glass cases.
In a candy land, soldiers arrest a girl and a large owl for eating candy; a judge sentences them to death, but then commutes the sentence when he finds that the girl is famous.
A lion, a tin man, and a scarecrow fall off a castle roof, use a large cloth as a parachute and are carried off in a large tarpaulin-like bag by flying monkeys; taken to an evil jester, they are respectively placed into a cage, a tank of water that causes rust and a rotating carnival knife-throwing-act wheel standing inside a circle of fire.
An old tree says that he is over 900 years old and will sacrifice himself to become a useful boat, rather than to take up someone else's sunshine; later, the boat falls over a rapids and the camera cuts to a beach, where the riders wake up in the sand, rattled but unharmed; one passenger, a china princess is broken to pieces and several people cry.
A lion and a man of tin push and shove each other briefly. An ape picks up a magic broomstick and shocks himself; we see electrical bolts and his white skeleton for a few seconds.
Two apes fight over a suitcase of old clothing, squabbling and spilling it all out.
Trees in a forest throw apples at a young girl and her friends.
A jester shouts at a young girl and threatens, "Do as I say, or die!"; his face becomes a purple mask with a long nose and black eye holes and mouth, all taking up one full wall surrounded by purple mists as he vomits purple smoke at the girl (she is unharmed). A jester threatens a young girl and we see that his face is green. A jester shouts at a young girl, "Your fate is sealed!" and she takes away his magic broomstick and breaks it; the jester falls into a funnel cloud, the girl drags him out with help from friends, but he falls back in again and flies off inside the funnel cloud.
A jester shouts loudly and frequently at flying apes, pushing them, hitting their heads (no blood), blaming them for his mistakes and reducing the wings of one of the apes to tiny vestiges; throughout these events, the jester states several times that he wants to kill a young girl who killed his sister.
A jester shouts that his sister put a curse on him, so that he can wear only jester costumes and clown makeup 24/7. A lion roars loudly in several scenes and asks if he will be punching flying monkeys. A dog and a man growl at each other several times.
A soldier carries a sword by his side. A soldier waves a sword in the air and smacks his other hand, hurting it (no wound shows).
Scenes of Kansas farmland and a local town feature buildings damaged by a tornado; a house, barn, and other farm buildings have holes in the roofs that leak rainwater; boards and debris lie in several places and in town, some buildings are demolished, electricity is out and a police officer directs traffic.
In a candy land community a jester uses magic to make a girl and an owl see signs that read "Eat everything"; they eat candy until they pass out, while the jester sings a song about candy and it is implied that sugar is like a drug. Magic power waves emanate from a broomstick/crystal ball weapon that makes colorful auras that cause people to eat too much candy in a few scenes and become marionettes in a few other scenes.
A young girl wakes up from two powerful magic-induced dreams and finds herself at home.
A large message machine rattles and spurts orange smoke into the air as it displays a message to a little girl.
A castle unrolls a red carpet that slurps up a girl like a tongue.
A line of porcelain men in a town made of china breaks to pieces during an earthquake; pieces of broken faces talk and we see two medics transport a china man and then a china woman on stretchers, but we see no damage to the patients. A marshmallow soldier melts some of his marshmallow over a fire and uses it to glue a broken china princess back together.
A man of tin says that he is having a heart attack and calls out, "Oh, the pain! The pain!" (he is fine).
A fat owl falls out of a tree and says that he has a piece of bark lodged in his hindquarters, but we don't see it.
The young girl's friends cry as she heads for home in Kansas.
A dog lifts a leg as if to urinate (we see no urine) on a candy fire hydrant, but the hydrant runs away.
A jester puts two fingers into his mouth and gags ("gag me" gesture of disgust).
A jester's mascara begins to run as the film proceeds and he looks more and more strange.
A sequence shows a witch wearing a greenish-black pointed hat and cape, with a dark green face and big nose.
A man has missing teeth and the rest are blackened and yellow with rot.
Profanity: none
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: In a candy land community a jester uses magic to make a girl and an owl see signs that read "eat everything" and they eat candy until they pass out while the jester sings a song about candy and it is implied that sugar is like a drug.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Some of the action sequences may be a little intense for younger audiences, but the film, overall, should be perfectly fine for ages 5+.
Story: Dorothy wakes up in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man and Glinda from a devious new villain, the Jester. Wiser the owl, Marshal Mallow, China Princess and Tugg the tugboat join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colourful landscape of Oz to restore order and happiness to Emerald City.
Likes : I do feel this film could have been done better with pixar with the animation i feel it could of been better done with them, not that all of it was bad, One of the strongest elements of the film is its music. The songs, written by Bryan Adams, Tift Merritt, Jim Dooley, and Jim Vallance, have a timeless quality to them, while still contemporary and fresh. "When the World" and "Even Then" are as good as anything on Broadway, while "Work With Me" and "Candy Candy" are catchy and fun. The score, composed by Toby Chu, is engaging and complements the film really well. I'd like to see the score get a full release sometime in the future.
The cast is perfect. Lea Michele's Dorothy is brave, sweet, and charismatic she a great performer as seen on the hit series glee. Jim Belushi, Kelsey Grammar, and Dan Aykroyd are fantastic as the Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow; they're hilarious as a group and individually. Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt, Hugh Dancy, and Bernadette Peters are all wonderful as well. Martin Short, of course, steals the show as the Jester, the Witch of the West's younger brother.
The weakest part of this film is, obviously, the animation, done by Prana Animation Studios. It's not horrible, but there are a few moments in the film where it is distracting. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, for example, are very robotic and hardly have any facial expression. I also would've liked to see a bit more expression from Dorothy when she belts out "When the World" at the beginning of the film. Luckily, however, the good outweighs the bad by far.
despite these slight flaw this is a great film for all the family to enjoy, it an unusual concept to see this film in animation but it works, only this time it set a few years after Dorothy defeated both witches & a evil jester clown has decide to make a claim for oz in an evil way it its again up to Dorothy with some new characters to save the day. It not quite the quality of Disney films out every where but still a great film for the family.
it really captures the spirit and magic of everything we know and love, while maintaining a fresh, contemporary feeling. I think L. Frank Baum himself would be proud of this one. I think that movie goers should give this film a chance and enjoy it as much as I did because it is a great film there are reviews that are negative but you should ignore them & see the film for your self
Dislikes : just the slight animation problem with character no show any facial emotions really but apart fro that the rest of the film is OK.
Overall : Great music, great characters, funny moments
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7 out of 10 for storyline
Screen writer: Adam Balsam, Randi Barnes, Roger S. Baum
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, Kelsey Grammer, Lea Michele , Tacey Adams , Michael Krawic , Martin Short , Bernadette Peters , Randi Soyland , Oliver Platt , Hugh Dancy , Brian Blessed , Douglas Hodge , Debi Derryberry , Randy Crenshaw, Randal Keith, Megan Hilty, Richard Steven Horvitz, Tom Kenny , Pete Sepenuk , Betsy Roth , Patrick Stewart.
Running time: 88 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: none
Violence & Gore: Toy soldiers and other characters fight many flying monkeys that blacken the sky as they fly; the soldiers use long sticks and spears against the animals as they land (we see no blood), and a straw man takes a tin man apart and uses one metal arm as a boomerang to knock out a monkey while the tin man's head becomes a machine gun that fires gumballs at the camera and into the mouths of monkeys that stop and blow bubbles; a catapult shoots many sticky gummy balls to glue dozens of monkeys' arms and wings down, a chocolate soldier falls apart but his hands punch monkeys independently, and a tin man's arms rotate around his body like a propeller and knock away several monkeys.
A large funnel cloud fills the screen and twirls amid lightning and thunder, raising debris for a short time. A funnel cloud twirls fast as it is seen in several angles (side view, top view and moving away from the camera) and it carries away an evil Jester who shouts and "whoops" as he is taken away.
A gigantic rainbow chases a little girl and her dog, fashions a hand and grabs them up into the sky. A rainbow cylinder spins around a girl and her dog to magically transport them from Oz to Kansas.
An unscrupulous and pompous government worker and his assistant enter a town recently hit by a tornado and claim the US Government is evicting them for safety reasons; a young girl becomes upset and stops them and a police officer arrests them for fraud; a dog bites one of the con men on the leg (no blood is shown) and chases the other into the horizon.
A man is rude to people and knocks another man down when he opens his car door (no injuries are seen).
A large hand smashes through a wooden door toward the camera, followed by three flying apes that break down the door and tie up a good witch whom they take an evil jester; the jester turns her into a marionette and hangs her in a display case beside other marionettes in dimly lit glass cases. Many marionettes dance a macabre dance in a circle and sing, "All hail the generous Jester," and then float back to their glass cases.
In a candy land, soldiers arrest a girl and a large owl for eating candy; a judge sentences them to death, but then commutes the sentence when he finds that the girl is famous.
A lion, a tin man, and a scarecrow fall off a castle roof, use a large cloth as a parachute and are carried off in a large tarpaulin-like bag by flying monkeys; taken to an evil jester, they are respectively placed into a cage, a tank of water that causes rust and a rotating carnival knife-throwing-act wheel standing inside a circle of fire.
An old tree says that he is over 900 years old and will sacrifice himself to become a useful boat, rather than to take up someone else's sunshine; later, the boat falls over a rapids and the camera cuts to a beach, where the riders wake up in the sand, rattled but unharmed; one passenger, a china princess is broken to pieces and several people cry.
A lion and a man of tin push and shove each other briefly. An ape picks up a magic broomstick and shocks himself; we see electrical bolts and his white skeleton for a few seconds.
Two apes fight over a suitcase of old clothing, squabbling and spilling it all out.
Trees in a forest throw apples at a young girl and her friends.
A jester shouts at a young girl and threatens, "Do as I say, or die!"; his face becomes a purple mask with a long nose and black eye holes and mouth, all taking up one full wall surrounded by purple mists as he vomits purple smoke at the girl (she is unharmed). A jester threatens a young girl and we see that his face is green. A jester shouts at a young girl, "Your fate is sealed!" and she takes away his magic broomstick and breaks it; the jester falls into a funnel cloud, the girl drags him out with help from friends, but he falls back in again and flies off inside the funnel cloud.
A jester shouts loudly and frequently at flying apes, pushing them, hitting their heads (no blood), blaming them for his mistakes and reducing the wings of one of the apes to tiny vestiges; throughout these events, the jester states several times that he wants to kill a young girl who killed his sister.
A jester shouts that his sister put a curse on him, so that he can wear only jester costumes and clown makeup 24/7. A lion roars loudly in several scenes and asks if he will be punching flying monkeys. A dog and a man growl at each other several times.
A soldier carries a sword by his side. A soldier waves a sword in the air and smacks his other hand, hurting it (no wound shows).
Scenes of Kansas farmland and a local town feature buildings damaged by a tornado; a house, barn, and other farm buildings have holes in the roofs that leak rainwater; boards and debris lie in several places and in town, some buildings are demolished, electricity is out and a police officer directs traffic.
In a candy land community a jester uses magic to make a girl and an owl see signs that read "Eat everything"; they eat candy until they pass out, while the jester sings a song about candy and it is implied that sugar is like a drug. Magic power waves emanate from a broomstick/crystal ball weapon that makes colorful auras that cause people to eat too much candy in a few scenes and become marionettes in a few other scenes.
A young girl wakes up from two powerful magic-induced dreams and finds herself at home.
A large message machine rattles and spurts orange smoke into the air as it displays a message to a little girl.
A castle unrolls a red carpet that slurps up a girl like a tongue.
A line of porcelain men in a town made of china breaks to pieces during an earthquake; pieces of broken faces talk and we see two medics transport a china man and then a china woman on stretchers, but we see no damage to the patients. A marshmallow soldier melts some of his marshmallow over a fire and uses it to glue a broken china princess back together.
A man of tin says that he is having a heart attack and calls out, "Oh, the pain! The pain!" (he is fine).
A fat owl falls out of a tree and says that he has a piece of bark lodged in his hindquarters, but we don't see it.
The young girl's friends cry as she heads for home in Kansas.
A dog lifts a leg as if to urinate (we see no urine) on a candy fire hydrant, but the hydrant runs away.
A jester puts two fingers into his mouth and gags ("gag me" gesture of disgust).
A jester's mascara begins to run as the film proceeds and he looks more and more strange.
A sequence shows a witch wearing a greenish-black pointed hat and cape, with a dark green face and big nose.
A man has missing teeth and the rest are blackened and yellow with rot.
Profanity: none
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: In a candy land community a jester uses magic to make a girl and an owl see signs that read "eat everything" and they eat candy until they pass out while the jester sings a song about candy and it is implied that sugar is like a drug.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Some of the action sequences may be a little intense for younger audiences, but the film, overall, should be perfectly fine for ages 5+.
Story: Dorothy wakes up in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man and Glinda from a devious new villain, the Jester. Wiser the owl, Marshal Mallow, China Princess and Tugg the tugboat join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colourful landscape of Oz to restore order and happiness to Emerald City.
Likes : I do feel this film could have been done better with pixar with the animation i feel it could of been better done with them, not that all of it was bad, One of the strongest elements of the film is its music. The songs, written by Bryan Adams, Tift Merritt, Jim Dooley, and Jim Vallance, have a timeless quality to them, while still contemporary and fresh. "When the World" and "Even Then" are as good as anything on Broadway, while "Work With Me" and "Candy Candy" are catchy and fun. The score, composed by Toby Chu, is engaging and complements the film really well. I'd like to see the score get a full release sometime in the future.
The cast is perfect. Lea Michele's Dorothy is brave, sweet, and charismatic she a great performer as seen on the hit series glee. Jim Belushi, Kelsey Grammar, and Dan Aykroyd are fantastic as the Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow; they're hilarious as a group and individually. Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt, Hugh Dancy, and Bernadette Peters are all wonderful as well. Martin Short, of course, steals the show as the Jester, the Witch of the West's younger brother.
The weakest part of this film is, obviously, the animation, done by Prana Animation Studios. It's not horrible, but there are a few moments in the film where it is distracting. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, for example, are very robotic and hardly have any facial expression. I also would've liked to see a bit more expression from Dorothy when she belts out "When the World" at the beginning of the film. Luckily, however, the good outweighs the bad by far.
despite these slight flaw this is a great film for all the family to enjoy, it an unusual concept to see this film in animation but it works, only this time it set a few years after Dorothy defeated both witches & a evil jester clown has decide to make a claim for oz in an evil way it its again up to Dorothy with some new characters to save the day. It not quite the quality of Disney films out every where but still a great film for the family.
it really captures the spirit and magic of everything we know and love, while maintaining a fresh, contemporary feeling. I think L. Frank Baum himself would be proud of this one. I think that movie goers should give this film a chance and enjoy it as much as I did because it is a great film there are reviews that are negative but you should ignore them & see the film for your self
Dislikes : just the slight animation problem with character no show any facial emotions really but apart fro that the rest of the film is OK.
Overall : Great music, great characters, funny moments
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7 out of 10 for storyline
Seems nice and I am also feeling eager to add this to my “watch later” list. I am going on a long vacation and would love to watch a lot of series. I have added some of the popular shows by Andy Yeatman too in this list. I bet that my list is not going to disappoint me as all of the shows are having really good rating.
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