Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
De Wonderlijke Wereld van Oz, Oz - en fantastisk värld, Oz - Eine phantastische Welt, Regreso a Oz, O Mundo Fantástico de Oz, 마법의 나라 오즈, Nel fantastico mondo di Oz, Oz, un monde extraordinaire, Oz - Eine fantastische Welt, Oz, un mundo fantástico, オズ, Επιστροφή στη Χώρα του Οζ, בחזרה לארץ עוץ, Возвращение в страну Оз, Visszatérés Óz Földjére, Powrót do Krainy Oz, Завръщане в Оз, 오즈의 마법사, Oz, 重返奥兹国, 綠野仙蹤, Návrat do země Oz, Întoarcerea la Oz, Povratak u Oz, Повернення в країну Оз, พ่อมดออซภาค 2
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Hard to imagine any kid watching this and not being deeply upset
you know what i love in my retelling of the happiest and most beloved musical of all time? misery
The fact that this isn't marked as a horror on here is absolutely insane
LOVED this as a kid and have thought for years that it couldn't possibly hold up as an adult. I mean, I couldn't help but keep thinking of Dark Souls and its mythopoeic, ruined fantasy world — dead, but crawling with life sustained by magic; treacherous, yet warmly welcoming to its chosen interloper. This is one way of saying it held up for me. Its puppetry, stop motion and lighting effects are all kinds of wonderful and spooky.
decided i would die for jack pumpkinhead no questions asked, fashion icon and baby
the ground zero for the 'revisionist fantasy' trend of retroactively drawing out the sinister implications of classic archetypal stories, especially the notion that childhood dreams can never the same upon retrospection. oz is overgrown and decrepit, the yellowbrick road is shattered, the people of oz petrified into an eternal stasis of dusty decay. dorothy's fanciful escapism is now framed as mental illness that needs to be shocked out of her. all the new companions for her are piecemeal creatures, broken and unnatural, composites of a shattered cosmos; even the evil queen can't be satisfied with just one head. every one of these fantasy characters is a shard of a shattered human consciousness that cannot cohere into a beautiful unity of…
How about a sequel to The Wizard of Oz except there's no songs, none of your favorite characters return, and everything is fucking terrifying?
i think one of the most heartbreaking things about how much i love this film is looking at all the incredibly dismissive reviews since it’s release that just writes it off as “nightmare fuel” and seems to have no interest in engaging with what is a beautiful, thoughtful and charming adaptation of baum’s books that articulates ideas of childhood trauma through the use and disruption of distinct iconography, it is literally tragic that walter murch did not direct again after this because this is an incredible work and i will fight tooth and nail for it.
another heartbreaking thing is the fact that disney plus thinks that because i watched this film i would enjoy oz the great and powerful…
After this rewatch I can safely conclude that it'll be a long while before I show this to my children. It is a very disturbing film.
L. Frank Baum's first foray into the world of Oz already had, even though it is a classic novel for children, some dark undertones in that it dealt with themes such as death, overcoming evil and dealing with the treacherousness of the adult world. This film borrows heavily from the third novel in the Oz series, Ozma of Oz, and manages to delve deep into the darker subtext of the premise of the Oz universe.
In essence, Oz only exists in Dorothy's mind. One could even say that Oz is her and the different…
goofy, jacked-up MASTERPIECE ♥️
"I wish I wasn't tied down" - Dorothy.
"Oh, nothing to worry about" - Doctor.
The Wizard of Oz in A Clockwork Orange mode…
…for kids!
