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Official "Oz the Great and Powerful" Poster.
From the director of the 'Spider-Man' trilogy and the producer of 'Alice in Wonderland', we get 'Oz the Great and Powerful', a spiritual prequel to the classic 1939 movie 'The Wizard of Oz'. It is a visual masterpeice that lackes a good script and falls sometimes short in the acting department.
"Rachel Weiz" and "Mila Kunis".
"James Franco" and Michelle Williams".
The movie takes place in 1905 Kansas, where 'Oscar Diggs'(James Franco) a barnstormer and a small-time magician was trying to escape a fight through an air-balloon, when suddenly he gets sucked in by a mysterious tornado that lands him in the wonderful 'Land of Oz'. There he will bark on a great adventure, where he meets three witches: 'Theodora'(Mila Kunis), who falls in love with him, 'Evanora'(Rachel Weiz) beleived to be the 'Wicked witch of the West', and 'Glinda'(Michelle Williams) the Good Witch of the South. He will also meet 'Finnley'(Zach Braff) a winged monkey, 'China Girl'(Joey King), and 'Master Tinker'(Bill Cobbs).
"Zach Braff", "Joey King"
and "James Franco".
"Mila Kunis" and "James Franco".
Disney wanted to bring something so iconic and make it its
own. And in a way, Disney achieved that. It must be noted that Warner Bros.
didn’t allow Disney to use similar aspects from the original film, due to the
fact that Warner Bros. owned the rights. First of all, for all those who think
it is a prequel to the 1939 movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’ you are mistaken. Yes it
does take place before the events of the classic movie, but it is a Disney
interpretation of the character ‘Oz’. It is us a movie that shows what happened so that ‘Oz’ was able to
discover himself. So the movie’s description of being a ‘spiritual prequel’ is
somehow accurate. There were many things in this movie that form some sort of
relationship with the 1939 movie. For example, the opening sequence black and
white and then transitioning into color, the bubble travel, the scarecrows, and
Dainty China Country.
The overall flow of the movie is good, though it had its ups
and downs. The beginning black and white sequence was maybe a little bit long.
But then when the tornado started the movie kind of picked up the pace. I think
more time should have given for the scenes between ‘Theodora’ and ‘Oz’’s scenes
together, since I didn’t 100% believe in their romance. Then after ‘Oz’ meets
‘Glinda’, and ‘Evanora’ turns her sister wicked, the movie went back down
especially in the scenes where he was meeting all the good people of ‘Oz’. And
after that during the ‘battle’ scene the movie upped the pace. And by the way I
thoroughly enjoyed this scene, and though it was greatly done. The
ending was predictable and maybe a little bit fast, especially concerning the
banishing of the wicked witches.
"Joey King" and "Zach Braff".
"James Franco".
Moving on to the cast, I think casting “James Franco” as
‘Oz’ was a good call. I would say he was able to do a really good job ‘90%’ of the
time. The overall chemistry with the cast was really good. But what is really
surprising is that I thought that he had better chemistry with the digital
characters rather than the human characters. Though I love “Mila Kunis” I
didn’t think she did a great job. When she turned into the ‘Wicked Witch’, her
performance was much believable. It was interesting to see “Rachel Weiz” in
that kind of role, and I think she did a good job, even though at some point it
was overdone. “Michelle Williams” was at time great but at others she fell
flat. “Zach Braff” and “Jeoy King” for me were the surprising factor of the
movie. Voicing ‘Finley’ and ‘China Doll’ respectively, and doing such a good
job was amazing. And they provided some of the funniest and greatest moments of
the movie. “Bill Cobbs” was good, and as for the other cast members I think
they did an OK job.
Overall the visual and emotional aspect was what made this
movie an enjoyable movie. Disney is already planning a sequel. I only hope that
they will see what mistakes they have done with this one and try to fix them so
that the sequel will be better.
"Oz the Great and Powerful",
-"Oz the Great and Powerful" Info:
-Starring: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weiz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, and Joey King.
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