
User 1 Review:
While Lea Michele's voice is wonderful as always, the animation is lacking and the plot and the rest of the cast serve as a cheap grab at a few extra bucks while absolutely desecrating a classic fairy tale. My five year-old is lucky I love her and this makes me question how much I do, because I've had to sit through this film countless times, and even the first time was torture.
User 2 Review:
I think it's totally fair to compare this movie with the 1939 classic, since it's almost a direct sequel in every way, picking up not long after Dorothy left Oz the first time. In that light, this is a noisy and convoluted excuse for a child's fantasy-adventure. Dorothy is considered a hero, but does NOTHING heroic! It's a pure bastardization of a classic story that reads like the worst Shrek movie ever.
User 3 Review:
This is supposably based after the sequel of The Wizard of Oz, but it seems more like a cash grab. The story in this movie is so rushed and has so much plot holes and so much things that don't make sense, like they needed to keep the story going so Dorothy can get home by the 1 hr 20 min mark. The writing is horrifyingly bad, with stupid jokes that are just not funny and like I said, plot holes and conveniences that pop out of nowhere. The animation looks like it should have belong in a tv series or a straight to DVD movie, which makes sense because the makers of this film also make the Tinker Bell movies. However it looks nice and seems to belong in the world of Oz, but you barely see any of it. The characters have the personalities of cardboard cutouts, especially the returning characters, and the new characters have little to no personality as well. Somehow they messed up the classic songs of the original Wizard of Oz by giving it an unneeded pop song feel, and the original songs are so predictable you can pretty much label them with a "Hello, my name is" tag, like the "Hello, my name is the romance song" or "Hello, my name is the candy song." If you are looking for a good Wizard of Oz sequel, watch Return To Oz, which has charming characters, great effects, and a dark undertone that works because the characters are so relatable and nice that you want them to get through the dark and scary stuff. This movie is nothing like that however.
Posted on: June 7th, 2020
Posted by: king