Watched this (Return to Oz) for the first time this weekend with my wife, it was just "alright". It's hard to compete with the original. My wife had a hard time with the fact that this movie takes place 6 months after the Wizard of Oz, but the Dorothy character looks to be like 5 or 6 years younger than she was in the first movie? Jack Pumpkinhead was the best character in the whole movie.
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yes, jack is great, and so is tick-tok. it's hard w/a film that's such a classic like Wizard of Oz to compare...but as a reader of the 14 Oz books, strangely this film is more accurate to what Oz was really about. so hm, idk which one i like better. it's kinda 50-50, i'd say...
oh also, i would've thought you'd like this one more considering it has a much darker tone to it. ex. The WHEELERS! now, those guys are scary...;}
I've never read the books. I figured the age of Dorothy in RTO was probably more true to the books.
I found the Wheelers to be silly and not very scary at all. Maybe they were scarier in the book, I did like the lady (forget her name?) with all the heads, she was creepy.
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Yes, Dorothy's age is more accurate in RTO. Well, I guess I say the Wheelers are scary cuz they were scary to me when I watched RTO as a child! But yeah, looking back now, they don't seem the same way. Just hate the sound of their wheels. Yes, Mombi (who has all the women's heads) was crazy.
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This was one of my favorite movies as a child; I don't watch it again, because I fear it won't hold up.
I *do* still have a crush on Fairuza Balk that began when I first saw this and was cemented with the Craft.
The wheelers fascinated me as a kid, but last time I saw the movie the main one was -- annoying. To say the least. I'm not going to think about it. I'd rather retain the creepy joy I had as a child. :)
Mombi. I loved her and her heads. She was so -- freaky -- in the books. Like Land of Oz; that book was so very, wonderfully strange.
*sigh* I'm done reminiscing now.
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