Storyline
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Directors
Cast
Mila Kunis, Stephen R. Hart, James Franco, Joey King, Tim Holmes, John Manfredi, Apollo Bacala, Wayne Brinston, Ron Causey , Justin Chrzanowski, Will Clarke, Logan Fry, Nesti Gee, Jacob Godzak, Ron Heisler, Kef Lee, Amanda Lewan, Anna Li, Linda Linsley, Heather Park, Jessica Petrik, Nicholas Ritz, Nikki Smith, Paul J. Spear, Rachel Weisz, Ted Raimi, Stevie Lee, Bruce Campbell, Abigail Spencer, Russell Bobbitt, Wendy Cutler, Tony Cox, Kevin Thompson, Ralph Lister, Mia Serafino, Michelle Williams, Robert Stromberg, Gene Richards, Bill Cobbs, Dan Hicks, Ari Rufino, Gene Jones, Timothy Patrick Quill, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, William Dick, T.J. Jagodowski, Bill E. Rogers, Emma Raimi, John Paxton, Michael Clossin, Zach Braff, Toni Wynne, Mike Estes, Alexander Christopher Jones, Arnold Agee, Niki Haze, Anthony J. Sacco, Lee Christian, Filip Watermann, Barb Baker, Doug Kolbicz, Vong Lee, Amy Sutherland, Rob Crites, John Lord Booth III, Suzanne Keilly, Shannon Murray, Channing Pierce, Brian Searle, Julie Gershenson, Dan Nelson, Melissa Exelberth, Steve Forbes, Deborah Puette, Julius Kline III, Bella Shepard, Sasha Kida Reynolds, Ja'Vonne Cousins, Victoria Lurz, Dashiell Raimi, Oliver Raimi, Brandon Hamilton, Danielle Ragland, Bart McCarthy, Nicholas Lindsay-Abaire, Lanika Wise, Mikayla Bouchard, Nellie Ann Prestine-Lowery, Jayne Violassi, Jay Schwalm, James Bird, Kenneth D. Ciszewski, Chester F. Guilmet, Robert Buck, Jim Moll, Bernie Allemon, Chidi Ajufo, Talia Akiva, AnnMarie Arcuri, Blake Arnold, Kelly Bacon, Ron Baratono, Cameron Barnett, Robert T. Barrett, Kevin Wayne Berger, Eric Brakke, Colin Bryant, Grady Chambless, Zachary Robert Craft, Zac Cunningham, Michael Dault, Omar Diop, Chase Edwards, Summer Edwards, Neil Ellice, Courtney English, John C. Epperson, Vi Faulkner, Jessee Foudray, Carly Francavilla, Derrick Gilliam, John D. Green Sr., Ryan Groves, Brice Harris, Nate Hatton, Hans Ihlenfeldt, Roy Kellerman, Jr., Dennis Kleinsmith, Bryan Lee, Hannah Madigan, Davy J. Marr, Johnny Mara, Rebecca Mccarthy, Julia Metas, Bob Jay Mills, Reza Mir, Lori Mulligan, Jessica Nichole, Fionna Noori, Oz Noori, Sage Porter, Jor él Quinn, Lukas Ridge, Keith Schloemp, David Schwager, Ashley Siloac, Rachel Steele, Eric Adam Swenson, Stephen Tako, Lauren Tischler, Francisca Viudes, David Waldman, Michael O. Watkins, Matt Weinglass, Alaina Whitney, Jake Williams, Otis Winston
Trailer
Reviews
80
Empire
If there are post-Harry Potter children who don’t know or care about The Wizard of Oz, they might be at sea with this story about a not-very-nice grownup in a magic land, but long-term Oz watchers will be enchanted and enthralled. There’s even a musical number, albeit an abbreviated one. Mila Kunis gets a gold star for excellence in bewitchery and Sam Raimi can settle securely behind the curtain as a mature master of illusion.
75
Raimi manages to keep things engaging, which is a very real act of wizardry in and of itself.
75
The cast, plainly packed with second or third choices, lets it down. Is there anything in James Franco’s past that suggests larger-than-life, a fast-talking, womanizing con-man? And the three witches – Theodora, Evanora and Glinda – are Bland, Blander and Blond Bland.
60
This elaborate exercise in visual Baum-bast nonetheless gets some mileage out of its game performances, luscious production design and the unfettered enthusiasm director Sam Raimi brings to a thin, simplistic origin story.
60
A lavishly mounted re-telling that, for all its good intentions and visual wonders, can’t help seeming surplus to requirements.
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