GENRE: Adventure, Family
RATING: PG for violence and language
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 10 minutes
STARRING: James Franco (Spiderman, 127 Hours, Milk)
Mila Kunis (Book of Eli); Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
DIRECTOR: Sam Raimi (Spiderman 1-3, Evil Dead)
WRITERS: Mitchell Kapner (The Whole Nine Yards)
David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots, Rise of the Guardians)
PLOT: A carnival magician finds his way to the land of Oz where he is mistaken for the wizard they have been hoping for to defeat the witches.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1 The production value of this film is amazing. It’s like Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp (same producers) but even brighter. The colors, the costumes, the sets, everything is pretty dazzling.
2 Because Disney doesn’t own the rights to the original film of The Wizard of Oz, they couldn’t copy anything exactly. It forced them to go their own way which looks familiar yet is still original on screen.
3 After all the broken characters Michelle Williams has been playing lately, it was refreshing to see her in a truly “good” role for a change.
4 I did not like Mila Kunis’ character in the beginning of the film. I didn’t buy her lovesickness. She did much better half-way through though.
5 I missed Zach Braff (Scrubs). He should make another Garden State-like film.
RECOMMENDATION: See in theatres for visuals
UPCOMING REVIEWS: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
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