As a dyed in the wool Oz fan, I had to watch it. I first saw the original at age 5, my grandmother took me into Boston on the train, (Grandmother didn't drive) in a snow storm. That was back before we had TV. And we had a lot of Oz books around the house and I read them.
Any how, this is the second Disney attempt to revive the Oz franchise. It isn't actually bad, but it lacks something. The cast are all people I never heard of. A much younger wizard gets blown to Oz in a balloon by a cyclone. Once in Oz he has difficulty figuring out what he is there for. The wicked witch of the east doesn't seem all that wicked, despite wearing black and flying a broom that leaves a trail of black smoke. He teams up with a cute blonde Glinda the Good, but the relationship never seems to get to the boyfriend-girlfriend stage, let alone into proposals of marriage. There is a CGI china doll who tries to fill the role of Dorothy but CGI doesn't have the stage presence of a Judy Garland. There is a CGI flying monkey in a bell boy uniform who winding up carrying the Wizard's bag and cracking a few jokes.
Over all, Meh.
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