2013 · family · adventure · fantasy
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Directed by Sam Raimi2h 10m2013
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.
Our read: Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive family · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured family / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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How Oz the Great and Powerful feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want colorful prequel fantasy about a con man becoming a wizard of Oz.”
Skip it tonight — You expect the depth of the 1939 classic or dislike CGI spectacle padding.
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