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Return to Oz

1985

Walter Murch

Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie ...

6.5

1,654

Adventure. Fantasy Dorothy, back in Kansas, can't stop thinking about Oz, and even believes that her friends have sent her a key. Auntie Em, worried for Dorothy's health, takes her to a famous doctor who works miracles with electricity. When Dorothy escapes from the treatment, she and a chicken named Billina find themselves in Oz. But when Dorothy tries to find her old friends in the Emerald City, she learns that they've all been transformed by the Nome ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"Inventive in design, and with a sort of hokey grace, it's one of the better kids' movies in a year full of them."
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] is the work of ingenious technicians who seem either not to know what gave the original film its magic, or not to care"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Studio pressure apparently forced Murch to back off from the full fury of his conception, but this is still strong stuff."
		Variety	"[It] employs an amusement park-full of imaginative characters and special effects, but a heaviness of tone and absence of narrative drive prevent the flights of fancy from getting off the ground."
		Walter Chaw Decider	"It’s a masterpiece"
		Ian Nathan Empire	"It’s enthralling as well as rambling, you do miss the songs, but there is clearly no place for them here (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Louisa Mellor Den of Geek	"For a good third of its running time, 'Return To Oz' is a horror movie for children, and a good one, at that"
		Britt Hayes Screen Crush	"There's nothing grandiose or extravagant in Dorothy's second coming; when you peek behind the curtain this time, all you'll find is a scared little girl. No wonder so many people wanted to forget it"

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