Here's yet another 21st centuary take on a fantasy tale of "The Wizard of Oz". This is an adventure movie about Oscar Diggs (Nicknamed Oz), a small-time Kansas magician and a con artist in a travelling circus. With his assistant, Frank, Oscar runs a magic show which mesmerises the audience but is soon revealed to be a fraud when he is unable to heal a young girl. He uses his charm and bag of tricks to woo women but, is finally chased down by a strongman for wooing his girlfriend. And as luck would have it, a cyclone approaches the town and Oscar is whisked away in his hot air balloon to the mystical land of Oz (the city shares his name).The land of Oz looks completely magical and strange. It has crystal mountains, spiked tooth fairies, flying monkeys, water falls, and everything that one would expect from a fairy land. Oscar meets a lovely young woman Theodora, who is convinced that he is the wizard foretold by the legends to be the redeemer of the kingdom of Oz from the clutches of the evil witch. Oz heads towards the city and meets Theodora's sister Evanor. Evanor tells him about her evil witch sister, Glinda and convinces him to destroy her by breaking her magic wand. On his journey he befriends a china doll and a flying monkey.
The movie is well presented and has great 3D effect. The magical world created is spell binding and is splashed with beautiful colours and imagery. It's funny in places and has some likeable characters. Similar to the 1939 movie, the film's opening sequence is presented in black and white (to great effect) and transitions into colour when the protagonist reaches Oz. It is not completely similar to the old movie "The Wizard of Oz" or the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". All in all, it is a fantasy movie which is likely to be enjoyed more by kids than by adults.
Nidhi
did you enjoy??,,:)
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