Hart & Bruce Campbell as Winkie guards at the Emerald City Abigail Spencer as May, Oscar's temporary magic assistant in Kansas and one of his several fleeting loves in the film.Joey King as China Girl and Girl in a Wheelchair.Rachel Weisz as Evanora, The Wicked Witch Of The East.Michelle Williams as Glinda, The Good Witch Of The South.Mila Kunis as Theodora , The Wicked Witch Of The West.James Franco as Oscar Diggs, the Wizard of Oz.Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity, and even a bit of wizardry, Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, but also into a much better man as well. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must figure out who is good and who is evil, before it is too late. He thinks he’s hit the jackpot - fame and fortune are his for the taking - that is until he meets three witches, Theodora, Evanora and Glinda, who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. In 1905, Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away in a tornado from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. | 'St.The story takes place about 20-30 years before Dorothy's story.| 'Nightcrawler' follows Jake Gyllenhaal into heart of news cycle's darkness.| 'Birdman' a flight of soaring surrealism.| 'Big Hero 6' has heart, but defaults to action-movie mode.| 'Citizenfour' follows Snowden down rabbit hole of surveillance state.| 'Interstellar' goes into space in search of inner truth.| With 'Rosewater,' Jon Stewart loses powerful story's focus.Rated: PG action, scary images, mild language.
Written by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire. Behind the scenes: Produced by Joe Roth.Cast: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Joey King.The result - kaleidoscopic spectacle at the expense of childlike wonder - is a few adjectives shy of great and powerful. Raimi and the screenwriters, one of whom penned "Rise of the Guardians," fill the familiar and sturdy flawed-hero-in-a-strange-land quest template, with generalities instead of the sorts of details that can make the ethereal seem real. If not for some scary scenes involving vampire-fanged flying apes, you couldn't tell that this was veteran horror director Sam Raimi at the helm. Other witches are played by Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis.Īlong the way, he demonstrates the courage, brains and heart - sound familiar? - he was missing before his arrival. Traveling a yellow brick road of sorts, accompanied by a porcelain girl with an attitude and a talking monkey, and armed only with the earthly talents of illusion and turn-of-the-century science, he joins the Good Witch Glinda, played by a lovely and poised Michelle Williams, and a ragtag army of tinkerers, farmers and Munchkins to retake Emerald City. But before claiming them, he must defeat the evil that has cursed the kingdom and its people. Upon landing there, Franco is decreed the fulfillment of a prophecy and heir to Oz and its riches. After a charming, silent-film-style credit sequence, the opening quarter-hour or so - out of a long 130 minutes - is, like the 1939 film, in black and white, and introduces supporting characters who appear in different form in Oz.
When he takes flight in a hot-air balloon while fleeing the jealous strongman boyfriend of a woman he took advantage of, he gets caught in a tornado that takes him to another world. The title character is a circus con man with a hipster goatee, played by James Franco. Instead, we get a CGI'd, green-screened and Disneyfied horse of a different color that combines an "Alice in Wonderland" plot and an "Avatar" landscape with the witches of "Charmed" and Disney's anthropomorphism and theme-park tendencies. Harburg and Judy Garland to sing them, to iconic and signature elements such as ruby red slippers, the Tin Man and Toto, too. Yet because "Wizard of Oz" is the intellectual property of Warner Bros., "Oz the Great and Powerful" is missing everything that made the original film an enduring classic, from the songs of Harold Arlen and E.Y. And families and children in particular will welcome this big-budget - reportedly $190 million - spinoff. Frank Baum tale from the witch's perspective - is any indication, the cash-ringing answer is yes. If the success of the play "Wicked" and the book upon which it is based - a retelling of the L. Is a film made in the image of one of the most popular films of all times sacrilegious or an answered prayer? Can the audience's fidelity to one particular thing be poached by something similar? How one feels about "The Wizard of Oz" may determine how one regards "Oz the Great and Powerful."
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