OZ The Great and Powerful
Me and my husband went to see this movie on this past weekend as a date to celebrate our 6 year wedding anniversary. I don't normally go on opening weekend to see a movie. It has to be a special occasional or some really anticipated movie coming out. In this case it was both!
This was a really cool concept for a movie and they definitely tied it in with the original Wizard of Oz movie in several different areas. I didn't catch any real loop holes. It added so much to the Wizard character and all the witch characters. I never paid much attention to the fact that Dorothy's house lands on the wicked witches sister in the original movie. I knew it happened but it is a short little part that you forget about. That witch that gets smashed under Dorothy's house is a full blown character in this new OZ movie which is so cool!
If you aren't even a fan of the Wizard of Oz this would be worth seeing even just for all the special effects and computer graphics. It's sooooooo colorful they almost even went overboard but I guess they figure why not go overboard since we can do these special effects this day in age! And of course Disney can pretty much afford anything right?!
Danny Elfman supplied the music for this film which is always a winning situation! Here's a funfilled fact too about Danny Elfman: He was the lead singer and songwriter for the band Oingo Boingo!! They did the song "Wierd Science" for that film and "Wild Sex (in the working class)" that was in the John Hughes film Sixteen Candles. I knew of his composing for The Simpsons, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and all other Tim Burton projects but never that he was in an 80's rockband! That just makes him even cooler!
One sad thing is that I don't think this will match up with the Dark Side of the Moon album but at least we got Danny Elfman!
Bottom line, you should definitely see this on the big screen in the theater!!
I'm pretty excited to see this, Pam! I think it's okay if they go overboard on color, because it's Oz after all, right? Have you seen or read "Wicked" at all? Is it like that? Or should I just watch this movie as its own thing and forget about other re-creations of Oz? :)
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