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Old 03-11-2013, 02:13 PM  
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Originally Posted by BFT3K View Post
...and the movie had its own stand-alone plot. It was NOT a remake of The Wizard of Oz - it was much more of a prequel, than a remake.
No it wasn't, but it played off the first one and they poorly built the characters for this one. The wicked witches were poorly cast and her green face was too smooth and she looked a little chubby. She wasn't scary and neither were the monkeys. They could have really done her up like the evil witches in the recent Hansel & Gretel movie.

Oz was OK, it tells how he came to be. How he came up with the "Wizard" was good, but the wicked witches... eh... not convincing characters. Glenda the good witch was well played. The landscape and story also wasn't vast like the original. They had BIG shoes to fill trying to spin off the original and I just don't think they filled them. They could have done it better, that's all.
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