Return To Oz (DVD)

Return to Oz is the sequel to The Wizard of Oz and was released in 1985. It is rated PG as there is only some minor scenes of fantasy violence and is 105 minutes long. Plot Return to Oz starts not long after the first film ended. Dorothy is home again but finds herself unable to sleep a lot of the time and her Aunt and Uncle don't believe that she went to Oz. They decide to send her to a mental institution to try get rid of Dorothy's bad dreams. Just before the doctors are going to use electro shock therapy on Dorothy, the machine fails and she manages to run away and returns to Oz. Things in Oz aren't how they were when Dorothy was last there ...  Read the complete review

Return to Oz is based on L. Frank Baum's Oz series. Despite nearly fifty years passing between the (first) film "The Wizard Of Oz" and this (sequel) "Return To Oz," not much time seems to have passed for Dorothy (only around six months). Since returning home from her first adventure in Oz, Dorothy finds herself unable to sleep for most nights. Her Aunt and Uncle don't believe her stories about Oz and her friends there, and become concerned about her state of mind. Eventually they decide to send her to what is basically a mental institution, where a Doctor will use the magic of electricity (otherwise known as electric shock therapy) to purge ...  Read the complete review

These days I don't normally write reviews on products which already have good reviews written on them. However, having watched this film last night I suddenly have the urge to write, as this film brings back memories for me. ---Return to 1985--- It's 1985 and my friend C and myself are just 4 years old. We're at Brentwood cinema with his mum E. The cinema seems HUGE - in fact it was pretty small (you probably won't be interested to know that Brentwood cinema was closed permanently in the year 2000 due to asbestos). I'm sat on the left, with C on my right, and E on his right. The wheelie men are on the huge screen - they are ...  Read the complete review

Although a sequel to the 1939 movie THE WIZARD OF OZ, RETURN TO OZ is a very different film indeed. Set months after the previous movie, we find Dorothy having trouble sleeping. Aunt Em thinks that Dorothy is mad because she talks about a magical country that she has visited. She is taken to be treated with electro-shock therapy, but before this can take place, a thunderstorm causes the equipment to malfunction, and Dorothy manages to escape with the help of another girl, but she is then swept away by a flood caused by the thunderstorm. The following morning Dorothy wakes and discovers herself to be back in Oz, which is nothing like it was when she left it – it is ...  Read the complete review

Like the previous review, this review is going to be relatively straight to the point. This film is fantastic. The imagination of Frank L. Baum and Walter Murch have been captured and depicted beautifully in Return To Oz. I remember first watching a scene in the film when I was little, which involved a tree and lunch hampers, and was hooked from that point. I want that tree! The young Fairuza Balk as Dorothy is excellent. Great acting from someone at such a young age, and Jean Marsh as Nurse Wilson/Princess Mombi is flipping scary, even now. Look out for the corridor of heads scene! I can't stress enough how much imagination has gone ...  Read the complete review