Instant Review: Tin Man

[unbibium]

If you want to revisit fantasy worlds with a dark, modern point of view, rent The 10th Kingdom on DVD instead.

And if you want to revisit the Wizard of Oz universe specifically, rent Return to Oz. I saw that one growing up; it was pretty good. It's a little steampunk, what with the wheel-guys and the new wind-up robot guy.

"The Outer Zone"? Surely that's not the best they could do. I guess they'd call it a "zone" considering a bunch of misfits can cross it on foot. And, key, best method of summoning flying monkeys ever!

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Return to Oz was a peculiar movie--the plot is a free amalgamation of elements of the second and third Oz books, adapted fairly faithfully; but, as some commenter on Spatch's blog said recently, those elements were seemingly selected with a preference for the dark and weird. It also gets kind of slow in the middle, especially in the bit with the Claymation Nome King, but I do admire what they were trying to do.

I've always found it amusing that Baum explicitly said he was trying to write something less dark and violent than the kids' stories that abounded at the time--yet it's still got a lot of creepy elements.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, also: that business with Dorothy being given electroshock therapy was an entirely new addition.

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

That movie completely terrified me as a small one. Mumbie? With her hall of heads? And the wheelies?

Great movie though. And it's held up better than I thought it would, I actually enjoy it more now than I did then.