Review - Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), PG, 130 minutes - Oz the Great and Powerful is the probably not-so-necessary prequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz . But if you didn't already know that, you've been living in a cave and/or I'm not sure what brought you to my blog! I'm actually finding it hard to figure out what I want to say about the film. I saw it this past Sunday evening, and I've been having a hard to getting motivated to write this. Generally that means that I didn't really enjoy the film I saw at all, which in this case, isn't true. I did enjoy it, but I think I enjoyed it more for it's style and technical aspects than for the performances or the story itself. Those of course can be credited to Sam Raimi's direction. If you are familiar with any of Raimi's work, you can tell this was a project of his. His fingerprints are all over the film from certain shots having a very horror feel to them to the inclusion of Bruce Camp...