[trisham]

I never found the first one entrancing, I found it mostly silly and sometimes annoying. Which is why I’d gone so long without seeing it, then saw it again last year or the year before and was struck by the shear oddity of it, still not entrancing, but a lot more interesting than I remember.

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Yes, I meant that I wondered if the story of this new "Oz" would be as entrancing as its special effects. I still love "The Wizard of Oz", but I know that is partly for sentimental reasons.

Still, imho, "The Wizard of Oz" has stood the test of time. One of the reasons that I continue to watch some of the same classics over and over is because every few years or so I find something new to appreciate about them, or some new perspective in them that I never noticed previously.

Some of the best movies, imho, are much like medieval morality plays.

[Perdogg]

I saw this movie tonight and I would give it 2 stars out of 4. The story beyond the original concept was weak and clichéd, but it had some really touching moments and a strong finish. I thought the humor was too silly at times. Michelle Williams was absolutely gorgeous in this movie, Mila Kunis is beginning to look like the ‘Designing Woman’ Delta Burke, not the ‘First and Ten’ Delta Burke.

The only reason it got PG rating was if it had been given a G rating no one would have watched it. I thought the special effects made the movie look too phony, looked like they came from the John Carter movie. The flying monkeys looked fake not as scary as the original.

There is a clue in this movie as to why people voted for Obama; more of a moral rather than its intent. This movie is apolitical despite its liberal utopianism.

I thought the movie being 3-D really did not add anything to enhance the movie. Danny Elfman’s score was very good, which surprised me. This would be the perfect date movie to take a single mother and her young kids to see.