Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:29 pm
#67479
When Fairuza Balk (The Craft) was very young, she starred in a movie that was sort of like a sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Released in 1985, this movie was a more "sinister" setting, if you want to call it that... Dorothy returns to find that all of her friends have been petrified by the wicked witch ,and are stone like statues that she has to figure out how to "un" freeze? Instead of flying monkeys, we see the Wheelers. A gang of misfit jester like creatures that have no hands or feet, but roll around on squeaky wheels attached at wrists and ankles. They are the droogs of the wicked witch, and along the way to returning the emerald city to it's former happy state, Dorothy meets a few new friends including Jack, the scarecrow kinda rip-off character that has a pumpkin head (okay cool), Tik-Tok who is a wind up toy commander of the Emerald City's army, and The Gump which is nothing more than a mounted moose head.
This movie is by no means spooky or scary, but more or less a slightly sinister interpretation of the Land of Oz. I personally wouldn't recommend it to kids that are to young, but I think it's safe for anyone...hmm... 5 and up maybe? All in all, I was/am a big fan of it because I have a lingering teenage crush on Fairuza Balk, and I liked the idea of the movie although it recieved fairly mixed reviews at the time despite receiving a few awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
Check it out, you might like it! and it may be a cool "starter" Halloween movie for the kiddies... But you don't have to take my word for it...
**insert Reading Rainbow jingle here**
This movie is by no means spooky or scary, but more or less a slightly sinister interpretation of the Land of Oz. I personally wouldn't recommend it to kids that are to young, but I think it's safe for anyone...hmm... 5 and up maybe? All in all, I was/am a big fan of it because I have a lingering teenage crush on Fairuza Balk, and I liked the idea of the movie although it recieved fairly mixed reviews at the time despite receiving a few awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
Check it out, you might like it! and it may be a cool "starter" Halloween movie for the kiddies... But you don't have to take my word for it...
**insert Reading Rainbow jingle here**