10 Amazing Facts About Return to Oz

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  • @DrXenolan
    @DrXenolan Před 2 lety +265

    The book actually addresses how ineffectual the Wheelers are; it is revealed that their taunting and screaming is all a bluff. They are the ones who wrote all the “Beware the Wheelers!” graffiti, and they go around scaring everyone because they are actually defenseless due to their wheels. I read the books before seeing the movie and was surprised that this was never brought up, as it teaches Dorothy the valuable lesson that those who try their hardest to frighten you do so because they are themselves frightened.

    • @matthewwisdom9933
      @matthewwisdom9933 Před 2 lety +1

      Yea good idea and you great but original dorthy the acter who playing

    • @Viking_Luchador
      @Viking_Luchador Před 2 lety +9

      How did they write it?

    • @whitrb23
      @whitrb23 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Viking_Luchador I knew a woman that would put a pen in her mouth to write, I imagine a Wheeler could do the same thing but with a paint brush, or they could gingerly place one of their wheels in paint and use it like a paint roller.

    • @Viking_Luchador
      @Viking_Luchador Před 2 lety +2

      @R Whitfield I suppose that's plausible, but then how did they get the paint and brushes in the first place?

    • @whitrb23
      @whitrb23 Před 2 lety +6

      @@Viking_Luchador probably from a paint can tree and a brush bush, it is Oz after all. Or I imagine they could've just sent out for it and it delivered by mail and put it up as a gig on Oz List for someone to paint for them. Of all the things that happen in Oz I think a man with wheel hands and feet painting graffiti sounds pretty plausible.

  • @Lupinemancer87
    @Lupinemancer87 Před 4 lety +247

    I honestly liked the movie when I was a kid. Sure it was scary and probably left me a few mental scars, but I enjoyed it.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 3 lety +8

      Bits of it were scary. Bits of it were funny. Bits of it were exciting. Bits of it were sad. Bits of it were delightful.
      ALL of it was fun.

    • @YaeGalvus
      @YaeGalvus Před 3 lety +3

      Same I'd still watch it now if I could

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 3 lety

      @@YaeGalvus Check your local library or bookstore; I know we carry it at Barnes & Noble. I don't know what services or stations may carry it.

    • @Sajumi_
      @Sajumi_ Před 3 lety +1

      @@YaeGalvus disney plus

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 3 lety +2

      @@notmyrealname8448 Some adults, too. ;-)

  • @danteinhell2394
    @danteinhell2394 Před 4 lety +126

    fairuza was one of those unique kid actors who delivered an eerie feeling while looking absolutely like a normal kid, she was the perfect choice for the tone of this dorothy

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +1

      There wasn't anything the least bit eerie about her in this movie.

    • @Black0bsidian
      @Black0bsidian Před 3 lety +3

      Agree. I know what you’re trying to say about the eerie feeling as well.

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp Před rokem +2

      She would've been perfect for harley quinn

    • @angelaroseneder7980
      @angelaroseneder7980 Před rokem +1

      She was also Mercedes Cortez in GTA Vice City

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +1

      @@Black0bsidian You do?

  • @rosebudbaxter4671
    @rosebudbaxter4671 Před 4 lety +201

    This is one of my all time favorite movies. Gorgeous film.

  • @Witcharoo
    @Witcharoo Před 7 lety +766

    I've seen this movie more times than the original Oz movie and I'll always go back to Return to Oz. It's dark and beautiful at the same time and the soundtrack is timeless.

    • @zoecostello1837
      @zoecostello1837 Před 7 lety +19

      Roxana Pinto
      I LOVE this film too! I always loved the f'd up 80s movies! I was a weird child lol

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +2

      By "the original Oz movie," you of course mean the 1910 version by the Selig company.

    • @BLW_Studios
      @BLW_Studios Před 6 lety +5

      Agreed. People who compare return to oz with that comercial version with Judy make me sick.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +7

      +Zoe Costello What do you mean "f'd up?" Those were straight-up, good vs. evil, classical type fantasy films. Nothing screwy about them.

    • @treguard1982
      @treguard1982 Před 6 lety

      The expanded score is a fantastic listen if you haven't heard it

  • @joeylamb4853
    @joeylamb4853 Před 5 lety +492

    this is absolutely the most underrated movie of all time.

  • @fobypawz418
    @fobypawz418 Před 2 lety +8

    I was forever enthralled with the concept of flight after watching the flying sofa with the Gump Head scene. Ever since then I've been fascinated with aviation!

    • @russianbotfarm3036
      @russianbotfarm3036 Před rokem

      That’s all I remember from this - I was fascinated by the idea of strapping pieces together and having them work together.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      The Gump first appeared in the book "The Marvelous Land of Oz" in 1904.

  • @stevek1922
    @stevek1922 Před 3 lety +67

    One of my greatest childhood memories with my Mother was renting and watching this and the original "Parent Trap" over and over and over. 💙R.I.P. MOM💙

  • @Emper0rH0rde
    @Emper0rH0rde Před 4 lety +185

    "But there were no happy joyful singing munchkins in Return To Oz, there was no Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and no happy fairy tale landscape." Instead, it was more like the books.

    • @JJMarkin
      @JJMarkin Před 4 lety +16

      And that's the point so many people seem to miss -- the 1939 film was a pleasant fantasy based on Oz, whereas Return to Oz *was* Oz. In Oz, for example, no one ever dies. Now think about what that means to the parts of the Tin Man he lost due to the curse that bit by bit turned him into a metal man ...

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +11

      @@JJMarkin No need to think about it, just read "The Tin Woodman of Oz" in which, among other things, Nick Chopper has a conversation with his former head, which sits quite contentedly in a cupboard in the home of the tinsmith.

    • @JJMarkin
      @JJMarkin Před 4 lety +4

      Yep. Not exactly what one expects in a children's book, is it?
      : D

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +1

      @@JJMarkin Maybe not people with low expectations.

    • @chiefhalo1979
      @chiefhalo1979 Před 3 lety +5

      The books are more graphic.

  • @Hewylewis
    @Hewylewis Před 7 lety +103

    L. Frank Baum would've been so proud of this movie, for staying true to his works.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +5

      That he would!

    • @Epulor1
      @Epulor1 Před 6 lety +6

      He originally intended them to be new fairy tales without the gore of Grimm's fairy tales. I find that hilarious.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +4

      +Christopher Emerson And he succeeded; there are acts of violence in the first book, but no blood. Besides, you leave out an important thing: what Baum objected to were the lessons that those elements of the tales of Andersen and the Brothers Grimm were supposed to teach. He felt that since morality was a part of school curriculum in his day (would that it were now!), all the kids wanted from their fantasy stories was entertainment.

    • @Johnlindsey289
      @Johnlindsey289 Před 2 dny

      He did

  • @GrandSertz
    @GrandSertz Před 4 lety +34

    Return to Oz is still one my favorite movies of all time. I bow to the artists that made it possible for us to enjoy such a great, time-enduring version of Baum's work.

  • @markuscamp8525
    @markuscamp8525 Před 3 lety +141

    The Wheelers never scared me that I can remember. It’s the Head Switching witch that scared me. Especially Dorothy sneaking around at night trying not to wake up the original head (which she does) and that headless body running again in the dark.

    • @gerbendekker3273
      @gerbendekker3273 Před 3 lety +11

      DOOOROOOTHEEEEEEEHHH

    • @JoakimOtamaa
      @JoakimOtamaa Před 3 lety +6

      The Wheelers were a bit much for my liking. Golden, ´80's overacting at its finest.

    • @mks9469
      @mks9469 Před rokem

      YES!!!! 😮😳

    • @jeremyriley1238
      @jeremyriley1238 Před rokem

      I agree. I mean, the 1939 was enough to scare me as a kid with the Wicked Witch of the West.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      @@JoakimOtamaa I don't know what you mean by "80's overacting." Overacting is overacting no matter what decade it is, and in this case it was because the character wasn't human and therefore didn't have to talk like one.

  • @vanessac1965
    @vanessac1965 Před 7 lety +45

    I love this film so much. The music! The slightly gothic, unique aesthetic. So dreamlike. Never tire of it.

  • @seanluve
    @seanluve Před 6 lety +137

    Return to Oz has to be one of the best movies EVER 😁 I loved it growing up

    • @willfomes406
      @willfomes406 Před 4 lety

      How can you like such a terrifying movie. Surely there must be one scene that scarred you for life.

    • @AXILA666
      @AXILA666 Před 4 lety +2

      @@willfomes406 I was never scared. I always rented it as a child born in the 90s. I Loved it my entire life.

    • @dylanperrin3615
      @dylanperrin3615 Před 4 lety

      Will Fomes princess mombi

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +1

      @@willfomes406 It's not a "terrifying movie." It's a fantasy film that has some scary bits to it, but there are also fun, exciting, sweet, and funny bits.

  • @JustAshley9685
    @JustAshley9685 Před 4 lety +76

    I LOVED this movie. I still do. It's one of my all-time favorites along with The Labyrinth and Edward Scissorhands. Return to Oz never scared me but captivated me even more so that I ended up making a replica of the Return to oz ruby slippers. Lol.

    • @gerbendekker3273
      @gerbendekker3273 Před 3 lety +2

      Exactly. I see so many people, most in fact, say they were scared into excitement. All it made me feel was like I wasn't being pandered to for being a child, and never reminding me of that fact by providing some incredibly beautiful music, sets, props, costumes, etc etc. I mean, even considering movies with clearly adult target audiences, what movie gives you that kind of a phenomenal soundtrack?

  • @mikeklimczak9600
    @mikeklimczak9600 Před 4 lety +18

    I had the pleasure of speaking with the film composer, David Shire, on a few occasions. He was so nice and is an amazing talent. He even gave me a piano reduction of the score for various scenes. Love that guy.

    • @jamessmith7205
      @jamessmith7205 Před 3 lety +4

      Dude, thanks for sharing, that's super cool

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +1

      Reduction?

    • @EmilyGloeggler7984
      @EmilyGloeggler7984 Před 9 měsíci

      That’s awesome! His score has always remained in my musical memory and it’s still one of my favourite movie scores.

  • @Moonbeam143
    @Moonbeam143 Před 6 lety +418

    The best dark is 80's dark.

    • @PrincessJafar
      @PrincessJafar Před 6 lety +10

      80s future dark

    • @theblocksays
      @theblocksays Před 6 lety +9

      At least they didn't harshly de-saturate the visuals like in modern "Grimdark" toned movies, even Superhero ones.

    • @zoesdada8923
      @zoesdada8923 Před 6 lety +5

      Moonbeam labyrinth

    • @benvoliothefirst
      @benvoliothefirst Před 6 lety

      GRIM DARK!

    • @Pauldjreadman
      @Pauldjreadman Před 6 lety +3

      Basically, what Laberynth would have looked look with the amplitude turned up 50 %

  • @idioticgenius5267
    @idioticgenius5267 Před 7 lety +266

    People fail to realize how spot on this movie was. It goes so nicely with the book, and while the original movie was a classic, the book just wasn't like that.

    • @frankie2time298
      @frankie2time298 Před 7 lety +9

      aaron matthews. exactly

    • @dennisgilpatrick5460
      @dennisgilpatrick5460 Před 6 lety +16

      I also enjoyed this movie as I thought of it as the 'REAL" story of OZ. Baum wrote many books centering on the magical land,and to me ,this movie succeeded in capturing the mood of the original books.Remember that in the time period in which these stories were written children did not have the distractions of electronics and computers. The child who actually read was more serious minded than the children of this day and time. It is not suprising that the mood of the stories would be different than what is appretiated by today's audiances.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +7

      By "the original movie" you of course mean the one from 1910.

    • @dennisgilpatrick5460
      @dennisgilpatrick5460 Před 6 lety +10

      I see you're a 'Baum' follower as am I.Those 'original' movies made in the silent movie days had so little impact on anyone living today,that they are hardly worth the mention ,because no one knows what your talking about,unless your a hardcore follower.People today haven't any concept of the one time popularity of the OZ series.It is a sad example of how Hollywood alters classic tales in order to further it's own agenda.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +11

      +Dennis Gilpatrick
      It's my subtle way of informing people (in this case Mr. Matthews) that there was indeed Oz before MGM. My hope is that they say, "Wait, what?" and go on to do some research and thereby discover the real history of Oz. Indeed, both of the silent versions of "Wizard" can be found right here on CZcams.
      And nowadays it's certainly true that H'wood is all about agendas and doing what they want with literature (witness the hash they made of Narnia and "The Hobbit"), but as regards the MGM "Wizard," they were just aiming at adapting a much-loved classic of literature (and paying homage to the stage extravaganza of the early 1900's). They had no idea that their product would so overwhelm the world.

  • @yogabear7140
    @yogabear7140 Před rokem +8

    I watched this when I was a kid and always liked it and now as an adult I can really appreciate the creativity and ingenuity of the people who made it. I think it’s a really fun movie.

    • @RemoWilliams1227
      @RemoWilliams1227 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Agree completely, I was probably 7 or 8 when I saw rto (and taped it on VHS lol) and I always loved it too, the scary parts were disturbing enough to captivate but not traumatize me 😂.

    • @Johnlindsey289
      @Johnlindsey289 Před 2 dny

      Yup it is as this and Phantom tollbooth make a good double feature

  • @CherryFruitSnack
    @CherryFruitSnack Před 4 lety +16

    As a young child in the early 90s, I adored this movie and watched it regularly at my grandmas house. I finally found a copy of it on dvd a couple of years ago and its still fabulous. Terrific film all around. I always wanted to grow up to be Ozma or the wicked queen (she's stunning, even if evil)

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      Mombi used the title Princess, not Queen, and it really didn't apply to her.

  • @gagecrawley6223
    @gagecrawley6223 Před 5 lety +41

    I saw Return to Oz two days ago, with my dad, on Amazon Prime. This is my dad’s favorite movie, and I can clearly see why. It’s a great and fantastic film. And it is also a wonderful marvel of practical effects.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +1

      Not that they wouldn't have used CGI if it had been at its present level then.

    • @Aliandrin
      @Aliandrin Před 4 lety

      @@MaskedMan66 Watch the new Dark Crystal series on Netflix. It represents a *choice* not to just CGI the crap out of everything and use practical effects whenever possible. It's much, much easier on the eyes.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety

      @@Aliandrin I've cringed my way through several episodes of that show, and they have used CGI for scenes that would have been much trickier to do in the old days (one scene of Rian swinging himself up onto one of those giant pillbug-driven vehicles, for instance). I have no problem with CGI; to me it's just another means of doing FX.
      What bugs me about that show is how it contradicts the movie, mainly by having the urSkeks already split into the Mystics and the Skeksis BEFORE the Crystal cracked, and also with the ludicrous situations it presents, like Gelflings in silly hats having to wash retarded Podlings. I could happily do without the one Skeksis having her nose running all over the place. And I especially deplore how they're trying to make it the Thra edition of "Game of Thrones"; seven kingdoms? Really?

  • @charlesrense5199
    @charlesrense5199 Před 5 lety +63

    my mom read the books to me when I was a kid, so it's weird for me to hear this movie described as dark, creepy and disturbing. to me it was just like the books.

  • @ReptilianRichardRamirez
    @ReptilianRichardRamirez Před 4 lety +23

    Return to OZ is a masterpiece, it was released on the day I was born

  • @kevindiaz3459
    @kevindiaz3459 Před 4 lety +13

    I remember me and my sister finding this on PBS, no idea what it was. The wheelers scared the crap out of us. Nightmare fuel! But we loved it, and would watch it every chance we had. Everyone always thought we were crazy when we would tell them there was a second Oz movie, and that it was more like a horror movie. No one else ever heard of it when we were kids. Telling them about it must have been what it was like for Dorothy trying to explain to her family and the farm hands what Oz was like.
    Thank you for making this one Minty, as Return to Oz is a childhood classic for me.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 3 lety +1

      This is about the tenth or fifteenth Oz movie; the MGM film was the eighth.

  • @Spidercat616
    @Spidercat616 Před 6 lety +7

    Actually in the book Ozma of Oz, Tik Tok actually states how Wheelers cannot harm anyone -- causing the Wheelers to start crying and confess that they wrote the signs "Beware the Wheelers" to try and build up their scary reputation, like a lot of bullies.

    • @salixthedryad1941
      @salixthedryad1941 Před 5 lety +2

      I was thinking that as well, Ozma was my favorite Oz book

  • @Cubanbeauty
    @Cubanbeauty Před 6 lety +121

    THE WHEELERS SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 Před 5 lety +3

      they scared the post digestive matter out of a LOT of people

    • @OldManTheseDays
      @OldManTheseDays Před 5 lety +4

      The Wheelers... and GOOD GOD the heads in the cases.... JHC this movie was psychotic.

    • @GeorgiaKev1
      @GeorgiaKev1 Před 5 lety +2

      Did you ever read the original Oz books written by L. Frank Baum? If you do, this movie won’t bother you at all.

    • @electrofonickitty823
      @electrofonickitty823 Před 5 lety +1

      My sister and I loved those characters

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +2

      @UncleDeluxe Kids who had read the Oz books were not surprised or scared. The Wheelers were very quickly revealed as cowardly comic relief.

  • @picklesthewise
    @picklesthewise Před 3 lety +17

    Honestly, I loved any scary kids' movies growing up. They were challenging and gave credit to kids to be able to handle the emotional content, not simply pandering to what they felt was at their "level." A lot of the creative work on the films could inspire kids in the future as well, artists and such, whether it was scary or not.

  • @susanpasarow2680
    @susanpasarow2680 Před 2 lety +8

    I loved how the characters in the real world translated to characters in OZ, even Tick-Tock! This movie is and will always be brilliant! Who didn't love the heads in the glass cases???

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      Tik-Tok. I've always wondered why they went the MGM route with this movie, especially since Oz was not a dream in it.

  • @AdmiralOfTheSanguineSeas
    @AdmiralOfTheSanguineSeas Před 7 lety +30

    Oh damn! I'm so glad people remember this film other than me! Despite the gnome king being scary, the scene with Dorothy waking up princess Mombi's heads and screaming waking up her headless body terrified me the most when I was a kid.

    • @Riip2
      @Riip2 Před 6 lety +3

      Me, too. I never can't see this scene complete again, and I'm 35 now.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +1

      Nome, not "gnome."

    • @Alis_Grave_Nil
      @Alis_Grave_Nil Před 5 lety

      Right

  • @TheTurkaderr
    @TheTurkaderr Před 5 lety +18

    One of the greatest movies of the 80's and a personal favorite of my childhood!! I adore it!!

  • @benrosenbach6400
    @benrosenbach6400 Před 3 lety +7

    I liked this movie when I was a kid in the 80s, along with the "Dark Crystal".

    • @TheFartriloquist
      @TheFartriloquist Před 3 měsíci

      OMG! Return to OZ and Dark Crystal : So VERY GÜÜD!!!

  • @bellaloves2815
    @bellaloves2815 Před 3 lety +16

    It doesn’t follow the film “The Wizard of Oz”, it follows the novels that the original film completely disregarded.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci

      If by the "original" you mean the MGM musical (which was actually the third movie version of the story) it didn't disregard the original novel at all; it was just a loose adaptation. Did you ever hear of the stage musical which L. Frank Baum himself had a hand in creating? Here are just a few factoids about it:
      Dorothy Gale, a 19 year-old, is blown by a cyclone to Oz, along with her pet cow, Imogene, and a young couple who get engaged during the storm. She is a waitress named Trixie Tryfle, and he is Pastoria, exiled King of Oz. Locasta, the Good Witch of the North, gives Dorothy a magic ring with which she brings the Scarecrow to life. They soon meet the Tin Woodman and Cynthia Cynch, the Lady Lunatic, searching for her lost love Niccolo-- who turns out to be the Tin Woodman! Dorothy gets into a platonic romance with Sir Dashemoff Daily, the Poet Laureate of Oz. The Cowardly Lion turns up now and again, but has no lines. The Wizard turns out to be a villain who, with his henchman Sir Wiley Gyle, tries to stop Pastoria from taking back his throne. They fail, of course, and the whole thing ends up in a musical revue hosted by Glinda the Good.
      Now, then, what was that about MGM? 😉

  • @ben87graves
    @ben87graves Před 7 lety +32

    In my opinion this was on of the best Disney movies of the 80's. Everything out it is what I wanted out of a movie when I was a child. Would give anything to see this film in theaters with remastered sound and sharpness.

    • @lewisarmstrongjr
      @lewisarmstrongjr Před 6 lety +2

      BLACK CAULDRON Was Good Too!

    • @MegaIkedog
      @MegaIkedog Před 6 lety +1

      You should check out the Blu-ray that Disney released in 2015 for the 30th anniversary of the film. It doesn't have any special features but does include very good picture and sound quality! Even though it was a Disney Movie Club exclusive for members only, you can still find it on eBay for around 30$ new.

  • @TheIndependentLens
    @TheIndependentLens Před 7 lety +212

    They changed them to Ruby Slippers in "The Wizard of OZ" because it is an early technicolor film and they wanted shoes that would stand out. Silver shoes wouldn't look that incredible. I think it was a wise choice.

    • @DCMarvelMultiverse
      @DCMarvelMultiverse Před 6 lety +6

      MontcomHorror from the stage play before that. Red showed up better for a stage audience.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +4

      +Lost Age Comics If you mean the stage extravaganza from 1902, which ran for most of the first decade of the 20th century, there were no magic shoes at all; Dorothy received a magic ring from the Good Witch of the North.

    • @DCMarvelMultiverse
      @DCMarvelMultiverse Před 6 lety +2

      MaskedMan66 interesting. I have books that reference an early play doing that.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +1

      +Lost Age Comics What are the titles and ISBN numbers of those books? Can you quote me a passage?

    • @gemimuljadi2299
      @gemimuljadi2299 Před 6 lety

      Also another fun fact, MGM originally was going to use Shirley Temple (who was blonde) for the role of dorothy

  • @nealenns7869
    @nealenns7869 Před rokem +2

    I love this movie! Watched it a bunch as a kid. I never thought it was scary.

  • @iMarley_
    @iMarley_ Před 4 lety +9

    This movie is scary, even as a teenager i find myself spooked at times- but thats a good thing.
    The scares never go too far, and the scary parts add to the movie, seeing the wheelers so scared and fragile when they fail to take Dorothy to Mombi is fantastic, it makes it feel so much more awesome that the thing that freaked you out the most is crying.
    The special effects are also top notch and still hold up today, the heads, the stop motion, it all looks beautiful. The stop motion is also very very smooth its fantastic.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      I'm not disparaging you at all, but having grown up reading the Oz books, there was nothing I was unprepared for, so I just sat there enjoying seeing these things that had never been on a screen before, ever since the MGM _Wizard_ became the only Oz that anybody knew.

  • @Titleknown
    @Titleknown Před 6 lety +129

    Funny thing about the Wheelers not being effective at causing harm: That was directly brought up in the original book. Like, Tik-Tok basically grabs the head Wheeler and says all that, and it sends said Wheeler sobbing because all they really had was their intimdation factor...

    • @gojewla
      @gojewla Před 5 lety +11

      Thomas Johnson I am sure they could bludgeon someone with their wheels.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +6

      @@gojewla They wouldn't have the guts to do that. They are basically bullies.

    • @raucepowers8127
      @raucepowers8127 Před 5 lety +4

      Am I the only one to realize a Wheeler at full speed, clotheslining you with haymaker Wheel - would fucking KILL you?!
      All this “not dangerous” nonsense is exactly that... Wheelers would be incredibly dangerous

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      @Rauce Powers Except that they aren't; if you read the book or even watch this movie, you'll know that they are cowards at heart and wouldn't harm a fly.

    • @TuxKamen
      @TuxKamen Před 5 lety

      @@raucepowers8127 The only time we see them really at full speed was when they're drawing Mombi's cart (and maybe when they chase Dorothy to the desert and one's going so fast he can't stop and sands himself)

  • @oliviagajadhar3783
    @oliviagajadhar3783 Před 5 lety +60

    Do take a chicken with you!
    It's the chicken that saved them in the end, remember?

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +3

      Billina.

    • @helkays
      @helkays Před 4 lety +1

      My chickens have saved me also

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +1

      @@helkays By poisoning Nomes?

    • @helkays
      @helkays Před 4 lety +2

      @@MaskedMan66 I would unleash all my 10 girls to lay their eggs and kill the Nome King!

    • @helkays
      @helkays Před 4 lety +2

      @@MaskedMan66 by being the best depression therapy you could ever wish for

  • @queensteam9984
    @queensteam9984 Před 4 lety +13

    I'm so glad to have found over people that love this movie, I always said it felt like a cool "fever dream" type of movie and I love that aesthetic

    • @nescafe7781
      @nescafe7781 Před 3 lety

      I look at it more of a standalone movie but its an awesome one. It draws you into the movie like your really there

    • @gerbendekker3273
      @gerbendekker3273 Před 3 lety

      Exactly, the entirety of that movie brings me into that lucid dreaming mindset. Two other movies that accomplish that for me are Little Nemo and Annihilation.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      @@nescafe7781 It is a standalone movie.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      An ironic impression, since unlike the MGM movie, RtO shows Oz as being real.

  • @carynfisher9463
    @carynfisher9463 Před rokem +2

    I stumbled across this movie on TV once by pure chance, right at the scene where Dorothy and Billina find the ruined Yellow Brick Road. I was so fascinated by it, and then never heard or saw anything about it again until over ten years later, when I stumbled across the DVD in a clearance bin at a truck stop in West Virginia at 4:00 in the morning. Talk about surreal.

  • @Riip2
    @Riip2 Před 6 lety +46

    I watch originally this movie probably when I was 9. I'm 35 today, and the scene of the heads of Mombi's room (specially when her original head screams "Dorothy Gale!") still fright me.

    • @captin3149
      @captin3149 Před 6 lety +2

      For me the doctor scared me the most...because of all the 'villains' he wasn't being evil, he genuinely thought he was helping people.....Sometimes misguided villains are far worse than truly evil ones because you actually understand why they would do something, even if you don't understand how they came to their conclusions. (In this case electricity was, at the time, seen as a wonder cure by many, many medical theorists and progressives)

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      +Cap Tin Actually, as revealed in the novelization of the movie, Dr. Worley was working for the Nome King.

    • @captin3149
      @captin3149 Před 5 lety

      @@MaskedMan66 I didn't know they made a novelization. I was responding to Rip P's comment about being scared as a kid. I don't know if the doctor would have scared me more (as a kid) if I knew that or not.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      +Cap Tin Yes, I caught that. But I like to share trivia with people.

    • @melissacooper4282
      @melissacooper4282 Před 5 lety +1

      I thought that Dr. Worley was the Nome King in Oz. Just as Nurse Wilson is Princess Mombi and the staff who wheeled Dorothy were in fact the wheelers.

  • @martigon
    @martigon Před 5 lety +171

    Maybe the most esoteric Easter egg I’ve discovered on my own: Netflix’s Season 3 of “Stranger Things”
    In episode 7, alongside “Cocoon,” and “Fletch” we see “Return to Oz” on the movie theater marquee. I thought “Return to Oz” seemed like a random and odd choice as it’s not really a well known 80’s classic.
    Until, at a later point, when something reminded me of Mike, Karen, and Nancy’s family name....the Wheelers.

  • @rgerber
    @rgerber Před 2 lety +7

    If you look up images of Fairuza Balk (Dorothy), she could TOTALLY play a Harley Quinn type villain in a Batman movie. But best be it Tim Burton style.
    She just has that look. Love it!
    It's a crime she hasn't been utilized in such way.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +2

      I don't see her in that role. She has a great smile, but I'd see her more as Magpie or-- how's this for a twist?-- Alice.

    • @LindyQ
      @LindyQ Před 9 měsíci +2

      Best we got is Vicky Vallencourt

  • @spede1
    @spede1 Před 4 lety +4

    It was a sequel. The Nome King says "are you sure you didnt come back for these", Dorothy: "My ruby slippers". Which fell out of the sky when DOrothy returned back to Kansas which is why he was able to take over Oz

  • @mikefandomoniumelite7631
    @mikefandomoniumelite7631 Před 6 lety +228

    I have the poster from this signed by Fairuza Balk.

    • @simoliz03
      @simoliz03 Před 6 lety +4

      Nice!

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +6

      I gather she's a real sweetheart, under all the gothiness.

    • @brandonbentley8532
      @brandonbentley8532 Před 5 lety +2

      Envy you! Great actress

    • @truesoulghost2777
      @truesoulghost2777 Před 5 lety +3

      Nice.
      Did you hit it?

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 Před 5 lety +7

      @@MaskedMan66 I think all goth chicks actually are. Tough on the outside, fragile on the inside. The pale skin makes them even more fragile. Sigh.... I actually have such a goth-chick fetish >_

  • @darlingimscared
    @darlingimscared Před 6 lety +14

    It's incredible this film exists at all. I heard the sound track was done by a highly sought after dude who didn't commit to many films, you can tell, the soundtrack is great.
    Just a remarkable film and for me I feel it's a glimps into the real world of the books, this is definitely my OZ anyway

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      It's very much in the spirit of the books.

  • @number1authority
    @number1authority Před 2 lety +10

    This film is one of the most beautiful, terrifying, edifying and profound works of art ever made. Every frame, every line of dialogue is a multifaceted jewel-like life lesson - and most amazing of all… it’s an unsolicited collaboration with Frank L. Baum that spans pretty much the whole the 20th Century. It actually adds richness to the already timeless literary work it was based upon. Fairuza Balk is pitch perfect, the art direction and special effects are still stunning. I can’t get over this one.
    Not much of a feel-good kid flick, to say the least. Ha.
    So much the better. Gotta grow up sooner or later.

    • @annaluisadaigneault1439
      @annaluisadaigneault1439 Před 2 lety +3

      agree 100% with this assessment! every scene, every line of dialog is vivid and well-crafted. the score is a masterpiece too.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +1

      Seeing the Nome King's magic undone, Oz restored to its former glory, and Dorothy happy at home didn't leave you with a good feeling?

  • @ericthompson3982
    @ericthompson3982 Před 3 lety +7

    I LOVED this movie when I first saw it as a kid. The stuff we had back then was dark a lot of the time. Secret of Nimh, Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn, etc.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      People misinterpret movies and stories like those. They aren't "dark," their lead characters fight against-- and eventually overcome-- the darkness.

  • @iidirectxii7545
    @iidirectxii7545 Před 7 lety +51

    Return To Oz was certainly ahead of it's time, awesome movie

  • @CommanderRick78
    @CommanderRick78 Před 4 lety +127

    I was like today years old when I realized Dorthy in Return to Oz was that psycho chic from The Craft..🤔

    • @Aliandrin
      @Aliandrin Před 4 lety +7

      She played it so well that it didn't even matter that her character's name was Nancy. Badass crazy evil witch... named Nancy. Takes a lot to pull that off.

    • @jimmymelendez1836
      @jimmymelendez1836 Před 4 lety +5

      Today years old? Huh?

    • @codyelson1906
      @codyelson1906 Před 4 lety +3

      Which one they were all a little physco

    • @Ottophil
      @Ottophil Před 4 lety +3

      Jimmy Melendez today is not a number of days old. Without knowing their birth date its a completely worthless statement. They should just say “i found out today” or say their age. They are fucking retards

    • @christianaguirre4069
      @christianaguirre4069 Před 4 lety +7

      She was also in American History X, The Waterboy, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Almost Famous, and others

  • @Notinmylifetime
    @Notinmylifetime Před rokem +2

    I’ve just re discovered this movie. My 3 year old son loves pumpkins. He’s not scared of Jack at all. I don’t remember being scared of this movie at all. Actually inspired me to be more weird. ☺️

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +1

      I'm frankly alarmed that so many people claim to have been frightened, traumatized, emotionally scarred, etc. by this movie. It was fun!

  • @jessicashipp935
    @jessicashipp935 Před 3 lety +4

    My favorite movie, ever since I first saw it when I was 5. I'm happy there are others out there who feel the same

  • @veganvendetta0187
    @veganvendetta0187 Před 7 lety +97

    I loved this movie as a kid and still do as an adult. It's wonderful x

    • @Ami05
      @Ami05 Před 6 lety +4

      Really loved this film as a kid and adult too. I think it impacted me a lot

  • @geekgroupie42
    @geekgroupie42 Před 5 lety +94

    when even i see a green ornament i still touch it and say "oz"

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +5

      Of course in the book, they said, "Ev."

    • @geekgroupie42
      @geekgroupie42 Před 5 lety +4

      @@MaskedMan66 I didn't know that I haven't read the book... thanks!

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety +4

      @@geekgroupie42 This comes a year later, but the book in question is called "Ozma of Oz." :-)

    • @stephaniemitchard
      @stephaniemitchard Před 4 lety +2

      Oh my god so do I hahaha!

    • @infirmus3446
      @infirmus3446 Před 4 lety

      What if a charity shop was full of them?

  • @trevorjobgen4906
    @trevorjobgen4906 Před 4 lety +3

    Return to Oz is a fantastic film with some of the coolest visual effects. As creative as "The Labyrinth" and the original "Dark Crystal".

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci

      The 1980's was the best decade for fantasy films, hands down!

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada8923 Před 4 lety +14

    God I love Faruzia Balk. I had the biggest crush on her ever since "the worst witch".

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 3 lety

      @Carl Liddle Amateur herbologist, really, let's be honest. ;-)

  • @akufromthefuture7159
    @akufromthefuture7159 Před 5 lety +47

    The wheelers had their faults mentioned in the books.
    They acknowledged their only true power was intimidation.

    • @Aliandrin
      @Aliandrin Před 4 lety +6

      And the movie did such a good job portraying that, that it comes across as a flaw in the movie itself.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 3 lety

      @@Aliandrin It's no "flaw," what are you talking about?

    • @unclebuzzyschurchofgroove6190
      @unclebuzzyschurchofgroove6190 Před 3 lety

      No doubt part of the symbolism?

  • @catherineholden6388
    @catherineholden6388 Před 7 lety +106

    Return to Oz is a sequel, just a sequel of Baum's Wizard of Oz book. It is based on the 2nd and 3rd books. It is a clever combination of both books, which were about that dark. The look is pure Baum/Neil with exception to the dark locks on Dorothy. The original book was illustrated by W.W. Denslow and had her dark with pigtails. All the rest of the books were illustrated by John R. Neil and she was blonde. Although I love the 1939 film more than any other film, this IS Baum's OZ and it is great.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +2

      Denslow's Dorothy was not dark-haired, and RtO is its own animal, containing elements of the books and of the MGM movie.

    • @tricorvus2673
      @tricorvus2673 Před 6 lety +2

      I need to ❤️ this knowledge

    • @PoeticProse7
      @PoeticProse7 Před 6 lety +6

      I concur. It IS a sequel just not considered an immediate one. People get hung up on the Garland film being the only iteration, but it wasn't a truly faithful adaptation. If this isn't a sequel because tone, look, and studio are different, then The Avengers is not a sequel to all the Phase 1 Marvel films.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety

      + Elizabeth Athineu There are other things to be considered, such as the two different surnames that the two different versions of Uncle Henry have (Gale in the MGM film, Blue in RtO). The movie that is officially considered the sequel to the MGM film in the animated feature "Journey Back to Oz."

    • @Jillbles
      @Jillbles Před 6 lety +2

      Well said.

  • @littlelily601
    @littlelily601 Před 4 lety +3

    Still one of my top 10 favorite movies. My love of skeleton keys stems from this movie, too.

    • @radiofriendly
      @radiofriendly Před 10 měsíci +1

      Oh, thank you for saying that. Yes, and I believe it also features in the book? Yep, me too!

  • @Sindollx666x
    @Sindollx666x Před 3 lety +6

    I still plan to make a wheeler costume someday. I've always found them unsettling, but kind of amazing though not much a threat.
    I wanna update the costume a bit giving it a more Joker ego flair, adding am industrial goth edge to it to creepy it up more!
    I've ALWAYS loved this film. And I'm so happy to hear someone else point out the hypocrisy of the doc trying to make her see a face in something while simultaneously trying to rid her of imagination!!
    I also thinks that might be one of the last things she saw that triggered Tick Tock in her imagination.
    I also think it's strange but adorable when she combs the pumpkin who has no hair and you hear the teeth just scrape against pumpkin skin.
    I think of the blonde little girl as a casualty of the doctors machine , which really converts peoples mind to scrambled eggs.
    I think she might be a ghost trapped trying to warn Dorothy to run away while she still can.
    Her lunch box Aunt Em packed getting taken away by the terrifying nurse (who ends up Momby) is why she dreams up a lunch pail tree (another fun prop I'd die to have! I Wanna make the pails and set them up and host a picnic event that way!)
    It's her way of getting her lunch box back, something familiar and totally mundane, in an unfamiliar terrifying place.
    I think the ghost girl gets set free by Dorothy's rebellious act and making what was truly happening (experimental torture pseudo "science") aware to the public.
    I also think all the other wailing and crying patients and other ghostly casualties are repressed in the headless and missing persons of Oz. They in turn get set free when the lightening storm burns down the building and the doc within. Dorothy sees them all happy and citizens of Oz.
    Ozma the ghost girl gets to ascend to a sort of heaven in a rising , rightfully restored, magical ,wonderous land of Oz.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci +1

      The Wheelers are all noise and bluster; at heart, they're more cowardly than the Lion.
      Pinstripes!
      It's not hypocrisy as such, just the typical physician thing about putting a child at ease. The hypocrisy is that he wants to frighten her to death once Aunt Em is gone.
      It's Tik-Tok, and she didn't dream in this movie; Oz is real, as Walter Murch made clear back in the day.
      That was cute.
      Obviously the girl had all her marbles, and was, in fact, Ozma.
      As was stated in the movie, and made even more clear in the novelization, Ozma had been enchanted into the mirror, to be watched over by the Nome King's agent Dr. Worley.
      It's Mombi, and I like your idea!
      Again, Ozma was no ghost, and when Dorothy wished to be in both places at once, Ozma finally was able to step through the mirror back into her palace.
      Murch damaged his own assertion that Oz was real by creating all those MGM-esque parallels.

  • @czarinastrough5768
    @czarinastrough5768 Před 6 lety +44

    One of my favorite movies when I was a kid!

  • @AngelDRose
    @AngelDRose Před 5 lety +136

    Jean Marsh was also Queen Bavmorda in the cult fantasy classic Willow 😉

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +6

      And two different versions of Morgan LeFay in two different T.V. shows in 1989.

    • @GusMcGuire
      @GusMcGuire Před 5 lety +10

      And also one of the co-creators of 1970s period drama 'Upstairs Downstairs'.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +4

      @GusMcGuire Correct! A very accomplished woman

    • @TuxKamen
      @TuxKamen Před 5 lety +5

      I read that, after playing Princess Mombi and getting the part of Bavmorda, Jean Marsh lamented, "The children are going to hate me!" or something to that effect

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +1

      @@TuxKamen I think she was joking. :-)

  • @moshomaniac1
    @moshomaniac1 Před 3 lety +2

    I actually really like Return to Oz. No, it’s not Wizard of Oz, but I watched it objectively and ended up really liking it. It’s one of the most underrated films of the 80s.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci

      There have been a multiplicity of Oz productions on stage, screen, radio, and T.V. for 123 years. 🙂 Most have something going for them. Some are rubbish. But all prove the staying power of L. Frank Baum's fairyland.

    • @moshomaniac1
      @moshomaniac1 Před 6 měsíci

      L. Frank Baum’s original OZ book is a timeless classic. I’ve read it, and it is actually quite different from the movie. The basic plot is the same but there are lots of omissions.

  • @8Eli
    @8Eli Před rokem +1

    This is why I love Return to Oz! It’s because it’s exactly how the books were! I LOVE the original books, so seeing Return to Oz when I was little was amazing!

  • @jasleduc4638
    @jasleduc4638 Před 4 lety +11

    They harassed Return to Oz for not being enough like the Wizard of Oz but Return to Oz is a better adaptation of Baum's stories then Wizard of Oz ever was

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci

      If you mean the MGM movie, Maud Baum loved it. Besides, have you ever heard of the stage musical her husband co-created?

  • @rosebelle3148
    @rosebelle3148 Před 7 lety +32

    Return to Oz. My 80's childhood.

  • @roadyinzer2461
    @roadyinzer2461 Před 4 lety +16

    “Something wicked this way comes” was a Disney movie that scared me as a child growing up.

    • @rachelmckitterick
      @rachelmckitterick Před 3 lety +4

      Omg yes! That scene where the old man is getting his hand crushed has stayed with me for decades. Plus overall so dark and creeepy.

    • @jameslangley2196
      @jameslangley2196 Před 3 lety +1

      I don’t think that was a kids movie. It was Disney but it was for adults

    • @roadyinzer2461
      @roadyinzer2461 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jameslangley2196 yeah. But I still saw it as a kid.

    • @rachelmckitterick
      @rachelmckitterick Před 3 lety +2

      @@roadyinzer2461 agreed. It wasn't for very young children, obviously, but it was probably aimed for roughly 10 and up. Expecually kids who liked creepy. That knuckle scene I'll never forget.

    • @roadyinzer2461
      @roadyinzer2461 Před 3 lety +2

      @@rachelmckitterick watching movies like this at such a young age is the reason I love horror movies today!

  • @mollycundall5925
    @mollycundall5925 Před 3 lety +4

    Man I love this movie. I don't understand why everyone thought it was so scary. It was beautiful, suspenseful and had such amazing special effects! I mean, read the BOOKS and you'll see a lot of different themes explored that were kind of dark and bold for their time. :)

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +1

      I'm not sure what you mean by anything being "dark and bold" in the books. But it's always nice to meet a fellow brave person. 🙂

  • @hanniffydinn6019
    @hanniffydinn6019 Před 6 lety +47

    Masterpiece and brilliant movie ahead of its time, it's accurate to the books...it's a dark kids story......

    • @henkdachief
      @henkdachief Před 5 lety

      its not accurate to details tho

    • @electrofonickitty823
      @electrofonickitty823 Před 5 lety

      The wheelers are really close to me at least

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +1

      @henkdachief It's an adaptation, not a retelling. Baum did the same thing with his Oz movies.

    • @henkdachief
      @henkdachief Před 5 lety

      @@MaskedMan66 still not accurate tho

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      @henkdachief *ahem* It's an adaptation, not a retelling.

  • @mythicheart8426
    @mythicheart8426 Před 7 lety +35

    When I was little I loved this film, I thought the wheelers looked cool and the nome king being allergic to eggs was funny, still one of my childhood favourites

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +4

      Not allergic; eggs are poison to Nomes.

    • @melissacooper4282
      @melissacooper4282 Před 5 lety +2

      Well people that are allergic to something sometimes if they accidentally ate it it would be fatal.

  • @vickielawson3114
    @vickielawson3114 Před 3 lety +17

    I always laughed at the part where the gnome king lifts his robe and he's wearing the ruby slippers!
    It would've been great if he'd kept pulling that robe and showed he was also wearing some nylon stockings!

    • @dawndance1
      @dawndance1 Před 2 lety

      I would legit steam at the top of my lungs…. YAAAAASSSSS QUEEEEN!!! You better WORK!!!! Lmao I WOULD BE LIVING FOR THAT!!! Thank you so much for this comment. Cause It’s officially going to be one of my new fav that I’m not going to be able to watch without snapping and yelling yaaaassss at the screen.!!!!! Lmao. Soooo flippin’ funny!!!! Bitch is not about tryin to get his pumps snatched!!!! 😂🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼👑👑👑🌈👠👠. I’m honestly still laughing as I’m writing this!! So CLASSIC!

    • @jamesjoy7547
      @jamesjoy7547 Před rokem

      Ha!
      Then he breaks into song:
      "I'm just a sweet stalagmite . . . "

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      Why would he?

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci

      Nome.

  • @Spectra651
    @Spectra651 Před 4 lety +4

    Given how safe and sanitary Disney's brand has always been, I still find it incredibly ironic that *their* Oz movie was the dark, intense, horror-filled one that scarred my childhood, and the happy, fun, song-filled Oz movie was made by MGM. It's honestly impossible to choose which movie I love more because I love them both for completely opposite reasons.

    • @jeremyriley1238
      @jeremyriley1238 Před rokem

      I agree, especially after all the editing they did to The Black Cauldron (which as a film that was also dark and based on a book series).

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      The Nome King and his intentions toward Oz were dark, but Dorothy was all about light and hope, so no, this isn't a "dark" movie.

  • @merlin109876
    @merlin109876 Před 6 lety +3

    I rarely agree with the Hollywood film critics... this is another reason why. This is a criminally underrated film.

  • @katiecottrell9111
    @katiecottrell9111 Před 6 lety +6

    I absolutely love this movie! I grew up watching it. Loved Tik-Tok and Gump.

  • @briananewcomer689
    @briananewcomer689 Před 4 lety +9

    I loved this movie growing up. Went to see it in the theater when it came out. Still love it

    • @GiveMeSomeDiscount
      @GiveMeSomeDiscount Před 3 lety +1

      My parents took me to the premier at Radio City Music Hall... The soundtrack is so hauntingly beautiful. One of the best ever written.

  • @rachelmckitterick
    @rachelmckitterick Před 3 lety +1

    This movie scared the crap out of me. I LOVED it! Awesome review of this.

  • @doneieieak4985
    @doneieieak4985 Před 6 lety +4

    You’re wrong about Return to Oz not being a sequel.
    1. The reason they’re different is because Disney owned the rights to all the L. Frank Baum Oz books, and Disney wanted to keep it as dark as the books. However, after Return to Oz, Disney lost the rights to the Oz books and MGM claimed it when Disney lost it. Now, MGM still owns it.
    2. The only reason MGM didn’t make Return to Oz was because they didn’t own the rights to the books.
    3. The only reason the actors are not only different person but aged differently is because Dorothy was supposed to be 11 in the Wizard Of Oz, but Judy Garland was 17 so it make her look older. Judy Garland died nearly 20 years before Return to Oz, so they had to find a replacement. They wanted someone to look like her, but the only people who could really do that was Judy’s daughters and they were like 40. They chose the girl in Return to Oz to match her actual age.
    4. The Ruby Slippers were silver in the books, yes, but they changed it to Ruby because the Wizard Of Oz was technicolor and they wanted to show how technicolor could change movies.
    5. How did you think Return to Oz wasn’t a sequel? Dorothy in Return to Oz finds the house from the Wizard Of Oz and says she remembers the tornado and her living there.
    6. It’s not a follow up to the book. After L. Frank Baum made the first Oz Book, he made two more. That’s what Return to Oz comes from. It’s also following the movie, which is why they keep bringing up the connections to the first movie. Even Dorothy only appears in one of the two books, it’s based on those two books. Dorothy replaced a boy named Tip who , in the book, was the one who went on the adventure.

  • @DizGrl
    @DizGrl Před 6 lety +12

    I loved this movie because it was bizarre and different from the musical. I was really happy when they incorporated it into the Mains Street Electrical Parade. Great vid! Gonna watch more

  • @LowellLucasJr.
    @LowellLucasJr. Před 4 lety +4

    I remember staying up late watching Disney Channel in 1991 seeing the film as a kid...it was trippy as hell but I still love it to this day!

  • @wendytardieu2872
    @wendytardieu2872 Před 3 lety +1

    This movie shaped me. It does pay more tribute to the books. Thanks for the deep dive. 80's kids' dark content makes capable pandemic survivors of us all.

  • @BayushiGemma
    @BayushiGemma Před 5 lety +34

    The Witch heads waking up and Wheelers were scary stuff to a kid like me back in the 80s!

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +1

      Even when the Wheelers were shown to be cowards and comic relief?

    • @jamiebraswell5520
      @jamiebraswell5520 Před 5 lety +3

      @@MaskedMan66 , yes, the Wheelers were scary at first.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +1

      @Jamie Braswell I didn't ask about "at first."

    • @valleygirltotallyforsure
      @valleygirltotallyforsure Před 5 lety

      Yeah the heads were too much when I was little!

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety

      @Melanie Rose I had already read "Ozma of Oz" years before, so I wasn't surprised.

  • @Booth81
    @Booth81 Před 7 lety +25

    I watched this movie multiple times as a kid, and I was never scared of it. My dad had read some of the old Baum novels to me, so I was well prepared for the weirdness. I was intrigued by all the wonderfully imaginative stuff they put in, and besides, I'd had nightmares from that time that were way scarier.

  • @LunetteFox
    @LunetteFox Před 3 lety +2

    Yeah its scarier than the original but I think part of its charm is it takes a realistic look at what people would probably think about Dorothy when she returned from Oz. Talking about a talking scarecrow, a walking man made of tin, and a talking lion, people would think she was crazy at that time period.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      The MGM movie isn't the "original," it's the third big-screen version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," and the eighth movie based on the Oz books. 🙂 Considering that in the book Dorothy was away for weeks, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were just happy to have her back, never mind the tales she told. And of course eventually, they all went to live in Oz in the sixth book.

  • @TheFartriloquist
    @TheFartriloquist Před 3 měsíci +1

    Yeah… so best analysis EVER! I knew Fairuza growing up in Vancouver as a family friend, and she encouraged my 7-ish year old self to be an actor!

  • @SamuraiGoth
    @SamuraiGoth Před 7 lety +65

    Jean Marsh was super scary as Bavmorda in Willow(great film).

    • @bezoticallyyours83
      @bezoticallyyours83 Před 6 lety +4

      Marli Andersen I love Willow!

    • @celticcc3658
      @celticcc3658 Před 6 lety +5

      Marli Andersen thanks, I was trying to think what other big film I recognised her from. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      She also played two different versions of Morgan Le Fay, one on "Doctor Who" and the other in a telefilm of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."

    • @melissacooper4282
      @melissacooper4282 Před 5 lety +1

      Did you know that Jean Marsh played the part of Alicia the robot in the Twilight Zone episode The Lonely.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety

      +Melissa Cooper I did! I remember seeing that on T.V. and thinking, "That's never... is it? Yes! It's Jean Marsh!"

  • @sailorbychoice1
    @sailorbychoice1 Před 5 lety +3

    Dorothy was supposed to be closer to 10 than Judy Garland could accurately portray, I saw this film and if you judge it vs the books rather than the movie-musical, it is actually very good. It is a shame Fairuza Balk didn't get a starring credit; instead "introducing" her with three secondary character's actors getting higher billing. Child actors still get little of the respect they deserve. Fairuza Balk was excellent in her performance.

  • @gravesclayton3604
    @gravesclayton3604 Před 2 lety +4

    Mark, as an adult I also found this film to be very good as a stand-alone film, as well as an introduction to the books that inspired it. (Siskel & Ebert often had grandios expectations of films and were rarely as object in their film reviews as, say, Leonard Maltin) The soundtrack may not be as legendary as the 1939 film, but very few are, and it is still good. I enjoyed it as much as other fantasy films like Dark Crystal and Fern Gully.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      The 1980's were, I maintain, the best decade ever for fantasy films.

  • @CigaretteLand
    @CigaretteLand Před 4 lety +7

    This movie truly changed my life the trailer still makes the hairs on my arm stand up but in a good way. i truly couldn't explain with out tellin u i am crazy but this movie is amazing

  • @vajeye-nar6172
    @vajeye-nar6172 Před 5 lety +18

    I loved the tree that had the sandwiches growing on it.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 5 lety +2

      You mean dinner pails.

    • @Scripture-Man
      @Scripture-Man Před 4 lety

      That was one of my favourite bits of the film, but it was still kind of creepy and scary.

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 Před 4 lety +3

      Oh yeah the idea of basically plucking lunchboxes from a tree was such a cool concept. Something you can really only find in OZ.

    • @tan11115
      @tan11115 Před 4 lety +1

      Lunch pail tree

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 4 lety

      @@Scripture-Man HOW?????

  • @JonGarcia
    @JonGarcia Před 6 lety +18

    The movie's score is absolutely beautiful. Going to go listen to that today while working. Thanks!

    • @joelspears3106
      @joelspears3106 Před 5 lety +1

      It's a stunning score. Great beard BTW. lol

  • @amandaandherstuffedanimals1308

    Despite it’s very dark imagery I actually kind a like this film sure it’s dark but also has some sweet tender moments with some of the characters interacting with Dorothy and being good friends to her

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem

      The whole point of the story is that the Nome King has cast a pall over Oz, and that Dorothy's job is to dispel it, which she does.

  • @mouseyhousewife
    @mouseyhousewife Před 3 lety +1

    I still have PTSD from watching this as a child. I remember having nightmares after going to the cinema to see it.

  • @CaptianBastard7
    @CaptianBastard7 Před 7 lety +188

    OH SNAP! Someone Other Than Me Remembers This Exists!

    • @frefification
      @frefification Před 7 lety +8

      Jeff El Heffe B I had exactly the same reaction!!!, I spoke of this flick many time and the blank expressions I got back truly mad me think I'd created the whole thing in my head lol

    • @lennonscat
      @lennonscat Před 7 lety +6

      I own the DVDs and the VHS Cassettes.... this movie is excellent....

    • @TimeBunny
      @TimeBunny Před 7 lety +3

      Jeff El Heffe B I actually forgot my mum had taken me to see this movie as a kid. It wasn't until years later that she reminded of it as it was on TV. Then I was like "OMG yes! I remember it now!"

    • @benvasquez5564
      @benvasquez5564 Před 7 lety +2

      Jeff El Heffe B loved this movie too

    • @charlenefulton1452
      @charlenefulton1452 Před 7 lety +1

      lmao ikr!

  • @davidpumpkinsjr.5108
    @davidpumpkinsjr.5108 Před 4 lety +8

    I like the use of symbolism in the Kansas scenes. Aside from the obvious (the doctor is the Nome King, the nurse is Mombi, the orderlies are the Wheelers, etc), the mysterious girl (Ozma) is always shown in reflection first, she is barefoot and she gives Dorothy the jack-o-lantern.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 11 měsíci

      I've never quite understood why the MGM-type setup, considering that Oz was real in this movie.

  • @melissabucknoff3866
    @melissabucknoff3866 Před 3 lety +1

    Oh the casual 80s horror our parents had no hesitation about popping in a VHS tape for us to keep occupied. This movie is bonkers in all the right ways!

  • @jessykapop
    @jessykapop Před 4 lety +3

    I love return to oz. when I was a kid this was my favorite movie . I use to watch it all the time. I still enjoy it as an adult

  • @keshiaanders6452
    @keshiaanders6452 Před 7 lety +57

    Fun Fact:
    Tip is actually Princess Ozma.
    She was under a spell that turned her into a boy.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +4

      In the books, yes, but not in this movie.

    • @darlingimscared
      @darlingimscared Před 6 lety +4

      I may have to read the books seems like there's a lot in em

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před 6 lety +2

      +Daniel Symes There are forty canon Oz books; L. Frank Baum wrote the first fourteen.

    • @darlingimscared
      @darlingimscared Před 6 lety +1

      MaskedMan66 loads we don't see I bet, daymn this was a good film hahah

    • @heaintloveu
      @heaintloveu Před 6 lety +1

      I always thought her name was pronounced Ozmith

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Před 7 lety +10

    my favorite kids movie of the 80's. love all the dark themes

  • @d12kiem7
    @d12kiem7 Před 4 lety +1

    I loved this movie! I love it was bizarre and a truly eerie fantasy.

  • @PetePuebla
    @PetePuebla Před 4 lety +2

    This movie should be a Halloween classic.