#Oz the great and powerful cast finley movie#
#Oz the great and powerful cast finley full#

The klutzy performer finds himself in the middle of a ferocious tornado.

After one of his shows, in which he successfully pulls off a few illusions, but then tells a little girl (Joey King) he canвЂ™t heal her sickness, Oz is chased up into a hot air balloon by a fellow angry circus performer (presumably because Oz romanced his lady). He is assisted by Frank (Zach Braff), who Oz refers to as his вЂњmonkeyвЂќ and also has a relationship with local lady Annie (Michelle Williams). After an impressive credit sequence, we are brought back to the wondrous characters of this franchise and itвЂ™s with a sneaky player Oz (James Franco), who is a magician in a traveling circus show.

#Oz the great and powerful cast finley movie#

This movie starts as the original Oz did, in black-and-white. But ultimately, whether the filmmakers are sticking to BaumвЂ™s books, no one actually cares the most important aspect when handling material such as this is to make an audience believe in the largest of fantasies. At RaimiвЂ™s side are screenwriters Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire, the latter known for Rabbit Hole and Inkheart and more recently, the revival of fairy tale creatures with Rise of the Guardians. He rides into the popular but vacant territory on the hot air of DisneyвЂ™s success with Alice in Wonderland, a nightmarish grab bag of Tim BurtonвЂ™s half-baked ideas that captivated stoners and apparently other people to the Mouse House international payday of over a billion dollars. The latest wannabe storytelling wizard to return us to Oz is director Sam Raimi, known equally for creating one of the first great comic book movies ( Spider-Man 2) and then following that up with one of the most disappointing ( Spider-Man 3). Frank BaumвЂ™s story of previous, potential, political relevancy (I didnвЂ™t make that up, itвЂ™s on Wikipedia). Instead, the paths to Oz have led to some major head scratchers, of which IвЂ™m sure weвЂ™ve experienced at least one from Sidney LumetвЂ™s The Wiz (billed on IMDb as вЂњan adaptation that tries to capture the essence of the African American experienceвЂќ) to Walter MurchвЂ™s freaky Return to Oz to whatever miniseries on TV has also taken a hack at olвЂ™ L.

#Oz the great and powerful cast finley full#

Despite being featured in an establishing 1939 movie ( The Wizard of Oz) that is so well assembled and full of movie wonder, the falsely easy path of traveling through Oz does not lead to immediate greatness. Not because the brick road of yellow only exists in delusions of victims of traumatic events, but because it belongs to territory that is the most treacherous a franchise. Any filmmaker will tell you that the simple advice of вЂњfollow the Yellow Brick RoadвЂќ is a bunch of B.S.