'oz The Great' Review: Wonderful Wizard

'Oz the Great' review: Wonderful wizard MOVIE REVIEW 3-D leap over the rainbow a heartfelt, magical ride Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion don't even appear in this one, which takes place some 30 years before the 1939 film, back when the Wizard was just getting his start and the Wicked Witches of the East and West still looked really, really good. Everything else deserves praise, and that includes the opening credits sequence, done in black and white, in lettering from the turn of the 20th century, with the camera seeming to be flying toward the credits as a series of walls part and doors open. [...] it's possible to look at "Oz the Great and Powerful" as a dream from which young Oz never wakes up because he's dead - that he's a dreamer more like the girl in "Pan's Labyrinth" than Dorothy. [...] just a thought, something to play around with after you've seen the movie. Upon landing in Oz, he meets Theodora (Mila Kunis), a vulnerable young woman who is struck by the coincidence that his name is Oz. Pay attention to how she's dressed - Gary Jones' costume design is more than vivid. [...] the most moving element in the film is the character of a porcelain doll, whose legs are broken in an aerial attack by an evil witch.