Video Review: OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL

A couple weeks ago Joey Paur and I screened Oz The Great and Powerful on the Disney lot. Joey screened it twice and said he likes the movie even more after a second screening. I think Michelle Williams is channeling Marilyn Monroe. All this and more in our video review.

Director:
Sam Raimi

Stars:
James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, and Joey King

Synopsis:
Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.