Synopsis
An all-new adventure down the yellow brick road.
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Return to Oz
1985 Directed by Walter Murch
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Fairuza Balk Nicol Williamson Jean Marsh Piper Laurie Matt Clark Sean Barrett Denise Bryer Brian Henson Lyle Conway Justin Case John Alexander Deep Roy Emma Ridley Michael Sundin Tim Rose Stephen Norrington Sophie Ward Fiona Victory Pons Maar Rachel Ashton Robbie Barnett Ailsa Berk Peter Elliott Roger Ennals Michele Hine Mark Hopkins Colin Skeaping Ken Stevens Philip Tan Show All…
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Tip Tipping Andy Bradford Gareth Milne Colin Skeaping Elaine Ford Cheryl Brown Alison Lynn Nicola Roche Sarah White
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Alternative Titles
The Wizard of Oz 2 - Return to Oz, De Wonderlijke Wereld van Oz, Oz - en fantastisk värld, Oz - Eine phantastische Welt, Nel fantastico mondo di Oz, Oz, un monde extraordinaire, Oz - Eine fantastische Welt, Oz, un mundo fantástico, O Mundo Fantástico de Oz, オズ, Επιστροφή στη Χώρα του Οζ, בחזרה לארץ עוץ, Возвращение в страну Оз, Visszatérés Óz Földjére, Powrót do Krainy Oz, Завръщане в Оз, 마법의 나라 오즈, Oz, 重返奥兹国
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USAPG
10 Jul 1985
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UKU
06 Sep 1985
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Italy
26 Sep 1985
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Germany12
09 Oct 1985
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23 Oct 1985
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29 Mar 1986
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01 Feb 2016
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31 Dec 1985
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19 Nov 2003
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09 Apr 2016
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Belgium
09 Apr 2016
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France
23 Oct 1985
- TheatricalU
Germany
26 Sep 1985
- Theatrical12
Italy
06 Sep 1985
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29 Mar 1986
- Theatrical
Netherlands
09 Oct 1985
- Theatrical6
19 Nov 2003
- Physical6 DVD
01 Feb 2016
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10 Jul 1985
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21 Jun 1985
- TheatricalPG
31 Dec 1985
- PhysicalPG Walt Disney Home Video #341V (VHS)
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you know what i love in my sequel to the happiest and most beloved musical of all time? misery
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LOVED this as a kid and have thought for years that it couldn't possibly hold up as an adult. I mean, I couldn't help but keep thinking of Dark Souls and its mythopoeic, ruined fantasy world — dead, but crawling with life sustained by magic; treacherous, yet warmly welcoming to its chosen interloper. This is one way of saying it held up for me. Its puppetry, stop motion and lighting effects are all kinds of wonderful and spooky.
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decided i would die for jack pumpkinhead no questions asked, fashion icon and baby
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After this rewatch I can safely conclude that it'll be a long while before I show this to my children. It is a very disturbing film.
L. Frank Baum's first foray into the world of Oz already had, even though it is a classic novel for children, some dark undertones in that it dealt with themes such as death, overcoming evil and dealing with the treacherousness of the adult world. This film borrows heavily from the third novel in the Oz series, Ozma of Oz, and manages to delve deep into the darker subtext of the premise of the Oz universe.
In essence, Oz only exists in Dorothy's mind. One could even say that Oz is her and the different…
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the ground zero for the 'revisionist fantasy' trend of retroactively drawing out the sinister implications of classic archetypal stories, especially the notion that childhood dreams can never the same upon retrospection. oz is overgrown and decrepit, the yellowbrick road is shattered, the people of oz petrified into an eternal stasis of dusty decay. dorothy's fanciful escapism is now framed as mental illness that needs to be shocked out of her. all the new companions for her are piecemeal creatures, broken and unnatural, composites of a shattered cosmos; even the evil queen can't be satisfied with just one head. every one of these fantasy characters is a shard of a shattered human consciousness that cannot cohere into a beautiful unity of…
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Your family learns the very important lesson that: it's better to have you, somewhat crazy but still you, than not have you at all because actually you drowned in a flooded river after the asylum where your family tried to have u committed is hit by lightning and burns to the ground.
Though the ending is a heartbreaking reminder of the way in which women are expected to hide anything which does not conform so actually it's more like: your family learns nothing in terms of being more accepting, you just learn to hide things from them better. Next up: the kids just accept their reality won't be shared by adults but who needs adults anyway classic, Children of the Corn. Join me! It'll be corny. 🌽🌽🌽
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i think one of the most heartbreaking things about how much i love this film is looking at all the incredibly dismissive reviews since it’s release that just writes it off as “nightmare fuel” and seems to have no interest in engaging with what is a beautiful, thoughtful and charming adaptation of baum’s books that articulates ideas of childhood trauma through the use and disruption of distinct iconography, it is literally tragic that walter murch did not direct again after this because this is an incredible work and i will fight tooth and nail for it.
another heartbreaking thing is the fact that disney plus thinks that because i watched this film i would enjoy oz the great and powerful…
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