Title: Strange and Beautiful
Product review: Sometimes wonderful things aren't wrapped in shiny wrapping. Such is Return to Oz which finds a happy, realistic, medium between the 1939 film and L. Frank Baum's books. The grenadine has been sucked out, but remnants of the 1939 film still remain (such as the RUBY slippers). What we find could be another socio-commentary film - the aftermath of growing up and child-hood dreams (or the reality of child-hood dreams revisted - that not everything is as it seemed). Fairuza Balk is beautiful and real in her creation of Dorothy - the score is haunting and has some of the same orchestral beauty of Arthur Freed's 1939 score. Some issues in this movie are not for kid's who grow up on Gumby and Barney - but if you wanna jolt your kid into reality at an early age - this flick is for them.
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