Title: The not-so-merry old Land of Oz
Product review: It takes nothing away from my love for MGM's sumptuous WIZARD OF OZ -- with which I have grown up and still find as watchable as ever the tenth or dozenth or 837th time -- to say that I greatly admire RETURN OF OZ. This underappreciated film couldn't win for losing when it was released: had it tried to follow the path taken by the inimitable 1939 classic, it would have rightly been judged redundant and inferior; yet it caught flak and brickbats because it dared to go its own way. More accurately, it went L. Frank Baum's way, being quite faithful to the letter and spirit of the source material.
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