Oz: The Great And Powerful Trailer (2013)

Director: Sam Raimi

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

Description: "Oz The Great and Powerful" imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking-that is until 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.

Release Date: 3/8/2013

Genre: Drama

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Offical Website: http://www.facebook.com/OzMovie

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	3/8/2013
France	Theatrical Wide Release	4/3/2013
Germany	Theatrical Wide Release	3/7/2013
Italy	Theatrical Wide Release	3/7/2013
United Kingdom	Theatrical Wide Release	3/8/2013
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	6/11/2013

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03/10 @ 12:00 AM

An imaginative mix of live-action and CGI that pays homage to the iconic images and timeless sense of wonder in the classic The Wizard of Oz without being too deferential.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews

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03/08 @ 12:00 AM

A Blunder-full Blizzard of Blahs.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

It's a journey of self-discovery, rife with movie cliches about believing in yourself, believing in your dreams, yada-yada.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Where's the gentle sentiment? The quiet moral lessons? The warm comforting message of family, and home, and realizing that the thing you needed most was really inside you, all the time?

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

Oz the Great and Powerful will likely dazzle family audiences while satisfying movie purists. Somewhere over the rainbow there may be a more magical movie, but this will certainly do.

Tom Long, Detroit News

Raimi's film is supposed to be about magic, but magic is in scant supply.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Oz the Great and Powerful somehow manages to be both slavish to its hallowed template (when convenient) and completely tone-deaf to the magic that made it a one-of-a-kind cultural milestone.

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

The new Oz falls short of the 1939 Oz in charm and innocence, and certainly in songs. But as family entertainment, it's hard to fault such a rapturous spectacle and astute, suspenseful piece of storytelling.

Tom Charity, CNN.com

Let us take a moment to praise two great and surprisingly powerful characters: a winged monkey and a wee girl made out of china. Because so much human wonder resides in these two creations of make-up, puppetry, digital effects and lovely performances.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

Oz the Great and Powerful is entirely serviceable family entertainment. Problem is, serviceable doesn't quite cut it when you're talking about the magical land of Oz.

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

Aside from a trio of witches that can hold its own with Eastwick's in the dishiness department, Oz the Great and Powerful is a peculiarly joyless occasion.

David Edelstein, New York Magazine

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03/07 @ 12:00 AM

Oz the Great and Powerful tells the story of how the Wizard came to Oz, answering a question I suspect no one was asking, but with considerable digital wizardry.

Bob Mondello, NPR

Relax, my pretties. Oz the Great and Powerful is a lollapalooza of funhouse thrills and visually sumptuous filmmaking.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

... as limitless technology teaches the wizard about his own human limitations, Franco hits grace notes that let us see glimmers of how great and powerful this uneven Oz might have been.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

What does it say about Oz the Great and Powerful that China Doll, a creature born of digital code, is the movie's most affecting character?

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

You could easily see this playing as part of a double bill with The Wizard of Oz, even if the effects in Raimi's film often look cheesier than the ones in its 74-year-old predecessor.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

It's not like there's zero fun factor here, by a long shot - but the fun comes yoked to a long-winded and predictable story with lots of dead spots.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

A reasonably smart, imaginative spin on the 1939 MGM classic.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday

Franco is, frankly, too callow, too feckless, too much the dude for this role.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Sam Raimi brings the jokey, adolescent sensibility of his Drag Me to Hell to this lavish Wizard of Oz prequel, and the result is as unshapely as that premise would suggest.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

If it only had a brain. Or a heart. Or nerve.

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

A dispiriting, infuriating jumble of big money, small ideas and ugly visuals ...

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

An oppressive, bloated bore, the latest argument that CGI kills the imaginations of talented filmmakers.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

Oz the Great and Powerful isn't a masterpiece for the ages, but an agreeable family film that pleasantly reminds us of something greater - of a land that we heard of, once in a lullaby.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

I suspect there's just enough heart in this sleek Tin Man of a project to connect with an audience.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

It might have been more interesting if Raimi had attempted to shoot an Oz prequel using only the tools available to Victor Fleming and King Vidor in the late 1930s.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

The more you like the Judy Garland film, the more you might appreciate Oz the Great and Powerful.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Oz qualifies as a cautionary tale, not about the perils of ambition and selfishness, but about the movie industry's misguided belief that it can distract the audience from a film's narrative weaknesses with little more than flash and spectacle.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

A partially effective jumble whose elements clash rather than cohere, this solid but not spectacular effort stubbornly refuses to catch fire until it's almost too late.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

A visually over-crammed, emotionally empty mega-spectacle on the model of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Dana Stevens, Slate

Oz the Great and Powerful aims for nostalgia in older viewers who grew up on The Wizard of Oz and still hold the classic dear while simultaneously enchanting a newer, younger audience. It never really accomplishes either successfully.

Christy Lemire, Associated Press

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03/06 @ 12:00 AM

While Raimi's Oz is like retinal crack, he never seduces our hearts and minds.

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly