Return to Oz 1985 123movies

Watch: Return to Oz 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz and is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. She frequently talks about it and cannot get any sleep at night. Aunt Em worries about her health/well-being. Thinking that she is suffering delusional depression and acute insomnia, she decides to take her to see a special doctor in another town. While he tries to treat her with electro-shock treatment and take those nasty dreams away from her head, she is rescued by a mysterious girl who leads her back to Oz for a new adventure..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 27,959
	54% | RottenTomatoes
	42/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 790 Popularity: 14.464 | TMDB

Reviews:

There are some positively darker elements to this follow-up story of the young “Dorothy” (Fairuza Balk). Traumatised by her first visit to “Oz” her desperate “Auntie Em” (Piper Laurie) resorts to electrical therapy to try and help her young niece. Luckily, a thunderstorm comes to her rescue and escaping from the asylum where she was to be treated, she finds herself back in a now desolate land of “Oz”. The yellow brick road has been torn up and the emerald city is but a ruin. It turns out that the subterranean “Nome King” has determined to reclaim all the precious stones stolen (as he sees it) from his realm, and so together with the Princess “Mombi” has reduced the once mighty city to rubble. It falls to young “Dorothy” and her new friends “Jack Pumpkinhead” and the rotund tin soldier “Tik-Tok” to find the mysterious powder of life and try to outsmart the pair and restore the kingdom. This story has much more menace to it. The treatment scenario at the start (aided well by Nicol Williamson and Jean Marsh) works effectively, and the multi headed Princess gives Sophie Ward and Fiona Victory an opportunity to spread a little mayhem too. My biggest gripe with this is that Miss Balk looks much younger that Judy Garland, and she isn’t a terribly engaging actress either. The animation is a bit on the basic side, too, but it does move along well with plenty of flying sofas and a message that green is always good!

‘Return to Oz’ is alright, I personally didn’t enjoy it though.

I did like the horror edge it has to it for the first portion of the film, it’s something I wasn’t necessarily expecting so it was pleasing to see. That’s about all I did rate from this though, with Oz itself not looking as magical as it should while the non-human characters are boring to me.

Talking of the onscreen lot, Jean Marsh as Princess Mombi is the only performance I felt entertained by – she’s very good. Away from her, there’s not much to note. Fairuza Balk is solid in the role of Dorothy, nothing really to say about her other than she does an OK job; considering her age. The Wheelers are kinda interesting, they do look cool.

It’s a shame they don’t make use of Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Man – the latter I’m actually glad they didn’t, given how awful his design was. I get why they don’t feature more, given the source material, but it feels a needless change-up especially with Billina, Tik-Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead being so lame.

I read that this is apparently true to the original book series, which is respectable. However, the point of a film is to make it a good film first and foremost – this doesn’t quite do that in my opinion. Each to their own, of course!

Dark, disturbing, captivating… where did the first movie go so wrong?
The first time I saw this movie I was about 6 or 7. It really scared me, I remember having nightmares of Mombie for weeks… I also remember rewatching it week after week. Now 10 years later I’ve rediscovered it and it’s still chilling. Not because it was meant to be a horror, but because the imagery and plot is so vivid and captivating I can’t help but feel like I’m really drawn into another world. Very few movies have done that for me… this is right up there with movies like Willow, Labrynth, and The Neverending Story. If you like musicals, bright colors and munchkin’s dancing around, then stay away from this one, but if you want to go on a journey of pure imagination that will leave you breathless on the edge of your seat, rediscover Oz for yourself!

Wow, that was a lot more enjoyable to watch as an adult.
I first saw this film back when I was a kid and I was not all that wild about it. I guess my mind could not grasp the idea of an Oz movie that was faithful to the book and was confusing because it did not seem like it was part of the original film’s world. Now that I am an adult, I really dig this one more than the original 1939 film as it is darker to the point of being almost a horror/fantasy film and there are not a bunch of chirpy songs coming from nowhere. Honestly, the original was essentially a Broadway stage play that was filmed. This one, however, was more like the Oz portrayed in the books.

The story has poor Dorthy suffering from sleepless nights due to her adventures in Oz. Her aunt’s solution? Why, take her to a doctor that using electroshock therapy of course! Well, Dorthy ends up in a creepy asylum and is about to be zapped when the power goes off, another girl frees Dorthy and both she and the other girl end up falling into a river just outside the asylum during a very violent storm. The other girl seemingly drowns as the river somehow transports Dorthy back to Oz; however, it is now run down and full of strange beings known as Wheelers who promptly give chase. Dorthy manages to find her way into a room and enlists the aid of Tic-toc, a wind up soldier. She will also find help from Jack Pumpkinhead and meet her old friend Scarecrow too. However, a strange demented Princess named Mombi and the Nome King will do everything in their power to stop Dorthy from returning Oz to its former glory!

Watching this film, one gets more of a sense of what Oz is all about, it is a mirror world where there are people from our world living within it. I get the feeling Stephen King and Peter Straub used the Oz series as inspiration for their collaboration, The Talisman as it too features a parallel world. While I found this one good as an adult I also found at times the outside world of Oz too mundane, though the interiors do look fantastical. It is a shame this bombed at the box office, because this Oz is so much more delightful and frightful than the 1939 version.

So, in the eyes of an adult, this movie actually improved for me. Usually, you watch stuff as a kid and later as an adult and like the film less, but not here. It is a strange world that is put together by Disney, who were going through bit of a dark phase during this time. They were also going through a rather rough time as there just were not too many hits during this era in their history. Not that the films were not good, just not what people expected from a Disney film at the time. This one is one such case, really good, but people expected lighter fare and something more in the line with the 1939 film.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min), 1 hr 50 min (110 min) (uncut) (Finland), 1 hr 49 min (109 min) (cut) (Finland)
Budget 25000000
Revenue 11137801
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director Walter Murch
Writer Walter Murch, Gill Dennis, L. Frank Baum
Actors Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints), Dolby (35 mm prints)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm