And if you don't know the story of "The Wizard of Oz" like my dear, dear classmates, you should just draw a circle on the table and bang your head. Literature, heck, even movies -classics -are lost in my generation. The sad truth.
Anyway, I'm not gonna give a summary of the movie, or analyse it. There are plenty of sites that do that.
I'm just gonna say that I found the movie mildly entertaining, sort of interesting, hated the ending, and didn't like its pace.
Some movies begin with slow steps that slowly crescendo to a big, epic climax. Those are awesome movies.
This movie on the other hand has about the same pace throughout the movie, like in the beginning I'm walking, at the middle I'm jogging, and at the end I'm resting. That's about it to me.
-Spoiler-
And I didn't like the main character. Granted, I don't think he's made to be a likable character, but I really pity Theodora, the wicked witch of the west.
There was innocent, naive Theodora (Mila Kunis) who got caught in Oz's charm (the guy is a smooth flirt) and falls in love with him on day 1. Evanora (Rachel Weisz), her sister, is the true wicked witch but she had managed to deceive Theodora that she is the good witch while Glinda (Michelle Williams) is the wicked one. Then Evanora manages to break Theodora's heart by having her believe Oz (James Franco) didn't love her (true) and had flirted with her (true) and was serious with her (false). So then the poor, heartbroken Theodora got tricked by her sister into eating an apple (surprise, surprise!) that causes her heart to wither away and leave nothing but evil.
And so Theodora, after taking one bite of the apple, becomes ugly and green and evil and swore revenge on Oz. She even has the witchy evil laughter thing and all.
At the end of the movie, the two evil witches were banished from the land of Oz, and Oz himself got whatever he ever wanted (greatness, power, money, Glinda, riches).
A fair ending? Heck no!
In the book "The Wizard Of Oz", the wicked witch of the east (Evanora) got squashed by Dorothy's house and died while the wicked witch of the west (Theodora) was melted by Dorothy and eventually died.
-End Of Spoiler-
So overall while I did, to a certain extent, like the movie, it's not one that I will watch in the cinemas if I had known the story beforehand.
The most entertaining parts wasn't even from the movie. My friend Izzy was sitting beside me in the cinema and every single time something evil just pops up in the screen she'd jump and my chair would jerk too which shocked me. It wasn't the movie that made me jump; it was Izzy. Then I'll laugh at her and she'd be all embarrassed and then it'll happen again. XD
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