How sad is this?

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Remember all those straight-to-dvd Disney sequels that nobody liked? You know what would be a really great idea!? Giving that exact same treatment to one of the most beloved family classics of ALL TIME! And boy, is it.It has a plot that's just as boring. It has songs that are just as meaningless and forgettable. It has writing that's just as child-pandering and groan-inducing. It has performances that are....arguably passable. But you cast Bernadette Peters in a musical and didn't have her SING?And in a freaky coincidence, the india-based animation company known as Prana frequently teams up with the studio known as DisneyToon that used to give us those movies! And currently makes all the Tinkerbell movies. Well, that also explains why it LOOKS significantly not up to par. Unspectacular, but not TERRIBLE, as some of the ideas and designs seemed upped for Oz, if safe. But the difference in quality from what we've come to expect from theatre animation, is not subtle. Which leads us to the BURNING question: How did this get released to THEATRES? In WIDE RELEASE? In BLOCKBUSTER MONTH?! (May 9th) Oh, and it didn't do well? Well, you don't say! Oh, and did I mention that the lion, Tin Man and scarecrow are BARELY IN THIS MOVIE? Now, acknowledgement: This movie was technically based off one of the original Oz books that I haven't read, so I don't know how exactly faithful it is. But I do know that the marshmallow guard that's an extremely prominent character WASN'T IN THE BOOK AT ALL. So that doesn't necessarily give me a bit of confidence. And even if the adaptation WAS faithful, it STILL wouldn't make this movie any less unbearable to sit through for me.

My fiancé and I can be cartoon masochists. Sometimes we watch questionable animated movies out of morbid curiosity and enjoy making hun of hem, but this movie was so bad it wasn't even enjoyable to make fun of. It looked like it was animated in the 90s, the music was forgettable and the characters were horribly one dimensional and stupid. I wouldn't have even enjoyed this as a child. What were they thinking? They spent all their money on voice actors and none on the film or story writing. How this ever got theatrical release is beyond me! What an awful awful movie!

OK first of all let me get this straight I'm not defending this bad movie or anything but it isn't good I just think its OK like it's not bad or terrible like how all critics said for example there isn't too much development of the film I didn't like the characters or the song but it isn't terrible or godawful I just think its OK. I admit the animation isn't good but I don't hate it sorry guys.I am just saying that the story is kinda alright I just think its alright my brain is telling me to hate this movie but I don't hate it I do think there are flaws. If you are a oz fan maybe I don't recommend you to watch it but anyway that's all I have to say. 5/10

I watch pretty much everything my public library gets on DVD. I am a big fan of the original movie and was curious about this one, but being animated thought it would be boring. Still, I felt obligated to watch at least 15 minutes of it. Well I was surprised at how engaging it is. The voice acting has some of the best in the business and young Lea Michelle (of Glee fame) does a great job voicing Dorothy Gale, including a few nice songs. I was also surprised at Martin Short, who plays the bad guy, the Jester. We all know he is a fine actor, but his marvelous singing was a pleasant surprise.The story starts right when Dorothy is waking up after the tornado shook everything up at home. Recall that the original movie was all a dream, while Dorothy was knocked out. But this story is done not as a dream, but as Dorothy really being brought back to Oz, by a rainbow transporter, to save Oz from the Jester.The story of course is inconsequential, it is just animated fun with a few songs thrown in. But good songs. When Dorothy gets back to Kansas, she also exposes the fraud being perpetrated to steal everyone's damaged property. Other voice actors included Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, Kelsey Grammar, Bernadette Peters, Oliver Platt, and Hugh Dancy.