{"id":3519,"date":"2016-06-30T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T22:15:01","slug":"oz-the-great-and-powerful-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Oz The Great and Powerful-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oz The Great and Powerful-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Sam Raimi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott\u2019s Review #433<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243359.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3520\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243359-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70243359\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243359-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243359.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being a huge fan of the original The Wizard of Oz epic classic in 1939, I was interested in seeing this extension of the original version.<\/p>\n<p>While it has its moments of charm and good old-fashioned adventure, it is ultimately good, but nothing great.<\/p>\n<p>James Franco is fantastic as the Wizard of Oz, the highest point of the film, \u00a0and has great charisma in the role. He brings a fun flair and is quite appealing.<\/p>\n<p>The witch characters are okay, but not terribly interesting or deeply explored. Further character depth might have been helpful as I did not notice much-rooting value for either of them.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note, I loved the first sequence, which was in black and white, true to the original, and the twister scene is impressively done.<\/p>\n<p>The set\/art design in this sequence and once the setting was Oz were beautifully done.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the film, though, the story becomes more of a silly fantasy action series that draws away from the heart of the original.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) excels, while the second half disappoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oz The Great and Powerful-2013 Director Sam Raimi Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis Scott\u2019s Review #433 Reviewed June 30, 2016 Grade: B Being a huge fan of the original The Wizard of Oz epic classic in 1939, I was interested in seeing this extension of the original version. While it has its moments of charm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oz The Great and Powerful-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,205,201,2492,2044,3010,3814,4608,1218,3815],"tags":[76,259,257,2498,2049,3011,3816,4610,1219,3817],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-adventure-films","category-fantasy-films","category-james-franco","category-michelle-williams","category-mila-kunis","category-rachel-weisz","category-robert-stromberg","category-sam-raimi","category-zach-braff","tag-2013-movie-reviews","tag-adventure-films","tag-fantasy-films","tag-james-franco","tag-michelle-williams","tag-mila-kunis","tag-rachel-weisz","tag-robert-stromberg","tag-sam-raimi","tag-zach-braff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20027,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/20027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}