Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Return to Oz was the best Oz movie I've seen. As being an mixed adaptation of The Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, it worked really well. The effects were great The characters were great The story was great It was really great a restoration of Oz. I really wondered what the deadly desert looked like, it was mysterious. I spotted A lot of characters in the coronation scene such as Polychrome, Tommy Kwikstep, Scraps, the braided man of pyramid mountain and Santa Clause. It wasn't too colorful but that made it unique. I would recommend it I would give about 9 1/2 to a 10 Really great unique definitely 10/10 just one of the best movies I've seen

Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark, Jean Marsh and Nicol Williamson star in this 1985 fantasy based on L. Frank Baum's novels. This is sort of a follow-up to the 1939 classic, "The Wizard of Oz" and Balk (The Craft) fills the role of the late, Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale who is back in Kansas and can't stop forgetting about her recent trip to the magical land of Oz. Laurie (Carrie) plays her Aunt Em who decides to get her medical care. Soon, Dorothy finds herself back in Oz after a mysterious girl (Emma Ridley) helps her escape shock treatment. Dorothy meets new friends and reunites with old ones while trying to stop an evil witch, Mombi (Marsh) and Nome King (Williamson) from destroying it. Marsh (Willow) also plays Nurse Wilson, Williamson (Spawn) also plays Dr. Worley and Clark (Back to the Future III) plays Uncle Henry. This is a bizarre, underrated film that's definitely darker than it's predecessor. I've enjoyed it since I was a kid, Balk & the cast are great in it, there's neat effects and David Shire's score is also good. I recommend this.

The Wizard of Oz has been deemed to be the classic children's movie that gets played countless times for kids, and adults who appreciate the piece that is nearing it's 80th anniversary all too quickly. Fast forward to 1985. The decade of the 80s brought new technology for film, more specifically the early stages of CGI and anamotronics. Beyond that, the fantasy films of the 80s still lacked continuity with the many layers that often made the final cut look cheap, (despite that it was considered the best advances of the time). A piece like Return to Oz falls under the category of 'sci-fi and fantasy' and seemed to get lost in the shuffle of the many film pieces coming out at the time. I didn't pick up on this movie until Oz the Great And Powerful showed a documentary on The Wizard of Oz and it's involvement with Disney over the years. This is actually one of the few movies that actually got the layering effect right! I was very impressed with the clay-mation shots and the cutting away back and forth between the foreground and background parts of the stage. There aren't many notable actors who took the stage for the movie, however I did recognize western actor Matt Clark, who I remember from BTTF Part III as the bartender. Another notable piece of trivia concerning BTTF is that Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenbergen almost got the roles of Mombie and the Knome king. This is an 80s gem, that for the kids who remember the movie can pass it down to their children as part of The Wizard of Oz folklore.

Forty six years had passed since the classic musical The Wizard of Oz was released, and Disney decided it was time for there to be a sequel, since there were the books to base a story on, but with some rather significant differences. Basically it has been six months since Dorothy Gale (introducing The Craft's Fairuza Balk) and her dog Toto were transported from Kansas to the magical land of Oz somewhere over the rainbow, and she cannot sleep thinking about it, and this is worrying Auntie Em (Piper Laurie) and Uncle Henry (Matt Clark). Since they are concerned for her, talking about imaginary places and people so much she is taken to a mental hospital for electro-shock treatment, but with another mysterious girl she manages to escape going down river in a chicken coup. After surviving some rough waters Dorothy wakes up in the land of Oz, and the chicken Billina (Mak Wilson, voiced by Denise Bryer) is talking, but the land has been destroyed, including the Yellow Brick Road, Munchkin City and the Emerald City, and she finds her friends the Cowardly Lion (John Alexander) and the Tin Man (Deep Roy) have turned to stone. Exploring the ruins she finds a clockwork mechanical man named Tik-Tok (Tim Rose and Michael Sundin, voiced by Sean Barrett), who tells her that the king of Oz, her friend the Scarecrow (Justin Case) has been captured by The Nome King (Nicol Williamson), who destroyed the land. Dorothy, Billina, Tik-Tok and new friends Jack Pumpkinhead (Stewart Larange, voiced by Brian Henson) and Gump (Stephen 'Steve' Norrington, voiced by Lyle Conway) are now on a journey to try and save the land and the people turned to stone. As they journey, avoiding the Deadly Desert and heading for the Nome King's mountain and domain, The Nome King himself, a rock creature, appears and explains that he kidnapped the Scarecrow as he stole emeralds from him to build the Emerald City. He has turned the Scarecrow into an ornament, and the Nome King, who has also taken the Ruby Slippers, gives each of them the opportunity to guess which of the hundreds in a room it is, Dorothy correctly guesses after spotting a green ornament. The Nome King in anger tries to eat the friends, and in panic Billina lays an egg which is thrown into the monster's mouth, eggs are poisonous to Nomes and he crumbles, the Ruby Slippers are returned, the land is restored and everyone turned to stone are freed. In the end the girl from the mental hospital appears, it is actually Princess Ozma (Emma Ridley), Jack's creator and the true ruler of Oz, Dorothy is sent home but is promised to return whenever she wishes, and she is asked to keep the existence of the magical land a secret. Also starring Jean Marsh as Nurse Wilson and Mombi the Witch, Sophie Ward as Mombi II and Fiona Victory as Mombi III. Balk is likable as the little and younger Dorothy, certainly not as memorable as Judy Garland but not bad, and the new characters introduced as her companions are sweet, I certainly see that this film has a darker side, and this is not a musical like previously, I agree the animation for faces in rocks and Claymation is impressive, this is easy to digest entertainment, a fun family fantasy film. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Effects, Visual Effects. Worth watching!