Oz the Great and Powerful | Eastern North Carolina Now

    The hapless trio compatriots find the lair of Glinda, played by Michelle Williams, who also played the magician's female interest, Annie, back in Kansas, discovered the essential good of Glinda, and scrapped the plan to accomplish the bad bidding of Evanora.
The well intended realm of Glinda's father, who was once king of this incredible land had devolved into one where even the good witches were just one step ahead of the flying baboons: Above. To escape the malevolent monkeys, Glinda instinctively employed her best tested conveyance - the flying bubble: Below. Click the picture to expand to as much as 1000 pixels wide within most expanded images, and then push the arrows embedded in the center edge of the play-box to access the gallery, and slide new images into viewing within the center of the screen.
    The politics of all manner of witches, deposed kings, untested wizards, loyal accomplices, flying baboons; notwithstanding, the film was a visually stunning minor masterpiece in story, and image, of a bizarre land that is equally beautiful and dangerous. Director Sam Raimi tenuously constructed this tale writ large in celluloid, and while it could never replace the iconic "Wizard of Oz," the film well supports that film's purpose as well as the literary intentions of creator L.Frank Baum.
The Tale of two witches: Theodora, The Wicked Witch of the West, played by Mila Kunis - above, and Glinda, The Good Witch of the North, played by Michelle Williams - below.
    Is the film violent? Most definitely, but so was the original. This effort may appear a bit more violent, if for no other reason than the fact that this film dispensed of the Flying Monkeys in favor of the Flying Baboons. That was enough for me to see the film. What will be your reason?

    Rated PG, released in theaters March 8, 2013, 130 minutes of runtime.
Explosions anyone? The directionless magician evolves into the purposeful Wizard, great and powerful of Oz, and employs all manner of diversions to puff himself up to convince the terrible witches, and rule the day for the good folks of the Land of Oz: Above. Click the image to enlarge.




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