Oz The Great And Powerful. 2013.
A circus magician is swept away to the land of Oz, where he is mistakenly to be a great prophet that was predicted by three witches and the inhabitants of Oz.
Having never read the books even though I have been trying to get my hands on them for a decent price, I can't compare the film to the book even though they are meant to be darker. Hat's off to Sam Raimi for trying his best to visualise the prequel and probably being told what to do by the heads of production.
James Franco plays the circus magician Oscar Diggs who is forced to flee and lands in Oz and is greeted by Mila Kunis and is told the prophecy and meets Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams, who only one of them seems to be telling the truth. This seemed to be a good idea as it starts off black and white then goes to colour like the 1939 film, but we enter the age of forgetting how the original film works and goes to CGI which works at times and then spoils it at other moments, Enjoyable enough to a point.
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