Sunday, 10 August 2025

The Wizard of Oz 1939 by AverageMansReviews

The Wizard of Oz 1939 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/melting/environmental/burning/squashing/animal cruelty/chopping/medical

“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore”: briefly; Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto [Judy Garland and Terry Cairn Terrier Dog:] have a journey in front of them to go to Emerald City to ask The Great and Powerful Oz; The Wizard of OZ/other character [Frank Morgan:] as his title/name would suggest he could have the whole to send Gale and Toto back home. Their journey will not be easy but they will meet some friendly faces on their way.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 102 minutes film is good; it is one of those outlays that smoothly knows what it is doing from beginning to end and just gets on with it

Art, character developments, comedy and action; obviously in one way or another from an artistic perspective; be it the visual representation of the scenery be it when Gale and Toto being in this house in this tornado heading towards the magical land of Oz where she is strangely enough nice and safe able to watch things go past in this light brown and white section of the film; it is highly creative as many different things go past. Now in Oz [in colour] everything is striking bright and colourful; the yellow brick road to the scenery on a journey and the musical numbers from the characters that Gale and Toto meet on journey as it relates to what these characters are lacking as individuals; the best out of three of them would be the first one; Scarecrow/another character [Ray Bolger:] obviously he is a scarecrow, but doesn't scare the crows and wants a brain to be smart, often has problems walking and/or keeping himself together which is comical, but sadly he is an easy target for the Flying Monkeys later on in this film as they don't exactly leave him in one piece.

Character developments, performances and voice performances; I think the best way for me to describe the character developments broadly speaking; they are solid yet well rounded versions of their characters and/or the performances and/or voice performance reflects those character developments; which altogether makes in-depth versions of these characters that have been entertaining people for decades now. But I know now if I can still say this word by today's standards but I'm going to say it anyway, because in the context of the film I'm not saying anything wrong; I do have one little problem it would be the munchkins' voices in some cases when they sing they really do hit the high notes and consequently because I have good hearing it goes right through my head.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; it tells of the original plot of this musical adventure. I mean if you are into this kind of musical adventure takes a look at this film; it is one of those projects that you need to see once in a lifetime and I had the pleasure of watching this film at a cinema on a big screen, the person I watch some of this content with really did enjoy Toto and was the best performing in it. This film has some awards accredited to its name such as 13 Winners that includes; Academy Awards, USA 1940 Oscar Best Music, Original Song Harold Arlen (music) E.Y. Harburg (lyrics) For the song "Over the Rainbow" and from the same award ceremony/event Best Music, Original Score Herbert Stothart. 14 Nominees again from the same award ceremony/event Best Picture, Best Art Direction Cedric Gibbons William A. Horning and finally Best Effects, Special Effects A. Arnold Gillespie (photographic) Douglas Shearer (sound)

 

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