As you probably already know, this prequel shows how a cheesy con man became the man behind the curtain.
We see:
- James Franco ("127 Hours") is Oscar Diggs, otherwise known as Oz, who is described as a "small-time magician with dubious ethics." I liked his Scrooge McDuck dive into that tempting pile of gold.
- Zach Braff ("Garden State") is our hero's sidekick, both as a much-abused human assistant in the black and white carnival and as a (cute but much-abused) flying monkey instructed to "Show up. Keep up. Shut up!" in Oz.
- Mila Kunis ("Black Swan") eventually becomes Theodora, the Wicked Witch of the West. They worked it out so her profile is the same as Margaret Hamilton's in the original.
- Rachel Weisz ("Agora") is Evanora, a witch I don't recall from the earlier movie, but I'm sure she must be in the Baum series. Somehow I skipped reading them when I was a child.
- Michelle Williams ("My Week With Marilyn") is Annie, a young woman our hero is infatuated with in Kansas, but when she shows up as Glinda in Oz, he is confused.
- Bill Cobbs ("The Muppets") is the handyman/tinkerer who becomes essential to The Plan.
- Joey King ("Ramona and Beezus") is the little crippled Kansas girl in the wheelchair (sad), and in Oz, the China doll with the broken legs (get it?).
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Here is a link to a preview:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1066968345/
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Here is a link to a preview:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1066968345/
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