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Short review of The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 10:43pm on 2005-05-20

My verdict: worth the three and a half hours to watch. (That's two hours to watch it while it was being broadcast, and the hour and a half I'll spend watching it again later, fast-forwarding past the commercials. It's a watch-twice movie.) I'll save a longer review for later; for now a concise, "Whee! That was cool."

For all that they modernized it and added those special Muppet touches, in some ways they stayed closer to the book than I'd expected.

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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 04:30am on 2005-05-21
Taped most of it, starting 15 minutes in. Might appreciate a better copy. Yes, was quite fun.
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posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 11:08am on 2005-05-21
It would have been a nice touch to have a homage to the b/w->color->b/w of the original though. Maybe no muppets in Kansas and no humans (like Toto, dorothy would get muppetized) in Oz.
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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 12:38pm on 2005-05-21
Well, the original movie. The original movie did worse to the original book than what some of the James Bond movies did to Ian Fleming's original stories.

I did enjoy the muppet version, though.
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posted by [personal profile] jducoeur at 05:20pm on 2005-05-21
For all that they modernized it and added those special Muppet touches, in some ways they stayed closer to the book than I'd expected.

Our recording fizzled (grr -- the TV Guide Online did some sort of update and fouled up the recording schedule), so I only saw the second half. But yes: especially given that they were Muppetizing the whole thing and bringing it up to date, I was very surprised as how many details were right. In many ways, it hews closer to the original than the Judy Garland movie does...
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