Description:It has been six months since Dorothy has returned to Kansas from Oz and she still can not sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. Dorothy promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her favorite chichen can now talk. There she meets a whole nIt has been six months since Dorothy has returned to Kansas from Oz and she still can not sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. Dorothy promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her favorite chichen can now talk. There she meets a whole new bunch of friends and they set off to rescue the Scarecrow from an evil Nome King who has found her Ruby Slippers and has used them to lay waste to the Emerald city and take over Oz.... (more)(less)
"Any movie in which a Midwestern prairie actually looks more attractive and more interesting than the enchanted land over the rainbow is in big trouble.
- Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
The work of ingenious technicians who seem either not to know what gave the original film its magic, or not to care.
- Janet Maslin, New York Times
Despite the presence of Billina the talking hen, the emphasis on insecurity and peril harks back to the treat-'em-rough days of children's fiction, and the distur"
raisleygordon added this to a list 1 month, 2 weeks ago
"Mombi
Appearance
Changeable. Mombi’s USP is her vast mirrored storeroom lined with human heads, which she removes from innocent passers-by and wears on special occasions.
Evil deeds
Well, as if decapitating little girls wasn’t serious enough, she also buddies up with the sadistic Nome King to control the kingdom of Oz.
Scare factor
10/10. Jean Marsh is one of the most professionally unsettling actresses in screen history (she also played Queen Bavmorda in 'Willow'), and Mombi is her most"
"15/3 - Navaronen Tykit Film Company -meet
Return to Oz is pretty much as fucked up as everyone says it is. There's a beheaded woman with a collection of changeable heads, lots of electroshock treatment and weird post-apocalyptic gangs within Oz now. The film end with the bad people basically burning to death horribly. It also contains a surprising amount of real goofy nonsense, such as a flying moose couch and a Scarecrow with a plastic mask and hands apparently incapable of having moving finge"
Halogen added this to a list 2 months, 2 weeks ago