She gets an opportunity from an agent to travel to New York to develop her Oz stories for a movie. Dorothy Gale is a children's author from Kansas. It is let down by some muddled storytelling, campy acting and not very good special effects. The Witches of Oz should had been an interesting and quirky reimagining of The Wizard of Oz story. Overall, didn't entirely hate it but it didn't do anything for me, sorry. Christopher Lloyd is also criminally underused. The worst offenders in both these categories in my opinion are Sean Astin, trying to give his material and bad material some life but ending up overdoing it quite wildly, and the girl who plays Dorothy, who is incredibly unanimated and wooden. The writing is also stilted, often in a horrendous sense, the direction is perhaps too relaxed that it becomes rather dull and the acting ranges from overplayed to wooden. The characters are not written very well at all, and I cared for very few of them, even Toto. As for the story, I liked the idea and I admit I was kind of looking forward to what they were going to do with it, however it didn't engage me, I found The Witches of Oz rather sluggishly paced and also that some scenes dragged on for too long.
Some scenes are dimly lit and make some of the production values seem flat. While not as crude as some effects I seen compared to some of the other output that airs on the channel, the quality of the effects I don't think are that good, they are often lacking in clarity and sharpness. It wasn't the quantity of the effects I was looking to, it was the quality of them. Okay, that is a sort of impressive number though I don't think The Witches of Oz needed that many. Apparently there were over 1,400 visual effects. But in all honesty, is that saying much? Not for me. Thanks to costume and set design that is a notch above to most projects on the SyFy Channel and the appearance of Lance Henrikssen, The Witches of Oz could have been much worse.
I was also dubious though, considering The Witches of Oz was airing on the SyFy Channel, save a few exceptions, a lot of stuff on there is not bothering with in my view. To start things off, I was not expecting any kind of adaptation or even a re-imagining.
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