Review: "Oz The Great And Powerful" (2013) "Oz Aims For The Rainbow But Is Blown Away"

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Now for full disclosure I have never been a Wizard of Oz movie fan so when I saw that
the acting talents of James Franco and Mila Kunis were going to be used for this prequel I was very
interested on how the back story of Oz was going to work out.

Not to remember the fact that was made by Sam Raimi who we were willing to forgive after Spider-Man 3.

The beginning of this movie starts of strong if not a little cheesy with Oz (James Franco) being well known magical at all but a carnival magician, lecher, and a con man. It was great seeing the all-knowing and magical wizard in his youth as a selfish man who only thinks about himself and would eventually grow and mature as a character.

**BORROWED FROM DISNEY MOVIE TRAILERS**

At least that is what I thought would happen the movie is entertaining and actually moves at a good pace and it saddens me to just see it go so wrong. To clear the air I am not rating this movie as a nostalgic trip for me because well it isn’t I was never in love with the world of Oz so I am rating it on its own merit and I feel without enjoying the last movie this one simply does not hold up.

However, that is not all that is wrong with it the special effects, dialogue and surprisingly enough ACTING! Takes a considerable nose dive as if no one started to care about the film at all. Once the movie hits its halfway mark it became almost so unbearable that the only thing keeping me in my seat was my girlfriend holding me down.

When I saw the wicked witch for the first time I actually burst out laughing at how horrible she looked and at how bad her acting and dialogue was. On my first complaint the special effects were laughable the whole world looked fake like the actors were walking next to a green screen even the sets they built by hand for the actors to use looked out of place next to horrible CGI effects.

When James Franco had to interact with the CGI characters it looked worse than when the first Looney tunes movie came out with Bugs and Daffy interacting with real people.

On my second point the dialogue also took a turn for the worse with characters saying things and having conversations that ranged from mildly bad to Natalie Portman and Hayden Christianson bad from Star Wars the Clone Wars. Last to top it all of the actors and actresses seemed to just give up they acted like cartoon characters with wild and crazy smiles to Mila Kunis’ horrible witch laugh and her over the top just bad acting.

Our Honest View gives, "Oz The Great And Powerful" 0 out of 5. This movie by itself with no nostalgia doesn’t hold up it went from promising to horrible in about 30 minutes making this just a movie with horrible special effects, poor dialogue and the saddest part even worse acting. This movie for the most part is just a big what could have been and it saddens me to say that I will never want to visit the Land of Oz again.

By: Tyler Comp

 Recommend This? : NO!

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Review: "Two and Half Men" (Grab a Feather and Get In Line S10/Ep13) Stale And Reuses Sheen-Moments

This episode is truly a flashback of a older episode where Allan becomes concern over Charlies womanizing and drinking. Except Walden or should I say Sam has been eating constantly for three weeks in his stress over pretending to be other person to impress his girlfriend Kate.

I liked one aspect of the episode and it was the fact that Walden and Allan go to New York to see Kate and the whole time Allan wants to see a show. Leading to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liYPKuBRmgI i.e. "The Douche Song". The people of New York break out into a muscial to tell Walden that he's a "Douche" for lying to Kate.

From this we also get the title of the episode, Walden goes to New York to tell Kate who he really is and shows up at her fashion show. And guess what! Walden feels like he is going to throw up and whats the stereotype about models? They throw up, so Allan tells him to "grab a feather and get in line".

I had major to minor complaints about this episode. Besides the fact that the main plot was reused from the Sheen era. Also Allan's character is really starting to bother me. 10 years and still the same person nothing on him as changed and it drives me nuts! Earlier in the season he finally gets the girl and you think, maybe he'll change now that his what could be third marriage the woman actually likes him back! But nope your wrong Allan is the same old Allan from the Sheen era.

Lastly the thing that bothered me most was the ending of the episode felt like another Sheen moment. Walden is honest on how he feels and 100% truthful, the girl being Kate leaves and happens to be better off with out him. This has happened to Charlie every relationship he has ever had, this is a old theme that used in just about every love plot for the main character.

With 2013 I was hoping for change and "Two and Half Men" is at a rough start!

Greatest Reviews' gives "Two and Half Men" (Grab a Feather and Get In Line S10/Ep13) 2 1/2 stars out of 5. Due to the fact that you can't reuse the same elements and themes for 10 years.