This got a theatrical release!?

[Soviet Heavy]

I've been without a TV for several months. Now that I've come home, I've seen commercials for... well, this.

Uhhh, okay, I know that The OZ franchise is now public domain, but this is what comes out? It looks like a straight to DVD bargain shop job, not a full Hollywood production! Then I looked up the Wikipedia article on it.

$70 Million dollars. This movie cost $70 million dollars to make, and it looks horrendous. And it got a theatrical release. This is almost as baffling as that Food Fight movie that JonTron and Nostalgia Critic did reviews on.

How can so much money be funneled into something that looks so rushed and cheap? Where the hell did all that cash go? Who thought this was a good idea!?

 

[Queen Michael]

Uhhh, okay, I know that The Wizard of Oz's ownership rights have sort of been in limbo in recent years, but this is what comes out?

Actually, this is based on "Dorothy of Oz," which came out about 25 years ago.

And I gotta say, this looks way too Hollywoodified. I read all the original 14 Oz books when I was a kid, and I can't say that this stays true to their spirit.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Uhhh, okay, I know that The Wizard of Oz's ownership rights have sort of been in limbo in recent years, but this is what comes out?

Actually, this is based on "Dorothy of Oz," which came out about 25 years ago.

And I gotta say, this looks way too Hollywoodified. I read all the original 14 Oz books when I was a kid, and I can't say that this stays true to their spirit.

Okay, so this movie gets the rights to the books, rather than the moves? That makes sense. Still looks like an abomination that is trying to ride on the success of the original film and the recent Disney prequel.

 

[HardkorSB]

If a movie looks and feels cheap, while supposedly costing a large sum of money, it usually means that the producers and makers gave themselves huge bonuses instead of using the budget for the actual movie (also known as the Adam Sandler business model).
They even made a bunch of fake accounts on IMDB and gave it a high score back in 2013.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Well this looks about as bad as that Tarzan movie that was circling around here not too long ago. No idea how much THT cost though.

 

[crazygameguy4ever]

It does look pretty cheaply made likea direct to DVD thing....I'd like to see a darker animated film that similar to the Return to Oz movie

 

[Vigormortis]

Seriously? THAT'S the movie that's making you question the sanity of Hollywood? Especially when we have glorious gems like this coming out this year -

 

[Vigormortis]

It's remake of a classic musical. How is that so bizarre?

It's not bizarre, in principle. What's bizarre is how gut-wrenchingly awful it looks already. I've never had a film or trailer make me physically ill. Until now.

They've done an auto-tuned version of the classic song. That says it all.

 

[Risingblade]

Meh? They've been releasing movies like this for a while

 

[KazeAizen]

Well this looks about as bad as that Tarzan movie that was circling around here not too long ago. No idea how much THT cost though.

I just say thank God for Disney in both cases. Both will come an go like the wind while OZ the Great and Powerful and that 90s Tarzan will stick in people's minds. Probably for the best too.

 

[faefrost]

Seriously? THAT'S the movie that's making you question the sanity of Hollywood? Especially when we have glorious gems like this coming out this year -

It's remake of a classic musical. How is that so bizarre?

Honestly a principally black cast take on Annie makes a lot more sense than an all black Steel Magnolias (which is amazingly a thing?) It just worries me that they used some music and the kids name and left the rest of the story and characters behind. I mean no Daddy Warbucks? Regardless of race color or planet of origin?

That Oz thing just looks horrible. I think it is the new front runner for worst Oz movie/Show/etc. Surpassing even the movie version of The Wiz. (Yeah, the stage version of the Wiz was one of the all time great broadway musicals. The movie... not so much.)

Oz's rights are not in limbo. The basic concept of Oz and the original F L Baum stories are all in the public domain now. The only gotcha is the original movie is not. So so long as they do not use things specific to the movie they can make all kinds of cheesy Oz stuff. (See Wicked, Oz the Great and Powerful, etc)

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Seriously? THAT'S the movie that's making you question the sanity of Hollywood? Especially when we have glorious gems like this coming out this year -

Meh, seen way worse. All I remember seeing about this was people getting pissed that they had the AUDACITY to cast Annie as a black girl.

 

[Spider RedNight]

Can't be worse than Foodfight. At least this one has SOME shred of effort put into it.

Also I keep feeling bad for having to hate Martin Short. The guy has talent here and there and it makes me sad to keep seeing him in bad movies (trailers), like accidentally hearing Patrick Warburton in a bad movie. A movie with Patrick Warburton in it SHOULD NOT BE BAD.

 

[Vigormortis]

Meh, seen way worse. All I remember seeing about this was people getting pissed that they had the AUDACITY to cast Annie as a black girl.

Oh, I've seen worse as well, but to complain about the new Oz film when this atrocity exists this year just makes no sense.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Straight-to-DVD? I don't get that vibe. The animation is leagues ahead of whatever the fuck kind of 1998-level of abandonware was used for Food Fight, and it has a strange air of promise about it.

Don't quote me though, it may very well be horrible, but I'll reserve judgement for when it actually comes out.

 

[Vigormortis]

Hyperbole much?

Why yes, there was. Thanks for noticing.

There wasn't any auto-tune in that trailer.

Listen again. It's subtle, but it's there.

And if you got physically ill from watching that then you have much, much bigger problems.

So do you think I was jokingly using hyperbole or do you think I was being literal? You're contradicting yourself.

 

[lacktheknack]

I saw the thread title, and I was like "This is about that Oz movie, isn't it..."

Yep.

Probably the only thing that baffled me when it hit theaters was Jackass, because it's pretty much the essence of "made for TV and Youtube". Beyond that, I thought everything was fair game.

 

[FPLOON]

Seriously? THAT'S the movie that's making you question the sanity of Hollywood? Especially when we have glorious gems like this coming out this year -

You know, I remember seeing this trailer in theaters before seeing the trailer the OP is mentioning in the same exact theater showing... Honestly, based on the order I saw them in, the OZ movie looks more out-of-place than the Annie remake... (I mean, at least the Annie remake actually LOOKS like a movie that would be shown in theaters before it reaches Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital in a few months time...)

OT: The fact that one of the marketing gimmicks of this movie is that it stars one of the girls from Glee (with the added edited interview about how she DREAMED about playing Dorothy when she was young[footnote]Not like I wouldn't believe that, but just choosing THAT part of the interview in a commercial about how someone from Glee is playing the lead character seems like a VERY deliberate choice to make in the trailer editing department...[/footnote]) is just that icing on the cake that does make me WISH this was just a direct-to-digital release...

Edit: Okay... Maybe I don't think this movie should have gotten a direct-to-digital release, but these trailers keep rubbing me the wrong way somehow...

Besides, the only thing I'm finding funny about this movie, based on the trailers alone, is the suppose villain/jester complaining about his lack of wardrobe choice...

And to paraphrase the villain, in the vain of these trailers: "I. Can't. Avoid. These. Trailers. EVER!"

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Hey, this got a theatrical release too, so no surprises there.
How in the hell do Adam Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer still get funding when every gag (think more of the bodily function, not a joke) they make has been done to death, raped, resurrected and then done to death again by the Internet by the time their piece of shit movies come out?

 

[Saltyk]

Honestly, nothing surprises me at this point when it comes to what gets released. I mean Foodfight got released. Don't think it was in theaters, though.

Spoiler: Here ya go. Enjoy this review of a truly bad movie.