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--savior over the course of a few short days. Although I've enjoyed Franco's work in past efforts like "City by the Sea" and "127 Hours," the former "Spider-Man" star often struggles to portray characters with genuine or selfless motivations. He does a fine job of playing Oz at the beginning of his arc, when the character is meant to come across as a smarmy, self-aggrandizing comman. As the film goes on, however, Franco's performance disintegrates by degrees, relying on the same bemused, laid-back mannerisms in scenes that call for at least a semblance of honest, heartfelt emotion. Eventually, his disinterest was mirrored by my own. I guess that's what I get for paying attention to that man behind the curtain.
Franco drops curtain on 'Oz'
Despite the film's many short-comings, there's a lot to enjoy here
LANDON MCDONALD
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
A reality-hopping carnival magician (James Franco) battles witches and befriends a flying monkey (Zach Braff) in Sam Raimi's action-fantasy "Oz the Great and Powerful."
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Sam Raimi seems to have taken this advice to heart while filming "Oz the Great and Powerful," his visually resplendent, dramatically muted quasi-prequel to 1939's "The Wizard of Oz" whose status as a cross-generational touchstone will continue to grow long after this lackluster reprise is banished to the nether regions of Netflix. Despite a few clever references and a commendable sense of affection (if not reverence) for "Oz" creator L. Frank Baum, Raimi's version is unable to overcome its most fundamental flaw: a marked disinterest in the Wizard himself.
After his hot-air balloon crashes near Emerald City, Oz meets the ravishing sorceress sisters Theodora (Mila Kunis) and Evanora (Rachel Weisz), who inform him that his arrival was foretold as the coming of a new Wizard and that he must slay a certain Wicked Witch in order to inherit the throne (and the Scrooge McDuck-style swimming pool of swag that comes with it). Joining him on his journey are Flying the Flyong Monkey (Zach Braff), the only one who knows Oz is secretly a charlatan, and the sassy, delicate China Girl (Joey King), whose village was massacred by the Witch's army of winged baboons (yes, apparently there are several different species of flying monkey).
The movie opens on a wind-swept Kansan fairground, where a traveling carnival is showcasing the questionable talents of Oscar "Oz2" Diggs (James Franco), an itinerant magician harboring vague notions of inner greatness. He gets the chance to prove himself clf after a magic twister whisks him off to the merry old land that just so happens to bear his name. This sequence, arguably the films finest, salutes its predecessor's famed transition from sepia to Technicolor by expanding its square-shaped 4:3 aspect ratio and brightening its digital environs to the point of candy-colored catatonia.
Danny Elfman's score is evocative without being derivative, and the 3-D effects are uniformly magnificent, especially Finley, who's easily the most expressive CGI simian since Cesar in 2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". Another bright spot is Michelle Williams's Glinda the Good Witch, a performance that owes more to Cate Blanchett's Galadriel in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy than the frilly, bubble-loving enchantress of 1939.
Then there's Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger's refreshingly old-school prosthetics work, which convincingly transfigures Raimi's regular collaborator Bruce Campbell into a mega-clefted Winkie guardsman. Speaking of Campbell, Nicotero's monstrous redesign of the Wicked Witch of the West is bound to draw comparisons with the Deadites in Raimi's much-loved "Evil Dead" trilogy, especially the possessed Sheila in "Army of Darkness." It's a shame the actress who ends up playing the Witch (her identity, although technically a spoiler, is ridiculously predictable) uses such a scratchy, almost comically irritating voice.
The bulk of the movies' failings can be attributed to Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abireau's uneven screenplay and the casting of Franco as the Wizard. No one seems willing or able to pinpoint what exactly motivates Oz to transform from sham to
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