Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return **
Dirs: Will Finn,
Daniel St. Pierre. Animation with the voices of: Lea Michele, Kelsey Grammer,
Dan Aykroyd. 92 mins. Cert: U
Even by the
standards of allowance-snatching half-term filler, this is pretty indifferent:
a computer-animated sequel-cum-afterthought that sees Dorothy (voiced by Glee’s Lea Michele) recalled to Oz to
rescue her old walking friends from the Wicked Witch’s wickeder brother. Her
boilerplate quest is flecked with variable animation, lame jokes and samey
songs; the cynicism peaks in a sequence in the breakaway republic of Candyland,
where every image intends to frogmarch the kids back to the concession stand.
It’d be a perverse soul who spent £30 carting the family off to this, when they
could pick up the all-pleasing, ever-sparkling original on DVD for a fiver.
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return opens in selected cinemas from today.
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