Rainbow

Un placer visual y auditivo, "me quito el sombrero" para el director.

Un homage a Wizard of Oz, con una historia divertida y fácil de digerir. Un casting ideal.

An audio visual treat, magnificent cinematography, hats off for the director. Wonderfully casted, easy to follow, great homage to Wizard of Oz, but an original and creative story that's entertaining and easy to follow.

Absolutely loved revisé of colors to tell the story, the score is absolutely on point.

Congratulations to everyone involved, I only wish cinema keeps moving in this direction and studios green lit more pictures like this. Good on Netflix for backing this.

Honestly, it is too bad about Rainbow. The preview looked really good, but for some reason I kept it on my list for a while. I was hesitant to watch it and couldn't exactly explain why. Now that I've seen the movie I can tell you why: it's not very good. I thought the vagueness of the Wizard of Oz was creative without making it too hard to see. They didn't make it some blatant shifting of the old tale to a modern one. This was its own story. The characters were all fantastic, and I thought they had a good chemistry together. Everything else about this movie was not good. As I said it IS it's own story, but it's a bad one. The writing was bad, and some of the design ideas were a bit out there for me. I hope there are people that do who do Rainbow, but I'm not one of them.

Always a slight problem with the Wizard of Oz is the fact that Dorothy wants so much to go back Kansas, a place the book describes as monotonous and colorless and where a girl laughing at her dog is enough to give her aunt a shock.

In the book it's largely explained by just how young Dorothy is. Unlike in most film versions, the book Dorothy is perhaps 7 or 8, maybe even younger looking at the Denslow drawings, and when she gets to Oz she is left entirely to take care of herself. She wants to go home where she's safe and everyone loves her. In the MGM movie, they have a different idea. They make Dorothy older and have her run away from home. Through the course of her adventures in Oz, Dorothy is meant to learn a lesson about the value of home and family, that perhaps she feels most strongly when she's locked up in the Witch's castle crying for her aunt. But after that part is over, her yearning for Kansas is brought into question by audience, and when Glinda tells Dorothy, what she was supposed to have learned from her experiences mildly offends the more skeptical members of the audience.

The moral of the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is to believe in yourself and you can handle the misfortunes life throws at you, this is not only Dorothy's story, but it is repeated in the stories of each of her friends who learn to believe in the very qualities they believe themselves to be missing. The moral of the movie, The Wizard of Oz, is "There is no place like home." And this movie, Rainbow really flies with that idea. In this movie, Dora runs away from home and to another life and another family, and learns that family is the people who love her. Moreso than in the '39 movie, we feel this with Dora, and I think a large part of that is that in the '39 movie, it's forgotten about for long sections of singing and jokes and merriment, but it this film Dora's quest is always at the forefront. The important characters, the Wizard, The Witches, Glinda, and Aunt Em/Uncle Henry have a stronger connection to Dorothy and each other, and that allows for all the smaller adventures to no longer stand alone but to exist as part of one cohesive narrative.

Additionally, the roles of the characters are well-cast, the cinematography, editing, and music are all delightful. The movie just has a cool factor that makes you feel like it's part of the 21st century.

I suppose I gave the story only 9 out of 10 for a small reason, and that is that with all the extra focus on Dorothy, there's much less time for her friends. They are well cast, and instantly recognizable, but you don't really get to see them learning too much alongside Dorothy. That's okay, this movie doesn't have to be everything. But maybe it could have been if it had been a miniseries instead of a film.

In Rainbow, the Spanish director Paco Leon, delivers a new fresh concept of Dorothy. Dora (maybe like Marco ;) is looking for her mother whom she has never met.

The colourful musical is a modern and cool interpretation of the Wizard of Oz .

In Rainbow, Dora is lost like the Quijote in "La España profunda". Lost in today's modern world, Dora confronts several weird and awkward situations in her venture to meet her mother Pilar .

This is a creative new concept of Dorothy in a modern world of todays' Oz. I love the young actress Dora.

The soundtrack has a cool beat and an amazing feeling.

I think I would give a 7.5 overall.

I don't understand why this was touted as a reimagined Wizard of Oz? While it tries really hard to make connections to the original story - there is absolutely NOTHING in this that makes it worth sitting through the almost two hour long movie. Additionally, by making that connection - expectations are raised on which this movie fails to deliver.

The story feels cobbled together haphazardly. The director seems to have been confused because the end product feels like he didn't know if he was making a movie or a tele-novella.

The writing is sub-par and the production feels low budget.

This is very disappointing because I read a few articles about the making of this movie, all of which had me hoping for something wonderful, exotic, with a fresh spin on a classic tale. Sadly, it is a tremendous letdown.