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I'm not usually a huge fan of fantasy films as I find a lot of them focus too heavily on visuals and lack in storyline, so I wasn't overly excited to watch Oz the Great and Powerful. This film is directed by the brilliant Sam Raimi, who's work includes the original Spider-man and Evil Dead series. It is also based on L. Frank Baum's Oz novels, and is set 20 years before the events of the classic film 'The Wizard of Oz'. In this film it follows Oscar Diggs (played by James Franco), a small time magician, who is sucked into a tornado and crash lands in Oz. There he meets a witch called Theodora who believes he is the wizard prophesied to overthrow the Wicked Witch and save the people of Oz.

While I still don't think this was an amazing film, it was still much better than I expected. The storyline gave plenty of references to the original film, but still had its own originality. For such a long film I didn't feel that it dragged too much and moved at a pretty steady pace. The acting by all was very solid, in particular Mila Kunis who was great as one of the witches. As expected the special effects were pretty impressive, and I'm sure would've looked great in 3D.

I hope I haven't hyped this up too much, but if you go into it with the right attitude hopefully you enjoy it too.

My rating: 6.5/10 For more Movie and TV News, Reviews and Rumours go to: www.facebook.com/tvmovienews