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Many people, give this film sh*it, but it's one of Mel Brooks comedy's and it tops the old-fashioned flat comedy "Young Frankenstein" this film has style and flair, and the women are pretty and the actors sharp and suave! it's really fun! It has it's really humorous moments, it can be dull for people who don't appreciate, or understand that type of comedy but, Leslie Nielsen is a very good Bela Lugosi, stand in! 8/10!!!!!!!!!

I borrowed this film, with high expectations, thinking it would be like "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (another Mel Brooks Film)-a silly stupid but really humorous parody! unfortunetly I had to listen to a 'black and white' version, of this flat falt flat FLACID comedy! Gene Wilder's stupid roaring yell nearly busted the speakers on my TV set, not to mention my eardrums! My dad had said this was really funny, so he watched it with us, and we had to do pretend little excuses for laughs to impress my Dad, who later quoted "It wasn't as funny as I remembered" it was really boring, and so old fashioned were's all the zany parody's and stupid stunts and tongue twisters and funniness? beats me! 3 1/2 out of 10 (An unfortunetly bad flop of a movie in my and everyone i know's view)

I first saw this film when I was about 5 or 6, and to this day I've always loved it! Just the story, the voices the songs, the animation was really cute and simple, the gorgeous backgrounds- Liza Minnelli is in the lead as the voice of 'Dorothy', the rest of the cast include, Mickey Rooney (Scarecrow), Ethel Merman (Mombi-the wicked witch of the west's cousin) Paul Lynde (Pumpkin head), and the original 'wicked witch of ther west' from the 1939 MGM classic, does a cameo as Dorothy's Aunt Em! The plot is a mesh of "Ozma Of Oz" and "The Land Of OZ" (The wizard of oz's author's, other book sequels) I've always loved this movie, it is a little cheesy mind you, (and some of the songs would be severly critisced by film critics)and are waaaay too long, but the story is a good sequel, it fits in better to the mgm version everyone knows, better than the 1985 film "return To Oz" (which i also love mind you) because it has, the same cheery backdrops, songs, and voices. This film is very rare and hardly known by anyone. In 1964, apparently Liza Minnelli PROUDLY recorded the voice for Dorothy, but then regretted doing it later on, and was embarrassed, seing as it was was designed as a crude exploit of her mother's (Judy Garland's) work!.... "It was easy" quotes Liza, "All I had to do was mimick my momma's voice!" Anyway it's an excellent film, (it should keep most children entertained--all the one i've showed it to have been anyway)so if you are a die-hard Oz-fan you should see, it (it's on video) I personally have "Journey Back To Oz" in my video collection, and it is a favourite for little cousins e.t.c!

P.S I LOVE the soundtrack score for the 'tornado' scene! It's so dramatic and awesome! you've never heard anything like it! it's really cool with heaps of differant instruments!