Fantastic Return to Oz
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A year to the day after Dorothy and the people of the Emerald City defeated Urfin Jus, the villain is trying to exact his revenge. To command the army of Carraci, however, Urfin needs not only the magic book, but also Dorothy’s silver slippers. The slippers are safely hidden away in Dorothy’s house. Unfortunately, Dorothy’s guest, Tim, is overcome by curiosity and picks up the shoes, accidentally transporting himself, Dorothy and the slippers to the Land of Oz. The Emerald City and its citizens are in danger once again.
Our read · Fantastic Return to Oz (2019) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Fantastic Return to Oz
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a colorful Russian animated Oz sequel with Dorothy facing old foes again.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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