3.0
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Metascore®Mixed or average reviews Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.
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It's familiar enough to be comfortable but not so familiar that it feels worn and repetitive.
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The film is stuffed with three endings too many. You can't blame Raimi for wanting to give us our money's worth. But after a while, you just want him to get to the Happily Ever After already.
A miscast James Franco and a lack of charm and humor doom Sam Raimi's prequel to the 1939 Hollywood classic. Oz the Wimpy and Weak would be more like it.
Oz the Great and Powerful, like so many products of movie studios that have lost their way, is a Tin Man of epic proportions — bright and shiny, with no heart.
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Fairy tale film crisis averted.
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