I'm question the underlying thesis of
this movie.
So the wizard wants to be a “great
man” (would've gone with lumberjack myself) and presumably is going
to go on this grand adventure to defeat the witch and achieve that
goal. I feel confident saying this because this is a Disney piece.
Something big needs to happen during the course of this movie, right
at the very end if need be, to turn this wizard from the hero of this
story to the kind of pathetic fraud we see in the classical “Wizard
of Oz,” and frankly, I don't see Disney having the brass to go
there.
But as for the trailer itself, I have
to saw that this piece looks very visually similar to “Alice in
Wonderland”. Hopefully they create a more simplified landscape,
because Alice simply had way too much colorful, quirky stuff crammed
into every shot. I would not recommend this one on 3-D. I think that
would be overwhelming. But in 2-D, and if they tone the sheer amount
of stuff down, this could be a very visually striking and memorable
piece in that respect.
As for the characters so far, what is
there to say? You know nothing about the wizard from this, you only
get flashes of everyone else. Is the lady in red supposed to be a
witch, or just some random woman that just exists in Oz? I didn't
think regular people lived there.
All in all, I'll have to reserve
judgement on this one. There is simply too little to go on in this
trailer. Keep your eyes open, but be careful, because I think this is
going to be one that tries so hard to blow you away with striking
visuals that it may just be a mess of color and quirk with a lack of
real substance.
