DJariya

I'm not sure about this one. I think this one could be really bad. It does have a decent cast though.


Synopsis:

In this cyber-twisted update of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a leather-clad, soul-sucking sorceress named Azkadellia has scorched the once-beautiful land of O.Z. into a desolate wasteland. Its only hope lies with an “outsider” named DG, a young Midwestern woman, whose troubling dreams have summoned her to the doomed paradise. She not only changes the fate of O.Z. but discovers, as well, her own destiny in this strange new world.


PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Alan Cumming as Glitch
· Kathleen Robertson as Azkadellia
· Neal McDonough as Cain
· Raoul Trujillo as Raw
· Richard Dreyfuss as The Mystic Man
· Zooey Deschanel as DG

leeta

I'm going to give it a try since I love fantasy/sci-fi. The critics say it's terrible...

TGM

It's scheduled to be tivo'd... we'll see if I get around to watching it

Goldberg74

I'm gonna record it and watch it after finals... I sure hope its better than Flash Gordon.

Giantrobo

It looks interesting.

Cellar Door

I'm going to watch, but my expectations are low. That synopsis sounds really, really bad. I like Zooey Deschanel, but I'm not a big fan of Alan Cumming, and Richard Dreyfuss as the wizard (I'm guessing that's the mystery man?) seems odd.

Rogue588

Things like this make me grateful that there's a strike going on.

Good thing I don't get this thing called "Sci-Fi".

Groucho

This is getting trashed by the reviewers, but my wife wants to watch it so I guess I'm stuck (unless she doesn't like the first two hours)

mike7162

Only because of the writer's strike...

Mattrk

No one think about Flash Gordon while watching this. Nope, no reason to do that at all. Move along, citizens, back to your lives.

Deftones

I'm going to watch it. Looks cool.

keyed

Not watching it.

From a newspaper article I read Thursday, it sounds like they scripted it out of a 16-bit RPG instead of The Wizard of Oz.

The O.Z., Mobats, shapeshifting dog companion... tell me this doesn't sound like a SNES game.

chris_sc77

This could have been something rather special but it comes off as very lazy.

Jason

I'm sure sci-fi will figure out a way to make it a series and run it for the next 10 years.

chris_sc77

What made me mad was that they apparently couldn't even get real midgets for this? NO midgets=No Sale!

Gizmo

Secret of Evermore?

bobert3

I'll rent the DVD off Netflix when it comes out, if I hear that it's any good.

mndtrp

Same here, although it looked kind of cool.

Baron Of Hell

Forgot to record it. Might watch it later maybe on a rerun or rent it.

Heat

Is this OK for grade-school age kids?

I recorded the first episode (DVR), I'll see if I actually get around to watching it or not.

Groucho

Maybe older kids. There is some violence and death (people getting shot, a child is beaten). Some minor swearing and drug use too. But I think most kids would be bored. As would most adults.

This was worse than I feared. Even the worst Sci-Fi channel movies offer two things that make them entertaining: Coolio and/or over-the-top graphic cgi violence. This had neither.

sauce07

I turned this on for a few minutes and it was horrible. Now I realize that I can't properly judge this movie but from what i watched it seemed to be very cheep. Everybody was running through a generic forrest with perfect rows of spooky trees while the Band of Brothers guy just kept yelling "RUN!!" while being chased by poorly CGI'd dogs.

Bad

Groucho

Later on they have a similar scene where everybody is running away from flying monkeys that spawn from somebody's breast tattoos. I'm not making this up! It makes the scene you're describing look like a Hitchcock masterpiece.

Tracer Bullet

The phrase "6 hour Sci-Fi Channel mini-series" strikes terror in my heart.

MrE

Think Wizard of Oz as a sci-fi movie. Not as bad as above comments indicate (the SFX are better than average for TV), but if you don't have 8-10 inches of new snow on the ground, you probably have something better to do.