Return to Oz

An all-new adventure down the yellow brick road.

1985 • 109 min • Adventure · Family · Fantasy

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Synopsis

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

Our family guide

Best from age 8

Movie Knight Score

1084 reviews

100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
67 Audience · 1082 · 49%

Dorothy returns to Oz, finding her beloved land in ruins and its inhabitants turned to stone by the Nome King and Mombi. With new companions, she must embark on a perilous journey to restore Oz and rescue her old friends from an evil reign.

Violence & peril: 4/10
Language: 1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 0/10
Romance & sensuality: 0/10
Scary moments: 6/10

Heads up

Some surreal and unsettling imagery
Characters threatened with transformation or imprisonment
Intense peril and dark themes

What it models well

Friendship and loyalty
Perseverance in the face of despair
Courage to stand up to evil
The power of hope

Talk about it after

How does Oz reflect Dorothy's real-world struggles?
Discuss courage when things seem hopeless.
What makes a true friend?
The importance of imagination and belief.

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Top billed cast

Director: Walter Murch • Crew: Walter Murch, Gill Dennis

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Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
There are some positively darker elements to this follow-up story of the young "Dorothy" (Fairuza Balk). Traumatised by her first visit to "Oz" her desperate "Auntie Em" (Piper Laurie) resorts to electrical therapy to try and help her young niece. Luckily, a thunderstorm comes to her rescue and escaping from the asylum where she was to be treated, she finds herself back in a now desolate land of "Oz".…
CinemaSerf, TMDB Community

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
<em>'Return to Oz'</em> is alright, I personally didn't enjoy it though. I did like the horror edge it has to it for the first portion of the film, it's something I wasn't necessarily expecting so it was pleasing to see. That's about all I did rate from this though, with Oz itself not looking as magical as it should while the non-human characters are boring to me.…
r96sk, TMDB Community