Oz the Great and Powerful - 7.5/10
I really liked this movie. For a prequel that comes out 74 years after the original, I think they did a really great job. Not sure what to say about it...it's obviously much more involved than the original given today's technology and movie audience. The only real disappointment was Mila Kunis after she turned into the Wicked Witch. Sure this takes places 33 years before the original, but she didn't look anything like Margaret Hamilton's version, aside from the skin color, her head looked too big and wide fr starters. Some of the CGI is pretty weak, but some of it is really good. The flying baboons also don't look like the flying monkeys in the original, but they do look like...baboons. Still, I highly recommend it if you like the 1939 movie. Never read the book so I can't say how it relates, but for a 3/4 century prequel, it's a good movie.