Oz the Great and Powerful is Disney’s adaption of a prequel to Frank L. Baum’s Oz series. By association it is also a prequel to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Oz is a high budget risky gamble by Disney, as it attempts to go back to the land of Oz, a land that many people feel is sacred in film due to the elite status of the 1939 film. Nevertheless, Disney had to have a lot of courage to make this film, and that is admirable. So the question, simply put is, does Oz the Great and Powerful live up to its high expectations?
