"Opportunity comes when you least expect it." Oscar Diggs/Oz
I remember being quite fond of this film when I first saw it, however I don't believe it's aged very well in my mind. I feel that I've forgotten most of it and very few things stand out about this film still. The biggest critique that I heard from this film is that it wasn't canon with Wicked, to which I think that people just need to give up. That's not what this film was meant to be. What this film was meant to be was beautiful, and that's precisely how I remember it. The land and the towns and everything were pristine and detailed and insanely gorgeous. China Girl was the most perfect execution of CGI (until Gollum in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) in that you entirely believed that she was a walking china doll. (Kudos to the sound department on that as well!) One of my biggest critiques was Mila Kunis as the Wicked Witch, and at no fault of her own. She has such a sweet round face, and the Wicked Witch is all about angles. They basically just stuck an angular nose on her, but it didn't work. She didn't look wicked enough. She looked like she was in a (very elaborate) Halloween costume. Maybe that's part of why they cast her, to throw the audience off at the beginning. I can see that. Either way, the transformation wasn't big enough.
Rank: 72
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