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The Wiz Movie Review
The Wiz Review
"The Wiz" Overview
Rating: G
1978
Cast and Crew
Director : Sidney LumetProducer : Rob Cohen
Screenwiter : Joel Schumacher
Starring : Diana Ross,Michael Jackson,Nipsey Russell,Ted Ross,Mabel King,Theresa Merritt,Thelma Carpenter
This Broadway mainstay is horrifying -- nightmare-inducing, really. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Nipsey Russell make for a triple threat of overacting and bad costumes in this Harlem-set bastardization of The Wizard of Oz. Ted Ross, as the cowardly lion, is the only one to escape relatively unscathed. There's one song here worth remembering (the "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" update "Ease on Down the Road"), the rest is an acid trip of bad dancing, garish sets, and a Joel Schumacher-scripted mess that runs 135 agonizing minutes. Thank God for the irreverent Richard Pryor as the titular Wiz.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
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posted on 27/08/2007 06:26
i loved the wiz.that movie was and is still great.
michael is talented as a singer,dancer,and actor.
and as a writer.i don`t care what critics thought
about that movie.that movie came out the same
year i was born.and it`s one of my favorite
movies of all time.he brought life to the
character of the scarecrow.and he should be
proud to have been apart of it.as should the
rest of the cast.
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posted on 12/02/2008 05:11
This movies was hilariously horrible. i almost fell out of my seat by the time i
got to the scare crow (michaeil jackson). don't EVER try to mimic the classic Wizard
of ozz, and if you do..dont be as retarded as this one was. seriously, what were
these people thinking.
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