| | |  | Musicals | Home » » » The Muppets' Wizard of Oz | | | | | | | Description: | | Ashanti, Queen Latifah, Jeffrey Tambor, David Alan Grier, Quentin Tarantino, and the Muppet gang star in this all-new extended version with over 20 minutes of never before seen footage. | | | Features: | |
• Everyone's favorite story becomes one twisted tale as Kermit, Miss Piggy, and all The Muppets turn theic novel by L. Frank Baum into a madcap adventure filled with brains, heart, courage . and a whole lot of laughter! Grammy Award winner Ashanti stars as Dorothy, an aspiring singer whose dreams of fame and fortune seem worlds away from coming true in the Kansas trailer park where she lives wi
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Ashanti, Jeffrey Tambor, Quentin Tarantino, David Alan Grier, Queen Latifah | | Director:
| Kirk R. Thatcher | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney | | Run Time:
| 100 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 09, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 102 reviews |
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43 of 48 found the following review helpful:
 #1 Muppets FanAug 11, 2006
By Andrew L. Somervell
"DrewZZk"
I'm the first person there would be to step up and defend the Muppets. I will not defend this movie. It is disgusting what has been done to this once great franchise. I was not dissapointed when I watched this movie when it first aired, I was angry. Jim Henson would never allow a movie this bad, this unimaginative, this unfunny to ever be made. The Muppets represented the greatest in all imagination. There in no imagination present in this steamer. Shame on you, Frank Oz, for participating in this film. You of all people should've known better. The Muppets mixed with the Wizard of Oz had so much potential but ended up being the worst Muppet project I've ever seen. Don't buy this movie. Don't buy this movie. Don't buy this movie. If you don't believe me, rent it first. When you do rent it rent something good that the Muppets did so you can wash that taste out of your mouth after you watch it.
24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Absolutely, postively SCREAMED potential. ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY... eh heh hehJul 17, 2006
By Wolfe Moffat
OK, who do I think I am saying such a thing about a Muppet movie? Hey, I've watched enough Muppets to know what's good and what's funny. This ain't it, and it isn't even close. Hey, you know the saying about not judging a book by the cover. The same applies to flicks, because the cover of this alone invites you to an all new world of the classic we've loved for years. I seriously wonder how "Muppet Treasure Island" was so awesome and THIS was so bad. It sucked, plain and simple! I'm thankful that we were able to borrow this from our local library before dishing out our money for this. By the way, the extra star IS simply for potential alone. How does it manage to screw up? Hey, read on!
You think of the Muppets, you're thinkin' ha ha ha!! You watch this and your like eh heh heh, it isn't that funny, and it isn't that innovative. Freakin' Quentin Tarantino made it all the more horrific! But ok, let's take a look at all the potential that could've made this great. Here we go! The opening song with Dorothy was good. But where did it flop? I personally don't know, but it did indeed FLOP. Kermit the Frog is Scarecrow. And of course he has his moments, but it doesn't hit the bulls eye, and misses the mark completely. Gonzo the Great is Tin-Man. Hey, I said this sucked for a reason. Because when Gonzo can point to knobs on his chest and say, "Those are my nipples" with no humorous effect, I can say THIS SUCKS!! Yeah, that's a direct quote from this, I ACTUALLY WATCHED IT! OK? I'll continue. My daughter loves Gonzo, and she was gone by this point. Gonzo wasn't funny. Fozzy Bear as Cowardly Lion, and it could've been great. I'll spare you any details. It wasn't too pretty. I thought it might be tolerable when Statler and Waldorf finally made their intro with their crack or two. Statler and Waldorf's heckling MADE Muppets better every time. This time they made it worse. The biggest disappointment I thought was Miss Piggy, not just as the Wicked Witch, but as ALL THE WITCHES. Now for a little while, it worked. But after some time, she got crappy too! The monkeys were a disgrace in my opinion.
I always saw "The Wizard of Oz" as a thing of beauty, of wonder and enchantment. Of AWE most of the time! I saw this as sheer stupidity! Like I said, they made "Treasure Island" work, and it happens to be a BIG favorite of my daughter's. This just gave her reason to play with her toys. Hey, if we're going to watch The Muppets, give us what we're used to. And that's entertainment! The Muppets are all about the unexpected, and madness hilarity, but they tried WAY too hard this time. It sucks, and I won't waste my time and money on it. No apologies.
42 of 50 found the following review helpful:
I quit the human raceJul 17, 2006
By pattic
"pattic171"
This has got to be the absolute nadir of so-called "family entertainment". Hollywood these days, seems to be under the impression that children today want "hip", they want "edgy". Well I have news for these bozos; They want what they've always wanted; charming, witty and decent entertainment. If I sound a bit angry and annoyed over this P.O.S. I have a very good reason. This is not only unfunny, cheap and badly made, lacking any hint of the wit and charm of the Henson films, but it's vulgar to boot. Nipple pinching gags? There are so many things in this video that are unacceptable for small children that you might even find copies of this thing in the dumpster at a trailer park. Jim Henson and the Pixar people had the sensitivity and intelligence to realise you could entertain the parents of their intended audience with wit and charm. "Hipness" and sewer humor is a pretty pathetic substitute for quality.
18 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Don't let "Muppets" or "Disney" on this title fool youDec 21, 2006
By M. Bearden
This film is not for kids (or adults), unless you wish your kids to be entertained by the following content that includes rude and crude behavior and lots of sexual inuendo: "Dorothy" acts rebellious toward her parents and society (life is boring, she wants excitement, not responsibility); "Dorothy" and her friends talk about things that make them "hot and sexy", repeatedly, within the first half hour--including the dead Wicked witch's shoes that make "Dorothy" look "sexy"; muppet crab "Toto" rubs the "nipples" on muppet "tin man"; "wizard of Oz" appears as a giant scantily clad buxom brunette and crab "Toto" asks this "wizard" to arrange a sexual encounter; etc., etc. etc. And this has NOTHING to do with the Frank Baum Wizard of Oz story other than to borrow a few images: A tornado, a young girl named "Dorothy", an emerald city, etc. The characters and plot are all "original"--but not creative or intelligent or sophisticated in the least. Utter trash. I'd rate this a 0 out of 5, or even -1 for "downright harmful" if I were allowed.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Oh muppets, what happened to you?Sep 01, 2005
By David Michael Cohen
Old folks like me will recall that what made "The Muppet Show" great was its uniqueness. I recall episodes where Sylvester Stallone and Vincent Price actually sang. Clearly, the muppets were doing their own thing, they weren't interested in being "hip."
Fast forward to "Muppets Wizard of Oz." Singing flavor-of-the-moment Ahsanti stars as Dorothy, a Kansas waitress with visions of stardom. As the opening credits roll, she sings a forgettable song in music-video format (complete with a music video reference). Later, she tells her Aunt 'Em that she wants to go to Hollywood and learn Kaballa, a pop-cultural reference that was already dated by the time of the movie's release.
Soon, Dorothy is whisked off to Oz, a land where pop cultural references pile up like flying monkey guano. Among these is Gonzo explaining to Pepe that the buttons he is pushing on his chest are his nipples. This comment may be the last gasp of the edginess that once made the muppets great. Later, Dorothy steps into a make-over machine and comes out as the talentless daughter of Ozzy Osboune (she's been re-born, or rather, Oz-born, yuck yuck). I'm sure that joke will be twice as funny to new viewers in a year or two, right?
Dorothy eventually announces that she wants to go home, perhaps she was driven off by the staggeringly unfunny jokes that crop up on all sides (see the Osbourne joke above). Although her character elicits no sympathy, the audience wishes her to return home too, just so we can end the movie.
Once, long ago, the muppets succeeded because they made their own rules. This is why their show (season 1 recently released on DVD) and their early movies have retained their charm for the past several decades. "Muppets Wizard of Oz," by contrast, is too interested in being "hip" and "today" to focus on anything else, and will be justly forgotten tomorrow.
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