Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Part 2: The Giant With The Hammer

[MooTelevision]

Dorothy's voice is annoying... And Ozma's is so bland

[wickedwitchwest12323]

so nomes are the same as internet trolls?

[PriestessOfNox]

I don't know if it's the story or horrible dialogue making me want to pound my head against the desk...

[majoblue2]

this is EV not OZ, WELL IS NEAR OZ ANYWAY

[MrColuber]

The cowardly lion in the books wasn't this useless. Indeed, he wasn't really cowardly.

[MaskedMan66]

@MrColuber Oh, he was cowardly. He just wasn't a coward.

[GarethandSarah]

Oh god I would kick that wheelers ass.

[StacieG15]

at 0:32 what kind of a face was that? O.o

[F1315NJ]

@StacieG15 That's like a rape face of some sort

[woodchucker23]

He's the "Hungry Tiger", but he says in the movie "if I ate something I would just be hungry again later, so why bother?" so shouldn't he be the Anorexic Tiger?

[BigDandfriends]

or he tiger with a eating disorder or the modeling tiger

[MaskedMan66]

It was poorly stated. He actually eats vast amounts, but can never eat the thing he really wants to eat, which is a fat baby. He craves babies, but his conscience won't allow him to eat them. So he tries to fill the void with lots of other food, but it just doesn't do it for him.

[BojieP]

this is a very dumb! and werid!

[bibbsy123abc]

Uh... I'm about to pull the trigger with the gun pointed at Queen Ozma's head. What the heck is this stuff?

[MaskedMan66]

This is Oz.

[Beerbottles123]

Im reading Fables at the moment. apprently theres a power struggle between ozma and frau totenkinder over the leadership of the 13th floor. so they can defeat mr.dark and reclaim fabletown

[PetiteOzma]

Yeah I'm reading that too... I thought Ozma's fate would be a bit more interesting since the Nome King was made ruler of Oz... with Ozma's policy on limiting magic users and such I could have almost seen her throwing in with the Adversary.

Oh well I'm just happy to see her in Fables at all (even if she is one head flower short)

[PetiteOzma]

Well it doesn't make sense for her to actually be Gepetto's agent cause if she was willing to work with him she'd still be on the throne of the Emerald City instead of the Nome King. Anyway we should probably stop filling comments on this video with talk of Fables.

[NatureHeroes22]

I love the part when Dorothy reunited her friends and they hug each other.  That is so super cute.

[TheWizardofodd12]

Ozma has black hair

[Luckynumber78]

Actually, Baum describes her in "The Marvellous Land of Oz" as having ruddy gold hair. Although all of Neill's black and white drawings do indeed show her with black hair, all of his colour pictures show her with sort of caramel coloured locks. The only exception I can think of is the dust jacket of "Ozma of Oz," but that's just too sexy to be taken seriously! XD

Having said all that, I still very much think of her as having black hair.

Oddly, I've never seen a movie where Ozma has dark hair.

[MaskedMan66]

look at any of L. Frank Baum's own silent movies; Ozma always appears at the beginning, played by Vivian Reed, smiling at the audience, and in "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" (one of those movies) Ozma is played, again as a brunette, by Jessie May Walsh.

But given that Ozma is a fairy and capable of magic, I fancy she can change the color of her hair on a whim.

[Luckynumber78]

That's an excellent point. I'm ashamed to say I've seen all of Baum's Oz films and still forgot that factor. But still, Ozma really only appears at the very beginning and in the scene in the court, so the error is not so egregious as it might have otherwise been. And, of course, I forgot Shirley Temple in The Land of Oz, which is one of my favorite representations of the fairyland! What was I think in that comment five months ago? Thanks for correcting me, Masked Man.

[MaskedMan66]

That's okay, I quite forgot about the Shirley Temple version myself-- and I was just watching it the other day, too!.

I've read that in the black-and-white illustrations John Neill deliberately darkened Ozma's hair to make a contrast with Dorothy's golden locks.

That's the really weird thing; because of Judy Garland, most people think Dorothy was a brunette.

[maryepkcoolcat]

its kinda funny when scarecrow says a funny about tick-tock, but when the others behind them groans is even funnier.

P.S.

The scarecrows voice sounds almost like a teenage boy.

[MaskedMan66]

Well, when you consider that he was only three days old when Dorothy met him, it's not inappropriate for him to have a young voice.

Hinton Battle was only 16 when he played the Scarecrow in the original Broadway production of "The Wiz," and I saw a new musical called "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in Toronto in 2002 in which another 16 year-old played the part.

[fragrencefree101]

i usually like dorothy, but am i the only one who wants to shoot her? coz her voice in this cartoon ot watever is REALLY annoying

[MaskedMan66]

Yep, you're the only one.

[Luckynumber78]

Look at Ozma's eye like at 4:17 .

When her mouth is closed it's far back on her face, but when it's open, it's to the front like a normal person. That's such sloppy animation, but it's pretty hilarious to watch!

[JumbaFan]

Well...the storyline doesn't follow the book and the voice acting is rather wooden...but it's still a cute cartoon that little kids would enjoy. I agree with other posters (minus the profanity) that the book is much better, but I still like this.

[MaskedMan66]

@JumbaFan It follows the book quite closely; it's simply that a few scenes and elements have been removed for time considerations and ease of production.

Just like the MGM film of "Wizard," in that way.

[fwaph]

Haha this is the crappest thing I've ever seen!!!

'If I did have feelings, I would like youuuuuuu'

'I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally like you....'

God TickTock and Tiger sound like kiddie fiddlers.

[chrisplushado]

i xcant stand to watch this its nothing like the book in tha book dorothy gets trsapped by a evil princess and ozma comes overv the great desert with a magic carcarpet glinda gave her becuz they wanted to save the rotyal fa mily of ev and dorothy happend to be their

[Luckynumber78]

It makes me happy that the Lion and the Tiger have their respective bows in the right places, though!

[atomicdog04]

The fuck is this?!?!?!?! This is not Ozma of OZ, if this was really Ozma of Oz, Ozma would of been a boy when she first met Dorothy. Then Glinda turns her back to her original sex. This is bullshit. I prefer the anime other then this piece of complete shit. At least they were accurate.

Yes there's an anime of the Wizard of OZ, I'm not talking about the 90's series. I mean the real Japanese anime that was made in the 80's that was really damn good. If you're a real fan of the WOZ look it up.

[RoyalKidofOz]

Um... The anime you just described is called "The Marvelous Land of Oz." They did do a third one called "Ozma of Oz," but this one actually follows the book better than that one.

That series is very good though. (Especially if you can get all 52 unedited episodes.)

I'm sure the uploader put this up because it was a rare Oz video.

[WickedOnTheInside]

RoyalKidofOz is right. In the book "Ozma of Oz" Dorothy meets Ozma for the first time when she is being held captive by an Evian Princess. Dorothy never meets Ozma in Tip form, the anime was being completely inaccurate by including Dorothy as she doesn't even make an appearance in "The Marvelous Land of Oz"

[chrisplushado]

but in the books dorothy never meets ozma whn she was a boy and it was not glinda it was mombi whon turned her back

[Nakori17]

the wheelers sound so silly.. i love it

[NatureHeroes22]

I love this even Dorthey reunited with her friends, my favortie part Dorthey give each other a hug. That is so cute and sweet.

[112414]

this cartoon is horrible, fuck u

[kidkayden]

My gf was just cast as ozma in my colleges version of The Wizard Of OZ

[MaskedMan66]

Ozma wasn't in "Wizard"; how'd they work that?

[kidkayden]

it was actually pretty bad. they used her as the gate keeper and a tour guide when dorothy gets to oz's gate.

[MaskedMan66]

How dare they demote the Queen??????

[Luckynumber78]

My moral outrage function is fully wound. Wind my thoughts for better expression of it.

[MaskedMan66]

*winds the key in Luckynumber78's head*

[tikiloowho]

That was easy to get in 0.o

[ptr16]

this is like Sailor moon + A clockwork orange + The Wizard of Oz

i love it!

[beatleboy123]

They should have made the Wheelers more frightening and made their voices deep.

+The Lion got his courage! When the scriptwriters were writing this they forgot that aspect!

[reksub10]

yes but he reverted back to his homosexual ways lol

[princerei]

no, he was still called the cowardly lion afterwords and still proffessed cowardess... but again the idea was that he wasn't really a coward cause even though things scared him, he didn't give into fear. +everything the Wizard gave them was crock (Sawdust brains, fake heart and some "liquid courage")

[MaskedMan66]

@princerei Actually, it was bran brains, mixed with pins and needles, and a velvet heart stuffed with sawdust.

[MaskedMan66]

Read the book; his "courage" ran out. His real courage, which was always there, is still there.

[MaskedMan66]

Ozma appointed by the Wizard? That's an interesting twist.....

[Luckynumber78]

Also makes no sense. Remember how the Wizard got Mombi to do away with King Pastoria? I doubt he'd turn around and give Pastoria's adoptive daughter the throne!

[MaskedMan66]

Well, put him away anyhow; the Wizard wouldn't ant anybody killed.

Of all the told and retold history of Oz, the biggest mystery is just what happened with Oscar Z. Diggs (the Wizard, for those who don't know his name), King Pastoria, Princess Ozma, and Mombi and who did what as far as hiding the baby heir.

I've actually written an outline for a story which tells the whole tale, taking all the conflicting versions into account

[musapan]

waaaa!! This is cool and everything, but I'm such a die-hard fan for the books... I wish this were more like the third book! It's pretty damn close tho. Way better than the original movie, at least, lol.

[MaskedMan66]

The closest adaptation I've ever seen-- not that there have been many. There was a seres narrated by Margot Kidder (Lois Lane in Oz?) which adapted books 1, 2, 3, and 6, but each one got further away from the original material; in that "Ozma of Oz," Ozma was only in it for about 10 minutes.

[lollipopfop]

How the fuck is this at all accurate? The whole point of the bok is that they are searching for Ozma, and here she is not even in trouble, but greeting Dorothy. Tick Tock is the one that saves them from the Wheelers. Where is Polychrome, if Tick Tock belongs to the Queen of Ev why does it say Oz on his chest. More to the point the book is very good, and this is really bad.

[princerei]

you're confused Polychrome was not in Ozma of Oz, she first showed up in the next book The Road to Oz. And the general plot of the book, going to rescue the queen of ev from the nome king, playing the guessing game, Bellina overhearing the answer and using the eggs to get the belt is the same... it's just details were changed and events omitted... I find the changes irksom (the wizard appointed Ozma, not bloodly likely considering he stole the throne from her father) but I understand why it's so

[Luckynumber78]

Well, technically not the next book. The book after the next book. But hey, who's counting?

Anyway, I think anything that lets kids know that there actually is more to Oz than an old movie is for the better. Anything that gives them a push towards the very vast and very real world of Baum's Oz is good in my book. (My Great Book of Records?)

[princerei]

sorry you're right, Dorothy and the Wizard comes before Road... gotta bit mixed up, and you're right awareness is good... and this isn't a bad cartoon. I just sorta latched onto the original Ozma origin from Marvelous Land (and the the character herself) so that change bugs me more then others.

[MaskedMan66]

I think you're thinking of "The Lost Princess of Oz," in which Ozma was kidnapped. In "Ozma of Oz," the plot wasmuch the same as you see here, only with more characters and a few more things happening.

[elrota]

I agree 100 percent! Nice to see there's another person who wishes the movie (1939) were more accurate.

[MaskedMan66]

Would have been nice, but the budget just didn't allow.

[Luckynumber78]

What, the budget wouldn't allow for Dorothy to not be a whiny little bitch and for Glinda not to be a ditz?

Come on, they had plenty of money to portray some of the greatest characters ever created as more than cardboard cut-outs!

[MaskedMan66]

While she didn't have quite the gumption of Baum's Dorothy, Judy Garland's characterization was not in the least what you describe.

As for Billie Burke, that was just her acting style; and it's not unknown in fantasy tales for a personage of great power to effect an apparently harmless demeanor-- it tends to make people underestimate them, you see. Think of how Yoda acted when Luke Skywalker first met him.

[MaskedMan66]

"Affect," that should have been.

[drawitbig]

@elrota you're not the only one