Tin Man

Parts of this oz interpretation are hard to swallow but none the less the show has held my interest. The way they've incorporated elements of the story into the movie is sometimes clever and sometimes not so much. The acting can be irritating and forced-Glitch is very Jar Jar Binks at times... At first I wasn't a fan of the Tin Man but as the show goes on he is starting to grow on me. I love Zooey Deschanel however in this movie there are times when it feels like shes just reciting lines from the script or seems bored. If you have an open mind and can get past the bad parts over all its pretty good. Visually it excels for a movie mini.

Pretty entertaining, although the wooden style of the lead actress who plays DG is annoying. She doesn't seem to sync with the rest of the ensemble at all, and can't seem to manage any emotion other than wide-eyed amazement. Also, the plot line seems redundant and contrived at times - I was expecting something a little bit more original, while still incorporating stuff from the Wizard of Oz movie we're all familiar with. I was surprised to see a bit of Time Bandits and Star Wars at the beginning (the swinging cage and the Ewok-like situation). It's as if the writers couldn't make up their minds which fantasy stories to "sample." Overall, worth watching once, maybe twice.

I was really looking forward to a darker reimagining of the Wizard of Oz.

The premise was interesting and on the whole the look was good. I kept an open mind and was willing to forgive a lot since it was just a miniseries & presumably doesn't have a large budget. However, overall, I was disappointed.

It started off OK, introducing the characters. I thought the casting was fine. Unlike apparently everyone else I had no problem with the lead actress and liked her non-hysterical approach to everything going on. I enjoyed the way they tried to modernize the story and yet keep basic elements (the Tin Man being heartless, scarecrow literally missing a brain). Small homages to the original were inserted (the blue gingham apron at the beginning, the brick road, the storm at the farmhouse, the Munchkins (who looked like turkeys to me) etc.) Monkey bat tattoos were an interesting twist and the monkey bat effects were done very well.

Unfortunately, the 'movie' just wasn't good enough. -I assume they didn't have a huge budget, so I tried to forgive the bad CGI and the film coloring "tricks" they used that looked like my amateur attempts in photoshop (look! we can do B&W w/ one color focus, look we can darken it to look creepy). -And some of the modernization attempts just didn't work for me. I couldn't figure out if O.Z. was supposed to evoke parallels like I'm a cutsey beach girl "dee-gee from the O.C." or if it was supposed to sound more hard & urban like "I'm D.G. from the O.Z, dog. word." -Why was it called "The Tin Man" if he was more of a supporting character to the DG/AZ storyline? -And maybe I've seen too many goth/Tim Burton things but "Az" was an incredibly boring, nonthreatening witch. Her attempts to be sexy bad witch was both uninteresting and trite. -However, the biggest problem was that the writing wasn't very good and it was too drawn out. -To top it off, the ending was painfully predictable and Disney-esquire in it's corny-ness and its literal embrace of the happy nuclear family.

This should have been condensed to a tighter 2-2.5 hour long movie and it would have been much better than an inferior drawn out 5-6 hour series (w/ all the commercials probably 4-5).

So I'll give them points for trying on a probably small budget, but next time it'd be nice to see a better effort.

1st off this is not a remake of the wizard of oz...so please do not compare it that way. Secondly it is not a "film" so don't refer to it as that either, it is a miniseries. My Fiancé is an immensely huge Wizard Of Oz fan, and i enjoy it as well. We were both interested in this series, and went into it with an open mind and zero expectations. Especially after reading "wicked", we had no expectations at all. Surprisingly my fiancé really enjoys this series, we are happy it isn't a "remake" or a "film". It is what it is a miniseries on the scifi channel, and honestly its pretty damn interesting.It's really wild to see someones idea's come to life, ideas they created from watching such an amazing movie like the wizard of oz (one of the most timeless classics ever!). It's not trying to remake or be the wizard of oz..it's trying to be "Tin Man" it's own entity aside from the Wizard OF Oz. It's obvious that the movie is drawn from the original classic, that someone loved the original and thought the question we always all think what if....? Honestly so far (1 of 3 episodes have been aired) i'am really into the plot, and the characters and i love how it touches so much of The Wizard OF Oz but yet doesn't defile the movie, it's more like an homage...the person(s) who wrote this miniseries respect and adore The Wizard OF Oz and you can tell so by the way they handle the characters and the script.So please at least watch all 3 episodes before you say its awful.

An interesting take on one of the oldest classics. If you love the science fiction genre and the wizard of oz, you should love this imaginative display of the original ideas of The Wizard of OZ. It has the main characters of the Wizard of OZ still searching for the same things. I found it extremely entertaining, so much so that I actually decided to watch the second part. (And I can only remember to watch shows if they REALLY capture my attention. Few do.) So far i've not found it lacking. It looks exactly like the commercials portrayed it It is extremely well acted and the scenery is amazing.

All in all, i've found it to be a good show so far. It's twenty minutes into the second episode and i'm already planning on watching the third part. (Show's on commercial right now.)