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Return to Oz
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3165
- IMDb #3010
- Google retired #2681
- Rotten Tomatoes #2800
- Metacritic #3231
- Letterboxd #2449
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3373
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2495
- Metacritic Critics #4151
- Metacritic Audience #1268
- Criticker #1768
- Kinopoisk #2340
- AlloCiné #2809
- Trakt #3092
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 42, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 50, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Dorothy Gale returns to Oz and finds it in ruins. The Yellow Brick Road is crumbling, the Emerald City is destroyed, and its inhabitants have been turned to stone by the evil Nome King. With the help of new friends like Tik-Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead, she must find the Scarecrow, who has been taken prisoner, and restore Oz to its former glory.
Details
- Director
- Walter Murch
- Writers
- Gill Dennis, Walter Murch
- Based on
- Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Released
- 21 June 1985
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $11.1M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Visual Effects | Zoran Perisic | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Visual Effects | Will Vinton | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Visual Effects | Michael Lloyd | Nominee |
| 58th Academy Awards 1986 | Best Visual Effects | Ian Wingrove | Nominee |
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4 awards — Return to Oz
×| Best Visual Effects | Zoran Perisic | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Will Vinton | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Michael Lloyd | Nominee |
| Best Visual Effects | Ian Wingrove | Nominee |