Fantastic Return to Oz (, ) is a 2019 Russian animated film that serves as a sequel to Fantastic Journey to Oz and is based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.
The film was released in Russia on 24 October 2019.
Plot One year after Urfin Jus' defeat, he plans to steal Gingema's book again. At the Emerald City, the citizens are presented a giant robot resembling Ellie in her honor. The bear and wooden puppet clown, Urfin's henchmen, sneak in and steal the book with Ruf Bilan's help. Meanwhile, Ellie, her dog Toto, and Tim, a boy, use the silver slippers to teleport themselves; both are separated; Tim appears at Urfin Jus' cave hideout where he is presenting the book to his carraci. Meanwhile, Ellie and Toto appears at the ogre's house. The ogre later finds a crow, and reveals that she will tell everyone that they his prisoner.
The wooden puppet steals the silver slippers from Tim to give it to Urfin. The book leads Tim to a swamp, and the book suddenly enters, returning home. Urfin jumps in, finding himself in a dark world, the book's home. He is received a pair of pink glasses that allows him to see a different version of the world. He enters a palace, where he meets the book's true form, a princess, who offers Urfin an army. Meanwhile, Urfin's carraci captures Tim and set out to take Tim to Ellie under the crows order. He escapes, and, while fleeing, he meets two saber toothed tigers. His phone's app, depicting a blue rabbit, tells the saber toothed tigers about the ogres kidnapping of Ellie, and the two help Tim to find her. Meanwhile, the Scarecrow, the Woodman, and Cowardly Lion reconciles with Ellie, while the carraci returns with the basket, only to find that Tim escaped. The team takes hot air balloons to find him.
Tim meets a talking squirrel, in who she takes him to Queen Ramina, a queen mouse. There, Ramina persuades Tim into returning home with an whistle, but he realizes that he can't leave without Ellie. Suddenly, he and the carraci are ambushed by Urfin's monster army. Ellie and her team retreat, but their balloon gets stuck in a tree branch. Tim is able to free the balloon, but ends up in the dark world. There, he finds a vision of Ramina telling Tim that Ellie is in danger. Determined, he escapes the world.
Ruf Bilan reveals to Urfin about his plan to open the Emerald Dam floodgates and the city's underwater. Tim reconciles with Ellie, while the crow tells them about Urfin's plans. Tim flees to the floodgate control panel to stop the flood, but is captured by Urfin. Tim escapes and defeats Urfin's army with the slippers. Ellie, Toto, and Tim then manage to return home.
Cast
Russian cast
Konstantin Khabensky as Urfin Jus Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya as Ellie Alexander Bykovsky as Tim Dmitri Dyuzhev as Hat Dmitry Dyuzhev as Bear Andrey Levin as Totoshka Yulia Rudina as Clown Maria Tsvetkova as Book Maxim Sergeev as General Valery Solovyov as the Tin Woodman Sergey Dyachkov as Terrible Aleksandr Boyarsky as Ogre/saber toothed tigers Valery Kukhareshin as Lion Oleg Kulikovych as Ruf Bilan Mikhail Chernyak as crow Elizaveta Chaban as Squirrel Tatyana Mikhalevkina as Dollars Yulia Zorkina as Queen Ramina
English cast
Marc Thompson as Urfin Jus, tiger Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld as Dorothy Eddy Lee as Tim Tom Wayland as BFF, Ogre, Tin Man, tiger Tyler Bunch (as H.D. Quinn) as Bear, Wooden General Erica Schroeder as Toto, Book Haven Paschall as Clown Mike Pollock as the book, Lion, Ruf Bilan Billy Bob Thompson as Scarecrow Ryan Andes as the carraci leader Brittany Pressley as Ramina, Crow Laurie Hymes as Squirrel
Release Fantastic Return to Oz was released in Russia on 24 October 2019. In February 2020, Wizard Animation signed distribution deals for the film in the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, South Korea, and some South American countries.
Reception On Kritikanstvo, the film has a 58 score out of 100 based on 3 reviews. A review from Tlum HD stated that viewers will like the new characters, the new dimension, the soundtrack and the cliché that "good always triumphs over evil". However, the film was criticized for its scattered attention and naive characters.
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External links
Official website