Highly entertaining, but also... enlightening

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2014)

Everyone knows the story to this classic fantasy from 1939: A tornado rips through Dorthy's home in Kansas and transports her to the land of Oz where she meets a scarecrow in need of a brain, a lion in need of courage and a tin man in need of a heart. They then venture to the Emerald City in search of the eponymous wizard.
"The Wizard of Oz" is eminently entertaining for both kids and adults. The message is great to boot. Yes, it's about developing your head, heart, and courage to find your way "home," but its most potent moral is about pulling back the curtain on politics, authorities and religion to expose the feeble phony pulling the levers.
Which isn't to say that all such authorities are feeble phonies, of course, just that we need to be ever conscious of the fakes trying to manipulate us by pulling our strings.
What a work of brilliance!
The film runs 102 minutes.
GRADE: A+