...well, this is my favourite movie! What do you want me to say?

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2000)

I think this is the best film of all time. That is, of the movies I have so far seen. I've seen a few movies. I'm only 17 years old, by the way. I've seen enough to identify a "great" film. I only saw this one a few months ago and I have since been calling it my all-time favourite movie. But then there's the all-powerful question: why? Hm! Why indeed...
My all-time favourite(funny how we call it that) before this one was "Mary Poppins". This one has basically the same great elements I described in my comment on that film, only better. What more do you want in a kid's movie? I'm sure adults would prefer something of a bit more adult-taste, but that's what makes good kid's movies so great, the sly adult humour!!
The best kid's movies have sly adult humour. Just look at the grisly "Babe: Pig in the City" and the "Toy Story" movies. They are subtext-galore! But of course, the secret to a great kid's movie is attracting the kids. Once you've drawn the kids in, you know you've done a good job. Once you've drawn the adults in, you know you've done a great job!
"The Wizard of Oz" is great in sooooooooo many ways I will not begin to describe them!! Oh, all right, one way. The black and white(red and white?) beginning and end have more stark realism to them than most adult's movies and the anticipation of the colour brings the hyperactive imagination of this masterpiece forward in joyous splendour!
This film is a work of pure imagination, intelligence and entertainment. It enriches you in every way possible and leaves you feeling a sensation that can't be described as an emotion. How many movies can do that to you? Only one!
It has been said that no-one can truly lay claim to "The Wizard of Oz". Not even Judy Garland(who isalmost as good as Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins") or MGM. I think that is a welcome relief to me, after scores and scores of "Alfred Hitchcock's..." movies and "A Film By..." appearing on the screen before a film. This film feels as though it has fallen from the sky or from "over the rainbow". I believe the soundtrack to be the most important thing in a movie and I think this movie has the best soundtrack ever. Don't ever change it! It is fine the way it is!