The Best of the Best

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2002)

Tonight I watched The Wizard of Oz the fifty-somethingith time during my fifty-somethingith years. However, this is the first time I realized that this movie covered everything great and powerful in the film. It had fantasy, mystery, horror, music and dancing, action, live animation, romance, morale, and special effects. It showed rural life on the farm to big urban development such as in Emerald City or Munchkenland. I was in awe and I always catch something I overlooked or under-appreciated in previous viewings. I have seen this movie viewed through a young hippie-high-on-acid's eye but still enjoyed it as a clean-and-sober individual that I am today. This movie is magical and realistic as it is classically contemporary.