The magic is still there

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2001)

I remember growing up watching this movie every year on TV with my siblings down in the family room with all the lights turned off. It didn't matter how many times I had seen it, I was enthralled from beginning to end, even though I was scared to death of the Wicked Witch and had to run and hide on the stairs when she appeared! I hadn't seen it in years until it was on TNT recently. I wondered if it would hold up viewing it as an adult, but it did. Even the witch is still scary! I won't go into a lot of detail since previous reviewers have already done so, but I do have to add one thing - THANK GOD Judy Garland was cast as Dorothy instead of the simpering, sacharrine Shirley Temple!