There Could Be Some Hope With Oz

[beaker]

I have long considered Muppets Wizard of Oz to be a lame duck so to speak, even before the Disney buyout. To me it wreaked of early to mid 90's JHC(AKA the dark ages)

However, some recent pix on ABC's website show that a good chunk of this film may very well have our beloved furry friends playing themselves, and interacting in the modern world(I was afraid the entire set would take place in corny lame studio sets)

Quentin Tarantino looks in good form with kermit here:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_57_360x240.jpg
and here:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_58_360x240.jpg
Kill Bill? http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_38_360x240.jpg

scientists do what they do best:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_53_360x240.jpg

A whol enew gang of villians and misfits! We havent seen this in ages...and they look like Jim Henson Hour quality puppets:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_31_360x240.jpg

Clifford! (but is this another club rave sequence?)
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_21_360x240.jpg

Awww, reminds me of MTM "Peoples is peoples"
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_08_360x240.jpg

Anyways, my Viewing Enthusiasm Advisory level has been raised to guarded.

 

[GelflingWaldo]

Glad to see you're starting to come around, Beaker.

I have been pretty excited to start, but I continue to get even more hyped the more information and images I see. I noticed a lot of new things in the pictures that excited me too!

 

[MuppetDude]

A whole new gang of villians and misfits! We havent seen this in ages...and they look like Jim Henson Hour quality puppets:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/muppetsoz/images/gallery/ep101/oz_31_360x240.jpg

Actually, they were built for "Muppet Treasure Island".

 

[sugarbritchez]

I am glad to see something new from the Muppets. I have looked at the pictures on ABC and although I can tell that just about EVERYTHING has been turned around and changed from the true Wizard of Oz story (i.e. Ruby slippers to silver) I still think this is totally awesome. I hope this is the beginning of something great!

 

[MuppetDude]

Actually, the slippers were silver in the original book.

 

[sugarbritchez]

See shows how much I know!

LOL

 

[GelflingWaldo]

Actually, the slippers were silver in the original book.

MGM made them red in their version of the movie because red was just more colorful than a greyish silver and they wanted to show off their color technology. But the book has them as silver slippers, not ruby. But because the MGM movie was such a hit and is such a part of our culture now, many of the changes that film made to the book are now reguarded as how it "should be" in Oz, when really the book was diffrent in many ways from the MGM film, and I'm sure the Muppet's version will be diffrent from the book in many ways too (just diffrent ways).

 

[christyb]

I'm sure the Muppet's version will be diffrent from the book in many ways too (just diffrent ways).

Yes, "Toto" is a shrimp with a cell phone, the scarecrow is a frog, and pirates are the Wicked Witch's minions . This is going to be great. I'm excited for this movie. I'm glad you're starting to see the bright side of things Beaker .

 

[sugarbritchez]

Maybey I need to read more books! LOL

 

[Drtooth]

I have long considered Muppets Wizard of Oz to be a lame duck so to speak, even before the Disney buyout. To me it wreaked of early to mid 90's JHC(AKA the dark ages)

However, some recent pix on ABC's website show that a good chunk of this film may very well have our beloved furry friends playing themselves, and interacting in the modern world(I was afraid the entire set would take place in corny lame studio sets)

Me too. I really wanted to like this movie somehow, and I think seeing the pictures and hearing the Electric Mayhem would be in it (after they were ruthlessly edited out of VMX by way of pressure from parental groups) made me feel a bit better. Let's hope some idiot doesn't go around saying that ol' QT isn't "family friendly" and forces them to chuck it (since it seems like the best part so far) I felt that the Muppets as Oz characters would be cute as plushies or beanies or something, but I didn't exactly love the idea.

But I'm back up to warming up, and excited for the movie. I was "I'll watch it, if nothing else the Muppets could have some nice dialogue somewhere" before.