Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

PG

2014

1h 31m

Kids & Family

Musical

Fantasy

Adventure

Animation

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Soon after her return to Kansas, Dorothy Gale (Lea Michele) finds herself whisked back to Oz to save her friends Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), Lion (Jim Belushi), Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from the Jester (Martin Short) -- the younger brother of the Wicked Witch of the West. The Jester is using his late sister's broomstick as a magic wand and is destroying Oz one yellow brick at a time. With new companions, Dorothy sets out to rescue old friends and restore order.

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Critics Consensus

Faced with the choice between staying in or seeing Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, most filmgoers will be forced to conclude that there's no place like home.

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

May 22, 2014

2/5

Even by the standards of allowance-snatching half-term filler, this is pretty indifferent ...

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Anna Smith

Empire Magazine

May 18, 2014

3/5

Kid-friendly with some neat visuals.

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Josh Kupecki

Austin Chronicle

May 15, 2014

1/5

Carping on a film clearly targeted to 5-year-olds might seem unjust, but the filmmakers go about their business in such a lazy fashion that the viewer can't help but feel irritated by the whole ordeal.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Feb 1, 2021

2/5

Won't give Pixar a run for their money and might be best saved for a rainy day rental.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 13, 2020

1.0/4.0

Yawn.

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Julian Lytle

Punch Drunk Critics

Jan 11, 2020

.5/5

In the end when I walked out I felt like I just watched a failed Broadway musical that got turned into a failed animated movie that no one else should have to suffer through.

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JAGGER H

@RT17598797 Mar 31, 2026

The movie was straight buns and the only reason I watched it was for a school project where I watch the 5 worst movies according to rotten tomatoes and this was one of them. The movie had new useless side characters especially the owl character he like 5 minutes of lines and never said anything else and the jester sucked as a villain he was boring and annoying and the human characters look ugly for a 70 million dollar movie and the writing and I wished Dorothy and her uncle and aunt got evicted 4/10

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Қазақ М

@RT54644452 Mar 28, 2026

The movie is good but it's different from wicked of witch that's like why I reilize but I like character design

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Kelly M

@RT84171028 Dec 17, 2025

Terrible because it has got forgettable characters and a terrible villain the original wizard of Oz is so much better than this horrible movie the new characters are called Wiser, Marshellmellow and China Princess and the tin man scarecrow and cowardly lion are not really part of the story at all terrible movie 1/10

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Tim M

@tgmacman Dec 8, 2024

With lackluster animation and banal storytelling, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return is one trip over the rainbow viewers will regret taking.

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Артем Б

@RT17586463 Apr 1, 2024

I couldn't watch this movie for a long time, but when I finally got the chance to watch it and watched it, I realized to my surprise that this movie is not good. The only scene I remember in this movie is the fight at the end, it was very interesting, but most of the movie was boring and tasteless, so I definitely do not recommend watching it.The whole film is like some separate work that has no connection with any movie or any book of Oz.There is absolutely nothing interesting about this movie, the animation is outdated and the plot is very predictable.And then why is it called "Dorothy's Return"? It's more like a second part that didn't have a first part.

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Cyrus K

@Keyflame626 Dec 10, 2022

At least some of the designs in the movie are pretty good and are visually OK. But yeah that doesn't help the movie in the slightest!

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Synopsis

Soon after her return to Kansas, Dorothy Gale (Lea Michele) finds herself whisked back to Oz to save her friends Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), Lion (Jim Belushi), Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from the Jester (Martin Short) -- the younger brother of the Wicked Witch of the West. The Jester is using his late sister's broomstick as a magic wand and is destroying Oz one yellow brick at a time. With new companions, Dorothy sets out to rescue old friends and restore order.

Director: Will Finn, Dan St. Pierre
Producer: Ryan Carroll, Roland Carroll, Bonne Radford
Screenwriter: Randi Barnes, Adam Balsam
Distributor: Clarius Entertainment, Freestyle Releasing
Production Co: Prana Animation Studios
Rating: PG (Some Scary Images|Mild Peril)
Genre: Kids & Family, Musical, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.5M
Runtime: 1h 31m

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