That anticipatory "I dont want to be a statue" song is brilliant. Every musical goes the conventional route and introduces their leads with an "I Want" song, where you learn about what they've always been and what they've always dreamed of becoming. It takes a truly original show to introduce a character with an "I DON'T Want" song, where we learn nothing about who they are or what they've dreamt of, but definitively learn why they don't want to become something terrible they were suddenly and randomly threatened with a few seconds before. Genius
I can't. Look at all of the CUTE girls everywhere! General Ginger, her FOXY hearts club band, King Scarecrow's translator! I'm resigning my other citizenship & going to THIS OZ right NOW!!!!!
I haven't read the Oz books in a long while but I did remember the odd gender bender ending and the emerald city getting 'sacked' by women. It also really makes the Wizard a more darker, serious villan when you find out what he did.
Super late comment, but the actress apparently had extreme stage fright which might explain the weird mannerisms. Also, she only had one other known movie role, a nudie made by the same director that made this. She wasn't exactly a seasoned actress.
Oh hell, I forgot I left this comment. I actually stopped watching this again to see if anyone quoted it, and low and behold, here's my post. I must have met a Men in Black agent or something.
I just love it when Rifftrax does ultra-low budget films intended for kids. Between this one, Whizzo, Rollergator, and Ice Cream Bunny, we see such an incredible amount of madness that's difficult to find anywhere else.
And I thought Return to Oz was the scariest looking Oz sequel out there. I have been proven to be deeply mistaken thanks to this movie. Thank you Rifftrax.
I don't know, the Wheelers are still the stuff of nightmare, and of course the severed heads are perfect for scarring children. OTOH, Mahon certainly did mange to eke a lot more unintentionally mind-numbing horror out of each dollar spent (all 200 or so of them) so he's got the edge there.
I still love that film to this day. From the electroshock therapy to the head switching witch....just pure nightmare fuel. I hope tick-tok is okay and someone is still winding him occasionally.
@@richmcgee434 I’ve never seen Return to Oz, but my older sister did as a kid. 37 years later and she’s still totally creeped out by it. She always mentions the heads in particular.
Daaaang... I am to this day still a huge fan of the Oz books and 50 some-odd years ago I remember seeing a trailer for this movie and begging my mom to take me to see it. She never did... thank God my mother realized that this thing would have scarred me for life. After diving into a few minutes of it now I think I would rather have old Mombi turn me into a marble statue than watch the whole thing all the way through... although the commentary is hilarious.
I've been really the Oz books. I think each book would work as it's own season of a TV show. I think they would have to take a few creative liberties to cover up some plot holes but I think it would really work on Amazon or Netflix. What do you think?
all i remember is a boy in a cage dognapping toto... grnuinely the only thing i remember reading in the books snd it might have been from one of tge narnias snd i'mmisrememvering!
Chan Mahon, who plays Tip, is proof positive that having the director's son lead a movie is a great idea. From here, Chan went on to huge success, by never trying to act again. He obviously had more sense than his dad.
My favorite shot in this is juuust before the very end, while they're singin the finale and marching out of the gates of Oz. As the Tin Woodsman marches out, he's just SCREAMING the final notes, mouth wide open.
A couple of notes on the extraordinary life and career of director Barry Mahon. In 1941, before the US had entered the war, Mahon traveled to England and joined the RAF. He flew Spitfires as a member of the Eagle Squadron, scoring five victories and winning the Distinguished Flyting Cross. Shot down over the English Channel in August 1942, he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. He made at least two unsuccessful escape attempts before being liberated by Patton's 3rd Army in 1945. This experience would lead him to serving as a technical advisor for the 1963 film "The Great Escape", in which Steve McQueen would play a character based on Mahon. After the war Mahon became the personal pilot for Errol Flynn, which led him into filmmaking. He made a number of low budget action/horror/nudie films before drifting into (of all things) children's films.
The actress who portrayed Mombi (Zisca Baum) had an interesting career before and after this “project” in the psychedelic performance music world (Thunderbolt Pagoda)
And unlike the bugs from Thumbelina, there IS a woman lovingly writing and creating fanworks for her highly magnified and thoroughly educated cockroach husbando. She has MANY videos under the name WogglebugLoveProductions.
While the Army of Revolt girl was twirling the hanging strings of Mardi Gras beads, instead of the quip wondering if this was how Cartadine did it, I was hoping the lecherous director would make an appearance with, "Show us your tits!"
@@glennledrew8347 Yeah, they tend to make David Carradine references pretty much ANY time someone is seen putting something around their necks. It's a little overdone if you ask me.
In which a prepubescent sociopath with the ability to create living abominations escapes fiction's most ineffectual villain and seeks the help of an omniscient, omnipotent yet utterly useless (she's not _that_ omnipotent, maybe?) "good witch" so as to not rise above his station in life in becoming a lawn ornament, only to find utter annihilation at her hand. Also a bunch of other crap happened but now I have a headache and I'm going to go lie down.
I kind of liked Mombi's costume design and even performance honestly, though giving her a song was uhh... misguided. The Ennui Witch instead of the Wicked Witch :P
so by this movie's logic, the nome king never needed the ruby slippers or to tunnel under the deadly desert to invade the emerald city he could have just walked up to the front gate and said "HI I'm the nome king and I'm invading your kingdom then I'm doing the nome equivalent to hookers and blow in the throne room"
I can't stop watching this one. It comforts me, maybe more than the original Wizard of Oz does, at this point. Also, the music is half catchy, half TERRIBLE. The songwriter has this weird chord progression they default to in the 'Statue' and sleeping 'Star' songs and I hate it. I don't have the music theory vocab to explain it, but somethin' ain't right. However, I kind of like the opening singalong and the witch's tune. Also, anything to do with the Witch ("DTF?" "Radagast the Brown was a very generous lover") and Jack (his strangely high voice, odd posture, and "I'll be out here....with the axe") is hilarious.
Compared to the Ice Cream Bunny, this one got weird quick. Actually, just in general, this one got weird quick. And I'm not even talking about the cow.
I was watching this during the holidays (because of its wholesomeness) and my 11-year-old walked in. He opened his mouth to speak, saw the pumpkin man, witch, and cow, and then angrily asked why he wasn't born into another family. Well, maybe he didn't say exactly that, but that's how I interpreted his disgust for my cheery holiday movie.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Child Protective Services already picked them up... They said this was the most egregious case of child abuse they'd ever seen. Luckily, they're living with some nice religious folks who'll teach them how bad their mother was, which is what I deserve.
Fun fact #1) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by L Frank Baum has been hypothesized that it’s just an allegory about Baum’s wish the US would go on to the silver standard because Dorothy’s shoes were silver in the book. Fun fact #2) Mike Nelson sleeps in a bed with a giant poster of Sandy Franks above him. Fun fact 3) You can make up fun facts.
I think that whole populism thing has been debunked, most of it was not a thing at the time he wrote it. the way they describe it though it sounds really convincing.
I remember that my history teacher told us that myth but to this day I think he just wanted an excuse to show the movie instead of teach I mean obviously it isn't true. LFB wrote like a dozen of these books
@@noahkarpinski1824 well first of all that doesn't disprove anything, if you want to write a book that's an allegory, you would absolutely write a dozen books that are an allegory. secondly, I want to say he kept writing more and more Oz books because publishers wouldn't buy anything else from him. But yeah it's still not true.
Some guy came up with that b.s. interpretation over six decades after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published. If Baum really intended the book to be an allegory about monetary policy, I think somebody would’ve noticed way sooner.
On the other hand, the Army of Revolt in 'The Marvelous Land of Oz' was pretty transparently a gentle satire of the suffragette movement (which makes the idea of a cryptic and encoded economic allegory in the first book even less likely). Baum's mother-in-law was Matilda Gage, a famous early feminist activist - it is plausible that the unusual idea of 'good witches' in the first Oz book was inspired by Ms Gage's writings. So Baum was having some fun with the movement, but was likely sympathetic with their political aims. In any case, Jinjur's army is not only a topical satire: the theatrical musical of The Wizard of Oz had been quite successful, and Baum knew that a line of dancing girls in colorful costumes would be a big sell for a stage adaptation of this sequel. In the book, the men of the Emerald City beg the Scarecrow to restore the status quo. Not because women should be put in their place, but 'doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.' 'Hm!' said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. 'If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?' 'I really do not know,' replied the man, with a deep sigh. 'Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.' In the end, when order is restored, 'it is said that the women were so tired eating of their husbands' cooking that they all hailed the conquest of Jinjur with joy.' It was more fun re-reading these bits and quoting them than it was to watch that awful film.
I was having a blast watching this live and following and commenting on the chat line until I lost my connection. The experience was great and i look forward to catching the next live Rifftrax on youtube.
Dunno if it’s covered in comments, but this script is actually pretty faithful to one of the Oz books, the 2nd one? adapted in 80’s Return to Oz movie which was actually pretty darn good.
"Never fear, you'll be dead and live on as a spirit, while I transform you back to the gender you never identified with. As it should be" -- The good witch. Horrific in hindsight.
yeah, the movie was a little odd and the bug-man-thing disturbing, but it was at the 'forced gender reassignment and murder of a mentally challenged child' that I think the movie jumped a few genres
Well, he used to be a girl though. He was enchanted to be a boy for some years, but it wouldn't be fair to the girl he used to be to just keep Tip around. Why it had to be in the book in the first place,is another can of worms..
Director Barry Mahon (1969) became relatively famous for his Nudie Films (he was also writer and producer). I actually remember a battered up 16mm print of this showing up on a regular basis for children shown at my local church. Even small children became disinterested about 1/4 of the way through the move.
I've literally only seen the first one and a half minutes of this movie and I've already laughed like 5 times. There are comedies where I haven't laughed twice during the entire movie.
Barry Mahon was an air force officer who was put into a Nazi POW camp. He was involved in the real life version of The Great Escape, and was a hero for the U.S. military, yet he decided to direct pornos and crappy kids films. Being locked up must've made him crack.
23:30 wow they got the second actress that played Mystique in their movie, what a get. I expected that "someone flubbed a line, wanna do another take?" running gag, but I quickly realized it would take over the entire riff.
OK, I have to report something disturbing. Now that I'm watching this, a new movie has appeared on my algorithm suggestion. Now I can pay cash money to watch Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny without riffs. I'd rather fall off the Empire State Building and catch my eye on a nail.
I wonder sometimes how a movie like this gets greenlighted in the first place. "Hey Studio, I'd like to make this movie" "Okay but we only have $37.48 for the budget" "I'll do it!"
I'm assuming it was self produced. They probably just got a distributor, assuming it ever actually appeared in many cinemas. You do realise a lot of people make movies for fun.
@@Cheepchipsable Probably self produced. If it got any sort of distribution that's a bit surprising though. Then again, if a movie like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" can get made then anything is possible!
They wish they made shit this horrifying. I mean, Lidsville came pretty close and Bob Denver's acting in Far Out Space Nuts will make any '70s kid go running, but this is somehow worse.
WOW! That was a rough one. The movie not the riffs (which was great). Never thought there was am Oz story about confused sexual identities. Thanks guys!
I knew from reading. Not Baum's books, of course, but from a superhero story, where Ozma is an important supporting character. Gotta say, _Oz_ reminds me of _Harry Potter_ in that there are lots of seemingly innocuous magics and items that, if used at all creatively, are _incredibly_ broken powerful.
It's in the 2nd book. Baum was pretty involved with the Suffragist movement and I think he prescribed to the belief that human society was once a matriarchy before being taken over by patriarchal society. This story may have been an allegory for that idea, and an expression of the belief that the women's rights movement was a return to humanity's natural order.
@@oliviastratton2169 And we know now there is no natural order and society never and didn't work that way. Paleoanthropology has come a long way. :P Any such matriarchal societies were cultural developments. Human's 'natural society' is to live in the tree copses of the savanna in tribal communes. The form of leadership such groups had is still unknown and will probably never be known for certain, but it was probably closer to a functional anarchy. Though we do know humans early on lost alpha/dominant males and evolved to favor cooperation, losing our early ancestors stronger sexual dimorphism in the process. Boy that was a right old tangent. XD
I made the mistake of taking a drink just before Mike said "sohlpanls" (solar panels). I'm still Old Man Wheeze-Laughing as I wipe down the screen again. WORTH IT.
Just when I didn’t think I could love the dudes of RiffTrax anymore… they make a Homestar Runner joke!!! I am absolutely positively GIDDY RIGHT NOW!!!!!
@@kanna-san. well yeah, I have only learned about it a couple of months back, when I saw the telltale game. And then realized Strong Bad was part of poker night.
I think the Elfman brothers must have seen this as kids, because the whole thing has a real "Forbidden Zone" vibe. Mombi's song even kind of sounds like "Witch's Egg."
"It's a military secret, but I guess I can tell you."
That might be the only deliberately funny line of the movie.
Bond villains ALWAYS reveal their plans and secrets once they're secure in the knowledge that their nemesis is 100% doomed to death.
That anticipatory "I dont want to be a statue" song is brilliant. Every musical goes the conventional route and introduces their leads with an "I Want" song, where you learn about what they've always been and what they've always dreamed of becoming. It takes a truly original show to introduce a character with an "I DON'T Want" song, where we learn nothing about who they are or what they've dreamt of, but definitively learn why they don't want to become something terrible they were suddenly and randomly threatened with a few seconds before. Genius
But he does go on to sing about wanting to go adventuring and to be a real boy.
does bufford's parody song "I want nothing" count as that or is that still an "I want" song because he indeed wants nothing.
@@faishiro5009 A great question for a great gag 😅
And if it wasn't the worst song in the soundtrack, that would be interesting
One must be stoned to understand this car crash.
If this is OZ I can see why Dorothy was so hellbent on getting the heck out of there
I can't. Look at all of the CUTE girls everywhere! General Ginger, her FOXY hearts club band, King Scarecrow's translator! I'm resigning my other citizenship & going to THIS OZ right NOW!!!!!
@@shuttittuppitt9355 I couldn't deal with the cows, though. That thing was the stuff of nightmares.
The Wicked Witch actually wanted the house to land on her.
And back to Kansas no less.
And even the Cowardly Lion was like: Nope, I'm outta here
A surprisingly faithful, yet wholly unremarkable adaptation of the second Oz book.
Unremarkable? It's directed by Barry freakin' Mahon!
I need to read those books if they're full of hot babysitter cheerleader armies. the pink translatrix was adorable too.
I haven't read the Oz books in a long while but I did remember the odd gender bender ending and the emerald city getting 'sacked' by women. It also really makes the Wizard a more darker, serious villan when you find out what he did.
Unremarkable? It's remarkably tedious, remarkably creepy, remarkably dreary....
This movie shows that being faithful to the book does not make a good movie.
Wogglebug's eye falls completely out at 53:18. Hilarious. Can't believe they missed that. But then again, so did I until now.
Ah! So I wasn't imagining things.
I just laughed hysterically for an entire minute. I'm crying now.
Holy crap!!!
That makes the character more terrifying in my opinion. I didn't think that was possible.
Ironically I'll never be able to unsee that...
The guy playing the scarecrow isn’t half bad. He does a serviceable impression.
Your mom does serviceable impressions...
He really was the best actor in the bunch. Not that that's a high bar.
I thought the same thing.
A mom joke? Wow, so original! 🤭
He is good. And the chicks are hot.
Every time 'glinda the good witch' is on screen I can't help but feel there is a 47yr old mother just off camera screaming 'SMILE!!!'
Super late comment, but the actress apparently had extreme stage fright which might explain the weird mannerisms. Also, she only had one other known movie role, a nudie made by the same director that made this. She wasn't exactly a seasoned actress.
@@RuffianLivesOnthis is distressing news
The way Tip swung that knife around at 14:45 he almost became Ozma too early.
"You don't plan a coup without several dozen hoagies, Mike." 🤣
Oh hell, I forgot I left this comment. I actually stopped watching this again to see if anyone quoted it, and low and behold, here's my post. I must have met a Men in Black agent or something.
If ANY of this ends up in my dreams holding the three of you personally accountable.
Including those girls?
Wow this is WAY creepier than Return to Oz could ever dream of being
The Wheelies are scared of ~this~ movie.
I was thinking the same thing
Why does it exist
@@howiegruwitz3173 easy cash
Its very close to the book, if not the tone.
I just love it when Rifftrax does ultra-low budget films intended for kids. Between this one, Whizzo, Rollergator, and Ice Cream Bunny, we see such an incredible amount of madness that's difficult to find anywhere else.
This is 80 times better than roller gator
@@Brainstrain The fact that this is better than Rollergator AT ALL is enough to tell you how BAD Rollergator is.
Well they are soft target and easy to mock.
Don't forget Fun in Balloonland.
And I thought Return to Oz was the scariest looking Oz sequel out there. I have been proven to be deeply mistaken thanks to this movie.
Thank you Rifftrax.
I don't know, the Wheelers are still the stuff of nightmare, and of course the severed heads are perfect for scarring children. OTOH, Mahon certainly did mange to eke a lot more unintentionally mind-numbing horror out of each dollar spent (all 200 or so of them) so he's got the edge there.
that movie is freaky to watch even as an adult
I still love that film to this day. From the electroshock therapy to the head switching witch....just pure nightmare fuel. I hope tick-tok is okay and someone is still winding him occasionally.
@@richmcgee434 I actually kinda liked the wheelers as a kid.
@@richmcgee434 I’ve never seen Return to Oz, but my older sister did as a kid. 37 years later and she’s still totally creeped out by it. She always mentions the heads in particular.
Gah! The Wogglebug looks like Jamie Hyneman turned into a COKED OUT Dr Seuss Character!
he looks like if John c Riley did both crack and meth at the same time
@@jacksullivan4741 Heyo!
Watching this while having the flu is a hell of a trip!
This whole thing feels like I'm high on cough syrup!
Daaaang... I am to this day still a huge fan of the Oz books and 50 some-odd years ago I remember seeing a trailer for this movie and begging my mom to take me to see it. She never did... thank God my mother realized that this thing would have scarred me for life. After diving into a few minutes of it now I think I would rather have old Mombi turn me into a marble statue than watch the whole thing all the way through... although the commentary is hilarious.
I've been really the Oz books. I think each book would work as it's own season of a TV show. I think they would have to take a few creative liberties to cover up some plot holes but I think it would really work on Amazon or Netflix. What do you think?
all i remember is a boy in a cage dognapping toto... grnuinely the only thing i remember reading in the books snd it might have been from one of tge narnias snd i'mmisrememvering!
Oh hell, I have spent the last 5 minutes trying to recover from choking on saliva because of the "so, you DTF?" Dammit, Bill. lol
Time stamp?
@@jdfranco254:54
Chan Mahon, who plays Tip, is proof positive that having the director's son lead a movie is a great idea. From here, Chan went on to huge success, by never trying to act again. He obviously had more sense than his dad.
Alexa is more emotionally convincing.
From his IMDB page it looks like he became a music producer.
Best nepotistic casting since Coppola cast his daughter in Godfather III.
Oh... the humanity, I guess...
@@tremorsfan Hey if it made him happy more power to him. I don't think he wanted to be an actor. I don't think he was even trying.
Ah yes, "Brother Gus," an often overlooked character from the Oz books.
I wanna see a big-budget adaptation of this book directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Featuring John Hodgman as the Woggle-bug.
You dream to dark sir. TOO DARK!!!
And Ron Perlman in the role of a lifetime as Scarecrow
I think the books should be a 13 part series.
@@Eisenwulf666 He actually does a pretty good Cowardly Lion impression
I didn't think "sew a little seed" would be the best song this guy ever wrote, but here we are.
I actually like the songs in the Barry Mahon movies.
Tip being a separate spirit excised from Ozma as described manages to somehow make the baby Ozma transformed to Tip have even deeper implications.
My favorite shot in this is juuust before the very end, while they're singin the finale and marching out of the gates of Oz. As the Tin Woodsman marches out, he's just SCREAMING the final notes, mouth wide open.
That opening cow! At first, I thought it was a mutated roast turkey!!
He mosied over from Miss Velmas Christmas Special.
@@Jude300c Ah am the cow! Moo. Moo. Moo.
funnie
A "turducow", if you will.
Idk about anyone else, but I’m absolutely a fan of these trippy low budget things. I could watch them all day ❤️ then again maybe the riffs help
Uhh…yeah… the riffs Definitely help! Lol
They truly help,..,a lot!!
This is basically filmed pantomime, like HR Puff'n'stuff.
Meant to be fun more than anything.
The riffs help but not as much as the good quality green.
Oh you will.
Fun fact: in the original books, Dorothy and Ozma are REALLY close. Like constantly kissing each other and sleeping in the same bed close
L Frank Baum: "Let's go, lesbians!"
Oz historians consider them close friends
@@qstionblomens6138 oh my God they were friends
Transbian of Oz doesn't have quite the ring to it as the canon titles, but I support it.
Ozma: *lengthy personal journal entries about how much she respects and wants to smooch dorothy*
Historians: "And they were roommates."
A couple of notes on the extraordinary life and career of director Barry Mahon.
In 1941, before the US had entered the war, Mahon traveled to England and joined the RAF. He flew Spitfires as a member of the Eagle Squadron, scoring five victories and winning the Distinguished Flyting Cross. Shot down over the English Channel in August 1942, he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. He made at least two unsuccessful escape attempts before being liberated by Patton's 3rd Army in 1945. This experience would lead him to serving as a technical advisor for the 1963 film "The Great Escape", in which Steve McQueen would play a character based on Mahon.
After the war Mahon became the personal pilot for Errol Flynn, which led him into filmmaking. He made a number of low budget action/horror/nudie films before drifting into (of all things) children's films.
There seems to be a distinct lack of "wonderful" in this land.
Yep, Oz meets Woody Allen's Bananas.
It’s wonderful in the same way as Whizzo’s Wonderland.
It's truly a horrifying nightmare.
What? Wet-looking paper mâché isn't wonderful enough?
no no...theres a typo. It's " Wonderful, Land of Oz" As in, Great Back to this shit again!
The actress who portrayed Mombi (Zisca Baum) had an interesting career before and after this “project” in the psychedelic performance music world (Thunderbolt Pagoda)
Also, despite the name, she is NOT related to L. Frank.
I was really hoping we'd get a full on Kevin scream at the Wogglebug like we got for the bugs in the Thumbelina short.
Kevin has just gotten wussier & wussier since their MST3K days.
And unlike the bugs from Thumbelina, there IS a woman lovingly writing and creating fanworks for her highly magnified and thoroughly educated cockroach husbando. She has MANY videos under the name WogglebugLoveProductions.
The actor playing Scarecrow is too good for this movie.
Joe Estevez is too good for this movie!
Well, after this brilliant movie I decided to start singing songs that are primarily anticipatory....my life has never been better...love you guys
54:44
And the darkest Rifftrax joke award goes to...
Bill as the lecherous director is genius...
“ASK HER IN THE JELLO PIT!”
"Well, maybe a little RUBBING UP would be-"
"Mr. Mahon, PLEASE!"
😄
While the Army of Revolt girl was twirling the hanging strings of Mardi Gras beads, instead of the quip wondering if this was how Cartadine did it, I was hoping the lecherous director would make an appearance with, "Show us your tits!"
@@glennledrew8347 Yeah, they tend to make David Carradine references pretty much ANY time someone is seen putting something around their necks. It's a little overdone if you ask me.
@@HylianFox3 Nah, they're reoccurring jokes are some of their best.
This would have been unbearable without the commentary. Thanks for making me laugh. (And the reference to Strong Sad made me smile.)
In which a prepubescent sociopath with the ability to create living abominations escapes fiction's most ineffectual villain and seeks the help of an omniscient, omnipotent yet utterly useless (she's not _that_ omnipotent, maybe?) "good witch" so as to not rise above his station in life in becoming a lawn ornament, only to find utter annihilation at her hand. Also a bunch of other crap happened but now I have a headache and I'm going to go lie down.
The thumbnail looks horrifying. Yep, this will be a fun riff!
in tonights wonderful addition ov 'THIS is how your childhood memories could have been...'
We are out for munchkin blood is my new favorite phrase.
This kid has all the acting talent of a piece of toast!!
This film feels like it went from idea to finished product in a single afternoon.
Ow what fresh hell has been brought forth.
More free nightmare fuel from those wonderful Rifftrax gents.
This is the fantasy equivalent of "Star Wars the holiday special"
Love the use of one of Groucho's best movie quotes, Bill...! 😃
God bless this riff.
Hi, Bob.
Somebody get that kid some caffeine. For the love of God. Please.
Vibrant, that kid, really a sharp actor
The video was at 22:33 when I read this comment 😂🤯
I love you guys, and I certainly appreciate the generosity.
I kind of liked Mombi's costume design and even performance honestly, though giving her a song was uhh... misguided.
The Ennui Witch instead of the Wicked Witch :P
Judging by the casting of the female army and the interpreter (and the witch in THUMBELINA), she's also probably pretty hot without that make-up.
so by this movie's logic, the nome king never needed the ruby slippers or to tunnel under the deadly desert to invade the emerald city he could have just walked up to the front gate and said "HI I'm the nome king and I'm invading your kingdom then I'm doing the nome equivalent to hookers and blow in the throne room"
Ok fair enough but my point still stands that the oz equivalent of the White House has terrible security
This is one of the favorite riffs! I've watched this one over and over. I always get a good laugh at everything involving General Jinjur and Mombi.
I can't stop watching this one. It comforts me, maybe more than the original Wizard of Oz does, at this point. Also, the music is half catchy, half TERRIBLE. The songwriter has this weird chord progression they default to in the 'Statue' and sleeping 'Star' songs and I hate it. I don't have the music theory vocab to explain it, but somethin' ain't right. However, I kind of like the opening singalong and the witch's tune. Also, anything to do with the Witch ("DTF?" "Radagast the Brown was a very generous lover") and Jack (his strangely high voice, odd posture, and "I'll be out here....with the axe") is hilarious.
7:10
I had no idea what she was actually trying to say, so I turned on close captions, it too has no idea and just ignores her
This was my favorite Oz book.
WAS.
Thanks a lot, rifftrax!
Compared to the Ice Cream Bunny, this one got weird quick. Actually, just in general, this one got weird quick. And I'm not even talking about the cow.
I was watching this during the holidays (because of its wholesomeness) and my 11-year-old walked in. He opened his mouth to speak, saw the pumpkin man, witch, and cow, and then angrily asked why he wasn't born into another family. Well, maybe he didn't say exactly that, but that's how I interpreted his disgust for my cheery holiday movie.
How dare you expose a small child to this abomination
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Child Protective Services already picked them up... They said this was the most egregious case of child abuse they'd ever seen. Luckily, they're living with some nice religious folks who'll teach them how bad their mother was, which is what I deserve.
@@SmittenKitten. Whew, Im so relieved. Its good to hear that sometimes the system actually works
You should have replied back with... "Because you were the only infant that the orphanage allowed us to adopt."
@@montag4516 I've worn that one out. ;)
Fun fact #1) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by L Frank Baum has been hypothesized that it’s just an allegory about Baum’s wish the US would go on to the silver standard because Dorothy’s shoes were silver in the book.
Fun fact #2) Mike Nelson sleeps in a bed with a giant poster of Sandy Franks above him.
Fun fact 3) You can make up fun facts.
I think that whole populism thing has been debunked, most of it was not a thing at the time he wrote it. the way they describe it though it sounds really convincing.
I remember that my history teacher told us that myth but to this day I think he just wanted an excuse to show the movie instead of teach
I mean obviously it isn't true. LFB wrote like a dozen of these books
@@noahkarpinski1824 well first of all that doesn't disprove anything, if you want to write a book that's an allegory, you would absolutely write a dozen books that are an allegory. secondly, I want to say he kept writing more and more Oz books because publishers wouldn't buy anything else from him. But yeah it's still not true.
Some guy came up with that b.s. interpretation over six decades after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published. If Baum really intended the book to be an allegory about monetary policy, I think somebody would’ve noticed way sooner.
On the other hand, the Army of Revolt in 'The Marvelous Land of Oz' was pretty transparently a gentle satire of the suffragette movement (which makes the idea of a cryptic and encoded economic allegory in the first book even less likely). Baum's mother-in-law was Matilda Gage, a famous early feminist activist - it is plausible that the unusual idea of 'good witches' in the first Oz book was inspired by Ms Gage's writings. So Baum was having some fun with the movement, but was likely sympathetic with their political aims. In any case, Jinjur's army is not only a topical satire: the theatrical musical of The Wizard of Oz had been quite successful, and Baum knew that a line of dancing girls in colorful costumes would be a big sell for a stage adaptation of this sequel.
In the book, the men of the Emerald City beg the Scarecrow to restore the status quo. Not because women should be put in their place, but 'doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.' 'Hm!' said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. 'If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?' 'I really do not know,' replied the man, with a deep sigh. 'Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.' In the end, when order is restored, 'it is said that the women were so tired eating of their husbands' cooking that they all hailed the conquest of Jinjur with joy.'
It was more fun re-reading these bits and quoting them than it was to watch that awful film.
God I need this tonight. Putting it in watch later. Thanks.
Mad props for the Big Country lyrics.
Sid and Marty Kroft did a pretty good job on this, their 9th grade end of the year AV project.
I was having a blast watching this live and following and commenting on the chat line until I lost my connection. The experience was great and i look forward to catching the next live Rifftrax on youtube.
Dunno if it’s covered in comments, but this script is actually pretty faithful to one of the Oz books, the 2nd one? adapted in 80’s Return to Oz movie which was actually pretty darn good.
I've never seen this version of the Wizard of Oz and am now terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
As Doctor Smith would say "Oh the pain".
Rule of thumb while watching Rifftrax, never eat dry cereal while watching, you will choke.
"Never fear, you'll be dead and live on as a spirit, while I transform you back to the gender you never identified with. As it should be" -- The good witch. Horrific in hindsight.
Oddly prescient.
This must be JK Rowling’s favorite Oz book.
yeah, the movie was a little odd and the bug-man-thing disturbing, but it was at the 'forced gender reassignment and murder of a mentally challenged child' that I think the movie jumped a few genres
Well, he used to be a girl though. He was enchanted to be a boy for some years, but it wouldn't be fair to the girl he used to be to just keep Tip around. Why it had to be in the book in the first place,is another can of worms..
@@Eisenwulf666 Maybe Baum knew someone who raised their girl as a boy?
I just realized! This is the prequel to “FUN IN BALLOON LAND”!
This movie looks surreal.
Director Barry Mahon (1969) became relatively famous for his Nudie Films (he was also writer and producer). I actually remember a battered up 16mm print of this showing up on a regular basis for children shown at my local church. Even small children became disinterested about 1/4 of the way through the move.
George Lucas: Time to make the most boring and inane politics scene of all time!
Land Of Oz: Hold my beer.
Kind of the wrong way round...
What a fun LSD and gin fueled evening - Thanks guys, you never disappoint!
I've literally only seen the first one and a half minutes of this movie and I've already laughed like 5 times. There are comedies where I haven't laughed twice during the entire movie.
I never thought a movie would make going golden corral seem appealing
I have no words to describe what I feel about this
Barry Mahon was an air force officer who was put into a Nazi POW camp. He was involved in the real life version of The Great Escape, and was a hero for the U.S. military, yet he decided to direct pornos and crappy kids films. Being locked up must've made him crack.
What should he have done with his life.
I'm assuming yours is stellar by comparison?
@@Cheepchipsable Barry Mahon is that you?
Excellent work as always. Laughed hard. Thanks guys!
23:30 wow they got the second actress that played Mystique in their movie, what a get.
I expected that "someone flubbed a line, wanna do another take?" running gag, but I quickly realized it would take over the entire riff.
OK, I have to report something disturbing. Now that I'm watching this, a new movie has appeared on my algorithm suggestion. Now I can pay cash money to watch Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny without riffs. I'd rather fall off the Empire State Building and catch my eye on a nail.
Lmfao. I saw that tooo. UA-cam... You have no idea.
Oh my word no kidding
…catch my eye on a nail. Jesus.
I wonder sometimes how a movie like this gets greenlighted in the first place.
"Hey Studio, I'd like to make this movie"
"Okay but we only have $37.48 for the budget"
"I'll do it!"
I'm assuming it was self produced. They probably just got a distributor, assuming it ever actually appeared in many cinemas.
You do realise a lot of people make movies for fun.
@@Cheepchipsable Probably self produced. If it got any sort of distribution that's a bit surprising though. Then again, if a movie like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" can get made then anything is possible!
General Jinjur definitely ruled this movie.
I respect that actress. I don't think I could've said any three of her lines in a row with a straight face.
Sid & Marty Krofft's worst nightmare.
They wish they made shit this horrifying. I mean, Lidsville came pretty close and Bob Denver's acting in Far Out Space Nuts will make any '70s kid go running, but this is somehow worse.
Looking forward to it! Thank you!
I feel like this is the most nightmarish of Mahon's artistic visions.
The cow alone is like, please put that in a horror movie, someone. it needs to be seen in its intended context.
@@KairuHakubi The cow looks like it wants to be put out of its misery.
@@akl2k7 it must be agony every time it blinks.
@@KairuHakubi With eyes like that, absolutely.
It’s good to see that kid from Prince of Space got another speaking gig.
This movie feels like when you stand up too fast and go all tunnel vision-y. Is that an aesthetic choice?
Nightmare fuel, thanks!
WOW! That was a rough one. The movie not the riffs (which was great). Never thought there was am Oz story about confused sexual identities. Thanks guys!
I knew from reading. Not Baum's books, of course, but from a superhero story, where Ozma is an important supporting character.
Gotta say, _Oz_ reminds me of _Harry Potter_ in that there are lots of seemingly innocuous magics and items that, if used at all creatively, are _incredibly_ broken powerful.
It's in the 2nd book. Baum was pretty involved with the Suffragist movement and I think he prescribed to the belief that human society was once a matriarchy before being taken over by patriarchal society.
This story may have been an allegory for that idea, and an expression of the belief that the women's rights movement was a return to humanity's natural order.
@@oliviastratton2169 And we know now there is no natural order and society never and didn't work that way. Paleoanthropology has come a long way. :P
Any such matriarchal societies were cultural developments. Human's 'natural society' is to live in the tree copses of the savanna in tribal communes. The form of leadership such groups had is still unknown and will probably never be known for certain, but it was probably closer to a functional anarchy. Though we do know humans early on lost alpha/dominant males and evolved to favor cooperation, losing our early ancestors stronger sexual dimorphism in the process.
Boy that was a right old tangent. XD
@@planescaped Obviously. The "matriarchy-origin" myth is pretty silly. I was just explaining the context for Baum's writings.
@@oliviastratton2169 The societies of human pre-history have always been something I've found very fascinating, ignore my earbashing. :P
It's like an elementary school play, except with mostly adults.
Weirdly faithful adaptation of the book.
Down to a random lady being defeated by a bead curtain?
26 seconds in and it's more disturbing than the trippiest scenes in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
(29:57) Never thought I'd live to see the day Mike Nelson made a Homestar Runner reference!
The ending, like what the hell. It's so batshit crazy.
"I'm yelling at an uneven pitch. That means I'm ACTING!"
I made the mistake of taking a drink just before Mike said "sohlpanls" (solar panels). I'm still Old Man Wheeze-Laughing as I wipe down the screen again. WORTH IT.
The witch has a "magical powder" from some old sorcerer...that's the street name for it I presume. LOL
Just when I didn’t think I could love the dudes of RiffTrax anymore… they make a Homestar Runner joke!!! I am absolutely positively GIDDY RIGHT NOW!!!!!
The best part is that Pumpkinhead DID sound like Strongsad
It’s weird knowing the guys of rifftrax have seen Homestar Runner.
Edit: The joke is at 29:57 if anyone wonders.
@zachmanf.7479 there are people who haven't?
@@kanna-san. well yeah, I have only learned about it a couple of months back, when I saw the telltale game. And then realized Strong Bad was part of poker night.
This is perfect while planning my Skoolie internal layout design!
I think the Elfman brothers must have seen this as kids, because the whole thing has a real "Forbidden Zone" vibe. Mombi's song even kind of sounds like "Witch's Egg."
53:19 i see something caught his eye,...oh, it was his hand. good catch. 😂
He played it off like it was just a novelty eye-shaped monacle.
You should do one for KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE that would be funny as hell awesome channel