![]() Swept up by a tornado, in her trailer home with pet prawn Toto, she lands in Oz and embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard who can help make her dreams come true. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the story follows young Dorothy Gale, who works in her Aunt Em's diner, but dreams of becoming a singer somewhere beyond her small Kansas town. Goldberg based on a story by Frank and Hayes.Ī modernized adaptation of L. The film was produced by Bill Barretta and written by Debra Frank, Steve L. I’d recommend this film if you’re a fan of the Muppets franchise, it has a similar formula to their other films and does a pretty good job at working with the Oz mythology.The Muppets' Wizard of Oz is a 2005 American-Canadian fantasy television film directed by Kirk Thatcher and starring Ashanti and The Muppets with supporting roles done by Jeffrey Tambor, Quentin Tarantino, David Alan Grier, and Queen Latifah. I will say that a lot of the more adult jokes went completely over my head when as was a kid, as they were designed to. You can make up your own mind as to whether or not the Muppets film went too far in their desire to appeal to an adult audience as well as their children one. It’s implied that the Glinda Miss Piggy pinched Kermits ass while Dorothy was saying goodbye to the biker gang.The Wizard appears as a seductress when appearing to Gonzo.Which is interesting given the connotations of poppies with opium. The poppy fields is represented as a night club.Unlike the original Wizard of Oz, only Dorothy gets a makeover, which is pretty unfair. In addition, a wolf whistle is heard as she steps out. Dorothy goes to the “makeover machine” and comes out in a skimpy dress.Which has obvious sleazy connotations with the famous Las Vegas phrase. “What happens in Oz stays in Oz” is mentioned.There are references to the Girls Gone Wild series, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypse Now, and Kill Bill: Volume 1.Gonzo then says they’re his nipples and Pepe promptly runs away saying “I feel dirty.” Pepe fiddles with knobs on Gonzos chest.Pepe the Prawns problem (akin to the scarecrow having no brain) is “I’m so gosh darn sexy it hurts.”.Dorothy says the shoes make her feel “sexy”.Take a look at some of the proclaimed infractions: But it did receive a lot of criticism for being far too raunchy for a kid’s film. The main difference is that, in the real world, Dorothy wants to audition to tour with the Muppets so instead of wanting to go home, Dorothy’s main motivation is to become a famous singer which she naturally manages to achieve by the end of the film.Īt first glance this film is pretty tame. The film is pretty predictably, after all they couldn’t deviate that much from their source material. I’m not sure where that plot point came from but why not? Instead the flying monkeys, we have a biker gang of Muppets who are ruled by whoever wears a special hat. Interestingly the Witch of the West isn’t green (probably because it would be harder to make a new Miss Piggy Muppet out of green material), one of her sidekicks has green skin to make up for it though. Miss Piggy plays all of the witches (who oddly used to be a girl band together…okay). ![]() In an odd twist, Toto is played by Pepe the Prawn (because they have similar names?) So Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie play the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion. Our human actress plays Dorothy while the most famous of the Muppets are cast in the other main roles. The 2005 Muppets adaption of the Wizard of Oz is pretty much what you’d expect from the Muppets. ![]()
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