I found Oz the Great and Powerful to be a beautiful mess of a movie. It spared no expense to throw so many dumb things together than I learned one new thing that most of these modern fairy tale movies lack: CHARM

"2 STARS", "2013 Spring Movies", "2013", "Movie Review", "Oz the Great and Powerful"Don ShanahanMarch 14, 2013Chicago, IL, USAComment

MOVIE REVIEW: Jack the Giant Slayer

While it's no fine wine or instant classic, Bryan Singer and his team demonstrated better than the other steroid-enhanced fairy tale movies that the most important thing with this kind of retelling is to not tear up the roots. Jack the Giant Slayer's embrace of its bedtime story nature and that is its greatest strength. It should be a guide for future fairy tale enhancements to stick to the core ideals that made it great and to mold your spectacle around it, not above it.