This is not your parents or grandparents "Wizard Of Oz". Somewhat along the lines of Tim Burton's "reimagining" of "Planet Of The Apes", "Tin Man" attempts a sci-fi meets Hermoine Grainger via Oz mash-up. Apart from the dreadful performance of Zooey Deschanel as DG, it held my interest all three nights. OK, I confess, mostly to see how bad it would get. But, it never got quite bad enough to leave it alone. The character of Glitch was well done, evoking the original Scarecrow character without becoming a parody. I didn't like the ending - too forced, too contrived. Much of TV and movies are these days, so this was pretty much par for the course. Verizon, who sponsored the original broadcast, got its money's worth - Deschanel sure phoned in her performance! I'll leave it at that.
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A science fiction version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which Dorothy gets sucked into an alternate dimension called the "Outer Zone" where the law enforcement officers are called the Tin Men. On her search for the way home, she gets help from three familiar characters. Among them is a cowardly, wolverine-like animal without a backbone, a wicked sorceress named Azkadellia and a wizard known as the Mystic Man.
A science fiction version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which Dorothy gets sucked into an alternate dimension called the "Outer Zone" where the law enforcement officers are called the Tin Men. On her search for the way …
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Alan Cumming, need I say more. He is so fantastic, I love him.
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