The latest in our series of writers going to the bat for loathed films is a defence of a dark and daring sequel to a fantasy classic
When this Wizard of Oz sequel starts by sending Dorothy to a psychiatric hospital for electroshock treatment, you do wonder if
Disney may have slightly misjudged its audience.
It is six months since a tornado blew away the family home, and Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) is still too weakened by insomnia to help out on the farm, while clinging to her story about having had an adventure with some sort of cowardly lion. The therapy should rid her of “all those bad waking dreams”.