The premise of the film is also decent enough, chronicling Dorothy’s second return to the land of Oz, who is now obligated to thwart the conquest of a new witch named “Mombi” (voiced by Ethel Merman), who plans to overtake the Emerald City by conjuring an army of magical green elephants.īut again, all potential appeal for the imaginative concept is squandered in its execution. Frank Baum’s iconic series, Journey Back to Oz is legitimately meant to be a direct animated sequel to MGM’s 1939 film, going as far as to have Judy Garland’s own daughter Liza Minelli now voicing the role of “Dorothy Gale”, and evening bringing back Margaret Hamilton (“The Wicked Witch of the West” herself), to briefly cameo as the voice of “Auntie Em”. Loosely borrowing from the established storyline of The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second book in L. Though it is beyond evident that a solid amount of care and enthusiasm went into the projects inception, the same cannot be said for the tangible effort of actually bringing it into fruition. Journey Back to Oz by Filmation could figuratively be the literal definition of truly wasted potential! Starting off as more or less an animation studio passion project in 1962, only to endure over a decade long financial delay before finally being completed in 1972, and subsequently achieving a widespread theatrical release in 1974, the finished product of such a long endeavor may indeed have been better left unfinished. “ The unofficial sequel that’s officially abysmal!”
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