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Tin Man is a sci-fi version of Frank Baum's "Wizard of Oz". In this futuristic version, DG, as our heroine (Zooey Deschanel) finds herself in the O.Z. (Outer Zone), a kind of parallel universe. Chased by "long coats" (think the guardsman in the original Wizard of Oz) she meets up with Glitch (Alan Cumming in the Scarecrow role), Wyatt Cain (Neal McDonough in the Tin Man role; with the play being on the "tin" a sheriff wears), and Raw (Raoul Trujillo as the Cowardly Lion). These characters, together with the Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss as the Wizard of Oz) and Toto (DG's babyish name for her childhood tutor) strive to recover DG's lost memories and to find the Great Gale and location of a special emerald. The emerald is also pursued by DG's evil sister, Azkadellia, who wants to use the jewels powers to plunge the OZ into eternal darkness. Lots of twists and turns. Great references and uses of the original Wizard of Oz elements. Wait til you see the Great Gale! The plot is cool but predictable. Kathleen Robertson totally outshines Zooey!!Read full review
I'm giving this product a rating of good, because I liked the miniseries very much when watching it on SyFy, and there's no reason I won't like watching it again. My beef is with the manufacturing of the DVD itself. Tin Man is a 2008 miniseries, and the DVD has no options or support of any kind of subtitles/close captioning. Even using the settings in Windows Media Player/Center for subtitles whenever available, there is no subtitles or close captioning when watching the DVD. I have poor recognition of high-pitched sounds and have great difficulty following a movie in the theater because I mishear the exact pronunciation of words. That's why I watch them on DVD in the first place. I was looking forward to enjoying an old favorite... and the very reason I picked it up on DVD, for close-captioning, it completely unsupported. I really thought SyFy was smarter than that. If Tin Man aired in 1998 or the like, I'd understand, but not for a miniseries that aired in 2008. Tin Man is a great miniseries and I would give this product a "5-star" (Excellent) Review but the lack of close-captioning support when DVD's manufactured 5 years earlier have full support for it, and subtitle options to boot, knock my review down from 5-stars to 4. Tin Man is a great miniseries, but SyFy messed up bad in the manufacturing of the DVD.Read full review
The film was engaging...the players were excellent...but it dragged a bit and had a cutesy ending....It is also in 3 parts....so you have to change dvd disks....in all a good but not great film....bacically it was good vs evil....light vs dark.
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well for starters this aint no sissy oz tale. not to say that frank baums imagery is childlike but, the movie industries made the wizard of oz saga seem kind of tame. this movie takes all of the elemnts of the original story that make it great and give it a more technological and new century feel. the tin man has no heart but not in a literal sense. his heart was taken away because he thinks his family is dead. all he wants is revenge. the scarecrow aka glitch lost his brain via something akin to a lobotomy. a real genius with half of his brain gone he glitches constantly but still catches things the other charchters miss. toto (tutor) is really dorothys friend even before his spying job. he is trying to show her who she really is. rawr aka the cowardly lion is only afraid because he sees peoples real intentions and knows exactly what motivates them. he fears people cause he knows them too well. honestly this movie is a work of genius. and it takes frank baums masterpiece to a whole new level. D.G. is the descendant of dorothy gale. and comes from a mopdern day version of a place just like where she grew up. the witch was imprisoned not dead as the earlier story suggested but hey they have to do new things or it wouldnt have any originality. all i can say is i absolutely loved this movie and would recommend it to anyone. except maybe very young children as it does contain some adult content. violence and such.Read full review
I have always wanted to watch this adaption of the original Wizard of Oz. I was never a fan of the original but thought that this version held a bit more of the types of aspects that I like in a series. I really liked how they did this series. I loved the images and the locations used for filming. The actors were great and really meshed well together. My favorite character has to be Wyatt Cain for all that the man went through he still remained noble. There really isn't anything about it that I don't like execept for how they ended it. I really wish they would have done more dealing with the future of the OZ and DG's dealings with becoming queen, but that is just me.
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