'Pratchett's work mocked the very idea of literary limitations, going from police procedural in one book to Christmas adventure in the next, from vampires to football, from the birth of motion......
When Frank Baum wrote the eponymous book back in 1900, little did he know that the Australians (who sometimes also call their country "Oz") would perform quite a bit of wizardry with wine a century......
At 160 minutes, Wicked is too long, and knowing the undercurrents running through the plot, the candyfloss cheeriness gets too much after a point.Still, it is a worthwhile page-to-stage-to screen......
Oz the Great and Powerful starts out decently only to collapse into a crazy hotchpotch of CGI-magic, B-grade horror, syrupy Disneyphilia and warped women's, er witches, lib, writes Sukanya......