Return to Oz

Return to Oz (1985)

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Visible crew/equipment: After just meeting Tik-Tok, Dorothy winds him up, and then he bows, and raises his hat. As he bows a crewmember can clearly be seen crouched behind him. (00:36:20)

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Factual error: When Dorothy runs away from the hospital she is chased by a nurse, who has a torch. Earlier in this film the doctor said they two months away from the 20th century which gives the year as 1899. Such a modern torch that the nurse had was not invented yet.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Dorothy finds Tik Tok, there are cobwebs that hang from the wall beside him, and are draped on the side of Tik Tok's metal helmet. However in some shots these cobwebs that hang on his helmet vanish, then reappear again.

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy first enters the room full of ornaments, the camera pans backwards, away from her. The camera passes tables of ornaments. Watch the large blue vase to the right of the screen, and a cameraman can be seen reflected in it, walking backwards with the camera. (01:18:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Tik Tok takes the lunch pail from Dorothy, to use it to attack the Wheeler's, his arm is naturally shiny. Moments later the same arm suddenly has cobwebs all over it. Then when Tik-Tok gets to the end of the corridor, the cobwebs are gone again.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Dorothy picks up the key that she thinks was sent from Oz, she begins to rub the dirt off of it, getting her fingers dirty. In the next shot they're clean. In addition, the way she holds the key changes between shots.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Dorothy is sent back to Kansas, she wakes up in the forest and she has a large spot of dirt on her forehead. This vanishes when Toto runs to her. It then reappears later, but now on the side of her forehead.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Tik Tok is just about to swing the lunch pail into Mombi, he freezes because his action winds out. In the next shot his position (his left arm, and the angle and way that he holds the lunch pail) changes between shots.

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When Jack's head falls off, it is flying in the air, near the couch. Two black wires holding it up are visible. (01:01:25)

Hamster

Revealing mistake: When Mombi's headless body wakes up and begins to walk towards Dorothy, you can see a black, blurry haze around her neck in two shots, where an effect was used to remove it.

Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy, Tik Tok and Jack are eating and drinking in the Nome King's lair, Tik Tok says "What is it we are risking?", and there is a small explosion, causing the table to fall, and them to all fall back. A wire attached to the table to make it fall is visible to the right of the screen. (01:11:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the Doctor is setting up the machine for Dorothy, the power then goes out. Everyone leaves. If you look at the machine, it's 'tounge' is on the right side of it's 'mouth.' In the next shot it is now on the left, and it then stays there.

Hamster

Audio problem: When Tik Tok lets the Wheeler go, as the Wheeler skates off he is laughing and saying "Behave." His mouth is clearly out of sync with the audio, however. (00:39:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Dorothy and Billina stand in the crate, after the storm, trying to figure out where they are, in overhead wideshots of them standing in the crate, Dorothy's dress rustles in a breeze, but in closeups of her, it is perfectly still.

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When Tik Tok is spinning around and hitting the Wheelers with the lunch pail, a camera and crewmember are reflected in the shiny copper of Tik Tok's front. (00:37:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When it shows Dorothy eating her Limestone cake with Tik Tok and Jack, in one shot her goblet of melted silver is rested, down on the table, but then suddenly in the next shot it is in her hand, off of the table.

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When the Nome King says "I know something which will cheer you up," it cuts to Jack Pumpkinhead and Tik Tok sliding along the ground. The track which is sliding them along is visible. (01:08:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: Aunt Em opens Dorothy's bedroom door a crack to check on her. She is standing outside the room, but she is peeping through the crack. Dorothy looks at her, and suddenly Aunt Em is standing in the room with the door almost fully opened.

Hamster

Ozma: Why did they bring you here, Dorothy?
Dorothy: Because I can't sleep, and I talk about a place that I've been to, but nobody believes that it exists.

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Trivia: The only film directed by Oscar-winning film and sound editor Walter Murch. During principal photography, some production troubles almost caused the film to be shut down. Murch's friend George Lucas (of "Star Wars" fame) evidently watched some of the footage Murch had already shot, and impressed by what he saw, convinced Disney to resume production.

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Answer: The fire made the authorities discover the abused patients they'd locked in the basement.

Brian Katcher

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