I noticed some people brought up the fact that Greg Centineo's son is indeed Noah Centineo, the star of the TV series The Forsters and featured in movies like To All the Boys I've Loved Before and Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot. All I'm gonna say about him is by asking you the question: Guess how daddy helped Noah become a Hollywood actor?

I'm a artist and I mainly customize shoes. I was doing a craft show when I had a man walks up to me and wanted a custom pair a shoes for a red carpet event.... FOR THIS MOVIE! 🤣 He was a investor for this movie and wanted shoes for the premier. He asked me a ton of questions about if I know the movie, seen anything on TV and stuff like that. Feel bad now that he was scammed.

This reminds me so much of Rise Of The Guardians, they had a whole franchise plan yet didn't counted the possibility of the movie bombing and having a Plan B. At least ROTG have some talent behind it.

The "unaccredited" thing deserves some extra clarification. In the United States (and many other countries), certain types of high-risk investments (like funding for films, theatrical productions, or start-up businesses) can only be undertaken by "accredited investors," meaning people or businesses who are proven to have both the knowledge to handle those investments and the net worth to withstand any (likely) losses that result. The Legends of Oz team was targeting people who didn't fully understand what they were getting into and encouraged them to sign on for something that was beyond their financial capacity, which for me is the most distasteful part of the whole business. Excellent video! I love behind-the-scenes stories, and think this one should be more widely circulated.

The Legend of Scam: Dorothy’s Scheme Original movie. Do not steal.

This movie is the example that a finance teacher would use on how to NOT handle investments.

Legend of Oz Accountant: "You know, under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than he could with a hit."

Is this the animated Oz movie that accused Disney and Hollywood of blacklisting them out of movie theatres? Also, wasn't there another Oz movie out at the same time? but it was partially based on a completely unrelated German fairy tale or something?

I remember hearing once that Legends of Oz had a troubled production, but I didn't realize how overly ambitious the creators of the film were, it's absolutely insane.

This is like those kickstarter games where the money just went to the developer on vacation in the Bahamas.

Fun fact: the director of home on the range directed this atrocity.

I'm just gonna admit it.... At least I find the character design really nice

I remember getting flooded with ads for this movie on KZfaq before it came out. Every episode of anime abandon and game grumps would be preempted by the same trailer for this one movie. I eventually got curious about it. Watched/read some of the reviews the day it came to theaters and immediately called my sister and told her “look up legends of Oz, we are watching it. We have GOT to see this mess” we pirated it and the rest is history between me and my sis. We showed this train wreck to nearly everyone we know including our mom (who’s a huge oz fan) once it came to Netflix. She left the room at the 12 minute mark. I’ve since made it my mission to get the podcast wehatemovies to cover it.

“Legend of Oz: Dorothy’s Return” Where “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets Mel Brooks “The Producers”

People forget that Oz is a book series. That MGM musical film version should not be the holy grail of Oz. Return to Oz is based on the 2nd and 3rd book and is the most accurate film adaptation to date.

This company's backstory would've made for a great movie.

I remember seeing the dvd for this in Target. When I saw Lea Michele’s name attached to Dorothy, I thought “oh, how ironic. The girl who played Idina Menzel’s (Elphaba) daughter in Glee is playing Dorothy.” I had no clue that a seemingly innocuous animated movie was such a big scam. I feel bad for the people who got tricked into the scam, including the actors.

Shady business aside, this movie was doomed to fail. And I say that as a Wizard of Oz fanatic (books and movie and everything else). Roger S. Baum sold the rights to Dorothy of Oz under the impression that the final movie would be a very faithful adaptation of his book and a film that honored his great-grandfather’s legacy. In reality, the final product ripped his book apart, added a ton of non-sensical crap that was not Oz related at all, and mocked everything about Oz’s enduring legacy. You don’t take a beloved property like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and strip it of everything that made people love it, then turn around and expect everyone to embrace the cheap mockery you’ve created. If they had left the Dorothy of Oz story alone, this film would have had a chance among fans of the original book series and Roger S. Baum fans because Roger understood and appreciated his great-grandfather’s legacy and made sure his own story fit in with way these characters had been originally envisioned. But nope; they had to rip his story apart and ‘improve’ it by adding so much idiocy that it barely resembles the book. In Gillikin County, in the Land of Oz, ancient Princess Gayelette and Prince Quelala are Glinda’s parents. They are quite old, but like their daughter, they appear younger. They love to laugh and so an estimated member of their court is The Jester, their servant. As Gayelette is a sorceress, she finds herself in possession of the vanquished Wicked Witch of the West’s magic wand, which happens to have the ghost of WWW trapped inside it. In Kansas, Dorothy has been home from Oz for a few weeks and sees an omen in the sky. She finds the silver shoes and a note from Glinda to return and save her friends. Using the shoes, Dorothy and Toto find themselves in Gillikin County in Oz and meet Wiser, a talking owl who befriends them. After a mishap in Candy County and a bit of info dumping, Dorothy and co trek to the Ruby Palace to save Glinda’s parents whom are being held by the possessed Jester, whom the ghost of the WWW has taken over. Along the way, Dorothy makes new friends and rescues some old ones. And it is Dorothy who defeats The Jester by simply reminding him that his purpose is to make others happy, which gives him the strength to break the witch’s spell. Everything returns to normal, Glinda sends Dorothy home. The end. The Jester was poorly portrayed in the film, making him more sinister than he really was. Jester was never an outright villain in the book. That was not the point of his character. His arc was about how a moment of weakness can lead to corruption of even the happiest of souls. Yes, he used the wand to do some bad things. But he was possessed by the ghost of a true sadistic-the Wicked Witch of the West. The film missed another point by modernizing and complicating the Kansas story. Fake IDs in 1900? Dorothy in a denim romper and cowboy boots? Um NO. Absurd. The Kansas scenes in this film are a joke. The point of Kansas/other our world locations is to contrast the simplicity of farm life with adventures in Oz. Or, occasionally, to set up an Oz payoff. This chunk of the film is a manipulated version of the Kansas scene from Emerald City of Oz, where Dorothy and Aunt Em and Uncle Henry become permanent residents of Oz...including their beloved farm house...after a financial scare. Basically, Uncle Henry goes into deep debt trying to rebuild the farmhouse after it was destroyed by the tornado in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Unable to pay the creditors back, Henry and Em are scared that Dorothy will be taken from them if they lose the house. So Dorothy asks Ozma and Glinda if her family can just move to Oz. Her wish is granted. The film just takes the house threat part, once again completely missing the point. Dorothy’s future was the point. Being able to keep her. Losing the house meant losing their niece. The voice casting also hurt this film’s chances. I’m sorry to be so harsh, but Lea Michelle was the worst possible choice they could have made for Dorothy. In my opinion, she is not as good an actress as she is given credit for, and her singing voice lacks emotional connection to the material. For me, she was the worst part of Glee. And the idea of her being able to pull of a role made famous by Judy Garland is laughable. She was set up to fail and she did. Sadly, the core three voice cast wasn’t much better. Great actors in their own right, they could not embody these parts at all. Because the soul of the story was missing, the character development hardly there. The songs were awful. A huge blow to any musical Oz film. I honestly don’t remember a single one. Couldn’t even recall the lyrics a minute after the song ended. Utterly forgetful. I honestly wonder if all these bad choices were made on purpose. Did the brothers want this film to bomb? A la The Producers... They should be flogged with a cat’o nine tails for this mockery of an Oz film. And sent to jail for defrauding their investors and the Baum family! I hope Roger gets the rights back one day and hooks up with true Oz fans to make the real Dorothy of Oz.

Another of my favorite quotes regarding the movie is this: "It only gave us embarassment and NIGHTMARES all thanks to the horrors of Puppet Glinda!"

Foodfight was fun to look into ? ... I agree The movie is crap But the progress is more interesting than this.

The sequel to this movie would've been called oz odyssey. I hope they changed to oz oddity.

I saw the Legend the Oz in THEATERS and I haven’t seen it in YEARS, now I don’t remember anything what happened in the movie. Why did I like this movie :(

"But I will give credit to how it stands out from all the other Wizard of Oz Movies: It is the most traumatizing...." - Ok Clearly someone didn't grow up with "Return To Oz."

Just remember, the Emerald City was only "green" because of the tinted glasses. Very appropriate.

Conspiracy: Wolf of Wall Street is actually a documentary of Legends of Oz.

I've been trying to figure out for a while now why the Wizard of Oz always seems to be doomed to fail with only 1 successful movie anyone seems to give a damn about that weren't broadway shows first, and I think I finally figured out what it is: this weird tendency to turn Oz into Wonderland. Rather than focusing on elements that make Oz well Oz, they tend to focus on elements that would be better suited to Wonderland. Case in point, this is the second time I've seen a group of porcelain people in Oz despite that being an element more suited for Wonderland. Despite the talking animals and munchkins, Oz doesn't tend to really do fantastical people that much but more focus on fantastical powers and magic. For example: The famous Return to Oz rotating heads is an element from the books, since it was a series of books and this was Dorthy's second trip to Oz, but the woman herself is mostly human-ish. The candy people is also very very weird for Oz, why in the hell would Ozma (the queen/goddess of Oz) create a people made out of food?! Speaking of, why is it Ozma is never in these interpretations?! She's a very important figure, more so than the witches or even the wizard! (He's basically there for when Ozma can't rule herself) At least in the first one it's been relaid to me that Ozma was out of commission during Dorthy's first trip and that's why the wizard was involved. But this all detracts from my point: The reason I think Oz movies tend to fail is because of a fundamental lack of understanding of what makes Oz unique and beautiful to begin with.

legends of oz is actually based on an official spin off Oz novel series written by Baum's great grandchildren. its a really niche series and i think its been out of print for over a decade now, but it was pretty popular with the small fanbase it had for being consistent and expanding on the already vast world of Oz and the characters

Remember when, on some ads of this movie someone said that Legend Of Oz was considered “This year’s Frozen”? Yeah.

They had a budget far higher than 1994s "The Lion King", several times higher than the Ghibli masterpieces "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away"..And the animation looked like utter trash.Yeah, they totally stole the fraud scheme of "The Producers"... and it worked.

At least The Thief and The Cobbler and Toy Story 2 had actual talent behind them. Not to mention, they didn’t think of making a franchise at first.

It’s surprising that this is similar to Nutcracker in 3D: Horrible movies that are huge box office bombs, making less than $20 million, and insulting people. And having terrible songs and visuals. The difference is that Legends of Oz didn’t insult everyone

Wow, here I thought it was just some mediocre movie that should have gone straight to dvd or netflix.

We all have the ability to start a crowfunding campaign: The ability to... ...Crap, wrong channel. But still, this is basically Kick-SCAMMING at its worst.

So basically the conartist Is a self insert

The funny thing is, there actually is a CGI Oz TV Show not connected to this that's actually pretty good.

"breaken the law"... ? You've got my attention.

And to think; there’s possibly an alternate timeline where this would become a successful franchise!

Personally, I LIKED "Legends of Oz", even if almost nobody else didn't, even if didn't do well at the box office and even if it WAS a scam.

Not to mention, the movie ALSO did the inexcusable crime of not having Bernadette Peters sing in a MUSICAL about Wizard of Oz! Seriously, that's an insult to Peters' career as one of the best stage and screen actresses of all time!

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high , there's an insane production history that nobody would ever realize "

This reminds me of the whole production history of Battlefield Earth back in the day. The production company of that film was known for scamming a lot of its investors.

Dude. Return to Oz legitimately scared me as a kid. I don't know what this would have done!

Wait??? There’s a released sequel to the Norm of the North and the Tom and Jerry Wizard of Oz movies? May god have mercy on us all.

..it's pronounced hai·pur·buh·lee ..not hyperbowl ..sorry pet peeve, but good video regardless

Looking at the footage of the movie and hearing the story, I now find it funny that Dorothy's "Oz lesson" she returns home with is stopping scammers. I'm just going to let that sink in while Animat recites the creators' blame blog in Shakespearean again at 17:32. (Edit:) He took the words right out of my mind lol, still true

It was actually good timing you made a video about the Legends of Oz movie, since I recently rewatched your review on that movie not too long ago Edit: HOLY COW! I had not expected to get a lot of likes. Thank you all very much.

I was in The Wizard of Oz as a munchkin (I was 10) in 2013 and I remember somebody saying somthing about "They're making another Wizard of Oz movie!" And all of us munchkins getting excited. I looked it up on IMDb, thought "oh cool", and then never heard about it again.

I really feel bad for the people that took a chance on them but ended up scammed and also kinda the people that worked sincerely on this

I remember seeing a poster for this movie and maybe a trailer.

Hearing this backstory, I'm getting flashbacks to Kasanoff

Hell yeah. I Hate this movie so much

So this is like a mini animation look back to a terrible film. You know this really would be a good ticket for you to get out of doing future lookbacks on some films that are really terrible.

Happy 80th anniversary to the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie!

I remember my mom taking me to see this movie. Only two other people were in the theatre with us.

Them: even if it’s bad, we’ll make sequels The movie: bad Them: ya I’m leaving, I’m gone.

Personally, my favorite of the Oz books is The Patchwork Girl of Oz and I am beyond disappointed no one has animated it. I'd love to see the glass cat in motion.

"This movie is so bad it should be illegal!"-Animatthew Legends of Oz: Allow me to introduce myself. November 11, 2019, 11:07pm

I guess the moral of the story is: Watch out for shady people if you are considering investment in a project such as an animated feature length film.

Hanazuki has a better chance of becoming a franchise, and it's stuck in a Hiatus that Hasbro started. #savehanazuki

“It is the most traumatizing.” *shows Return to Oz immediately after* That’s a bit debatable.

Why is Patrick Stewart always in awful animated films?

I Saw This Movie In Theaters........... So Many Regrets

My mind: What’s next a TV show 9:03 Animat: They also wanted to make a TV show. I WAS KIDDING

God...that nightmarish puppet Glinda!

Literally everyone: AniMat: Man, this movie is so bad, it should be illegal! This video:

We have WIcked, and the Wizard Of Oz Broadway musical, we don't need a Dorothy's return musical.

This is basically the Action 52 of Animated movies. LOL

Patrick Stewart: my agent is so fired

pay no attention to those men with the account books--

Damn I remember seeing this in cinema, it was sooo bland, the only interesting part was the end fight. They did have a website though and constantly promoted the actors in it

I made a new theory about why the Oz movie bombed at the box Office, because it was release a year after it premiere on the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and then A few months later, they forgot this movie existed.

I remember watching this once as a kid when it was on Netflix or some other similar streaming service. I remember finding it weird even as a kid, who knew there was so much history behind some sequel to a movie about a bunch of random new characters saving a bunch of other characters while defeating a clown

I never thought about William Shakespeare writing an angry comment for a negative review to a movie he liked, because he lived and died 3 centuries before movies existed, and 4 centuries before KZfaq existed...but I still understand your joke about David Yancy, an investor, being overly dramatic and talking in a way that Shakespeare would talk. September 5, 2021, 4:19pm

I now want to see the reality where this movie actually got two sequels and a TV show.

Wolf of Wall Street fits WAY too much with what you describe. CREEPY.

top 10 worst kickstarters

“You can make more money with a flop than with a hit.”

The #3 biggest animated box office bomb, right?

3:25 Did you know? "Journey Back to Oz" was by Filmation, the same studio that brought us "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "She-Ra", "Star Trek: the Animated Series", and what you might be familiar with, "Happily Ever After", and "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night"

The making of this movie would have made such an interesting movie by itself.

I still stick to Return to Oz.

This movie was basically a Springtime For Hitler. Also, I loved how you used music from RETURN TO OZ (I love David Shire's score).

I don't remember much about the movie itself, but I do remember when I went to go see it in theaters as a child I got a sticker sheet and small movie poster...... I dunno. I feel like it says something when I all I remember about this movie is the free merch I got and absolutely nothing else.

Guys who made this movie: "We want to turn the Oz books into an animated franchise." Wonderful Wizard of Oz anime series: "Am I a joke to you?"

I actually saw some of that film at an Oz Festival in Indiana. My dad and I both agreed it was more of a Saturday morning cartoon series, rather than “a movie”. I met the author and he gave me a signed copy of the book it was based on. And it was ten times better than the movie. (Also, you give Bernadette Peters part in your movie, and she doesn’t sing? Shame on you movie!)

AniMat: Legends Of Oz is the most traumatizing Wizard Of Oz movie. Return To Oz: *Am I a joke to you?*

It’s basically Astro Boy by Imagi Animation Studios since they made the franchise into a complete mess with deviations from the source materials, a waste of talented actors such as Nathan Lane & Samuel Jackson, lack of research, annoying characters, bad animation, and a juvenile tone.

The real shame is that those beautiful characters designs were used for this scam. Sad.

This makes me wonder if the remake the last Jedi campaign was actually a scam made just to get the whiny star wars fans to give their money to who ever created this campaign. That would be interesting.

That quote from 17:32 to 18:09....just.....wow. I've never seen such an embarrassing mix of pettiness and incurred anger towards the wrong people since EZ PZ.

Am I the only one who wishes there was another The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adaptation instead of another sequel or prequel tied to 1939 film? I mean, I know this movie is cult classic but I want an fresh take more faithful to the original book.

Petition to have Emerald city game as an actual sequel to Wizard of Oz and deserves an adaptation

Dude your voice goes up so high it's insane

1:55 "might have possibly brAken the law"

Dang, I could totally make it as a movie investor. I always know if a movie’s going to be a major flop-and an animated Oz sequel has flop written ALLLLLL over it.

First Foodfight, then this, then Joey Drew... I'm starting to fear that I may end up like this if I pursue my film career

Ah, the movie that has the Soulstealer Of Oz has stealers even behind the scenes, why am I not surprised.

The way you talk is really fascinating to me lol. When you’re getting animated about something, your voice goes way UP and very high pitched/squeaky and then back to normal. I love it haha Great video btw!

The only thing i remember about this movie is that the jester is cursed to always have a jester outfit. Mind you i never watched this movie at all.

Honestly, reading the investor's reasoning behind the movies failure is like listening to an alcoholic or drug addict's ranting about why their life is so messed up, blaming everyone and everything and refusing to admit that they have a problem. This denial is on par with Bethesda.