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Fantastic Return to Oz

Fantastic Return to Oz is a 2019 Russian animated film that serves as a sequel to Fantastic Journey to Oz and is based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.

Plot
Urfin Jus plans to steal Gingema's book like before. At the Emerald City, the citizens of the city are presented a moving robot statue of Ellie, while the bear and wooden puppet, Urfin's servants, infiltrate the robot to steal the book with the help of Ruf Bilan. While Urfin Jus presents the book to the carraci, a boy named Tim suddenly appears, with the silver slippers in hands. Urfin tries to retrieve the slippers, when the book casts out Urfin and his servants. Toto and Ellie appear at an ogre's house. The ogre later finds a crow, and reveals that she will tell everyone that they his prisoner. The wooden puppet tricks Tim into giving the slippers to repair it, taking them to Urfin. The book directs Tim to a swamp, when the book disappears into the swamp. Urfin jumps into the swamp, finding himself in a dark world. He is received a pair of pink glasses that allows him to see a different version of the world. He finds a palace, and enters the palace. The carraci imprisons Tim in a basket and set off to take him to Ellie under the crows order. Urfin arrives at the palace, where he meets the book's true form, a princess. The princess tricks Urfin into thinking he is the master, and everyone has only command to it. The bear and the wooden puppet find Urfin, where he is about to sip a drink that is supposedly magical. The puppet stops Urfin from drinking it, and Urfin removes his glasses. The princess offers Urfin an undefeatable army. While Tim flees, he finds two saber toothed tigers. His phone's app, depicting a blue rabbit, tells the saber toothed tigers that the ogre has captured Ellie, and the two help Tim to find her. Meanwhile, the wooden soldiers begin war at the ogre's house. The ogre throws a bucket into the air, that then lands into the general's head, in who he accidentally triggers a catapult, destroying the door. The Scarecrow, the Woodman, and Cowardly Lion reconciles with Ellie, while the carraci returns with the basket, only to find Tim has escaped. The team takes hot air balloons to find him. As Tim flees, he meets a talking squirrel, in who she takes him to Queen Ramina, a queen mouse. There, Ramina provides Tim an enchanted whistle that can return him home after three blows, but he realizes that he can't leave without Ellie. Feeling awful for it, Urfin's monster army confronts the carraci. Urfin corrupts his army. Ellie and her team retreat, but their balloon gets stuck in a tree branch, leaving Tim to free the balloon, but is unable to escape from being touched by a tail from the army, teleporting him into the dark world. There, he finds a vision of Ramina telling Tim that Ellie is in danger. Determined, he manages to escape the world. Ruf Bilan reveals to Urfin that he stolen the book, and is planning open the Emerald Dam floodgates and the city's underwater. Tim reconciles with Ellie, while the crow shares about Urfin's plans. Tim, determined to stop him, uses the robot to attack Urfin's army. However, the robot gets stuck on a rock and collapses. Tim flees to the floodgate control panel, and deactivates the flood, but is cornered by Urfin and his army, and they capture him. Tim manages to escape from Urfin while Urfin is distracted by his phone. Tim retrieves the slippers as they glow, enabling him to defeat the army. Ellie reconciles with Tim, and they both manage to return home. == Cast ==
Cast
Russian cast Konstantin Khabensky as Urfin Jus • Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya as Ellie • Alexander Bykovsky as Tim • Dmitri Dyuzhev as Hat • Dmitry Dyuzhev as Bear • Andrey Levin as Totoshka • Yulia Rudina as Clown • Maria Tsvetkova as Book • Maxim Sergeev as General • Valery Solovyov as the Tin Woodman • Sergey Dyachkov as Terrible • Aleksandr Boyarsky as Ogre/saber toothed tigers • Valery Kukhareshin as Lion • Oleg Kulikovych as Ruf Bilan • Mikhail Chernyak as crow • Elizaveta Chaban as Squirrel • Tatyana Mikhalevkina as Dollars • Yulia Zorkina as Queen Ramina English cast Marc Thompson as Urfin Jus, tiger • Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld as Dorothy • Eddy Lee as Tim • Tom Wayland as BFF, Ogre, Tin Man, tiger • Tyler Bunch (as H.D. Quinn) as Bear, Wooden General • Erica Schroeder as Toto, Book • Haven Paschall as Clown • Mike Pollock as the book, Lion, Ruf Bilan • Billy Bob Thompson as Scarecrow • Ryan Andes as the carraci leader • Brittany Pressley as Ramina, Crow • Laurie Hymes as Squirrel == Release ==
Release
Fantastic Return to Oz was released in Russia on 24 October 2019. In February 2020, Wizard Animation signed distribution deals for the film in the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, South Korea, and some South American countries. == Reception ==
Reception
On Kritikanstvo, the film has a 58 score out of 100 based on 3 reviews. A review from Tlum HD stated that viewers will like the new characters, the new dimension, the soundtrack and the cliché that "good always triumphs over evil". However, the film was criticized for its scattered attention and naive characters. == Notes ==
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