Favorite
This is my all time favorite movie. I recently purchased it for the younger generation and it was a hit with them as well. This movie transcends time and ages. Very entertaining with a positive message. Two thumbs up!

"Ease on Down the Road!"
"The Wiz" gave the Wizard of Oz a new musical life with its jazzy R&B and soul-inflected score,along with an African-American cast. The songs are catchy, especially "Ease on Down the Road." It's a Quincy Jones classic. Diana Ross is Dorothy,a schoolteacher in the ghetto of NYC. She magically finds herself in Oz, traveling down the yellow brick road with the help of Glinda the Good (a luminous Lena Horne),the tenderhearted Tin Man (Nipsey Russell) and the wise Scarecrow (Michael Jackson,then starting out as a solo artist)

"The Wiz" is incredibly campy. Its premise--an inner-city schoolteacher seeking out the Wizard (Richard Pryor)makes the story at once adult and childlike. Quincy Jones is famous for knowing his musical audiences. He made Michael Jackson's "Thriller" the bestselling album in history. But with "The Wiz",he didn't know if he should appeal to adults or children. It's a dark fantasy,an urban dystopia until Dorothy comes to the Emerald City (the plaza that was once between the Twin Towers of the WTC) The fantasy is melancholy now in retrospect.

"The Wiz" was revolutionary in 1978. After three decades,it's still an underrated classic. Ease on down the road...

One wizzer of a movie
I remember seeing this movie when I was younger and I think I liked it then. Looking back on it now, I can't remember why I liked it. I thought the movie was very draggy and boring and at some points a bit creepy. The whole scene where they're running through what looks like an abandoned parking garage and are being chased by garbage cans and columns still creeps me out. I agree with some of the other reviews that said the songs in this movie were out of place. They did not advance the plot or give further explaination they were just there. I especially despise the song when Dorothy arrives at the emerald city. "You've got to be seen, green." It just went on and on. It's like they took the concept of the horse of a different color and just made the people change color instead. The ending with the sniveling, whiney Wiz was the worst part of this movie. A depressed wizard is just not appealing. The costumes in this movie where also strange. the lion is wearing a fur coat and looks like a pimp, and it looks like Micheal Jackson's scarecrow has the wrapper of a Reese's candy on the end on his nose. My favortie character in this movie was Toto, who did not get enough screen time. I'd rent this before buying it. If you can sit through it once, you probably won't want to watch it again.

funny
It was a great movie. I loved the singing and the cute doggy Toto.

A Classic of the Twin Towers
A Classic in my book for the muscial, plot, how the story unfolds, colors, famous actors, actress, and famous singers. I love the songs the words have deep meanings that uplifts my spirit and soul. I also like how Twin Towers were used to make the. Behind the Twin Towers was the location.