Dorothy a 10-year-old Fairuza Balk in her debut is back in Kansas, where Aunt Em Piper Laurie is at the end of her rope: her niece is not sleeping and going on about a place called Oz. Therapy may be the answer, but luckily the scary clinic goes dark before Dorothy can be, er, cured but the lead-up will scare the munchkins out of most kids. She wakes up in the land of Oz, now in tatters, and searches for its king, the Scarecrow. A new set of friends, including a tin soldier, a talking chicken, and a pumpkin man, help her against new villains, including Princess Mombi Jean Marsh--complete with a set of detachable heads--and the evil Nome King Nicol Williamson with a great assist from Will Vinton's Claymation. The sole directorial effort of Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch is stuffed with marvelous effects that foreshadow later works by Tim Burton and the Henson non-Muppet films. --Doug Thomas