History YMMV / LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn

* WTHCastingAgency: Hugh Dancy as Marshal Mallow, especially since Season 2 of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' was wrapping up around the time the movie came out.

* SoOkayItsAverage: People who give this film a chance will find that it's neither the worthy sequel to the 1939 film it fancies itself to be, nor the ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}''-level piece of hackwork you'd expect from [[OvershadowedByControversy its shambolic production history]] — it's basically a pleasant, if flawed kid's film with a surprisingly strong cast, the animation is lively if comparatively low-budget, and it arguably ranks among many other attempted ''Wizard of Oz'' cash-ins for bringing a number of elements from the books that weren't featured in the 1939 film while ''also'' feeling like a somewhat plausible sequel to the 1939 film.

* UncannyValley: The CGI animation is considered by many to look bizarre. This is a little more pronounced when Dorothy is in Kansas, since it's mostly human characters there. Creator/BradJones points out during his WebVideo/MidnightScreenings the off-putting character designs, herky-jerky movements, and more low-budget aspects (he points out Dorothy's crying face) would give him nightmares and that movies by Creator/VideoBrinquedo are less terrifying than this. And this is despite its moderate $70 million budget [[note]]For reference, that's more than ''double'' the budget of the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''[[/note]]. It should also be noted that the film was originally going to be a DirectToVideo film before the budget got increased for a theatrical release.
* WhatAnIdiot: Years have passed in Oz since Dorothy first arrived there; however, only a day has passed on Earth. With that in mind, Dorothy ''really'' should have remembered that randomly taking something from a tree without its consent is a bad idea (though one could argue she didn't know the trees she encountered here were also sentient).

* HarsherInHindsight: The major plotline in the Kansas portion of the film involves a crooked appraiser trying to scam the town's residents out of their money, with Dorothy explicitly pointing out that the victims haven't read the terms of his contract. After it's [[BoxOfficeBomb disastrous release]], it was revealed that the majority of the film's budget came from the producers convincing people to invest their life savings into the project, while downplaying or outright covering up the possible risks.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: As WebVideo/MusicalHell pointed out in her review, the appraiser -- while obviously crooked -- does have a point about Dorothy's house being uninhabitable, at least for the time being. Besides, who would ''you'' trust to make the best judgement on this sort of thing: an appraiser who seems to know what he's doing, or a hysterical ten-year-old?

* OvershadowedByControversy: Thanks in no small part to a video essay by the Youtube critic WebVideo/AniMat, this relatively obscure BoxOfficeBomb has become far more infamous due to its shady production history. This includes the film's producers allegedly ''scamming'' people into investing their money on the project, which led to these investors filing a ''lawsuit'' against them in 2019.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The film is better known in some circles for having a doozy of a production history, including allegedly being run like a scam to the point that in 2019 a lawsuit from many of the investors was filed against the producers.

* UncannyValley: The CGI animation is considered by many to look bizarre. This is a little more pronounced when Dorothy is in Kansas, since it's mostly human characters there. Creator/BradJones points out during his WebVideo/MidnightScreenings the off-putting character designs, herky-jerky movements, and more low-budget aspects (he points out Dorothy's crying face) would give him nightmares and that movies by Creator/VideoBrinquedo are less terrifying than this. And this is despite its moderate $70 million budget [[note]]For reference, that's more than ''double'' the budget of the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''[[/note]].

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the reviews from professional critics were 15% fresh, while audience reviews were 86% fresh. Although even then it is alleged that it was the product of {{Astroturfing}}.

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the reviews from professional critics were 15% fresh, while audience reviews were 86% fresh.
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