Directed by Nick Willing
Staring Zooey Deschanel, Allan Cumming, Neal McDonough & Richard Dreyfuss
Rating PG
Score 6/6

Set in the spirit of L. Frank Baum’s classic, the “Tin Man” follows the adventures of DG, a waitress and part-time student, as she travels through the mystical world of “The O. Z. (Outer Zone)”, discovering her hidden past.

Yes, I have dumped on movies produced by SyFy in the past, but this is one of their movies that I like, to the point that this review is a revisit. For those of you playing my original review for Tin Man was posted back in 2012 and for those of you wondering what qualifies a movie for a review revisit, it must be at least 4 to 5 years since I originally reviewed the movie. At the time Tin Man broke the Sci-Fi Channel’s (SyFy) records by being the highest-rated television event in the network’s history. On a personal note, I am pretty sure when I first watched Tin Man back in 2012 that it was the first time that I saw Zooey Deschanel in a movie. In recent years it has become apparent that Rebooting or Reimagining an intellectual property has come across as being dirty words and represent a lack of original ideas by filmmakers, I feel that Tin Man is a good example of example of an intellectual property being reimagined done right, but it should be noted that something like The Wizard of Oz is wide open to different interpretations. At least partly the way that Tin Man was shot reminded me of the 2008 television series Sanctuary specifically with the effects used for some of the creatures and the castles. I find that I usually always enjoy Neal McDonough, it was great to see Alan Cumming in this, I loved Richard Dreyfuss as the Magic Man and Kathleen Robertson was great as Azkadellia. It was great to see the fascist direction that her character Azkadellia had taken The O. Z and how much the Longcoats soldiers reminded me of the Nazi SS. I also liked how the filmmakers linked the story of Tin Man back to the original novel.