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. . . it's too busy interviewing drag queens specializing in "Dorothy" impersonations to give more than lip service to the Wizard's original back story. Not unlike Jonathan Swift's earlier fantasy--GULLIVER'S TRAVELS--L. Frank Baum wrote the initial OZ story as political satire. At a time when American Hero William Jennings Bryan was raving in a Pachyderm-trampled wilderness over the fact that the USA's Working Class was then being "Crucified upon a Cross of Gold," Baum showed The People how they could escape this Madness of the Money Mob by slipping into the Shiny Silver Slippers, as did "Dorothy Gale" (that is, forsaking the "Yellow Brick Road" to Perdition of the so-called Gold Standard to adopt the silver certificates eventually championed by a National Emergency Decree on the part of beloved U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt). Unfortunately, the nefarious House of the Groaning Fat Cat One Per Centers (aka, the Billionaire Boys' Club) snatched up the film rights to OZ, and blasphemed by transforming Dorothy's silver saviors into nonsensical "ruby red slippers." Naturally, amid Today's Tinsel Town Celebrity Culture, THE LEGACY OF OZ goes Ga-Ga over geezer Munchkins, while the current Real Life U.S. Treasurer harbors threatening delusions of "reviving" Mr. Baum's anathema: The Grievous Gold Standard!

This alleged documentary on how the wizard of Oz has impacted society up until the time that it was made is probably one of the most phony and pointless wastes of film about a classic movie ever made. It is included on the two-part "Wizard of Oz" DVD and in a short period of time, it becomes so self-absorbed with its subjects on film that it forgets about the subject that it is talking about. Brittany Murphy as the narrator does not have an appropriate voice for talking, even off camera, about the importance of a cultural phenomenon. Her voice is breathy, boring and plastic, and it is extremely difficult to even listen to her attempt to explain why the "Wizard of Oz" is important to her. then, it begins to focus on drag performers doing imitations of Oz characters where they have no clue how to even become the characters and their performances are so some of these narcissistic and demanding of attention that it becomes sickening to watch. It is a short little expose of extremist liberal agendas with an agenda that really serves no purpose other than to create insinuations about a film that is nowhere remotely present.