Nostalgia Critic- The Wiz (Part 1)

All credit to thatguywiththeglasses.com
Feat. Todd In The Shadows.

[@Yamislittleangel55]

Instead if be our guest, they sing 'Get the fuck out'! I fucking lost it there! X'D

[@811brian]

*SLAM!!*

[@envyq00]

Same here!

[@theponydalek7923]

Marty, I was frozen today!

[@fhb3]

2:37 "We're OFF to annoy The Critic..."

[@weirdTedE91]

I love how Todd just casually dodges NC's punch. What a ninja!

[@AK-23]

Instead of "Be our Guest," they sang "Get the fuck out"

[@hunnykun101]

Me and my friends were both creep out and laughing at the subway station part

[@shinryuvirus9987]

how is Todd In The Shadows able to see with that on him?

[@reido387]

He's like a bat, he uses sonar.

[@Dimensioneer88]

I'm surprised nobody on the site has ever thought of making Todd a ninja considering how he just appears in certain places.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

"bounce on that pole" again, no homo references, Schumacher.

[@7elevenhomelessman310]

I grew up watching this version, my teacher had problems

[@jenniferschillig3768]

Making so many changes to the stage version was where this went wrong. In the stage version of The Wiz, Dorothy was a teenage Kansas farm girl as she was supposed to be. In fact, the stage Wiz was actually (in terms of storytelling points) a lot closer to the original novel than the 1939 movie! (Two different witches for North and South, the Kalidahs the Lion fought off, the Witch capturing Dorothy and the Lion and making slaves out of them for weeks, and so on.)

[@SonofMrPeanut]

The peddler sequence seems like it would be right at home as an Earthbound battle.

[@whitelemonade5590]

Watchin this alongside The Wiz live on NBC. I definitely like the play better.

[@andrewschroy6368]

When I think of Nipsey Russell, I think of him reciting poetry on game shows like Match Game, Pyramid, and Password, and even in the rare cases when he was a host instead of a panelist... like on the Star Words pilot, Juvenile Jury, and Your Number's Up.

[@TigerWolfDemon]

If you took any stills from the easy on down the road song, you can use them to teach children about stranger danger. Because if Michael Jackson wasn't creepy enough they put him in a 70s hobo clown costume. Run. Just run.

[@alexanderhammond5814]

10:42 Yes. That's definitely how you do a review!

[@Esmeralda2diamon]

Great Crossover!! :D

[@JimmySteller]

Okay I can't help it, that joke about Cicero's name in 8:36 was so out of left field that it was actually funny.

[@skullwolfsteam]

''everything he touchs turns to dick'' wait a sec whare have i herd that before oh yeah uncharted nathan drake ''every i touch turns to shit'' kinda of a reference to me

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

A tornado in winter? Where does the hot air come from to help create the swirling mass of wind?

[@jeremysnowden1286]

+Charles Woodley neeeeeeerd

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

Minnesota is full of weather nerds. We have this saying "If you don't like the weather wait five minutes,".

[@serjamsj747]

it's magic

[@thesimplisticseth]

"Frozen TODAY" lol

[@Lrules100]

"A CLOSE UP YOU JERK! A CLOSE UP!!" lolXD

[@alexanderhammond5814]

I guess the reason the Oz in "The Wiz" looks so dark and gritty and filled with trash is probably because the filmmakers wanted to establish the look of Oz if it was in New York, and only Black people lived there. But...I WAS FROZEN TODAY!!! He. Love that line

[@cartmann94]

13:40 Now we know where the wiz came from LOL

[@wingchundragon]

You destroyed my childhood...but so dead on correct!!! Great music but terrible filmmaking. Terrified me as a kid. Great review, guys

[@godzillavkk]

+wingchundragon That's what Doug does. He TELLS you what you can and cannot like.

[@eccentricdiamond49]

Michael Jackson's performance is the only redeeming feature of this "film". Long live the King of Pop!

[@J0eMama90]

I actually like the wiz, but maybe that's because I was a kid when I first saw it. But I still enjoy watching it.

[@UltimaOmegaZero]

8:35 DID HE JUST SAY CICERO!?

[@reneelucero2923]

"You're a sick fuck with issues" xD

[@5TailFox]

Shhhh...What's that? Off in the distance...Was that the cacophonous screech of an Audrey 2? Nope. Just the Cowardly Lion, fallin' down. Carry on.

[@PlanetAwesomenessProductions]

Frozen....TODAY!

[@Jethrofinger]

I was introduced to the Wiz after my dad got me into the Wizard of Oz when I was four or five. I was obsessed so my mom rented the Wiz. It was just like the Wizard of Oz except I noticed that all of the cast was black and the music was different. I became obsessed with it, got the VHS some years later (we had the Wizard of Oz already). My sister kept watching it. Then it was during ninth grade (first year of high school) when I joined stage crew and the spring musical that year was the Wiz. I had gotten a $10 Target gift card for Christmas and figured to use it on the DVD. Now before this, I had seen The Wiz go on lists as one of the worst movies of all time or that the reviews for the movie were just not good. When I watched it again, I could see why this would be deemed a bad movie...but I still love it just because it's bad. I do actually like some of the musical numbers, costumes and set designs but at the same time- it is extremely long, Diana Ross was too old to be playing Dorothy and some parts of the movie were plain weird. I absolutely love "Everybody Rejoice" and still use it in Facebook posts. So yeah- I still like it even though it's not that good of a movie. Also worth noting is that Quincy Jones had a part in working on the soundtrack for the movie. This is how Michael Jackson was able to meet Quincy and later on, they'd make three of MJ's best albums: Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.

[@mas8705]

Wait, wait wait... Music's not his thing? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he do a Top 11 movies theme countdown three weeks prior? I know it is nitpicking, but it is interesting to point out.

[@coolman8211]

For a second there I thought I saw a munchkin hanging himself.then I realized he was just on the swings.lol

[@Dimensioneer88]

How did I never know that Schumacher is gay? The Bat nipples/ass and Gerard Butler as Supermodel Phantom now actually make sense.

[@pickledcardigan7923]

I'm doing The Wiz for my school production.

[@Life_RPG]

4:12 I think Todd meant A black farmer.

[@ccateni28]

I had to sing the wiz film version of ease on down the road.

[@ECL28E]

I feel NC isn't really qualified to review Pink Floyd's The Wall. More Oancitizen because its artistic merits or Todd there because he, like Paw, specializes in music

[@JoeChillton]

I think Doug (or the NC) is being too harsh on Joel. Yes he made 2 bad Bat films...BUt he did do good films like Falling Down, and Phone Booth. Also he wrote the script, and i think if a film is bad, the writer AND director should be responsible for the outcome of the film.

[@mas8705]

I see. Thank you kindly for correcting me about that.

[@michellel6448]

Of course you guys wouldn't "get it"...You're white...I can appreciate the soulfulness of this movie that most white people don't get or have. One of my fav movies...IJS

[@18haylo]

Michelle Lawson It's not that THEY don't get it, it's obvious that Sidney Lumet and Joel Schumacher didn't get it. They were writing what they thought was "black" and seemed to just depend on stereotypes. I'm very surprised that Motown Record (the producers of the movie) went with a white director and writer. Someone like Gordon Parks probably would have had a better understanding of the source materiel. They aren't bashing the musical or the music, they're bashing the movie. This was a very poor adaptation of a great musical.

[@CyberShwartz]

Michelle Lawson It's not fair that white people get called out for being racist when there's fuckheads like you spouting racist shit like this and get away scotch free. What you're saying right now would be like me saying that you wouldn't "get" white western movies because you're black, and I can appreciate the westerness of the film and you can't because most black people weren't in the west.

[@reneelucero2923]

Dude, a) That's racist b) It's not that they don't get it, it's just that it's a bad movie...end of story, stop trying to justify it and making it about race, art is supposed to be for everyone, in a good movie you don't have to "Get it" you simply have to enjoy the characters and plot, if it was about race, americans wouldn't be so much into anime. c) once again, fucking racist.

[@Fighterfreak247]

After seeing this part from 7:56-8:08, I started thinking about Chernobyl(because this looks like Chernobyl). Who knew a bland magical place like this one would have an area that bears a striking resemblance to the Ukranian town?

[@cynthiautz6702]

We love you Angry Video Game Nerd

[@jenniferschillig3768]

YES! HE'S DOING "THE WALL"!!!!

[@CitizenKahne1992]

"Now this is how you do a review!"

[@alechendrickson5526]

Hey Doug, Schumacher has made good stuff. Ever seen Phonebooth? The Lost Boys? Even his take on The Phantom of the Opera has fans.

[@dakotanelson8523]

None of those excuse the horrible ice puns and the Bat-nipples/credit card in Batman and Robin.

[@alechendrickson5526]

Dakota Nelson Great, another man-child who refuses to let go of the past. Also, Batman and Robin is what's called "So bad it's good."

[@JustinAKABiff]

***** No. Batman and Robin is what's called "So bad it's god awful."

[@01Dekker10]

As a ten year old, I loved the Batman and Robin movie as well as all the other ones untill 30 year old nerds told me I wasnt supposed to.

[@JustinAKABiff]

As a kid, I loved Space Jam. Then I became 30 years old, watched it again, and realized I was an idiot as a kid and I'd laugh at anything. It's called growing up. You realize the things from your past aren't what they used to be. And even as a kid I watched Batman & Robin and thought "Wow... this is really awful" - but then again, I was also watching the Animated Series at the time so I knew how Batman was supposed to be.

[@Utonian21]

13:58 Welp, see you guys in my nightmares...

[@VioletTheVampire]

is the reference from Batman and Robin?

[@Shadownight5150]

8:30 im surprised they didnt use the dumbo clip

[@TECH097]

Christ Nolan > Joel Shumacher at directing Batman. WHAT DO I WIN? :)

[@Editslovejazzy]

the wiz is the best movie ever

[@andrewschroy6368]

OH, GOD... Nipsey should stick with making up poetry while he's on game shows.

[@endplanets]

WHAT, you have a scene where there are killer inanimate objects and you run a gag with a killer drawer. The Cinema Snob had like 20 movies of killer things. In fact, he even has a killer trash can, which are somehow worse than this movie because they don't even have teeth. 7:36 thecinemasnob. com/ 2009/08/16/the- refrigerator. aspx

[@Zoeyforge]

3:19 made the review for me

[@Sandlot1992]

Disney's Oz? like Return to Oz?

[@AquaLantern]

Lumiere: GET DEH FUCK OUT! xD

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

@ Richard Canipe No, I mean Oz, The Great and Powerful.

[@clawsaures]

like if you wanted to see the cross-over with Paw

[@bigoldinosaur]

"Take whatever you want just please don't rape me!"

[@NoName-cu5jn]

Joel Schumachers made some pretty good movies like phone booth and falling down

[@IronPiedmont]

I love Falling Down.

[@tommycarr8111]

And *wears bulletproof vest* I actually like batman forever.

[@ChefMattReviews]

Yes but that doesn't excuse him from making *puts on earplugs, swat uniform, and prepares tranquilizer darts* the Bat Credit Card Nostalgia Critic: A BAT CREDIT CARD!?!?! YOU BASTARDS!! *Shoots tranquilizer at the Critic's leg* Nostalgia Critic: *Passes out*

[@godzillavkk]

ChefMatt Reviews Batman and Robin is called So Bad it's Good.

[@Wintermute01001]

Schumacher's not all bad. I liked "Falling Down."

[@zeyode]

Hold on... Is that the subway that Micheal Jackson used in Bad?

[@tommycarr8111]

Michael Jackson used a parking lot for bad didn't he?

[@zeyode]

Nope. Subway station. At least I'm pretty sure it was a subway station.... Didn't look like a parking lot to me... Although still, it's not unheard of for him to lend that place to other people for recording purposes, as seen with Wierd Al's parody of the same song "Fat".

[@GroundhogDayisAWESOME]

Those pink things in the subway...... like out of Stanley Kubrick movie. yikes

[@sneople]

Frozen TODAY

[@99annanic]

0:48 was that Jovenshire from SmoshGames??

[@CursedWithinChaos]

What is SmoshGames?I really don't know.

[@99annanic]

CursedWithinChaos If you know Smosh the youtube celebrities, they have a gaming channel with a guy named jovenshire

[@CursedWithinChaos]

Oh....I've heard of Smosh,Many Critics of youtube channels have said lots of shit on Smosh,so I didn't really check them out.

[@mia234567]

He looks nothing like Joven :/

[@171QA]

No it was Paw from Music Movies.

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

How do u think Disney's Oz will turn out, compared to this mess?

[@TheProWrestlingPodcast]

It sucked

[@Inuboykendo1000]

Someone kill me....... The Wiz.

[@MrJsFunCorner]

3:00

[@HTMashups]

Okay, but when the fuck are they reviewing The Wall? :c

[@thecinematicmind]

Big mistake.

[@5TailFox]

I don't care what anyone says, The Wiz is creepy as fuck. Don't believe me? Ladies & Gentlemen, I present to you....The Subway Scene.

[@emcvideoproductions500]

I love this movie I think, but Joel Schumacher wrote the screenplay, yuck.

[@TheVeteranROB]

TEE TEE TEE TEE TEE TEE TEE TEE

[@811brian]

Why is everyone saying "Frozen...Today"?

[@mariogamefreak1]

Because they made this review a year before frozen came out and people are typing it as a joke that this movie is today frozen.

[@crystalvoodoo91]

Uhm. No. It's a reference to subarban commando.

[@EternalDarkness12723]

It's a reference to Suburban Commando made to also be a joke about the movie "Frozen" (The Disney film named "Frozen", I'm sure that's not the only film to ever have the title "Frozen")

[@tommycarr8111]

It has nothing to do with the film frozen. It's a reference to Suburban Commando. Christopher Lloyd says I was frozen...today in suburban commando.

[@MadHatter42]

7:35 Hey, NC beat Big Hero 6 to it a by a good 2 years!

[@godzillavkk]

+Mad Hatter Didn't like BH6 either? Me too. It's even more whitewashed then Airbender.

[@MadHatter42]

+godzillavkk No, I thought it was just fine. It certainly didn't deserve to win an Oscar, but it was fun. I don't see what whitewashing has to do with it, frankly.

[@godzillavkk]

Mad Hatter The fact that it's based on an underground Marvel comics team of JAPANESE superheroes. No one on the team is really Japanese. Hiro is Japanese American, two members are white(one member in the comics is Ainu, the Native People of Japan) another is dark-skinned. And in the comics, Baymax is not a plush toy. He's a badass battle robot who can shape shift. And San Frantokyo raises too many political and social questions.

[@duranls1]

WTF? I just saw some theater youtube videos of the play and looks awesome, this was like opposite day nightmare!

[@doomgoy9462]

tmn

[@Fighterfreak247]

lol 12:14-12:30

[@zazaran5118]

What the fuck was at 12:30?

[@TigerWolfDemon]

If you took any stills from the easy on down the road song, you can use them to teach children about stranger danger. Because if Michael Jackson wasn't creepy enough they put him in a 70s hobo clown costume. Run. Just run.