Tin Man Has Shiny Visuals, Rusty Villains

December 3rd, 2007 at 08:45am Richard Pulfer

Can dazzling production value and great casting save Sci-Fi’s long-awaited Tin Man? Zooey Deschanel plays “DG” in this update of the L. Frank Baum classic. Her companions include the literally brainless Glitch (Alan Cumming), the tortured psychic Raw (Raoul Trujillo) and the hard-boiled Tin Man (Neal McDonough) – all searching for a decadent wizard (Richard Dreyfuss) to thwart the evil Azkadellia (Kathleen Robertson). Chameleon actor Cumming makes a great scarecrow, and McDonough brings tough-guy sensibilities to the title role. Unfortunately, Azkadellia and most of her cronies look like Flash Gordon rejects – drab, droll, and uninspired. Still, “Tin Man” is such a twist on the fantasy classic, we never know down the Yellow Brick Road. The entire Tin Man mini-series airs back to back Sunday on Sci-Fi starting at 4:00 PM.

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