Fantastic Return to Oz

Fantastic Return to Oz (Russian: Урфин Джюс возвращается, romanized: Urfin Dzhyus vozvrashchaetsya, transl. Urfin Jus is back) is a 2019 Russian animated film that serves as a sequel to Fantastic Journey to Oz and is based on the novel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov.

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Fantastic Return to Oz
Directed by	Fyodor Dmitriev
Written by	Aleksandr Boyarsky
Based on	Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers by Alexander Volkov
Produced by	Aleksandr Boyarsky Sergey Selyanov
Starring	Konstantin Khabensky Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya Alexander Bykovsky Dmitri Dyuzhev Andrey Levin Yulia Rudina Maxim Sergeev
Cinematography	Viktor Loschilov
Edited by	Sergei Glezin
Music by	Mikhail Chertishchev
Production companies	Melnitsa Animation Studio CTB Film Company
Distributed by	Nashe Kino
Release date	24 October 2019 (2019-10-24)
Running time	74 minutes^[1]
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	₽300 million^[2]
Box office	$1.5 million^[3]

The film was released in Russia on 24 October 2019.

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After Urfin wakes up from a dream where he was crowned as the king of the Emerald City, he, the bear, and the wooden puppet clown, come up with a plan to grab Gingema's book like before. Meanwhile, at the Emerald City, the citizens of the city are presented a moving robot statue of Ellie,^[a] while the bear and wooden puppet disguised as an old lady holding a baby infiltrate the robot to steal the book.

While Urfin Jus presents the book to the carraci, a boy named Tim, who is Ellie's boyfriend, intervenes by teleporting, with the silver slippers in hands, prompting Urfin to try to snatch them out of the boy's hands, only for the book to cast out Urfin, the bear, and the puppet, while the boy wears the slippers.

Meanwhile, at the ogre's house, Toto and Ellie appear at his house. The ogre later finds the crow, and reveals that the crow will tell everyone that they his prisoner. Meanwhile, at the Ellie robot, while the Scarecrow, the woodman, and the lion find the book gone, the wooden general tells them that Ruf Bilan is abducted, while the crow tells Ellie is abducted by the ogre. The Scarecrow believes that Urfin, the ogre, and Ruf Bilian are in trouble and are working together.

Meanwhile, while Tim tries to get the slippers to work, the wooden puppet tricks Tim into giving the slippers to an "slipper repair shop", when she takes them to Urfin and the bear, while Tim tries to find them. The book takes Tim to a swamp, and then asks the book to go home, when the book suddenly disappears into the swamp. Urfin jumps into the swamp, finding himself in a dark world with strange moving branches that look like hands. One of the hands puts a magical pair of pink glasses that enables him to see a colorful, more magical version of the world. He spots a palace, and enters the palace.

Meanwhile, the carraci abducts Tim, and imprison him in a basket and take him to Ellie under the crows order. Meanwhile, Urfin arrives at the palace, where he meets the book's true form, a princess. The princess tricks Urfin into thinking he is the master, and everyone has only command to it. Meanwhile, the wooden puppet and the bear sink into the dirt, where they find themselves in the palace, while Tim escapes from the basket being carried by the carraci. Meanwhile, the bear and the wooden puppet find Urfin in the palace, while the clown finds the world's true form. As Urfin is about to sip a drink that the princess names the "Magical Ale", the puppet stops Urfin from drinking the ale, and Urfin takes off his glasses, seeing the dark world. As he fights off the branches and the princess, she offers Urfin a deal that he will have an undefeatable army.

As Tim flees, he finds two saber toothed tigers. His phone's app, depicting a blue rabbit, tells the saber toothed tigers that the ogre has abducted Ellie, and the two help Tim to find her. Meanwhile, the wooden soldiers give war at the ogre's house. The ogre starts to dance over the incoming projectiles, ending with him throwing a bucket into the general's head, while one of the soldiers struggle to get it out of its head, making the general stumble back and inadvertently activating one of the catapults, breaking down the door. The Scarecrow, the Woodman, and the lion reconcile with Ellie, while the carraci returns with the basket, only to find Tim gone.

The team take hot air balloons to find Tim, while Tim then flees. He meet a talking squirrel, in who she takes Tim to Queen Ramina, a queen mouse. Tim asks the mouse to return home, and she gives him an enchanted whistle that can take him home after three blows on the whistle, but Tim realizes that he can't leave without Ellie. Feeling sad for it, Urfin's monster army confronts him and the carraci. Urfin corrupts one of the monsters, and start to give chase on them. Ellie and her team retreat, but the balloon gets stuck on a tree branch, leaving Tim to free the balloon from the branch, but he gets touched by one of the beasts tails, teleporting him into the dark world.

As one of the plants put on the pink glasses on Tim, he finds Ramina telling Tim that Ellie is in danger. Tim takes off the glasses, and escapes from the world, finding him back from Oz.

Ruf Bilan was revealed that he stolen the book, and is planning open the Emerald Dam floodgates and the city's underwater at the Emerald City. Meanwhile, Tim reconciles with Ellie, while the crow tells them that Urfin is planning to flood the city. Tim enters the robot, and attacks Urfin's army. However, the robot's foot gets stuck on a rock, making the robot collapse, prompting Tim to flee to the floodgate control panel, deactivating the flood, and breaking the lever, but is pursued by one of the monsters. His phone suddenly rings, and Urfin takes a look at it, while Tim tries to escape from the monsters while Urfin is distracted. Tim steals the slippers as they glow, enabling him to defeat the army. Ellie reconciles with Tim, and goes to the Emerald City to return them both home.

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