US EditionWicked: For Good Leaves Critics Less Spellbound than the First Film
- For Good is in cinemas from 21 November and concludes Jon M. Chu's two-part adaptation, but review finds the sequel fails to recapture the original's wonder while pleasing Wicked's devotees.
- With 10 Academy Award nominations and more than $750m in the bank, director Jon M. Chu chose to expand the stage show across two films, creating a final act to complete the adaptation.
- Despite cool visual treats, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande deliver commanding performances as Elphaba and Glinda, while Nathan Crowley, production designer, brings Oz vividly to life; Bowen Yang's reduced screen time undercuts some moments.
- Industry observers predict the sequel will meet audience appetite, with Wicked: For Good expected to match or exceed Wicked: Part One's box-office success, while Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo remain awards-season contenders.
- Critics point to structural weaknesses as the First Act delivers showstoppers while the Second Act lacks memorable songs, and the film struggles narratively when intersecting with The Wizard of Oz, raising questions about expanding the 150-minute stage show into a 300-minute film franchise.
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Is Wicked: For Good defying expectations?
“Even the staunchest defenders of ‘Wicked’, the stage musical about the tragic origins of The Wizard of Oz’s Witch of the West, would have to concede that it peaks just before the interval,” said The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin.So splitting the screen adaptation in two meant that the second instalment, the newly released “Wicked: For Good”, was always “going to be a bit stingy”. The result “isn’t quite the worst-case scenario some of us were dread…
Wicked: For Good Is a Whole Movie's Worth of Second-Act Problems
Wicked: For Good purports to ask questions about the cherished stories we think we know, and what might have been left out based on a particular point of view. For example, consider that the story of The Wizard Of Oz, a dreamlike adventure of a young girl, her strange new friends, and the terrible menace she must defeat along the way, might look different if we were aware of a massive propaganda campaign designed to sully the good name of the so…
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