150 Word Review: 'Wicked: For Good' (2025)
For ugh
For a musical to work on screen or stage, it needs at least one great song, preferably more. This is true for Wicked: the best bangers are in the first movie, which means Wicked: For Good never really takes off. (The truth is, this was always the Broadway show’s flaw. Act one is better.) It also falters because there’s almost no dancing. Horrendible!
Director Jon Chu’s joyless, plot-heavy follow-up is visually dreary; at times, it looks like the camera is wearing sunglasses. Wicked: For Good swaps Wicked: Part One’s brief flashes of soul, weirdness (and dancing!) for lukewarm political machinations. The introduction of Dorothy and the deconstruction of the beloved Oz fable are, in a word, boring.
The movie only soars when Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande share scenes as opposing, golden-voiced witches. They’re magnetic. I’d rejoicify if this sequel were just a six-minute reprise of them belting “Defying Gravity.”
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Put myself through the (torturously late) effort of watching Part One for holiday viewing & hated every second. Don’t feel ready to do it again for Part Two. Thanks for enduring for us!