Wicked: For Good

Really doesn't know what to do with itself and so that means allot of it is one the shoulder of Cynthia's performance(which is great)

It doesn't know if it wants to tackle the political climate hanging around oz or when to shift focus at all. It doesn't know how to balance everything it wants to do and so it doesn't do almost anything right.
Characters are bland and shift on a dime which leads to a bigger issue itself, oz and its people.
We never get to see the people of oz and their perspective on the whole story, they just shift opinion when the plot demands them to.

Why do all of these people hate animals and then on a whim just likes them again in the end?
The movie isn't interested in exploring the political topics but it still includes and presents them like im suppose to care. The main characters are somewhat an extension of that problem.
Im gonna call that ginger fuck spongebob since he played him in the musical.
Anyway, spongebob appears a little in the beginning before he dips out nearly the entire movie before appearing a little bit near the end.

His conflict is so over the top and ridiculous, did he forget nessa basically made a racist law because he didn't wanna be with her?
I don't think im supposed to like nessa but it does feel like the writers didn't know what to do with her before smacking a house onto her.
Which kinda sucks because the performance was good.

Speaking of performances, half the cast is good and half the cast kinda sucks.
I love michelle in other movies but she doesn't know what she's doing and just does the most basic line delivery of all time. Ariana grande isn't terrible per say but after she cries in the exact same way for the 11th time im gonna see some cracks.
Cynthia is great of course, she holds the movie together somewhat even when the writing of her character faces the same issues allot of the other ones have.
Jonathan Bailey and Jeff goldblum were fine but they weren't that impactfull with their performances and their characters felt kinda lame.

The costume design, set design and makeup are all fantastic.
This world is inherently magically even if the droopy and unsaturated the cinematography is.
John M.chu for a lack of a better term also feels like he doesn't know what he actually is doing.
Like the first film allot of the lighting feels off. Or a scene is to much light or a scene feels like its afraid of using heavy lighting.
Also his direction is clearly very weak in this, more so then part one.

Also having this be set inbetween the story of the wizard of Oz is a neat idea but it leaves character like the cowardly lion in the scenes he's in before he joins Dorothy, feel so weird.
Like is this really the reason you dislike the witch?

The score and music is good but it does lean into that repetitive nature allot of musicals have where the music is catchy and good but there is no variety in the songs so they blend in even if they are good.
I think its fun to finally watch a musical in theaters but we can do better then this.

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I haven't seen the show or read the book, so these are movie-watcher-only opinions. 🙂

I rewatched the first last night, and I just really think it would have been stronger as one film. This one felt like it had a lot of filler that really didn't move the story forward. I went to the bathroom instead of holding it because I felt confident I wouldn't miss anything, and the same song was still in progress when I got back. (I lost my winter hat during this side quest, and I am upset about that part.)

I was really excited to see how Wizard of Oz would be integrated into the story, and I didn't really love how it was done. Dorothy is already heading down the yellow brick road when the Scarecrow becomes the Scarecrow; how does he get to his post before she gets there?!

Also Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh, who I generally like a lot, did not work for me here.

I like most of the songs, Ariana, and Cynthia.

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