‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: A Wicked Good Time Despite some Notable Flaws
Strong singing performances by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande elevate the sequel, despite criticisms of pacing, plot holes, and weaker new songs in the continuation of the Wicked story.
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"Wicked: For Good" Snags $31M Previews
Universal Pictures’ “Wicked: For Good” is now in cinemas and already shattering records. The title’s Thursday night preview haul hit an astonishing $30.8 million, the tenth biggest domestic box office preview gross of all time – behind only the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy, multiple Marvel titles, and the final “Harry Potter”. It’s easily the biggest preview number of the year and has revised estimates for the film’s domestic opening weekend upwar…
Keith’s Movie Korner: 'Wicked: For Good' melts under yellow-bricked boredom
Photo via universalpictures.com With expectations somewhere over the rainbow, this sequel fails to live up to them and proves that splitting this story into two was a fatal mistake. After last years well-earned success, “Wicked: For Good” is the second part of the Broadway adaptation that gets caught juggling too many themes, dropping them all to splatter on the colorful path to despondency. The musical numbers don’t quite land, the use of CGI i…
'Wicked: For Good' Review: It isn't easy being green
A year and a few hundred million dollars later, John M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, itself an adaptation of the Gregory Maguire novel of the same name, which in turn was a revisionist reinterpretation of characters from The Wizard of Oz (both L. Frank Baum’s children’s fable and the 1939 movie), has come to its curtain call. Somehow, it’s even more culturally omnipresent than it was last time around — brand collabs, tie-in m…
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