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Wicked, or to give it its proper name: Zero Accountability & Self Validation: The Movie, was a massive smash last year. If you were really unlucky, you might have been forced to watch it. Many millions of cats were left un-fed for the evening as movie theaters filled up across the globe.
The Universal Pictures movie was praised by critics, who gave it a healthy 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and 73/100 on Metacritic.
So the sequel was expected to be more of the same. Well… bad news for the ladies and the homosexualists. It seems like the second time isn’t a charm.
With 90 reviews counted, Wicked: For Good sits at just 74% in Rotten Tomatoes and 61/100 on Metacritic. So what do reviewers have to say about it?
“The things that missed the mark the first time, well, they still do. The things that worked in “Wicked”? They still do, but only a clock-tick better.”
Kate Erbland, Indiewire
“Wicked: For Good sticks the landing as best as it can. When Erivo and Grande are finally together, it does leave “a handprint on your heart” even if everything leading up to it is just drawing that out.”
Kristen Lopez, The Film Maven
“For Good has little sense of movement, literally or emotionally – no profound revelations, no wonder or spectacle. All that’s to be done now is for each character to process, via standardised ballad, what they’ve learned.”
Clarisse Loughrey, Independent
“…the impact is lost when every song seems to be straining to be a showstopper.”
Sandra Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald
“What makes it so frustrating is that director Jon M Chu is an established musicals master; his In the Heights is a modern classic of the form. But the corporate stretch-it-out-and-wring-it-dry approach here has been deadening.”
Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph
“Yet the sensation of a work that, in translation from one medium to another, no longer defies gravity but sort of roughly plummets back down to terra firma can’t easily be shaken off.”
David Fear, Rolling Stone
“There hasn’t been a pre-planned ‘Part Two’ this disappointing since the second half of Andy Muschietti’s ‘It.’ At least nobody projectile vomits on Jeff Goldblum to the tune of ‘Angel of the Morning.’”
William Bibbiani, The Wrap
Oh dear. It appears the little pats on the head and constant false praise no longer work. HR departments worldwide must be losing their grip.
Wicked: For Good arrives in theaters at some point.
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