Wicked
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Review by Foggy

Wicked 2024

★★★★

Watched 24 Nov 2024

Theatre kids rejoice, Wicked has (at least half of) a good film adaptation. After all these years, a much skepticism, Jon M. Chu has transferred his vibrant musical fantasy talents to a genuine fantasy musical, the In The Heights filmmaker brings his eye for old school musical composition to the big scope of the Oz world and delivers a film that gleefully balances between theatrical artifice and massive cinema spectacle.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande brings that same odd chemistry they’ve shared during their press tour here, working out pretty successfully as the witches who start off as enemies to uneven friends to slip back into polarising counterparts. Grande herself really shines, playing a seemingly one-note character trapped to be given simple comic relief, but winds up carrying the film through its tonal shifts really effortlessly.

It can’t quite escape it’s reality of being over-stuffed as many Part One’s are, with plot points continuing to carry into the later stages of the film, setting off warning lights for a cliffhanger conclusion. Granted the note Wicked closes on is a perfect arc for its serialised entry. At the end of the day, Wicked is yet to be seen if it delivers on the conclusion of this endeavour, but currently I’m really holding space for the next part where as I originally wasn’t hyped for this one, and if that’s not a net positive, I don’t know what is.

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