Wicked: For Good — 1/5
Awful. What is this dark, hopeless shit? Why is Glinda-With-The-Big-Lips a bad guy? Why does Anorexaba become a bad guy? Why does her sister seem genuinely evil? Why are love interests turned into dark, tormented, vengeful versions of the Scarecrow and Tin Man? Seeing this nightmare play out, you see even more clearly the cash intentions of splitting this into two movies: you retain the first as a light, fluffy, fun reimagining, built for infinite rewatches, and you get to toss its foul ending into a dungeon of unwatchability that need never be mentioned again, while also generating +$500M of additional revenue shat out behind the wagon trail of its lead-in. It is awful. It is the apotheosis of the fan fiction need to connect everything, a corporate slop bowl where nothing can be new, only a combination of previously existing ingredients, rearranged. It cannot be redeemed, so it is separated. It becomes not satire, not parody, but a worse thing—a piece of work that makes the fucking 'Wizard of Oz,' an eternal classic, actively worse. It does not build on top, it builds a tunnel underneath from which sinkholes can collapse whole worlds. This movie is genocidal.
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