Wicked, the movie...

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https://www.wickedmovie.com/home/

Anyone???  Anyone???

Saw the stage show several times and thought it was great.

[Red Five 40881]

Reviews are great, both critics and audience.

[1978horn 895]

Saw it with the family and enjoyed it.  My theater kids and wife loved it.   It has a 2:40 runtime and didn't fee like it at all.

[LonghornSean 4021]

Fully enjoyed it. Excellent film adaptation of a musical.

Ariana Grande is hot, and very good in this.

Was also worried about the runtime going in, but hardly noticed it.

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Wife and daughter saw it and liked it, and I expected my wife to nitpick it but she didn't.  She's a fan of the version with Kristen Chenowith or whatever and the woman from Glee or her mom or whatever, so I thought for sure she'd compare them..

[mdmost 43027]

You're thinking of Adele Dazeem. 

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45 minutes ago, mdmost said:

You're thinking of Adele Dazeem. 

And I'm confusing Idina Menzel with Lea Michele.  Not sure how that could happen.

[Gene Parmesan 4014]

2 hours ago, mdmost said:

You're thinking of Adele Dazeem. 

The wickedly talented one and only 

[Hermanator 7138]

6 hours ago, 1978horn said:

Saw it with the family and enjoyed it.  My theater kids and wife loved it.   It has a 2:40 runtime and didn't fee like it at all.

I checked my phone twice for the time. 

It was solid. The singing was excessive, and I felt it could have been much better executed by restricting the singing to major plot points instead of every minor plot change. That could have cut the run time by about 30 minutes and made it a more enjoyable watch. 

They were not shy with the political allegory, way more apparent that the original wizard of Oz. The animals representing migrants and minorities, the Asian Sorcery fascism enabler representing Trump, fox news, and Republicans, and the wizard representing Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Koch's, Thiel, etc. 

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[Pato del Muerto 52568]

Heard at work this past week that it’s part 1 of 2.  They don’t seem to be advertising it as such. 

[mdmost 43027]

1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

I checked my phone twice for the time. 

It was solid. The singing was excessive, and I felt it could have been much better executed by restricting the singing to major plot points instead of every minor plot change. That could have cut the run time by about 30 minutes and made it a more enjoyable watch. 

They were not shy with the political allegory, way more apparent that the original wizard of Oz. The animals representing migrants and minorities, the Asian Sorcery fascism enabler representing Trump, fox news, and Republicans, and the wizard representing Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Koch's, Thiel, etc. 

Buddy, the novel was originally written in 1995 and the musical was adapted from that novel in the late end of the 90s. I would say at the time it was released in 2003, it was more about the after effects of 9/11 and the buildup to the Iraq War. 

Spoiler

But sure, the themes are pretty universal about demagoguery and people needing an enemy. 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by mdmost