This week we review and discuss Wicked: For Good, a fantasy musical movie directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jeff Goldblum, about the relationship between Elphaba and Glinda as they embrace their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
We talk about whether the movie brought the character arcs set up in the first part to a satisfying conclusion, how the lack of worldbuilding and detail in various character motivations we criticised in the first part drag the second part down in predictable ways, whether Wicked does its themes of authoritarianism, terrorism and people being judged by their appearance justice, how Wicked fits in with The Wizard of Oz and how the movie on the one hand wants to rewrite the original story while also spending too much time on showing the origins of things viewers recognise from The Wizard of Oz, and much more.
Check out the review of Wicked Part One here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1enKcwkYe9XIMhergXmtac
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https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast
0:00 Intro
0:20 Movie Recommendations (Rapture-Palooza, The Running Man)
05:02 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
11:52 Spoiler Discussion
59:24 Conclusion & Ratings
