Chu’s Wicked (2024) is a big swing and a miss, capturing the content of the stage musical but failing to hit on all of the beats that make it so great. Wicked follows The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, before Dorothy ever landed in Oz. In the stage musical, when Nessarose is getting manhandled, Elphaba pushes her chair away. There’s nothing wrong with long movies in general, but there is something very wrong with long movies that are only long because they are paced horribly. Do we have to revive Gene Kelly to get another great movie musical?

Source: Daily Sun November 25, 2024 23:05 UTC