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joevitus said: "TheatreFan4 said: "They should have just made this whole thing a 3.5 hour movie. For Good felt like letting air out of the balloon. A movie people went to see out of obligation instead of interest. Everyone knows Act 2 isnt as good as Act 1, but this time you got to walk away for a year before seeing to confirm that yes... Act 2 is still Mid and you made it longer and added, essentially, nothing to goings on. Same thing they did in the first movie, but again.

WldKingdomHM said: "I wonder what really happened to the movie ? Did they need to rush it ? Why did they spilt it in two because of the producers ? Did they filmed the second half first?It seems like it was done by two different directors

Props to Ariana thou. Clearly she deserved the nom (I don’t get the hype over Teyana)"


I think to do a Part Two film successfully, they needed to overhaul Act Two and risk alienating the Wicked fans.

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Watching it again, it feels so absolutely weak.

There’s almost a tv episode of that ABC fan fictiony fairy tale show “Once Upon a Time” feel to the thing.

It doesn’t spring to life the way the first film did.

It brought forward the structural issues of the stage show in Act Two WAY stronger. They aren’t nearly as glaring when you watch the broadway show cause it moves so fast.

And I really think the new songs are part of what killed it

For how critical this forum is I’m blown away how many people liked this.

Jon M Chu seemed out of his depth AND the Act Two plot flaws were glaring.

That first film I cared about moments in Wicked that have never moved me all that much.

This one? I was bored 

It didn’t even try to find more.

It didn’t grow Elphaba and Glinda. It didn’t grow Elphaba and Fiyero.

What a dead weight disappointment. Wow.<

It should be a movie and be like-

Hold Me Bat Boy

Christian Charity

A Home for You

Show You a Thing or Two

Comfort and Joy

and then keep Act Two basically the same.


Because they keep Bat Boy captive for over an hour of this show, you also feel captive waiting for them to just go to the damn revival.

Or there should be a scene in Act One where Shelley sneaks Edgar out. This is a punchy show. It shouldn’t be a wait around

This was fun!

Can’t decide if the show would be better as one act or if Act One is just a little too long and stagey? 
 

But you feel a full momentum shift in the active Act Two. Also Act Two the bizarreness of the show kicks into high gear which is a strength but it makes me wonder if the bizarreness would be a bug or a feature if this was on broadway.

Also tonally, everyone laughed at the very shocking end. I wondered, should I be more devastated? W

Auggie27 said: "I believe Deamboy3 nailed the problem in remounting a commercial production: the origin story of the material (if not the titular character) has a negative retro feel, tabloids a quaint part of pop culture in a pre-internet world. That wouldn't matter if the show had a more specific prism on a by-gone era, i.e., if this self-presented as the America of the early 80s. But treating it as a timeless tale of the outsider being bullied/worsehits a few walls with the ac