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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
a movie with an interesting concept but ultimately bloated execution. i can tell that it was probably a very good book but didn’t translate well. if anything they should have cut content more aggressively to simplify.
once i understood the vibe was more campy and ridiculous i enjoyed it more, but overall it suffers from the over-seriousness editing of large budget movies today (felt this way about wicked too).
it gets very close to exploring some very interesting questions like…
i have many thoughts, most about the lack of stakes/context established for pretty much any character’s motivations. that being said, erivo’s elphaba is phenomenal and probably the best interpretation of the character i’ve seen.
it definitely should have been made into a single movie even if it was 3-3.5 hours. the problem is they treat every single moment like it’s important and dramatic where with the magic of a stage show is you can flow from thing to thing extremely…