As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
Rated 1.5 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
I don't like to drag on people's creative expressions, but since this must have been created by a collection of bricks in a trenchcoat I think I can continue. Truly torrentially bad. I don't know that I can pinpoint the cacophony of failures, music being but the loudest one. I love musicals, they're energetic, they're fun, the music is often catchy; it's filled with playful sets and dancing and charm. This had playful sets. That's it. Wonderful craftspeople worked on the sets and costumes and devices that dot Oz. Unfortunately, lethargy secretes from one scene to the next, and the music, bless its heart, is such a discombobulated mess that it feels like each verse was fed through a wood-chipper, and the chips then given to last year's Chatgpt 2.0 to reconstitute into songs, whereafter finally, they were scribbled by Pre-K onto napkins and handed to studio execs for final edits before being recorded. If that wasn't enough, the dialogue undergoes a similar process, but I think words were printed, pinned to a dartboard, and assembled sequentially in the order they were hit. Tensions, storytelling, reconciliations, all happen, sequentially, but with no build-up and without earning each beat. Maybe if the songs had dialogue that helped drive the narrative instead of virtue signalling, just maybe it could have glided into the annals of a solid follow-up. Finally, there was not a single banger. How can this be? Just a single banger? Surely by mere probability there should have been a banger? There is an attempt of a movie here, the cast and vision proved they could do it in part one, so I simply don't understand what happened in part two.
Good grief. And I like musicals. It deserves one star, honestly, but the vocal performances and costuming were fantastic. I just can’t with the endless attempts to tie it in with the Wizard of Oz. Just stop, okay? You’re making a movie based on a musical that’s based loosely on a terrible book that’s based on a fantastic movie that’s based on an aggressively average book series. You’re far too many steps removed from the original book series to even attempt to make some clever reference. The end product looks both overbaked and underbaked at the same time.
