Your appreciation for Wicked: For Good (now streaming on Peacock, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) may hinge on how well you tolerate significant retconning of the greatest musical fantasy film of all time. I mean, no big deal, it’s just 1939 Technicolor classic-among-classics The Wizard of Oz being indelicately blasphemed, you know. Old-man-shouting-at-cloud takes aside, the second part of the saga that began a year ago with Wicked was, predictably, another sizable box office smash, although not as big (the first film topped $750 million worldwide, this one’s not likely to get too far past half-a-billion), likely because its rewatchability took a hit. The films follow the ridiculously successful Broadway musical’s two-act structure – but not its run time, with the stage version running two hours and 45 minutes, and the films coming in three minutes shy of
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