After a year, Jon M. Chu's Wicked: For Good — the second part of his Ariana Grande-Butera and Cynthia Erivo-led adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical — is here, and it closes out the epic big-screen take on the source material.

While it's not all bad, Wicked: For Good is certainly not, well, good. It never soars to the heights of defying gravity — or, “defining gravity,” as the emcee said during his introduction before the press screening — and it fails to justify its existence.

Was a six-hour Wicked adaptation ever needed? Watching both parts back-to-back may change that opinion, but as standalone movies, Wicked: For Good feels especially bloated.

Wicked: For Good review — did we need a second movie?

Part of the problem is Wicked's unavoidable tie to The Wizard of Oz. The or

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