Very little has changed in the two years since I wrote a piece here at ScreenCrush that pleaded with the Hollywood studios to release more family films. Prior to last weekend, when we saw Wicked: For Good , it had been months since there had been something we really wanted to watch on the big screen. In fact, the last film we went to see in the theater was the sing-along version of Netflix’s Kpop Demon Hunters . You know things are grim in multiplexes for families when you go to see something you already have access to at home (and have already seen there many, many times).
As a movie-loving dad, I’m lucky if there’s one kid-friendly film in the theater at any given time. Now, mercifully, there are two: Wicked and Zootopia 2 , the sequel to Disney’s hugely popula

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