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Anonymous wrote:I thought the movie was good, but the original musical blew me away and the movie didn’t measure up.

+1 I kept waiting for this Wow moment, but never got it. I saw the Wicked musical with the original cast and the singing blew me away!!! This? Not so much. A bit disappointed.

Not even the final scene? I don’t know how it compared to the original, but that was an objectively amazing cinematic score.

I’ll wait til the second one comes out.

I felt the way that they broke most of the songs into snippets with dialogue in between really slowed the momentum and wow-factor of the music. Obviously they were trying to make two long movies out of a single 2.5hour musical but it made it feel flat to me. Defying gravity really didn’t have the same effect as it does as the first act finale in the musical because it was so broken up. Strangely it also seemed like they spent less time on the actual storylines of Elphaba’s learning at Shiz and the plight of the animals (Dr. Dillamonde deserved more) than I recall in the musical but I’m seeing it next week with my kids again so I may be misremembering.
And the flat notes especially in the Wizard & I were really disappointing.
It really went big on style and show and fell a bit flat (sometimes, unfortunately, literally).

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Is the purpose of Elphaba's dance in the club, when she sets down the hat, to just demonstrate that she's different and not afraid to show it? Or is it meant to be like a duel challenging Galinda?

It later shows the lineage connection to the Wizard when he does the same dance. DNA doesn’t lie.

Wait - is the wizard her actual bio father?

So… have you seen the Star Wars trilogy…

!!

Anonymous wrote:I thought the movie was good, but the original musical blew me away and the movie didn’t measure up.

+1 I kept waiting for this Wow moment, but never got it. I saw the Wicked musical with the original cast and the singing blew me away!!! This? Not so much. A bit disappointed.

I thought the movie was good, but the original musical blew me away and the movie didn’t measure up.

NP. Saw it today. I really disliked the book, and found the actor press annoying, but that movie was amazing and I will see it again. Spectacular.

Saw it this evening with my family, who are all musical theater fans and performers (dh and me, 3 kids tweens & teen). We enjoyed it but it wasn’t “wow!” amazing. Was surprised that both leads were flat on a few songs, seems like something they would’ve been more careful about. Also, they’re all a decade or so too old for their parts.

The most annoying thing was the group of tween girls behind us who kept talking, laughing, singing, stomping their feet and making inappropriate noises. Thankfully the server at the Alamo shushed them after I let him know but I was really surprised their parents did nothing to silence them.

Anonymous wrote:Saw it today. Had never seen the stage musical but I was not impressed with the music, which I assume was all from the stage show. Just meh. The composer is no Sondheim. Hated the overacting of the extras in crowd scenes, maybe they were told to overdo it.

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Saw it today. Had never seen the stage musical but I was not impressed with the music, which I assume was all from the stage show. Just meh. The composer is no Sondheim. Hated the overacting of the extras in crowd scenes, maybe they were told to overdo it.

Anonymous wrote:Since it's not a "theater" experience (we are going to see it in NYC) and is just a movie theater experience with the finest of my hometown mouthbreathers, then I'm going to wait for both to be released, watch them over a weekend with my teens. We can pause and our home theater is far more comfortable.

Cringe.

Anonymous wrote:I loved it. I've seen the musical but I went into the movie blind without seeing any of the promo.

The way I GASPED at the cameos in "One Short Day"! Amazing!

It was a wonderful nod to the OG Broadway cast!

I loved it. I've seen the musical but I went into the movie blind without seeing any of the promo.

The way I GASPED at the cameos in "One Short Day"! Amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:I may watch it eventually but the marketing around it has been so annoying and aggressive I think it all needs to die down before I can consider watching it

The marketing was so bad that I thought the movie would be awful and I didn't even really want to see it.

But we went with some friends yesterday and it is SO GOOD. I didn't even notice how long it was.

+100

This is a weird situation where they should stop marketing. It’s terrible and overwrought and self indulgent. Let the movie speak for itself.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the purpose of Elphaba's dance in the club, when she sets down the hat, to just demonstrate that she's different and not afraid to show it? Or is it meant to be like a duel challenging Galinda?

It later shows the lineage connection to the Wizard when he does the same dance. DNA doesn’t lie.

Wait - is the wizard her actual bio father?

So… have you seen the Star Wars trilogy…