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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5240644, member: 833"] [B]Wicked [/B]is on Peacock. I was not expecting much out of this, but it is decent. The music is ok, and it is too long, but Jon Chu does an amazing job as Director. The movie is visually impressive, but at the same time the small scenes are very well done and many of the characters are interesting and have depth. The cast was really strong. I have not seen Jonathan Bailey before, and he was excellent. I figured Cynthia Erivo would be excellent too, but I was honestly shocked by how good Ariana Grande is in the movie, because I only knew her from when my kids would watch the Nickelodeon shows of the early 2010's, and I thought Grande was a lousy actress in those shows, and she hadn't really done much since. I expected her to suck, and if she sucked then this movie would have sucked. Grande was able to show development and depth and complexity for Glinda, which I thought was way beyond Grande's acting ability. I don't know if Chu coaxed a genius performance out of Grande, or she actually learned how to act at some point, or both. They passed over some serious actresses (Amanda Seyfried was one) for Grande, and it took serious onions by Chu to pick Grande. Like all the Oz universe movies, it is very political, and the politics are really confusing. The themes of propaganda and government dishonesty weave through all the Oz universe movies, which makes it hard to figure out what is really happening and what is someone's perception of what is happening (I think this is most confusing with The Wiz). The "Good" and "Wicked" witches seem to be matters of opinion, and it appears that the Scarecrow and Tin Man were in this movie as students at the college, in human form, maybe? [/QUOTE]

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