
2024
While Wicked is majestic, mellifluous and magnanimous in nature and by design, it loses its progenitor’s old sage-like essence and traded it with inane high school cliquey cafeteria-crap derived from Mean Girls and from previously tested rom-com tropes. The last half an hour tries to flip the “Chosen One” device to emphasize somewhat of a distinctive rise of a hateful character we thought we knew that was put to the screen 85 years ago, but by then it was already…