Those who loved last year’s Wicked —the first part of Jon M. Chu’s epic two-part Oztravaganza adapted from the megahit Broadway show —should know that Wicked: For Good is more of the same. The same goes for anyone who hated it. You’ll get more of the same curiously garish-yet-washed-out color scheme, more of the same dishwater-hued songs, more of the same Big Life Lessons tumbling out so rapidly and thoughtlessly that they end up merging into a muddy nonsensical blur. Wicked was such a huge hit that the audience for Wicked: For Good is already cemented in place; this movie needs to be sold to no one. But those with the freedom to pass on it altogether are truly the lucky ones. Life is too short for leaden fanfiction liked Wicked: For Good, an extravagant picture that’s not

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