Many of us assumed a Wicked movie was never going to actually happen. There had been talk of turning the beloved Broadway musical about the Wicked Witch of the West into a movie at least as far back as 2010. Even after the project was formally announced in 2016, it’s taken nearly a decade for the film to actually hit theaters.
Almost miraculously, all that time has paid off. Despite the delays, despite the questionable choice to split the story into two parts (yes, this movie is technically Part One),Wicked is largely a triumph, a spectacle designed to appeal to longtime fans of the show and draw in new ones for huge box-office numbers.