The Reel Rejects - WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:36 just like and subscribe that would mean a lot let's go back to the video all right guys we watched wicked for good wicked two that was an experience uh erin i'll go to you first man what's the first thing that pops to mind what's your first emotion that pops to mind here first emotion um that's that's that's tough uh i i'll say i liked it um i was entertained i think entertained is not an emotion but um i guess catharsis with a slight feeling of underwhelmed but but still entertain nonetheless uh i think that uh this one had a big task of you know honoring the emotional journeys of what they established in the first movie but also honoring things established with what we know wizard of oz to be and i feel like because

Starting point is 00:02:39 this is an adaptation that wants to be faithful or i don't know how faithful it is i imagine it's pretty faithful as far as the songs go but want to do that story justice i feel like some of the other elements that were honored within this story were sort of undercut because it was trying to do stuff that we knew in wizard of oz like for example the sister dying um i felt like that could have been a bigger moment but because we have to do this classic thing that we know is associated with wizard of oz we don't have time to let those things breathe and just the journey of how certain things move. I think that it didn't pull me

Starting point is 00:03:23 to the same emotional degree that the first one did, but I was still aware that this was something that was emotional and felt the connection in the performance is on the screen. So overall, I'll say, I liked it. I was in love with it like it was the first one, but I did like it a lot. Yeah, I would kind of echo that sentiment.

Starting point is 00:03:43 It's like the first movie benefit, or the first half benefits from, being more breathable and having more of like a focused coming of age and you know establishment of a sort of found family and there's so much hope and potential and i feel like just i don't know that walk of life and that journey for especially glinda and alpha buzz just is it's more tangible and because it's more of the focus because we have to set up all of the kind of wonder of the world and all of the status quo before we start tearing them down and then also recontextualizing stuff from the original

Starting point is 00:04:18 movie. Yeah, this one just felt more packed with plot elements. It's like they're both kind of jam-packed and sweeping and big and epic in ways. But this one felt like it was trying to squeeze. I think one of you said it during the reaction. It's like the first one, Aaron, I think you said, like they added stuff and they

Starting point is 00:04:36 expanded stuff. Now you can't feel that. And in this one, yeah, it certainly felt like they were trying to squeeze everything. Yeah. Because even this stuff with the 10 men felt like a little rushed and kind of unsatisfying. I was like, oh, okay, we did this

Starting point is 00:04:52 and oh, it's over. And then we see him later in the movie. We're like, oh, okay. I don't know. It was very fun. There's a lot of, like, I was appreciating stuff constantly. Oh, yeah. But yeah, not as much of a coherent movie and it kept me from maybe feeling some of the resolution

Starting point is 00:05:07 emotions as deeply as you might want. And I feel like in the first half I did towards the end of especially the kind of emotional crescendos of like oh, define gravity and all sorts of stuff. Like I feel like

Starting point is 00:05:19 I maybe got a little bit more of the emotional potency the first half around. But there's lots to appreciate here though. It just hit me that Thomas Godolk

Starting point is 00:05:30 in his Bach from Edvie. I was like, why do I know this guy? I was like, yeah, of course. But how did you feel, sir? It was okay.

Starting point is 00:05:42 Yeah. I was I was very, very entertained by it. I think even when it's, like, the movie hovers is being like really good, really effective, a lot of really cool cinematic choices. The soundtrack is, of course, amazing. The scene is, of course, incredible.

Starting point is 00:06:00 All the elements of technical precision, I even think the way how some of the cinematography was done was even sharper than before. Oftentimes, when you're watching videos on YouTube, especially about like, what do all movies look flat and the same? Wicked is often thrown in there as one of those, films where like they get a bolstrous production design with a lot of colors and everyone on set

Starting point is 00:06:21 is going to town on bringing a world to life and then for some reason when they do lighting it just doesn't really hit and I think they took that to heart here and made improvements on it in post and I like that this one wanted it to feel a little bit more intimate and focus on like a lot of the songs, a lot of the numbers are just them using the camera to, like there's very few hyper-styled singing sequences. You know, when

Starting point is 00:06:50 Alpha is deciding to change and adopt the role of the which they all believe her to be, that's a really hyper-styelized solo act. The Colinda mirror scene does a lot of cool camera work, but even that's like rather simple outside of the transitions.

Starting point is 00:07:08 It's still in her face. Yeah, the trans, everything, that's how a lot of the main music numbers are it's just camera lingers and lets actors sing so this felt more like a play and that sometimes works to its benefit and other times i feel like it works against i think like the obvious defense for like wicked diehards i don't know what is accurate to play or book because i know there's a book first and there's a play i don't know what's accurate but even if it's even if this is a hundred percent accurate it doesn't mean it 100 percent translates it that it's well. Like a lot of people use that as an excuse. People might say that for us when it comes

Starting point is 00:07:46 to like comic book movies or something. I'm like, yeah, just because it's like that in the comics, it means it's going to work well in the movies. And I would say the same thing here. At the end of the day, Wizard of Oz is a movie that was propelled by the story was propelled by the cinema. You know, there's the book and then the book and the movie changes a lot. But the movie's the main thing. So I found myself kind of at odds going like, okay, are they kind of adapting like the book of Wizard of Oz, but this is clearly like the movie

Starting point is 00:08:17 Wizard of Oz. You know, and everything they're referencing, like this didn't happen in the book. Like that happened in the movie. So it's like picking and choosing and it clearly wants to tie into that. And to me, this felt

Starting point is 00:08:33 more like a typical film that suffers from tie-ins. That suffers from prequel explanations things i just didn't actually care for i didn't expect to see the tin man origin i didn't expect any of this or want any of this and by doing like i think the tin man is actually the biggest sin of the mom because when they do the tin man i was actually kind of on i was okay with he's not playing it like you know a gay guy or whatever the fucking he's not playing it yes he's like totally different back the gayness

Starting point is 00:09:09 He's not playing it like how he was in the movie. And he's playing it totally different. And I'm like, okay, I can get on board for that. This is a little weird, but in a way that I'm enjoying. And it's taking like the horror approach. He's like fucking aggressive. He's like, lion, get it here to speak up. God damn it.

Starting point is 00:09:25 She kidnapped you. Come down. But then there's no payoff to his character. Like, they go through all that, but they don't do any catharsis with the character. There's no emotional arc with the character. There's none of that. Nessa, they're doing the same thing. because they want to tie it into Wizard of Oz and the house falls on her it's like well what did her she became kind of kind of a political person like kind of a bad political person you know like it did it and say I'm the wicked witch of I'll be the east yeah I don't say that to anybody I imagine most people would be like isn't that the governor yeah that's what I mean be no you're right I'll still be the guy yeah you're absolutely right yeah and then it it becomes jarring when you're like but you would

Starting point is 00:10:09 You're clearly wanting this to be the companion piece to the movie, yet you're cutting stuff out from the movie and you're rewriting stuff from the movie as well, you know? So it just makes it a little, because they're clearly tying it into what the movie is, not the book, because there's so many things that didn't happen in the movie that in the book that the movie did. So, you know, like it would pull me out and I couldn't get as emotionally swept up in it. and so in like the last half hour it was kind of detracting for me like I really wanted to so many scenes I could appreciate like when they're

Starting point is 00:10:48 singing you know Alfa and Glinda and the for good thing but a lot of it felt unlike the last movie which I think is a pretty near perfect musical and maybe this is a one to one adaptation of the musical but it's not the same when you're watching film

Starting point is 00:11:04 you know when you're watching when you skip past shit in a Broadway play it's a totally different thing you're watching like set changes and shit happening you're the way you view it is totally different than how you're viewing this well and stuff can be explained off stage in a different way than you could in a movie yeah because you know we can't see certain stuff yeah and you know like the scarecrow tie in like that it felt like prequel rush stuff you know where they're like we got imagine there was no wicked one this this felt like that or they're like we got to tie this to know we got to like we got to explain this now we got to explain this and it's like there's

Starting point is 00:11:40 no real buildup to him becoming this scarecrow there's nothing thematic about it it's like we got to just fucking do it you know like yeah the little little Frankenstein monster book scarecrow you know there's nothing really there to to justify it in a way that feels rewarding you do all this stuff with nessa but it seems like alphabet doesn't even really give a shit about what happened yeah she didn't even cry for his sister she felt like a pretty big afterthought in this movie then it becomes like a weird fight scene with them you know so yeah

Starting point is 00:12:08 like I put the increased frame rate it was it's weird they didn't yeah I don't it's I think when you're

Starting point is 00:12:18 going to do that in a context like this yeah you need to like flatter the fact that we all know or many people are going to come in knowing the source material

Starting point is 00:12:28 and expecting something like that or you're playing with people's associations and it's a classic enough that people probably have deep and strong associations So I feel like if you're going to do at least what is trying to happen in the context of this movie, yeah, it's like I would have fleshed those elements out or made them feel more meaningful.

Starting point is 00:12:46 Because so much of that feels like they make a point of having it be like, oh, it's just out there. It's, it's off screen. And some of it, yeah, it's like I agree. I would have liked to have seen it in a different way because it's like with Nessa, not getting to see her death slights the characters of this movie. not seeing Dorothy transported through the tornado or whatever like that's kind of fine but like if we're going to kill a super significant character who is at a huge you know part in elphaba's growth and her or like the whole story of elvaba is also tied up in nessa like this should be super important and it's also recontextualizing something from the wizard of Oz and so it's like i would have actually it's probably they're trying to do so much that i feel like that's the easiest stuff to go well people already know that so we can take it out and count on people knowing it, but I think as a movie experience, it does hurt it and then it leaves you, us,

Starting point is 00:13:40 to sit here and go, okay, wait a minute. So how literally should we be taking the rules and the events of the Wizard of Oz? Or is this also an alt version of the Wizard of Oz movie, except it's got all the same iconography, and it seems like it wants to pretend like these two pieces or these two

Starting point is 00:13:56 stories click together somehow in a way where you could look at them all and go, it all makes sense. It's supposed to be that companion. piece where you go, wow, now I view that scene different, but I'm like, but you just did a different scene, though. Like, you didn't, you didn't, the fact that you

Starting point is 00:14:12 remove Alphabet going and confronting Dorothy, when every little thing that's happening with the Wizard of Oz is all off-screen shit, and it completely relies on you, the audience member, remembering the film. Yes.

Starting point is 00:14:28 And then going, but it's not the way the film is. It's a weird thing. And the thing is, the movie, like, if you're in this position, you either need to make it clear to us that we are trying to make this compatible with the original, or you need to make it clear to us that this will look familiar and behave differently, and they don't really do either. Or say, like, Dorothy was telling the story in the first one, or the wizard, this is how the wizard told the story. But here's how that story actually happened. Like, say some fucking line in there, then it's like, okay, that clears up a lot. Which feels like, which it feels like they got partway, like, that was the vibe I was getting was sort of like, okay, so it is loosely, again, it's that like revisionist history thing.

Starting point is 00:15:12 Like, I was joking about that, but I honestly believe that's the message of the movie wants us to take. I think so, too, yeah. Is, yeah, like the Wizard of Oz, you know, is the cleaned up propaganda version of what actually happened. But the problem is this movie, these movies, I almost would have been okay if they got rid of that. I would have been okay with that. Then it could be about everything happening with these characters, or you need to go the opposite way and make Dorothy and the gang way more integrated into this movie. Yeah, I would have preferred it if they had established, like, look, this is not the same universe as the other Wizard of Oz, you know. This is its own thing.

Starting point is 00:15:45 And by doing that, allow these stories and these characters that we got to know in the first movie to be fleshed out in a satisfying way. Because it is trying to be fan servicey while also trying to satisfy its plot beats, but not in a way that feels organic or emotionally resident. Yeah. No, I agree. Because it's not so much about, I think, with the big misconception that I think people might get from what we're saying is that because it's not 100% accurate to the Wizard of Oz, that that is the problem. The problem is that they have these interruptions in the movie that make you, as the audience, have to work your brain really quick to go, okay, this scene that happened. But then there's no real meat. There's no real meat. There's no. no exploration of the scene. It's like some very significant plot point happened, but we don't get to experience it. So we're just skipping to shit. We're

Starting point is 00:16:38 just skipping to the next moment after it. And that's the move. The first movie does not do that. They don't skip past stuff. That's the whole point of sitting in a scene so that way you can feel the experience, not just get information to provide you for a somebody. We kept jumping through time all of a sudden. So I feel like

Starting point is 00:16:55 the last half is much weaker than the first half. Because of that like the first half even when it was like kind of odd and weird and and and quirky and dark but like i don't know totally what's going on here sometimes but i'm having a great time it was the last half where i'm like now i'm just watching shit just be like hitting quotas and hitting check marks and i know what beats we got to get to and i know some of them aren't going to happen for a while it's also becoming an emotional experience for me yeah and it's interesting because i feel like this movie too like granted we're

Starting point is 00:17:28 coming out of the first part so everything is established but i think even if you are going to do if there's a chapter break in there are two movies i think you do have to do something to gracefully reestablish your ensemble because everybody you know in this movie is people we met in the last movie and and you know know know and have the association with but if you hadn't i feel like this still has like kind of an onus to stand on its own and it just felt way more scattered the way the ensemble was captured it's like you sort of have You've got Alpha, Elphaba and Glinda at the center of everything, and, you know, all the players are placed in a way that makes sense to the stakes, but, like, you know, Madam Morrible was, like, way more of an anonymous character to me in this one than the last one. And, like, Jeff Goldblum felt kind of like a special appearance by, whereas in the previous one, he doesn't have, like, a ton more screen time even, but he feels like a very significant and pointed inclusion, and obviously he is here.

Starting point is 00:18:25 He's as strong, I liked his moments here, but I feel. like the general ensemble Bach, even everything with Fierro and Glinda getting married. There's so much stuff that feels like, again, because it's so crammed, you don't get to actually breathe with the new status quo post-time jump

Starting point is 00:18:43 and to really sink into the stakes again. Because even though we leave off part one with a knowledge of stakes to come, we still need to reestablish that stuff emotionally so we can carry that feeling through the movie. Yeah. Also, I want to clarify something I said earlier. I didn't

Starting point is 00:18:58 get the fact that the wizard was her father spoiled for me like i read it like i was listening to the music and then i saw who was in the the cast for the song and jeff goblum was in it i was like i don't remember him in this part of the movie uh to one plus one equals two oh i was like okay i like that reveal though yeah it was like interesting that's a cool twist to me yeah it makes a lot of sense probably would have been stronger if you know it like they actually you know I don't have a plot thing out of that effect. Yeah. Again, if they were doing something for the adaptation, maybe reveal that a little earlier.

Starting point is 00:19:35 Like, maybe that's something, another character knows. But it's just a strange thing, but because it has to be tied to the Wizard of Oz. You know, you have this thing where Elphaba has this beef with the Wizard directly. And that his whole involvement with Oz gets resolved in another character story. Yeah. That she has really nothing to do with other than. kidnapping her it was it yeah just it's odd it's a very odd experience but performances are strong and it's still very entertaining that's the thing that's what it keeps coming back to

Starting point is 00:20:07 yeah it's but there's i don't i guess the positive strengths of it are not fully outshining the things that i'm very much pulled to the side on of what i found problematic about the experience you know like the problematic thing is the thing i'm like i really have to talk about that. Well, yeah, it just swims over. And two, the way these movies are visually constructed, I feel like in a movie, as a viewer myself, in a movie like this and with the first half to compare it to, like this is, you know, doing a lot of top of the line cinematic technique, but it is very reliant on computers and

Starting point is 00:20:49 digital effects and stuff like that. And I feel like in a more breathable movie, I can better sink into and kind of adapt my brink habituate to the look of everything slightly better than I can in an experience with like this that feels a bit more jagged and now certain places feel tangible and other places feel very synthetic and you know it's there's not as much unifying character tone to make me forget about that and like there's i i'm torn on these movies visually because i think the imagination is great and it is in the spirit of the iconography of the original wizard of Oz movie um but i still find myself wishing that they had been in a position to employ slightly

Starting point is 00:21:32 more movie magic in bringing these sets and things to actual life there are a lot of times where i am aware in the back of my mind i'm like this is a volume not much in this frame is real and i like the concept of it but as being one of the earliest feats of movie magic done in the camera i feel like there's a mantle that you thrust upon these movies to do that and there is some of that, but it is a world that never really feels real to me. Yeah, you want more, like, more technical, like how the first one was.

Starting point is 00:22:03 Or how the OG was. For tangibility. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to describe. I mean, they had, like, you know, they had to rely on trickery and force perspectives and matte paintings and all sorts of stuff. They might not fly now, and it might be a pipe dream to say that, but there are choices in how you could realize

Starting point is 00:22:21 these things that aren't so volumey all the time. Well, I mean, yeah, They explore significantly more here than they do in the Wizard of Odds. So they have to, like, do that. But there's not much blending. Yeah, like, you know, it looks like they had a real brick for the, for the bricks. Yes. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:43 They're like a computer brick. Like they had a real brick. Yeah. Yeah. I do like some of the visual stuff they do towards the beginning of the movie, like, how they're showing Elphaba from the people who are, laying the bricks perspective she does seem like this mysterious other thing that's not human like they are and i feel like the way they capture her and what she's doing really makes her yeah makes her feel super and i i appreciated that because yeah from us the audience's perspective we get

Starting point is 00:23:11 to see oh okay she's finally in her element from their perspective like this this chick is scary she's messing up her or shit what's going on so i appreciated that and i also did like the overarching story about this was more of the first one was uh was Elphaba's journey, and then the second one is Glenda's journey, and how she actually becomes good. She lives up to the title through reconnecting with her sister. So I think in theory I appreciated that, and I appreciated the songs in which those arcs came to fruition, but would have liked there to be more breathing room like the first one had with additional stuff that fills in some of that emotional context and literal context. Well, I feel like that

Starting point is 00:23:51 focus though does get lost because i i agree with you on like that first hour was really singing to me a lot no pun intended i was really it was really hitting me on on exactly we were talking about with the first one we being alphabet's tale and for good referencing linda here but whereas the first one it is clearly elphabas movie with this with some supporting characters getting the arc like linda and her having an arc like linda has an arc in the first movie and glinda and their relationship has an arc and then here they set it up like that but glinda's this being glinda's movie kind of gets lost as glinda's movie you know like her story is just not as compelling as as alphabas you know it's like oh this girl struggles would being worshipped and up for like false

Starting point is 00:24:41 things you know which can be interesting but it's more interesting as a supporting role than it is as a leading role, especially when you're comparing it off of the heels of Elphaba, who is, you know, the one who's doused greed and has powers and it's ostracized since she was a young child. You know, like, there's so much more, there's so much more richness to that. So, you know,

Starting point is 00:25:00 I just think there's, there's stuff here where, again, exploration, it's a lot of exploration just kind of lost with it, you know, like she's really in love with that Fiori guy, and yeah, she's a little bit upset about it for like 10 minutes and then we can pass that. Yeah. Well, to play a,

Starting point is 00:25:16 or just to call on the things I did appreciate about, even though I feel like it could have been more fleshed out. I did think that the theme of what does it mean to be good, how do we show up as someone that is good, is something that is a theme throughout the movie. They do keep saying for good. And, you know, she, Glenda tries to do her version of good from within the system.

Starting point is 00:25:40 Fereo tries to do good from within the system. The wizard tries to do what he feels is good. The Alpha Buzz, like, you know, I'm done being good in the way that, you know, I've been doing it. I'm going to change up how I've been operating. So, you know, those things are in there, but again, it's muddled down by trying to be member berries of the original thing. We're also changing that thing because it doesn't know if it wants to adopt the book or adopt the MGM movie. Well, I feel like, yeah, you have this kind of beautiful potential for a dual harmonized story where Glinda is learning to wake up to the world around her and see it for what it truly is and then find what good means in that. context. And then Elfaba realizing that, yeah, I've done all that I can do in some ways and that there's a

Starting point is 00:26:21 greater kind of picture that I can speak to and also her finally being able to go off and to live with, you know, someone who loves her and gets that, you know, it's a, it's a bittersweet ending, but there's a happiness to that. And I feel like there's the most beautiful stuff in the movie is tied up within that. And it's just often kind of fighting. It's just jockeying for space with other stuff and yeah it's beautiful in a lot of ways

Starting point is 00:26:51 and it's the most rousing stuff in the movie but it's also thematics that could be they're important and for what this like to go to all the effort to re-contextualize

Starting point is 00:27:01 the Wizard of Oz is a story about fascism and you you know I feel like you need to kind of make that the top priority and then all the other stuff

Starting point is 00:27:10 what was your favorite musical number the one actually the one stand out to you in this movie I think visually the Glendez song about the bubble was the way that was shot was really

Starting point is 00:27:24 engaging yes that's the one right now because none of them had a great like emotional pull for me in this particular moment that were going over it but I feel like that one captured my attention the way that I thought was

Starting point is 00:27:40 unique the wizard song was pretty fun Wizard was fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that the one we're dancing to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Wizard one is my favorite.

Starting point is 00:27:50 Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of lovely, very emotional numbers, but I feel like this half of the show is also, like, kind of less hooky, you know. You don't have your pop, you, or you're defying gravity. Like, you know, I feel like a lot of the most iconic numbers come up at the top, and then, you know, I liked the music here, but it was a little bit more, like, complex. via the plotting in a way that was cool but yeah it's just a little less sort of immediate rush

Starting point is 00:28:20 yeah a little more somber a lot more kind of dialogue driven like the where the singing is actually a little bit more like a dialogue exchange too when they're singing together at the end too and it's like they're truly like

Starting point is 00:28:35 expressing their love for each other essentially that was pretty powerful yeah I also like Glinda's song it was the reversal of Elphabha with when Ferro went back to Glenda and then Elphabah

Starting point is 00:28:50 and then Glinda had her version of that where he went to go be with Elphabah. I thought that was nice post-wedding. Yeah, that's true. That's a nice one. And when the Cowardly Lion starts rapping. It's really good. And break dancing. Yep.

Starting point is 00:29:06 Yeah, it was fine. So the movie was fine. That is fine. There's a lot to appreciate, but it could have been better. I was never bored. I'll tell you that. Yeah, I was ever bored, and that's, like, the biggest one. But I would honestly give it, like, a six out of ten.

Starting point is 00:29:19 I enjoyed a bunch of the movies they tried to make into this one. Yeah, I'll give it a thumb and a half up. Yeah, I thought I first of it was, like, charmingly and disorienting, like, weird and, like, funky and sometimes not great, but in a way that I found charming. And it wasn't until, like, they go full Wizard of Oz, like, house shows up. And, like, this movie was, like, fucking not great right now. We're in an vicious mess territory now. That's really when the movie's like, oh, now you're losing me. Now your charm's wearing off.

Starting point is 00:29:53 This is a lot to take in. Because I made it, you said, oh, she's going to some of their tornado. And I was like, I should be a catclin. I really didn't believe that's what it was going to happen. Because I was like, how the fuck would it possibly? It didn't make a ton of sense. I would it smoothly get there, you know? How would it get from our dimension on Earth to wherever odds is?

Starting point is 00:30:09 Yeah, there's no even acknowledgement of like, well, you could open up like portals to another, like, dimension and there's no way jeff goldloops is going to go back and be you know like a traveling carnie snake oil guy out of everything they try to explain they don't try to explain like oh wait jeff i mean ahs you come from a land like dorothy right yeah and it sucks because i remember towards the first half of the reaction i was like i like how they're taking advantage of the film medium by allowing it to have more context and be more full but then you don't do that in the second half you don't give it when it was way more important i think to do that because you're you're tying it into a like this really should have been the movie that

Starting point is 00:30:48 becomes the companion piece where you could watch this before or after it's like choose your own experience do you want the fanciful version or do you want the like epic version yeah but then with by doing that even even if it's all accurate but because of the skipping around it just that it actually it affects all the scenes that follow in between i think yeah it also feels weird that fiero gets turned to the scarecrow and the next thing we see see Dorothy and they're he's uh are you traveling with her i was just like what this movie feels like one of those big cork boards with a bunch of post little uh yeah cue cards tacked on to it yeah she's like oh this scene of this scene because then when you remember like when they meet and

Starting point is 00:31:28 stuff like but that doesn't line up at all like his performance is nothing that and how we got there and i'm like were they all running back and forth from being with dorothy and then going back elsewhere to us to do other shit and also scarecrow fear i want to just tell her that she's not bad like yeah yeah yeah you know the entire time but isn't it the whole point of Oz is like you guys the things you're looking for you had inside did the whole time it's not like he lost

Starting point is 00:31:54 his memory but did he lose his memory I don't know well he said he doesn't have a brain yeah but then the wizard's like I can't give you your brain and like we establish here you can't get the powers of reverse stuff back yeah but at the end there he's like oh what let's say fuck off now

Starting point is 00:32:10 I mean, yeah, the first one's The original movie is a cozy, yeah Like everybody is a clear representation Of someone in Dorothy's life So like either this is like The vast dream universe that exists within her head Or it just isn't compatible Yeah, I was saying in the book that it is real

Starting point is 00:32:33 But in the movie they're saying It's part of a dream world Yeah, yeah, it's like the mirror to... Yeah, and you can't say it because in the original one, like what? The witch, like, hated Dorothy's dog, right? Yeah. And she can't be like, oh, you're the black lady who hated my dog.

Starting point is 00:32:47 I'm back in the world. I freed all the animals, except this fucking dog. Shit in my castle one too many times. You're out. Toto, you're out. You're going to see Kansas again. No. That's so funny.

Starting point is 00:33:07 Oh, well. Yeah. that's that's that's that's a disappointment all right well well we'll see what it says I I really that on the I all I would see weird titles on on YouTube you know of course a lot of people love it it's still got a really solid audience score it's still making a shit ton of money um but I would see weird stuff like that that wasn't quite clear or like pissed off faces in the thumbnail and I was like I don't know what that fuck that means so I didn't know what any of it meant I didn't I haven't even watched I even heard the

Starting point is 00:33:40 interviews are fucking bizarre and I'm like I don't know what the interviews like this has a 93% out of 10,000 like people love this movie yeah um so you know I'm glad people really love it uh and hey it would the move us for to be super positive here especially because you know our first one is one of the most popular videos I've ever done here I got to be honest right now and it's like no unfortunately I didn't quite jive with me on it's like yeah people really are in love with this movie I'm looking at the audience score and it's like fucking humungo well and there's a huge amount of goodwill from the first movie because the first movie i feel like a lot of people are regarding as as like the best big scale hollywood musical in in a long time so yeah and this has enough things you know that are similar to the further that enough of the things that worked about the first movie are present here until i think yeah make it work for a lot of people yeah i do feel a little bad because obviously you like you said gregg this is the first one's one of our most

Starting point is 00:34:40 feed videos so a lot of people have been anticipating this video yeah that's why i mean it's just so shitting on it yeah it's just like oh man it's not as good as i wanted it to be yeah we're not shitting on it but yeah we gotta be honest it's the burden of not catching greatness when you had a lot of the ingredients to do so and it's also the burden of that's the problem with reaction world content is usually fan only the fans usually people who love this want to see other people who are fans so it's got a hard video like yeah you know it's if you were just reviews you could get bull but usually when it's reactions it's only the fans who tend to show up um but hey had to be on i i was digging it up until like the last half hour and it really kind of soiled most of the

Starting point is 00:35:20 experience for me but there's a lot of good stuff there's a lot of stuff you still like it was fine it was fine but yeah it was good there's still a lot to like for sure there's still a lot to like and especially in that first hour so um all right guys well we had fun did you wicked for fun We get for fun. See you guys. Happy New Year.

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