The ‘Wicked’ Movie Reviewed By 9- and 7-Year-Old Superfans of the Broadway Present

The following publish incorporates a dialogue of Wicked and some minor spoilers for the movie — nothing that might come as a shock to anybody who has seen the Broadway present. 

For the final 12 months, I’ve lived with Elphaba and Glinda.

That’s not their given names, clearly. But ever since we took our 9 and seven-year-old daughters to see Wicked throughout 2023’s Kids Night on Broadway, my two women have been obsessive about the present. We watch clips on YouTube. They sing the songs each night time at bedtime. We went again and noticed the present a second time. We hearken to the soundtrack on lengthy automotive journeys. The children sing the songs some extra. I encourage them to provide it a relaxation. They proceed singing anyway.

My daughters have tagged alongside to household movies earlier than (they usually’ve even reviewed things for me once or twice) however the Wicked movie was a horse of a special coloration (inexperienced, clearly). This was the primary time in my skilled life that my daughters (and my spouse, who can also be an enormous Wicked fan courting again to when she noticed the present for the primary time in 2003 with the unique forged) all flat-out demanded they arrive to a press screening.

After the 4 of us noticed the movie, I requested the children what they considered it and the way it in contrast with the Broadway present. (Mom makes a short cameo look throughout the dialogue as effectively.) I’ve barely condensed a few of the dialog, however these are their unvarnished (and principally very constructive) reactions to the movie.

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Dad: So which did you want extra, the Broadway present or the movie?

7 Year Old: Movie.

Dad: What about you? Which is healthier, the movie or the —

9 Year Old: The movie!

Dad: The movie was higher than the present?

9 Year Old: The one who performed Elphaba, was so wonderful. She did so good on “Defying Gravity.” And I additionally appreciated how, as a result of on Broadway she simply … it felt extra actual within the movie than within the Broadway present. And you at all times need it to really feel extra actual.

Dad: I believe I perceive what you’re saying. The movie has all of the particular results and the huge units. It’s not simply on a stage.

9 Year Old: Also, after we had been sitting shut [on Broadway], I may see [Elphaba] had inexperienced gloves on that went up her arms.

Dad: And within the movie you didn’t see that, so it felt extra actual?

9 Year Old: Mmmhmm.

Dad: Did you cry in any respect? Were there any moments that basically acquired you feeling stuff?

9 Year Old: No.

7 Year Old: I didn’t cry throughout the movie. I felt like I wished to at some factors, like  “Defying Gravity.”

Dad: Mom was crying. I appeared over and he or she was wiping tears away.

Mom: It was so good.

Dad: What variations did you discover between the movie and the present?

7 Year Old: The movie was extra unhappy and extra scary.

Dad: Why extra unhappy?

7 Year Old: They had been crying and upset that they needed to depart one another. And the guards had been attempting to get them and stuff.

Dad: So that made it scarier?

7 Year Old: Yeah. Like when the monkeys had been attempting to get her. And the monkeys had wings.

9 Year Old: That scared me — wait, the place’s my magic wand?

Dad: Mom has it.

9 Year Old: Oh phew.

Dad: So the monkeys scared you?

9 Year Old: The first time the monkeys got here out and, like, crashed into the window. I used to be like “Ah!”

Dad: Do you realize what that’s known as? That’s known as a “soar scare.” You wish to know why?

9 Year Old: Because you soar and also you’re scared?

Dad: Pretty a lot. So if the movie was sadder and extra scary, why did you prefer it greater than the present?

7 Year Old: It was extra foolish.

Dad: Who was extra foolish?

7 Year Old: Fiyero. So was Glinda. In “Popular” she was very humorous. I additionally like when she spun round on the ceiling.

Dad: Oh, you appreciated when she jumped up and held on to her chandelier throughout “Popular.” Am I going to catch you attempting to do this in our home?

7 Year Old: No.

Dad: You say you just like the movie higher than the present. But was there something that was higher within the present than within the movie?

9 Year Old: What I didn’t actually like within the movie … Fiyero … effectively, two issues. First: We meet Fiyero within the woods. I didn’t actually like that scene. I appreciated how they did it higher within the present.

Dad: Okay, sure, they added a scene in there the place Elphaba meets Fiyero earlier than his first massive track.

[long pause]

Dad: You stated two issues. Was there was one thing else about Fiyero you didn’t like?

9 Year Old: Uh … no.

Dad: What did you consider “Dancing Through Life”?

9 Year Old: [Holding up bag of leftover popcorn] Can I eat this?

Dad: Hold on.

[9 Year Old grabs fistful of popcorn]

Dad: Stop.

[9 Year Old shoves popcorn in her mouth. Dad sighs.]

Dad: What did you consider little Elphaba to start with? That was one other factor they added for the movie.

9 Year Old: Cute. I appreciated her glasses. I want you had these glasses.

Dad: That can be an fascinating search for me.

9 Year Old: I didn’t like that they didn’t do the factor the place Elphaba provides her trainer her lunch after which he eats the paper as an alternative.

Dad: That’s true. That acquired omitted. Well, it’s most likely laborious to do this when its a CGI goat.

9 Year Old: What’s a CGI?

Dad: So within the movie, that wasn’t an actual goat. It was made with computer systems and particular results.

9 Year Old: Dad, the goat within the present wasn’t an actual goat both.

Dad: Okay, sure, however that was a human sporting make-up.

9 Year Old: And a masks!

Dad: And a masks. But it was an actual individual beneath the masks. In the movie, the goat was principally an animated character.

9 Year Old: Yeah, that character didn’t look actual.

7 Year Old: He appeared bizarre.

Dad: Did you could have a favourite scene or track?

9 Year Old: I appreciated “Popular,” however “Defying Gravity” was my favourite. “Popular” was my second favourite as a result of Glinda did like a cut up, sort of, and spun round and held on to the what’s it known as? The chandelier.

Dad: Yes, your sister likes that half too.

9 Year Old: It was so cool.

Dad: What did you consider the actors’ voices?

7 Year Old: I believed Elphaba was very excellent.

Dad: She actually has a fantastic voice, huh?

7 Year Old: It sounded really easy in “Defying Gravity” when she did it.

Dad: It actually does.

7 Year Old: It sounds really easy, nevertheless it’s actually laborious!

Dad: Oh, I do know. I do know.

Dad: You have been ready for this movie. Did it stay as much as your expectations?

7 Year Old: Even higher.

Dad: Did it appear too lengthy? Because this movie is about so long as the entire Broadway present, and it’s simply the primary act of the present.

7 Year Old: I really feel prefer it is somewhat lengthy.

Dad: But was it too lengthy?

7 Year Old: [shakes head no] Even although it’s fairly lengthy, it’s so good that I didn’t thoughts. I appreciated watching it. I didn’t need it to finish.

Dad: Is it bizarre that it ends in the midst of the story?

7 Year Old: It’s sort of not as bizarre as I believed it could be. I believed they’d do the top and simply flip off the tv. Like [mimics a remote control turning off a TV] carried out.

Dad: So you guys aren’t gonna wish to see the second, proper? We can simply skip it?

7 Year Old: [grabs Dad and pulls him down to her face] I WANT TO SEE IT!

Dad: Would you quite see this one once more or the second half?

7 Year Old: This one once more.

9 Year Old: Second half.

Dad: Would you quite see this one once more or go see the Broadway present once more?

Both: [Simultaneously] This one once more.