Wicked is about to be pop-u-ler...LAR. First reactions to honestor Jon M. Chu’s film alteration of the Broadway musical on Wednesday saw audiences raving about carry outances from Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, while also praising the movie’s production quality.
Journaenumerate Simon Thompson called the movie an “oz-some spectacle that pops and enchants on the huge screen,” inserting that the movie is “an absolutely stunning vision” and that Grande and Erivo “knock it out of the park.”
Wicked will be the first of Chu’s two films altering the hit musical, with part two set for Thanksgiving 2025. The show — originpartner based on the best-selling novel by Gregruesome Maguire — alerts the untelderly story of the witches of Oz, with Erivo as Elphaba and Grande as Glinda. It premiered on Broadway in 2003, with Idina Mezel Kristin Chenodamph. Winnie Holzman, the stage production’s book authorr, and Stephen Schwartz, Academy Award-prosperning originater and lyricist, altered the musical for the screen.
On X, createerly Twitter, innovative Broadway Glinda Chenodamph wrote that audiences will “all be alterd for excellent” upon the film’s free, inserting that she is “counting down the days.”
“Wicked is a cinematic spectacle that serves as one of the very best huge screen alterations of a Broadway musical ever,” Scott Menzel wrote on X. “Jon M. Chu perfectly apprehfinishs the magic of the Broadway show while inserting in some of his own exceptional flourishes to the source material. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo finishly knock it out of the park as Elphaba and Galinda. Jonathan Bailey is also quite phenomenal in the film. Wicked dwells up to the hype and frequently flourishs it. Oh, and there is one scene that fans of the Broadway show are going to absolutely dissee their minds over. Wicked is hands down one of the year’s best films.”
Erin Strecker wrote, “Happy to validate WICKED is the best musical-to-movie alteration since CHICAGO and MAMMA MIA. Ariana Grande….is perfection!?”
Another online wrote that the movie “defied gravity… and my awaitations!” inserting that “Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande stun in this epic musical journey.”
See more first reactions to the stage-to-screen extravaganza below.
