Together, though, Wicked: Part I and Wicked: For Good tell a complete story for Elphaba and Glinda, and how they changed each other forever.

If there’s a weak point in For Good, it’s that this movie leans on the assumption that its audience remembers Dorothy’s plotline from the earlier film, an assumption that may not be as workable for a mainstream movie release in 2025.

Along the path of their own respective journeys, Elphaba and Glinda also change the other Wicked characters around them, and ultimately Oz itself. Yet For Good also takes place in the background of The Wizard of Oz in a much more direct way than Part I‘s story.

Although the characters had similar motivations in the original Broadway show, the new songs for Wicked: For Good reflect the impact of recent political and social events to drive home themes that perhaps felt a little more abstract and distant to many listeners two decades ago.

Each song also feels especially timely, directly addressing themes of resistance to oppression, the influence of propaganda, and the emotional and psychological obstacles that sometimes must be overcome to make the right choice and do the right thing.

The two new songs “No Place Like Home” early in the movie and “Girl in the Bubble” near the end, reinforce the characters’ motivations for their crucial decisions in the story.

Like Part I, For Good also maximizes the opportunity to include locations, action sequences, and other visual elements which wouldn’t be possible in a Broadway stage production.

The Wicked movie franchise returns with For Good, an adaptation of the 2nd act of the musical. Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester examine how Wicked: For Good takes advantage of the movie format, and passage of time since the original musical was written, to strengthen character arcs and story themes.

One major theme of this storyline is the power of propaganda, introduced in the first Imperial scenes of the season’s first episode. We consider other forms of Imperial manipulation of events on Ghorman, and the ideas Andor presents about oppression and resistance 2/2 fangirlblog.com/2025/06/hype...