And plus, if they wanted pop-culture referencing Ninja Turtles, we already have MUTANT MAYHEM.

Holy crap, I remember when that joke of a flashback scene was a meme when it leaked.

Will this convert me into a fan? We’ll see.

Run, don’t walk, as fast as you can to see this film!

(My only gripe was there were a few chatty kids at my screening, but it was hilarious when a little girl in my audience was like “YES!” when Dorothy first showed up. It was also like a Marvel movie reaction, but tamer.)

Yellow Brick Road, which was both serious and silly, but balanced right, “No Good Deed”, “March of the Witch Hunters”, and “Girl in the Bubble”, a beautiful ballad.

My favorite parts were the opening scene, as well as the Wonderful scene, which was half hilarious, half captivating (of course, it’s Jeff Goldblum being hilarious), the Glinda/Elphaba confrontation after Dorothy begins to go down the

This is also the most emotionally gut-wrenching movie I’ve seen in years. The Young Glinda scene made me almost cry like the “I Swear” scene in Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie a month ago, and “For Good” made my eyes a bit watery.

Kid during Michael trailer: “Is that Michael Jackson?”

A large family came in during the Avatar trailer.

A girl who was the friend of the kids I mentioned early came in during the first real trailer (one of those Paramount-mandated 30 second ads for SpongeBob started the reel).

A mom and her kid came in.

A mom and her teen daughter came in.

A mom and her teenage girls came in, and one starts COUGHING during the Sephora ad.

A mom and her little girl and older son came in, and when a Goodnight Moon Sheraton ad came on, she asked “remember when I read this to you?”

A middle-aged woman came in with 10 minutes to spare, as well as a man around the same age with a Gladiator shirt.