Wicked: For Good picks up the darker, deeper themes laid down by 2024’s “Wicked” while connecting to the original Wizard of Oz material more overtly. The film even opens with the construction of the iconic yellow brick road, which Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) disrupts by freeing the animals being used to lay the path. The Wicked Witch of the West has now been outcast and forced to live in solitude in a treehouse while she plans to expose the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) as a fraud and free the animals who see their freedom threatened by his reign. Meanwhile Glinda (Ariana Grande), continues to cosy up to the Wizard as her popularity as “Glinda the Good” grows. Jonathan Bailey returns as Fiyero, now engaged to be married to Glinda, torn between his duties as Captain of the Gale Force - the team tasked with capturing the wicked Witch of the West - and his moral obligation to stand up for Elphaba. Michelle Yeoh, as Madame Morrible, continues to do the Wizard’s dirty work by pedalling propagand...