Wicked: For Good (2025)

What earned the score

• Gay Sidekick Ousts Female

  The film features a gay male best friend character who replaces a female character from the original story and appears in a reduced role with two or three lines.

• Feminist Empowerment Vs Patriarchy

  The narrative frames Elphaba's success in exposing the Wizard's deceptive patriarchal regime and her powerful role as the Wicked Witch, juxtaposed with the Wizard's failure as a fraudulent male leader, as a central ideological message of female empowerment against authority.

Details

As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.

Starring

Cynthia ErivoAriana GrandeJonathan BaileyJeff GoldblumMichelle Yeoh

Director

Jon M. Chu

Writer

Stephen SchwartzDana FoxGregory MaguireL. Frank BaumWinnie Holzman

Genre

RomanceFantasyAdventure

Release Date

Nov 20, 2025

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  Several women's dresses reveal noticeable cleavage throughout the film. A man and woman share a brief but passionate kiss. One musical sequence shows a woman singing about inviting a man to her bed; she begins to undress but remains covered by a blanket, wearing a bra and spanks. They kiss in bed before the camera cuts away, and the following scene shows them lying together, with the man shirtless - a moment that likely implies sexual intimacy. Another scene depicts a couple beginning to undress for an intimate moment before the film cuts away. (This moment continues a similar scene from Wicked: Part One.)

• Violence Mild

  A character's heart begins to shrink. Not seen but heard and said.

• Profanity None

  Profanity includes in-world exclamations such as "Oh Oz," "Thank Oz," and "Shiz." There is also a vain reference to deity with the use of "Oh Lord."

  One use of shut up.

• Drugs Mild

  A characters is seen drinking from a bottle (potentially alcohol).

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

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  The Tin-Man's appearance may appear frighting to some.

Reviews

• ★★★★☆ 4 stars All Clear

  Saw it when it came out. Excellent performances by all