Real Time Reaction: Wicked The Movie Trailer

Everyone deserves a chance to cry!

THE SETS, THE COSTUMES, THE SOUNDS, OH MY!!!!

The Universal logo in Green gave me more chills than I would’ve thought.

Hearing Ariana’s “you’re green” and Cynthia’s “I am” triggered the initial tears.

Can we talk about the boat that Glinda arrives to Shiz on? The set directors really said, we know you’ve seen this on a single stage on Broadway but we’re going to make it more majestic than you could’ve ever imagined.

We see Glinda and Elphaba’s shared dorm room for the first time as our ears are blessed with Ariana’s “Popular” and I giggled like a little girl. The way they so perfectly curated a pink wardrobe that was specifically Glinda and so clearly not Barbie or Elle Woods is impressive.

ARIANA’S HIGH KICK?! AND HER STAG LEAP STANCE ON THE CHANDELIER?! The way the trailer editors just snuck those in there thinking it wouldn’t knock us off our feet!!!!

You really want to know where I started sobbing? At the visual of Doctor Dillamond as a LITERAL goat. Knowing where that story goes and the emotional Elphaba has tied to it just tugged right at the heart strings.

I think one reason we’re going to need to watch this trailer (and obviously the movie) one million times for are the subtle references and easter eggs to the original Wizard of Oz story. When they showed Elphaba leaping through the air somewhere over a rainbow… PLEASE my tear ducts cannot handle it!!!!

At the 1:15 mark when the orchestra starts playing “No One Mourns The Wicked” while Madame Morrible tells Elphaba she’s the one the Wizard has been looking for is a moment that will make anyone who has never seen Wicked absolutely entranced.

The editors think their slick playing “Defying Gravity” over the dance scene that we Ozians all KNOW is clearly “Dancing Through Life” is very strategic. That dance scene in the movie is going to blow us all away and they didn’t want to give that up yet.

As Elphaba and Glinda hitch a ride to the Emerald City, we get a look at the train which was one of the first ever images we saw of this movie — pardon me for being emo, but it’s ELECTRIC (pun intended).

Side story: when I was little, I was so terrified of the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz that my dad made a VCR tape recording that removed them from the movie. Once I saw Wicked for the first time at 9 years old and learned the back story on them, it made me love them so much.

Now seeing them lined up in this trailer as Elphaba and Glinda walk into the Wizard’s quarters has me sobbing like a leeeeeeeetle baby.

Based on the scenes of the burning statue and the enemy sign of Elphaba, I think the directors took this really seriously and deeply, and that is going to cut so DEEP for viewers as we watch the friendship get torn apart by it.

I thought I was crying before, but then they showed baby Elphaba while Ariana voiced over “don’t be afraid” — consider me a puddle (pun intended, yet again).

It ends with the final Cynthia “Defying Gravity” riff that we felt in our cores during the mini trailer we saw during Super Bowl, and I immediately am starting it over to watch again.

11/27/24 can’t come soon enough — mostly for Wicked, but also because it’s my birthday. What a gift for 31.

HERE is the trailer!