Review of The School for Good and Evil (2022) by Supremeanalyst — 20 Oct 2022

Please, Winx Saga: Fate did a better job at friendship between girls than this. The movie gave off all the wrong vibes. Don't recommend it to anyone - waste of time. To begin, the vibes the movie gave off were wrong from the very start and the settings was too unrealistic and underdeveloped.

Also, the movie seemed to glorify evil more than good even though it kept saying good is better. The supposedly cool scenes were given to acts of witchcraft and demon magic and what not. Songs were played in scenes of evil being demonstrated rather than good, as if it was screaming: "do evil, it's powerful and cool".

Also not a fan of the songs they chose for this movie, it didn't sound magical at all, just plain evil. Some of the actors were terrible at acting; some scenes made me cringe so hard, like the younger version of Sophie and Agatha at the graveyard.

Some scenes were also too long and boring and others were too fast, like flashes of Sophie catwalking - also cringe. No characters other than the two main ones got any sort of character development throughout a 2.

5hr movie - unforgivable! Some of the details were not satisfying rather creepy in a very unaesthetic way - like Sophie's hag form, biting fairies, blood magic with no specific source, and whatever Hort was eating (these truly disgusted me, but so happy they omitted the potty humor stuff from the book).

Finally, the kiss at the end. I know its from the book, but it made me cringe in the book and also in the movie. I was hoping they would change it to something like Maleficient - like a kiss in forehead.

Who kisses their dying friend in the mouth? I know there is a culture somewhere in the world that does that, but that does not apply here. Totally awkward. The ending was not so good either, of them returning to their own world and the cliffhanger was blunt - Narnia's return to their own world was 1000 times better and their music was magical.

Overall, it was one of the most boring movies I ever watched and I wish to forget that it ever existed tomorrow when I wake up. Thank you very much.