The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Directed by Paul Feig
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
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But I would have absolutely loved to see her given the opportunity to do some real comedic damage destroying the perennial wicked stepmother trope : Think Christine Baranski's brutal Into the Woods energy meets Olivia Colman's passive aggression in Fleabag meets Elaine Hendrix's ice-cold vindictiveness in The Parent Trap meets the unblinking terror of Cate Blanchett in Disney's live action Cinderella .
A moment that is supposed to deliver a gut punch of betrayal and hurt instead feels like something straight out of Edgar Wright’s campy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World—tonally confusing to say the least.
Like “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” this film has the heavy duty of laying out an entire story world filled with a long history and many, many rules, while also setting up the groundwork for a multi-film series should it be successful.
During the early 2010s, studios were incessantly trying to snatch up the next “Hunger Games” or “Twilight,” hoping for big profits in what eventually spawned franchise non-starters: “The Host,” “Divergent” and “The 5th Wave.”
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Shaking off the dust of years in studio development hell, Soman Chainani’s series-spawning YA novel, The School for Good and Evil , lumbers its way to the screen trailing not only the baggage of Harry Potter and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , but that of too many knockoffs to list.