Two Brutally Sincere Children Assessment ‘Depraved: For Good’

Depraved is an enormously widespread multimedia franchise with tens of millions of followers around the globe and over the rainbow. However I really feel extraordinarily comfy saying my two daughters — aged 9 and eight years outdated — are within the high 5 % of obsessive Depraved tremendous nerds.

They’ve Depraved dolls and brooms and pointy hats. They sing Depraved songs whereas cleansing their rooms, or driving to go to their grandparents, or just about any time there are six or seven consecutive quiet seconds in our home. My youngest had a Depraved themed celebration when she was six — a 12 months earlier than the hit Broadway musical concerning the witches of Ouncesbecame a film. They carried out “What Is This Feeling?” collectively at their faculty’s expertise present final spring — in costume and inexperienced face paint.

Like I mentioned, obsessive.

They noticed Depraved: For Good on November 17, 2025, precisely one 12 months from once they noticed Depraved. In the 12 months in between, I doubt 5 glided by with out some kind of acknowledgement of the films or the present or The Wizard of Oz. So whereas I’ve my very own ideas concerning the sequel’s high quality, the evaluation I most needed to listen to was theirs.

Now that my youngsters are beginning to become old, I really like taking them to press screenings with me — and much more than that, I really like speaking to them afterwards concerning the motion pictures we see. Our conversations are so enjoyable and attention-grabbing that I’ve begun recording them (surreptitiously at first, now with their full information and enthusiasm) and sharing them. What follows is a flippantly edited transcript (with some spoilers redacted) of the dialog between me, the women, and my spouse, who’s the one particular person I do know who enjoys Depraved greater than our daughters. (They needed to get it from someplace, proper?)

Two issues you must know to comply with the dialogue.

1. My youngsters are at present rehearsing a kids’s theater manufacturing of The Wizard of Oz. My oldest performs the Scarecrow, and my youngest performs Toto.
2. They are horrified by the slightest show of bodily affection between adults, which they detest and describe as “smoochy kisses.”

The remainder must be self-explanatory.

Dad: So what did you consider the film?

8 12 months Previous: Grrrrrreat. Would you relatively watch the primary or the second film once more?

Dad: Properly that’s what I used to be going to ask you. Which did you want higher?

8 12 months Previous: I don’t know.

[9 Year Old makes an exasperated face]

Dad: You preferred the second film higher?

9 12 months Previous: Duh!

Dad: Why?

9 12 months Previous: It has extra songs. Regardless that the primary half is so good, and it has lots of good songs, the second half, it truly will get you teary.

Mother: You cried extra on this one?

9 12 months Previous: Undoubtedly. I didn’t cry in any respect within the first film.

Mother: What made you cry?

9 12 months Previous: The top. It was unhappy.

[To 8 Year Old] Dad: Did you cry?

[8 Year Old nods]

Mother: A number of occasions. I handed her a tissue and she or he began bawling.

Dad: What made you cry?

8 12 months Previous: One among them was like [spoiler redacted; it was a moment during “For Good”].

Dad: However we’ve seen the Broadway present; you knew the way it was going to finish.

8 12 months Previous: I knew nevertheless it was nonetheless unhappy.

Dad: Ariana Grande is a very good actress, huh? She actually offered the feelings of that second.

8 12 months Previous: Yeah.

READ MORE: Two Superfans Assessment the First Depraved Film

Dad: So it didn’t trouble you that each one the perfect songs had been within the first film? This film has no “Defying Gravity,” it has no “Common.”

8 12 months Previous: Not a lot, as a result of I additionally actually like “For Good” and “No Good Deed.”

Mother: “No Good Deed” was so good.

Dad: What did you consider the brand new songs?

9 12 months Previous: I cherished them.

Dad: Yeah? Which did you want higher?

9 12 months Previous: I believe they had been principally equal. I preferred the music about how there’s no place like house.

Dad: I believed that music was fairly good. Now wait, I’ve a severe query: What did you consider the scene the place Elphaba and Fiyero smoochy kiss? [The duet “As Long As You’re Mine”]

9 12 months Previous: That was one other half I nearly cried — as a result of it was so unhealthy!

Mother: [pointing to 8 year old] This one was faux vomiting on me.

9 12 months Previous: I used to be doing that too!

8 12 months Previous: I grabbed Mother’s hand and coated my eyes.

Dad: That scene was an excessive amount of?

8 12 months Previous: Disgusting.

Dad: There was some smooching and hugging.

Mother: And Elphaba has that line the place she says that for the primary time she feels “depraved.” What do you assume she means by that?

8 12 months Previous: That she feels … bizarre? However … okay?

Dad: I regarded over at that time and Mother was, like, nodding her head and smiling. Did you see that?

8 12 months Previous: Sure.

9 12 months Previous: Mother was actually into it.

Dad: She was going [pumps fist] “Yeah!”

Mother: I used to be not.

Dad: You weren’t?

Mother: No!

Dad: I should have imagined it.

Dad: So “As Lengthy As Your Mine” was the worst half?

8 12 months Previous: Sure.

Dad: What was the greatest half?

9 12 months Previous: The top.

Dad: What concerning the finish? The final scene? The final music? The best way the story wrapped up?

9 12 months Previous: I really feel prefer it teaches a lesson that associates will at all times be with you.

Dad: That is a superb lesson.

Mother: Yeah however … [extensive spoiler discussion of the final scene follows]

8 12 months Previous: I’ll let you know my favourite scene.

Dad: Okay.

8 12 months Previous: The primary one I preferred loads was when Glinda had the bottle and gave it to the Wizard. I additionally preferred when she was like [surprisingly accurate impression of Ariana Grande’s voice] “I hope you show me improper. I doubt you’ll!” And when the monkeys got here and she or he goes “Ooooo!” [Editor’s Note: I have no idea what she’s talking about here.]

9 12 months Previous: I preferred how Glinda’s like “I don’t know, make one thing up. You’re good at that.”

Mother: She had some sassy strains.

9 12 months Previous: I just like the sassy strains.

Dad: I hate the sassy strains.

8 12 months Previous: [imitating Veruca Salt, who she recently told me is her favorite Willy Wonka character because she is “sassy” and she loves being sassy] “Daddy, I need an Oompa Loompa now!”

Dad: Precisely.

9 12 months Previous: Okay, so the one factor I truly didn’t like about it — apart from smoochy kissing — was I didn’t like how every thing was extra like AI. It didn’t look as actual.

Dad: What was one thing that didn’t look actual?

9 12 months Previous: The animals regarded actually actually faux. The backgrounds regarded faux. Tin Man and Scarecrow regarded faux.

Dad: The animals and backgrounds for positive had been made by computer systems; I doubt it was AI, however undoubtedly digital results. The Tin Man and Scarecrow, these are actors with make-up. You’ll be able to undoubtedly nonetheless assume it regarded unhealthy, however I’m fairly positive they had been sporting make-up.

9 12 months Previous: I believe it was just a little pc within the face.

Dad: Perhaps it was a mixture.

9 12 months: Perhaps just a little AI.

Dad: The one factor I believed was cool concerning the Scarecrow, I don’t know in the event you guys seen —

Mother: His hair was straw?

Dad: His hair was straw. That was a pleasant contact. That was cool.

8 12 months Previous: Yeah.

Mother: They nonetheless made Scarecrow look kinda cute.

Dad: His hair at all times regarded good. Perhaps I ought to get frosted suggestions so I can appear like a cute Scarecrow.

8 12 months Previous: Dad, cease it.

Dad: What did you consider how the Scarecrow and the Tin Man regarded within the movie?

8 12 months Previous: I used to be petrified of the Tin Man.

Dad: He regarded fairly scary to me too.

9 12 months Previous: However that’s how he seems within the film of Wizard of Oz. They copied it however they made him look extra advanced. I didn’t just like the Scarecrow, though I’m taking part in the Scarecrow.

Dad: What about you?

8 12 months Previous: He was creepy!

Mother: What did you consider how imply Elphaba was to Dororthy?

8 12 months Previous: Huh?

Dad: She screams at her like “Get these footwear off your toes!”

Mother: After which she paused and sang a really candy music.

Dad: Whereas she had a toddler imprisoned below the ground.

Mother: A baby is sobbing in her basement whereas that is occurring.

Dad: How would you two really feel if I screamed at you and locked you in your room after which Mother and I sang a love duet?

8 12 months Previous: I’d throw up.

Dad: Have been there any elements that had been too scary?

8 12 months Previous: A bit.

Mother: Through the Fiyero half you had been crying.

8 12 months Previous: As a result of that’s scary!

Dad: Okay, now I’ve a very severe query.

8 12 months Previous: What?

Dad: You’ve now seen each Depraved motion pictures. You have got additionally seen Depraved on Broadway. So which might you relatively see once more: Each motion pictures or the Broadway present?

9 12 months Previous: Each motion pictures.

8 12 months Previous: [loudly while making intense eye contact] MOVIES.

Dad: Actually? If this weekend somebody mentioned to you “I gives you a ticket to the Broadway present OR to the films — however you’ll be able to solely decide one,” you’d decide the films?

8 12 months Previous: That’s laborious.

Mother: I need to see it on Broadway with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

8 12 months Previous: Yeah, that’s what I need.

Dad: Properly, that’s dishonest.

Mother: They’ll sing, man.

Dad: What in the event that they mixed the 2 motion pictures right into a single movie that was like 4 and a half hours lengthy,. Would you need to see that, or would that be too lengthy?

9 12 months Previous: Uh…

8 12 months Previous: I’d be high quality.

9 12 months Previous: Would there be an intermission?

Dad: Let’s say there can be. There’s an intermission on Broadway, so why not?

9 12 months Previous: Then sure, undoubtedly. 4 hours with no lavatory break I’d simply be like “AAAAAAA!” Trigger it’s so good, I don’t need to miss something.

Mother: Ought to they simply have made one film as a substitute of two?

8 12 months Previous: No!

Dad: Why not?

8 12 months Previous: As a result of every one is so lengthy by itself.

9 12 months Previous: It was suspenseful.

Mother: Ought to they’ve reduce some issues out and simply made them into one film?

8 12 months Previous: No.

Dad: They added songs, they added scenes. They may have simply made one film.

8 12 months Previous: No!

9 12 months Previous: It makes the followers crazier.

Dad: How does it do this?

9 12 months Previous: It makes the fan need to see extra. And it was so good, the primary film, that it was like “I need to see the second!” Mother, you had been so prepared while you discovered we had been going to see it.

Mother: Yeah. I really like Depraved.

9 12 months Previous: Everybody does.

Dad: After which when Elphaba mentioned “I really feel depraved!” she was like [pumps fist] “Yeah!” 

Mother: I really like that line!

Dad: See? You did react! I wasn’t imagining it!

Mother: Okay, I do love that line.

9 12 months Previous: [laughs hysterically]

Mother: She says it on this devilish method. She delivered it completely.

Dad: She did.

Dad: That was a superb half. I could not have fist pumped like Mother did, however I agree. However there was one half I didn’t like a lot. Earlier than she leaves Nessa she says “I’m off to see the Wizard!”

9 12 months Previous: The place did that come from?

Dad: Properly, they’re kind of referencing The Wizard of Oz, the place they sing “We’re Off to See the Wizard.”

8 12 months Previous: I preferred it, nevertheless it was a bit complicated as a result of that proper after [spoiler redacted involving Elphaba casting a questionable spell] and then she’s like “I’m off to see the Wizard. Bye!” She didn’t even ask for forgiveness! She simply left.

Dad: Yeah, that’s a superb level. She makes a giant mess after which instantly was like “Peace!”

Mother: I’ve a query. All people appeared to have redeeming qualities. Elphaba appears depraved, however she’s good. Glinda is “The Good” however she does some unhealthy issues and likewise some good issues. Did you assume Nessa had some redeeming qualities? Or was she simply imply?

8 12 months Previous: She’s not evil, she’s extra like … I don’t know the right way to describe it.

9 12 months Previous: She’s aggravated along with her life.

Dad: She’s had a tough life.

Mother: Yeah, however she sort of simply goes from good to evil.

Dad: She doesn’t get redeemed in any method. And he or she [spoiler redacted]. She blames Elphaba. Not best sister conduct. You wouldn’t do this to your sister proper?

9 12 months Previous: By no means.

Dad: Good.

9 12 months Previous: I’d be jealous if she had magic powers, however not that jealous. I’d by no means forged the improper spell and blame it on her.

Dad: That’s a aid. What about you?

8 12 months Previous: I’d really feel jealous however I wouldn’t do something imply … why are you taking a look at me like I’m mendacity?

Dad: I’m not. [Editor’s Note: I was.]

Mother: I’ve a query: In the event that they had been to make one other film…

9 12 months Previous: There’s nothing to make.

Dad: What concerning the persevering with adventures of Queen Glinda?

9 12 months Previous: She’s not a queen.

Dad: Chief Glinda? Wizard Glinda? The New Wizard of Oz!

9 12 months Previous: No, she’s Glinda the Good.

Dad: They don’t appear to be right into a sequel, Mother.

Mother: No. That wasn’t even what I used to be going to say, although. I used to be going to ask if there was one other character that they might need to know their story.

9 12 months Previous: Oh. I need to see Toto’s story.

8 12 months Previous: Toto!

9 12 months Previous: Like right here’s the explanation why he at all times growls at Glinda: As a result of Glinda silenced Toto. After which banished him to Kansas!

Mother: Toto? Toto’s who you’re going with?

Dad: Would the film be referred to as Complete Toto?

9 12 months Previous: Ew, no.

Mother: What would you name it?

9 12 months Previous: The Canine That Lives in Kansas However Really Lived in Oz.

Dad: You assume that’s a greater title than Complete Toto?

8 12 months Previous: No!

Dad: Thanks.

9 12 months Previous: Or possibly Toto the Rest room!

8 12 months Previous: Hey, that’s what she referred to as me at rehearsal!

Mother: Toto is a form of bathroom. My good friend has one in her home.

9 12 months Previous: So does play apply.

Mother: They’ve a Toto bathroom?

9 12 months Previous: Yeah.

8 12 months Previous: Mother, she truly referred to as me a bathroom!

Mother: That’s not cool.