Many of us assumed that a Bad movie would never actually happen. There was talk as early as 2010 about adapting the beloved Broadway musical about the Wicked Witch of the West into a film. Even after the project was formally announced in 2016, it took almost a decade for the film to actually hit theaters. .

Almost miraculously, all that time paid off. Despite the delays, despite the questionable choice to split the story into two parts (yes, this movie is technically Part one),Bad is largely a triumph, a spectacle designed to appeal to old fans of the show and attract new ones to huge box office numbers.