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//Sge movie spoilers, kind of a more detailed review and my opinions about some other opinions I’ve seen about the movie, I feel like these are going to be controversial aaaa

I miss the Agatha mirror scene and Circus of Talents as much as anyone, but idk I still think the movie is good and a great adaptation of the book. I’m getting the vibes that there are a lot of people who read the book and wanted the movie to be an exact copy, which is a very common thing in book to movie adaptation reviews. I’ve always been under the belief that adaptations are adaptations though. They require some change: to be able to fit that time constraint of movies (which this was very generous on by the way!! 2 1/2 hours is about an hour more than I was expecting!), to make sense to people that haven’t read the whole series, and to have something new for readers to see. Going in with that expectation made the movie much more enjoyable than expecting the book word for word, and left me open to the new aspects that were just as enjoyable and gave me new content about this world and characters!

Why do so many people keep talking about missing stuff from the other books? It’s just based on book one people.

I’m glad they didn’t make Sophie as mean as she was in the book. It made so much more sense to me why her and Agatha were even friends, Sophie was such a bully in the book. It also made it so much less obvious that they were in the wrong schools (making that entire plot point less annoying), and exhibited that lesson about gray area between good and evil that makes these books so special. Sophie was so much less OBVIOUSLY bad, she had nuance, she was a human.

The school master thing wasn’t done in the same way. But that doesn’t mean it was bad! Just different. I liked it! I thought it made it a little more surprising in a way; because he was so open/involved, they definitely all took for granted that he was the good bro. Sorry, but when the school master is all mysterious and hides away in his tower all day and literally wears a mask, it’s so suspicious and I wouldn’t have been so trusting that he was good if I was literally anyone in the story.

Speaking of school master, him just stepping back and letting good get all cocky and vain and taking their wins for granted?!?! Loved that twist!! Again it shows some nuance in evil/good!!! It also apparently just worked better to unbalance good and evil which was what he wanted to do.

Sorry again but I’ve never understood why people shipped Sophie and Agatha so hard. They’re LITERALLY SO TOXIC and I guess I’m biased because of how much I disliked Sophie in the books, and loved Agatha and wanted better for her. I think the movie does their relationship a lot better honestly. Agatha isn’t such a like, victim? Idk what to call it. Their friendship was so fake and I hated reading about Agatha following Sophie around like a puppy the whole time. For the movie, Sophie literally saves her from the creepy drunk guy, and they laugh together and like make fun of the other people in Gavaldon together and it actually seems like they’re friends, they’re all they’ve got in the world. It makes Agatha’s devotion to Sophie make so much more sense to me!!! Of course she loves Sophie, Sophie is actually nice to her sometimes!!! Genuinely!!!! Not a good deed!!! They also assured several times and made it very clear that their relationship is platonic so hopefully there won’t be so much freaking out about incest or queer baiting like people are expecting. It’s more powerful that they’re platonic anyway, we kind of need more of that relationship in media I think. You can have very strong friendships and have romance.

Sophie’s movie character!! She still wants to be a princess and she still wants power and she still wants to be beautiful! I get her SO MUCH MORE NOW! It makes sense that she thinks she can be good because she does save people and she is genuinely Agatha’s friend! It doesn’t seem like she’s faking it as much as she does in the books. She is still power hungry, and vain. To be honest I think that makes her more like some of the good characters like Beatrix, making all the concern about the “switch” seem much more valid. But then her embracing the evil, the fact that she likes it, she doesn’t feel guilt, she just wants what she wants, is what makes her truly the evil queen she is. She’s not pretending to be good. Her desires just happened to align with good things sometimes. Like Agatha/their friendship. She does want to protect Agatha because she actually values her; I never really felt like Sophie even liked or valued Agatha in the books, just blatantly used her to get what she wanted. I think it was less blatant in the movie which makes it more evil, if that makes sense? Subtlety and manipulation rather than just being a brat :/

Omg but also Sophie not actually hating and being ashamed of being ugly??!!! She totally purposefully rocked it to make her point and then was able to fully be her evil self and it just wasn’t as much evil=ugly as the book kind of became. Same as we can say for Agatha, her coming into her beauty was like, not even a thing which made her beauty not equate to her goodness! A lesson not very well executed in the book, was basically taken out!

Hort in skirt??! I can’t believe no one mentioned that as fas as I’ve seen??? He was also so much creepier, seeing it was totally different for me than reading it.

This movie was also funny!! I’m so glad it kept some of the silly stupid humor that the books have. (At least there was no fart jokes,,, I would have died of embarrassment)

Also the diversity of the cast in so many more ways than race! An Ever in a wheelchair, not ugly Nevers (other than Sophie), various body types/shapes on all sides! Vanessa appearing to be mixed race!!! I just wanted to appreciate that for a moment amongst the upset about queerness and race things. This is probably one of the most diverse casts I’ve seen,,, ever!! (Pls don’t come at me for that I don’t watch a lot of tv or movies other than anime/cartoons, I don’t PERSONALLY know yet about other more diverse casts.) I just know I would have really appreciated seeing Agatha, with her thick, big, gorgeous curly hair, or Chinen, or Dot, or Anadil, for not being super skinny and still being beautiful Evers and Nevers! Being humans instead of models!

I thought the CGI was good! The blood magic was definitely,,, interesting, but I guess I can see it as purposeful, it kind of seemed glowy and popping off the screen, out of place, like it should have been if it was supposed to be so strange and taboo and dangerous (or I’m just making excuses for it asgdhjflglf) I miss the unique finger glow colors and the iconic pink magic, but I was surprised in the ball scenes that there was different colors sometimes so maybe it’s just because they changed and added the blood magic so I think it’s fine

Omg GREGOR!!! Was so cute!! I loved his addition, and the fact that it wasn’t a random Gargoyle and it was someone Agatha KNEW and was kind of friends with that turned into a animal and that Tedros killed makes it more impactful. I still cried at that and the wish fish scene even though I’ve read it probably ten times lol. The fact that it isn’t given that absolutely everyone wanted to be at the school, even if they grew up in fairytale land.

I loved how over the top and dramatic the fight scenes were, it felt as fantastical as it should be, and showed that they don’t take themselves too seriously which I appreciated a lot!! It’s literally supposed to be fairy tales I don’t want realism

I am sad that the trial by tale, Agatha mirror revelation, circus of talents, and even Sophie killing the wolf had to be cut/reduced. Reading the trial, I thought that was the end of the story, the climax, and the fact that it moved past that kept me so invested I was like what can possibly be next?! An even BETTER climax with a HUGE CLIFFHANGER!! That’s why the book has always stood out so much to me, it kept twisting and surprising me. I miss Agatha discovering she was beautiful the whole time. I miss the realization that Sophie was truly off the deep end when she pushed the wolf in the water. Those were VERY important to their character arcs, and the girls do feel underdeveloped in the movie because of that. But from a non-reader perspective, I think that the fact that Sophie isn’t so blatantly evil as I’ve described makes up for her lack of murder, and Agatha just didn’t seem as insecure in the movie so I don’t think that was as much of a barrier for her to overcome, so it probably wouldn’t have fit as well anyway. The circus of talents is like, my favorite scene in the book, but the same goes for that, I’m not sure it would have fit? I feel like it was replaced with having Gregor become the stymph. He was Good, and became an evil creature. It just wasn’t as knocked over your head as the circus did it. And the whole collaboration of good and evil was still there in the end with the students picking each other up after the Balls. A movie couldn’t be as long as the book, and as I’ve expressed, I think the movie plot choices make up for it in subtler, different, but still good, ways. For the trial, it wasn’t as big, happened SO FAST, but it accomplished the same goal as in the books. I’m probably most disappointed about these four scenes being gone than anything else about the movie, but I can understand why they were cut/changed and I don’t feel like it entirely detracts from the quality of the movie.

I’LL SAY IT!! I LIKED THE MUSIC CHOICES!!! Toxic by Britney Spears as the big climax fight song!!! ICONIC! WONDERFUL! SHOWSTOPPING! BRUTAL OUT HERE?! YEAH IT SURE IS!!!! It made me laugh, but it wasn’t overused and it was mostly instrumental too or like more moody remixes so I liked it a lot actually

I guess my general rebuttal to a lot of complaints about how different it is, is just that there are (good!) reasons for much of it and it even fixed a lot of the flaws of the books in my opinion. I’m excited to read what more people think even if it’s different from my thoughts :) still so excited for my family and friends to see it and understand what I’ve been talking about for literal years!!!

I miss Prof Sader :( because of the plot changes he wasn’t exactly necessary and I get it but Agatha father figure and he was so fun and quirky and I miss him

OH MY GOSH I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT ABOUT TEDROS THAT WAS LIKE MY FAVORITE CHANGE!!! He’s actually cute and funny!!!! He’s still like stereotypical prince and Agatha still is helping him see less black and white sides but he’s not like, soooo egotistical, and the fact that he is drawn to Agatha because she’s sassy, from the beginning, instead of being immediately drawn to Sophie being hot means a lot to meeee :) and I feel like thinking you saved someone and then punching you for it is a valid reason to be salty and confused about it just sayin. But he actually gets some development and charming personality traits I like him so much more :)))

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sonaligaur22 · 7 days

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Informational

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Optimize for featured snippets.

Encourage satisfied customers to leave positive reviews and make sure to respond to all reviews, even if they are negative.

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Stay Ahead in 2024-2025: Must-Know SEO Trends and Winning Strategies