Wicked releases this week with some very high expectations and, surprisingly for some, it is managing to exceed them all after landing a gravity-defying 96% Tomatometer score from critics and almost perfect 99% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Musical movies, whether based on existing stage shows or an original, have often struggled to capture the hearts of modern movie critics. While recent adaptations such as the big screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webbers Cats made many studios and filmmakers never want to touch another musical again, Wicked is now changing that completely.