The School for Good and Evil

The School for Good and Evil

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.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
  • Stars: Sophia Anne Caruso, Sofia Wylie, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Flatters, Kit Young, Peter Serafinowicz, Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron, Earl Cave, Rachel Bloom, Mark Heap, Patti LuPone, Freya Parks, Demi Isaac Oviawe, Kaitlyn Akinpelumi, Briony Scarlett, Cate Blanchett, Joelle, Ali Khan, Rob Delaney, Liam Woon, Stephanie Siadatan, Adam Ray, Olivia Booth-Ford, Emma Lau, Chinenye Ezeudu, Harvey Scrimshaw, Misha Butler, John Macdonald, Shanti Deen-Ellis, Ben Aycrigg
  • Director: Paul Feig
 Comments
  • piratefishmama - 18 April 2024
    just bad writing all around really
    So i watched it, i put it off for ages because the little preview netflix shows you, is that scene where Sophie walks through the curtains all makeovered and it's just... cringe. In the worst way. But i was bored, so i watched it and i just. There's just one. Really big issue i've seen, other than the acting (It's giving Disney Channel Original Movie, and not in a good way)

    The rule for Good, is that they can only defend, they cannot attack or the sides switch and good becomes evil and evil becomes good an everything kind of falls apart, which is what happens later, Good side attacks innocent Evil side (prompted, but still not excusable) and they become the visage of evil while the Evil side switch to the image of Good.

    BUT...

    the Good Prince already attacked and killed something before all that went down, and nothing bad happened to him, other than getting decked for it.

    He killed the big bone bird. He killed Gregor. He wasnt actually defending anyone either, because Gregor never posed any threat to anyone, he was trying to be seen, he was trying to show them that he was there, that he needed help, he was asking Agatha for help and he was killed for it.

    Yeah, the prince thought he was saving Agatha, but that doesnt matter, he wasn't. He jumped to conclusions and attacked something that wasnt attacking anyone, therefore he couldn't have been defending anyone.

    And despite all that, despite Agatha being initially furious, and rightfully devastated over the loss of such a sweetheart, she just... forgives the Prince? For murdering her friend??? In front of her very eyes??? Gregor is basically forgotten about almost immediately.

    It's just bad writing.
  • lovelyprincesslorelei - 14 January 2024
    I don't think people get it. It's SUPPOSED to be corny. It's actually brilliant.
    This is not "deep", it's a parody full of cringe here and there ON PURPOSE. That's the point. It's funny, whimsical, adorable, and occasionally completely idiotic. That wasn't an accident. The cringe-factor is the silly taken from every stereotypical "feel good" Disney adaptation of actually dark twisted fairy tales, but just cranked up to 11.

    When you look past that, you see it's actually brilliant, it's totally overdone but simultaneously tacky in these scenes, only included as a jab at the fact that they "have" to be there, so let's include them in the most embarrassing silly, and redonkulous "but why?" fashion possible, at the weirdest possible times.

    At the same time, it is absolutely adorable in certain ways. It's heinously predictable in its application of "inverting" the stereotype. You know it is going to happen. That's the point. But it shouldn't be any other way. It doesn't have plot twists. It has "plot twists".

    And then you go "aww" but at the same time, it's because you're a child and you probably have a disturbed twisted childhood too. "I am these people, God I am so generic."