The School for Good and Evil (2022) Review

When best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposite sides of an epic battle after they were swept away to a different world with an enchanted school of aspiring heroes and villains being trained! Especially when they both feel they should be on the opposite sides.

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Sophie and Agatha are seen as misfits in the village of Gavaldon and that is one of the main reasons their friendship was so strong. They had each other and at times that was all that really mattered, even though in many ways they are opposites, it just quite frankly worked very well for the friendship. Sophie dreams of nothing more than becoming a princess and hits all the natural stereotypes to become just that, until of course she is actually transported to the School of Evil rather than the School of Good! Made even worse that Agatha is in the Good school rather than Evil, which given the personas of the pair the opposite would make more sense.

I guess that raises an interesting idea that things aren’t always as they seem! That you can never really judge someone by what they show on the outside and that deep down they could be a totally different person, as apparently with the school no one is ever placed in the wrong one! I didn’t really know very much about this film before watching it and it gave me full on Wicked the Musical feels so I went with it and it wasn’t really like that, but certainly had the potential to be.

It was engaging enough though and the fact that Paul Feig was directing and a co-writer was surely just an added bonus as I really do enjoy so many of his films! Patti LuPone popping up was another truly exciting moment, I just we had more of her. Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie were both engaging enough and showed that they can lead a film in a good manner. Cate Blanchett’s voice being used to tell the story is something that I have always loved since the prologue of Lord of the Rings.

Feeling like just an opening chapter to a series, with the reviews being rather mixed it makes you wonder if it will end up as just a one off film. One of Netflix’s better attempts at a different world that is for sure given that it is based on a book.