The School for Good and Evil
                                                                              
Director: Paul Feig
Year: 2022
Rating: 4.5
Good lord, are there really six more books in this series? We can only pray that Netflix doesn't film them all. This is the Curse of Harry Potter. All these authors figured the quick way to fame and fortune was in the juvenile genre of magic. There is so much of this crap out there. All hoping their work will be picked up for a film series. Teenagers should be reading the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew! Not filling their mind with witches, wolves and princes. But I was not brought here by an evil spell - but by Michelle Yeoh. I decided to catch up on her post Hong Kong films and she is in the credits. Gads Zook. For about five minutes as it turns out. As the Professor of Beauty. In the same year that she starred in Everything Everywhere All at Once. How did that happen? Anyways, I came, I saw, I regretted. Not that it is the worst thing in the world - that would be The Titanic - but never in the field of human endeavor has so much talent been used for so little. Michelle, Laurence Fishburne, Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron and Patti Lupone were only too happy to take the money and lose their dignity. I would have done the same. But no one asked.



It is a special effects bonanza. And not really badly done. But just so much of it. And a lot of young actors surrounding the veterans that I expect I will never see again. CGI must be getting easier to do. Will AI make it even easier? Will anything be real in the future? About the film - it takes place in some land in the past - or just an imaginary space. But in the small town of Gavaldon, two teenage girls - Sophie (Sophia Anne Curuso) and her best buddy Agatha (Sofia Wylie) - are devoted to one another. Everyone thinks Agatha is a witch and Sophie a nobody. But they have each other. Sophie wants out of town and Agatha doesn't but when Sophie runs away Agatha follows her and both are picked up by a giant bird and dropped off at two schools. Yes, you got it. The School for Good and the School for Evil that are right next to each other and share some common areas. Sophie at Evil, Agatha at Good.



Sophie doesn't want to be at Evil and Agatha just wants to go home. But it turns out that they both have special powers. And there is an unseen evil force at work. To make the two schools hate each other and kill one another. And it slowly turns Sophie evil! Yes, children, sweet Sophie becomes an instrument of evil! And Agatha has to save her. And so on and so on. 150 minutes of so on. I hope this will put to rest the rumors that I am getting too old to watch movies and stay awake. I have yet to confuse Peloisi with Haley. When that day comes, please take my movies away. Again, I am being a little rough on the film. I am not the audience for it. Wrong age, probably wrong gender. It is well-made technically and the two main actors are fine.