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Wicked: Part Oneends on a high note, literally and figuratively.
Then, during Defying Gravity, she attempts to makeherselfgrow wings but instead accidentally enchants a broom to fly.
Then Elphaba jumps out a window and loses it.
Make that make sense.
Perhaps more egregious, once Elphaba gets on the broom, shes suddenly levitating.
Thats right shes not using the broom to fly; she herself is flying.
If just the broom were flying, one would presume shed be underneath it, but she isnt.
She is flying of her own accord while looking down at people beneath her.
How is she doing that?
(Two hours and 40 minutes, to be specific.)
The least it could do is explain the basic mechanics of the most powerful magic in all of Oz.
Make the broom fly, or make the monkeys grow wings, or make Elphaba levitate.
But all that with one spell?
While defying gravity, the movie starts defying its own logic, and thatsba-a-ad.
