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
  • hellholehorror - 26 March 2024
    Sits in the middle
    This isn't good and it isn't bad. It sits right in the middle and is perfectly watchable but nothing more. The special effects are excellent, consistently impressive except for the bit where they are flying near the start. People flying in movies never looks real except Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Some of the film looks like a virtual production but most of it looks real. The pacing is very good at the start but does slow down a little as it goes on although never to the point of stopping watching. Most of the characters are pretty unlikeable, especially outside the main duo. The concept felt very unoriginal, taking almost everything from Harry Potter. The production design too felt unoriginal with some excellent but also generic special effects. The acting is excellent. The main duo look 10 years too old to be going to school, in fact all of the cast look too old to be students. Early on in the film the good students exhibit more evil traits than the evil but I guess that's the point of the story. Much as I liked the spectacle and the fighting it is let down by stereotypical stereotypes of derivative caricatures. The story and characters are so unoriginal and some of the key motivating decisions by the main characters make no sense. Overall perfectly watchable and nothing more.
  • balthesaur - 19 November 2023
    Flashy and entertaining
    When Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie) get accepted/abducted-by-a-giant-bird to attend the mysterious 'School for Good and Evil', they soon find themselves thrown into a world they only thought existed in stories. With magic and intrigue, Sophie - the would-be princess turned villian - tries to find a way to the good school, while Agatha attempts to navigate her way out of the academy all together. While exploring the school, Sophie and Agatha uncover a conspiracy that threatens the foundation of the school.

    Decently shot and acted film! The plot lacks some substance during the third act and some of the supporting characters seem to not get enough screen time to justify why they have speaking roles, but the film makes a logical conclusion.

    Worth a watch!
  • sandervanderheide - 1 July 2023
    No connection at all
    So interesting to see a couple of famous actors and it feels like they are doing this unprepared and almost like u experienced actors. So there must be more than this to get great results than just hiring great actors (well , the famous ones are great, the other ones are really inexperienced). Maybe it's the script, maybe it's the director, but although everything looked great, it didn't got you involved as a viewer. The two main characters didn't got my sympathy at all and best is to compare this with something like Harry Potter or Wednesday, where you instantly get connected to the characters.
  • arendogan - 23 December 2022
    Best movie
    This Movie is one of the best i have watched, i watched it with my family and it was really fun to watch, im still waiting for a second one, the actors were amazing and did very good job. All of their style and cloth are really cool. The princess with all their dresses are really pretty and nice. It was so good to watch, i really hope they make a second one because the end wasn't like other move ends, i think something happened again that got me so curious and wanting to see more and for other people as well probably, they got into the wrong schools but came a part of it which was not people were excepting probably.
  • mickeman - 8 December 2022
    Only for older children or very young teens
    Im a avid fantasy reader and watcher of fantasy movies and thought the summary of this movie was interesting and also some of the actors and actresses staring.

    That said I'm also a white male 55 year old and I soon found out that I'm not the intended viewer of this movie. First off I found that the modern language and music put me of, of feeling any kind of medieval mood.

    The story also was way to simple and boring the main character does not get much to work with. Sure the special effects was good but without meaning just for show. Imdb states that this is a action comedy but I found the action to booring nothing more exiting than an old cartoon and the comedy, well I did not find anything funny about it.

    So if I imagine myself a old child or young teen would I find this film entertaining? Perhaps a little more but not much.

    In layman's terms it is very very lame.

    It could have been much better if it was perhaps written and directed by Quentin Tarantino or John Hughes just imagine.

    Instead I would recommend these movies/series:

    The Princess bride 10th Kingdom Willow.
  • Mr-Topshotta - 27 November 2022
    "THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL" REVIEW
    Directed by Paul Feig. A runtime of two hours and twenty-seven minutes. Streaming on Netflix with a PG-13 rating. "Sophie" played by Sophia Anne Caruso and "Agatha" played by Sofia Wylie are two best friends. They live in a small lame town. There looked at as outcasts. Which doesn't bother "Agatha". As long as she has "Sophie" they can conquer anything.

    But "Sophie" isn't content with this town. She always wanted more. She's dreamed of being a princess or the lead in those fairytale stories. Which was no surprise when she got allowed to leave this horrible town for this enchanted school she took it.

    Not willing to let go figuratively and literally "Agatha" joins "Sophie" when she was abducted to go. Now they're in this enchanted place with two schools. One for good and one for evil. This place's magic is real and all the fairytale stories we ever heard of are real.

    Feeling misplaced "Sophie" ends up on the evil side and "Agatha" on the good. You watch these two as they navigate being in situations they weren't prepared to be in or want to be in at all. As they both find footing in this new world with all these new enchanted people. Some are quite famous like King Author's son "Tedros" played by Jamie Flatters or Captain Hook's son "Hort" played by Earl Cave.

    The "School Master" played by Laurence Fishburne. The head of Evil "Lady Lesso" played by Charlize Theron and the head of Good "Professor Dovey" played by Kerry Washington. Along with an evil being "Rafal" played by Kit Young. With a school full of the most known characters, children. Will all witness how two outsiders not from their world, turn their world upside down.

    "The School for Good and Evil" was very interesting. Had a lot of elements to it. Took some sauce from different films and tv series but it still had its flare. Was a ton of big-name actors mixed with a popular younger group of actors. I knew the older ones but my daughter knew a lot of the younger ones. I was fully into it.

    Sometimes you watch a trailer on Netflix and it screams film. Then you start watching it and realize it's a series. This was reversed. I swear this was a series and turned out to be a film. It had so much going on in it. It should have been a series. They dropped the ball with that one.

    I got kind of worried because so much was going on that I was curious how they were going to tie it up in one film. They did though, with the ending feeling a little rushed. I also was let down by the ending. I won't spoil it, but it kind of made the whole film redundant. Then something at the very end happened. Which signaled there will be a sequel.

    I'll watch it because it wasn't a bad film at all. Some of it was cheesy but it was a good family film. Especially if you like all the enchanted type stuff. They spent money on this film for sure. Partly may be why they decided to go with a film rather than a series. On top of having these huge actors commit to long periods was probably a hurdle.

    Anyways. Good film, with a couple of parts that annoyed me but overall a film that everyone can enjoy. I give this film four mor fires 🔥🔥🔥🔥.

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  • TharsheyN - 19 November 2022
    A Movie About Magic Without Anything Magical About It.
    I honestly don't know what I was expecting, I mean I'd like to say I came into this movie with no expectations and yet I still left disappointed.

    The storyline was well mediocre at best and that's being generous. There was nothing actually good about it, it was like perfectly average I guess you could say. It was basically about 2 friends who get whisked away to a magical school where all the good and evil people from fairytales train and learn to create their own new fairy tales for the world.

    Anyway onto the casting, It had a pretty star heavy cast with Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Laurence Fishburne, Kerry Washington, Michelle Yeoh and Kit Young all playing various characters. None of them really stood out though or left any kind of positive impression on me, which is a shame considering all that star power and talent. The film just gives them nothing to work with really.

    The 2 young female leads Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie do put on a good performance. So I will say well done to them, even if the characters they played were not the most interesting, but they developed throughout the movie and the actress were both able to portray that development really well. I especially enjoyed Sophia Anne Caruso's performance as Sophie, it was definitely full of energy throughout.

    Anyway the movie was still enjoyable, It's a one time watch for sure because there is no way you're rewatching it for the story though skipping through it a second time for some of the magic scenes and transformations Sophie goes through is a possibility. A 5/10 from me, just can't rate it any higher with how generically boring it would be to view it a second time.