Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 12 year old?

Likely fine. Little to manage, and often the better of the two movies at this age. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 13 year old?

Likely fine. Little to manage, and often the better of the two movies at this age. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 7 Year Old?

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 4 year old?

Depends on the kid. Kids who loved the first one will want this and many manage it, but the tone is heavier throughout. Nessarose's death and the caged animals are the two moments that land hard on small kids, and the finale is sad in a way the first movie never was. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 5 year old?

Depends on the kid. Kids who loved the first one will want this and many manage it, but the tone is heavier throughout. Nessarose's death and the caged animals are the two moments that land hard on small kids, and the finale is sad in a way the first movie never was. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 6 year old?

Depends on the kid. The honest threshold. The story is about consequences now, and a 7 year old who can sit with a sad ending gets a rich movie. One who needs the friends to end up together should know going in that they do not. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 7 year old?

Depends on the kid. The honest threshold. The story is about consequences now, and a 7 year old who can sit with a sad ending gets a rich movie. One who needs the friends to end up together should know going in that they do not. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for an 8 year old?

Depends on the kid. The honest threshold. The story is about consequences now, and a 7 year old who can sit with a sad ending gets a rich movie. One who needs the friends to end up together should know going in that they do not. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 9 year old?

Likely fine. The sweet spot. The politics, the propaganda, and the choice between being loved and being right all land, and the ending becomes the point rather than a problem. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for a 10 year old?

Likely fine. The sweet spot. The politics, the propaganda, and the choice between being loved and being right all land, and the ending becomes the point rather than a problem. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Q: Is Wicked: For Good OK for an 11 year old?

Likely fine. The sweet spot. The politics, the propaganda, and the choice between being loved and being right all land, and the ending becomes the point rather than a problem. Wicked: For Good scores 54 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, in the Bold tier.

Wicked: For Good (2025) · the answer, age by age

Written by FilmScout, reviewed by Ben Fedyniak · Updated August 23, 2026

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54 BOLD ScoutScore

For most 7 year olds, Wicked: For Good is a yes with a darker second half than the first movie prepared them for. It scores 54 on the ScoutScore, in the Bold tier, and the difference is real: a sister dies in a cyclone, freed animals are shown scarred by their cages, and the story spends its last hour on loss rather than friendship. The songs still carry it. The ending does not let anyone off easy.

A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.

Age by age

Under 6 DEPENDS

Kids who loved the first one will want this and many manage it, but the tone is heavier throughout. Nessarose's death and the caged animals are the two moments that land hard on small kids, and the finale is sad in a way the first movie never was.

Ages 6 to 8 DEPENDS

The honest threshold. The story is about consequences now, and a 7 year old who can sit with a sad ending gets a rich movie. One who needs the friends to end up together should know going in that they do not.

Ages 9 to 11 LIKELY FINE

The sweet spot. The politics, the propaganda, and the choice between being loved and being right all land, and the ending becomes the point rather than a problem.

Ages 12 and up LIKELY FINE

Little to manage, and often the better of the two movies at this age.

By the year

The same verdicts, by the exact age you are asking about.

4 year old	DEPENDS	Kids who loved the first one will want this and many manage it, but the tone is heavier throughout.
5 year old	DEPENDS	Kids who loved the first one will want this and many manage it, but the tone is heavier throughout.
6 year old	DEPENDS	The honest threshold.
7 year old	DEPENDS	The honest threshold.
8 year old	DEPENDS	The honest threshold.
9 year old	LIKELY FINE	The sweet spot.
10 year old	LIKELY FINE	The sweet spot.
11 year old	LIKELY FINE	The sweet spot.
12 year old	LIKELY FINE	Little to manage, and often the better of the two movies at this age.
13 year old	LIKELY FINE	Little to manage, and often the better of the two movies at this age.

Where the big moments land

The three scenes below are where the sequel earns its score. Two of them are in the back half, which is where a child who was fine at the start may need company.

1:01:43	Caution	Animals freed from cages disrupt the royal wedding
1:17:04	Caution	Cyclone kills Nessarose
1:53:01	Caution	Dorothy melts Elphaba; Glinda mourns

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The bottom line

The⁠ sequel pays the first movie's debts in full, which is exactly what makes it heavier. Say yes to the songs, stay for the ending, and be ready to talk about why good people end up on opposite sides⁠.

Content map

How the scenes we flagged in this movie divide up by kind. These are shares of what was flagged, not a level, and not a promise about anything we did not flag: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Flagged mostly for themes.

Scary and dark	25%
Violence and action	17%
Themes	58%
Sexual content	none flagged
Substances	none flagged
Language	none flagged
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content flagged. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the dotted line, which is 100. The scale has no ceiling, so a shape can cross it.

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