Into the Woods
December. 25,2014 PGIn a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Captivating movie !
Best movie of this year hands down!
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree. Into the Woods mixed alot of famous fairy tails like Red Riding Hood and Enchanted but forgot to put the word 'magic' in them as well and the end result is a very forgettable film that even Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick could not save from being absolutely boring. Sure the music is alright and alot of work has been put into costumes, settings and effects but that's about it cause the film is a mess of different ideas put together into one. (4/10)
A total waste. No real songs, glossed over/abbreviated stories, more so-so acting than should be in a major production, and unimaginative art direction/costumes. It's supposed to be a musical, but there aren't really any songs. It's almost entirely just sing-songy dialogue that happens to have random bits of music flitting around behind it. The fairytales either need to be "fractured" for silliness or delivered faithfully. Not just muddled for convenience-sake like this. Worst of all, no progression. Most of the way through, the husband and wife characters do a whole speech/song about how the husband's character has changed, but it hasn't. There aren't any character arcs at all by that point in the movie. Oh, and the acting. Red Riding Hood is too old, too loud, and really obnoxious. The two princes seemed very hard to believe as heterosexuals, especially during their big duet. The husband/wife seemed like a modern suburban couple (of green actors). The entire set design is dark blue/green. What's the point of having a production design budget if there's nothing to look at? And who designed Depp's Big Bad Wolf costume, or lack thereof? Not only is that lazy, but it also makes the scene seem more like a weird old man hitting on a young girl than like an animal wanting to consume her. Wrong kind of creepy, guys. Finally, I'm generally annoyed at Disney's new self-flagellating trend to appease classic-fairytale-Disneyfying haters. Once Upon a Time and other such TV shows were bad enough as examples of ironically anti-Disney products. The original versions of the fairytales that Disney adapted in the past were horrific, and I was glad to see them cleaned up and made kid-friendly. Heck, civilized-society friendly. This movie is an example of backsliding. Disney needs to stop the self-hate and embrace its tradition as a positive shaper of our modern mythology. In short, skip this movie. It's abject cultural flotsam.
I watched the movie and honestly the movie sucked. The worst musical i have ever seen in my life. The songs and the story was just what am I watching. To bad that there were so many great actors in it. So a warning for everyone that looks at the cast, don't get tricked by there names. I am not saying that the actors were awful, it was just the whole production, story and songs. I would have been better i they could have kept it short. But seriously don't watch it, not worth your time. The only thing that you want to do after watching it is to repress the whole thing.
This movie is not good. It's all over the place, and hard to concentrate on what's going on. Zero tempo. Also, they really worked hard to make it darker then it had to be. They could have cut out a third of the scenes, and the movie would have been a little better. A mess.