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Into the Woods

2014 Directed by Rob Marshall

Be careful what you wish for...

In 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.

Meryl Streep Emily Blunt James Corden Anna Kendrick Chris Pine Tracey Ullman Christine Baranski Johnny Depp Lilla Crawford Daniel Huttlestone Billy Magnussen Mackenzie Mauzy Tammy Blanchard Lucy Punch Frances de la Tour Simon Russell Beale Joanna Riding Annette Crosbie Richard Glover

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Review by adrianbalboa ★★★ 8

the following is a leaked email from IntoTheWoodsProducer1@disney.com to IntoTheWoodsProducer2@disney.com, recovered in the Sony hack:

MOVIE MUSICAL CHECKLIST, or: HOW TO DIRECTLY PIGGYBACK ON THE SUCCESS OF THE LES MIS MOVIE

✅ adapt an old ass musical that works better onstage

✅ swap out practical effects for insanely obvious CGI

✅ hire maximum 2 actors with actual experience on broadway
[i hear chris pine has never even HEARD of into the woods! perfect!]

✅ speaking of which, get that child actor who played gavroche. yes that EXACT same kid

✅ slow down the music, bring it down several octaves so the inexperienced actors can keep up

✅ run an insane best supporting actress campaign
[for emily blunt, obviously. oh, what's…
Review by Tasha Robinson ★★½ 4

What bothers me most about Rob Marshall's stage adaptation isn't that it guts the second half of the Broadway play, losing much of the primary theme, and one of the show's best songs, the "Agony" reprise, and the finale that picks the mood back up from unrelentingly bleak. It isn't just that it's visually drab and unimaginative, overusing the same swirling camera movement, some clunky Jack The Giant Killer CGI, and a space that looks exactly like a soundstage decked in plastic plants. It isn't the casting of a couple of kids who bring down the level of the show considerably. These are all bothersome problems, but the even more egregious issue for me is that the film is so…
Review by Evan ★★★ 6

Musicals aren't really my thing, but Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick are.

Into the Woods is full of very good performances. The stand outs for me were Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, and Anna Kendrick. As many have said, my biggest issue with the film is the second half. I wasn't crazy about any of the songs either, they weren't very memorable. In my opinion an effective musical makes you remember the tunes. For example, after I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show the songs stayed with me for a few days after I watched it. That's not the case with this film; I watched it a few hours ago and I can barely recall any of the songs.
Review by sree ★★★½ 1

johnny depp reprises his role as the creep
Review by Hollie Horror ★½ 24

After about an hour and forty-five minutes of singing, the next song started and I gasped - "Oh for fuck's sake!" Richard then tells me - "Maybe you shouldn't watch musicals if you hate them so much." Well, he's probably right.
Review by 𝔧𝔬𝔰𝔢 1

chris pine is so hot in this GODDAMN

Recent reviews

Review by zackpaslay ★★½

Listen..... there are good intentions here......
Review by Pedro ★½

As someone who knows nothing about the original stage musical, for me this was simply an overly rushed story (aka the entire second hour) with unappealing visuals
Review by Segun Buraimoh ★★★★★

god i love this movie. i listen to the prologue an unhealthy amount. if you really like musicals,this is for you
Review by Ryan Reynsling ★★★

The love I have for Anna Kendrick is equal to the hate I have for musicals.

So I figured out how to watch this.

Muted with subtitles.
Review by Shannon ★★½

Too long
Review by Manuel Ochoa ★½

You lost me at James Corden. What a badly conceived and dumb musical. I was surprised at how the story kind of resolves itself in just over an hour and then drags in idiotic ways just to insert a supposedly uplifting family message. They should have left it on Broadway, where it probably does work.
Review by rajaadam ★★

who’s fucking idea was to cast JAMES CORDEN AS THE LEAD in a MUSICAL THAT IS CLEARLY MEANT FOR THEATRE and
NOT FOR THE BIG SCREEN

Meryl KILLS IT tho
Review by Jacob Kooistra ★½

There is a lot to like, from the performances to the production design, but the songs feel too similar, and there is no time in-between any of them, so they all start to mesh together, and just as the movie is starting to wear out its welcome, it pulls a stunt that pushes the ending back. The first half is interesting enough, and the second half is cliche-destroying awesomeness, but by the second half I was so worn out from the songs and color palate and characters that I couldn't care less.
Review by Tom Cross ★★★★

Lotta big names in here but I was most impressed with the child actors playing Jack and Red. My biggest complaint is that the 2 act structure didn't really translate well into the movie, and the change in tone felt really weird.