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

Alternative Titles

En el Bosque, Het bos in, Into the Woods - Promenons-nous dans les bois, Dans les bois, En el bosque, Caminhos da Floresta, 숲속으로, Into The Woods, Into the Woods 2014, Чем дальше в лес

comedy fantasy

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Review by adrianbalboa ★★★ 11

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 sree ★★★½ 1

johnny depp reprises his role as the creep
Review by sofi✨ ★★★

i’d like to thank not only god but jesus for chris pine singing “agony” while ripping his shirt
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 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 SilentDawn ★★ 3

35
This is really sturdy for the first hour or so, but then the palette somehow becomes even darker and it loses all momentum.
Review by samantha ★★★½ 1

i can't believe jake gyllenhaal was originally going to be in this. we've been Robbed of him dramatically singing agony and ripping open his shirt with chris pine
Review by justmiaslife ½ 7

It's pretty rare that I really HATE a movie but this movie succeeded in pissing me off in a way that only a handful of films did before.
I seriously questioned my love for musicals while watching this. Everything about this project was wrong. I got a big headache from the songs and the way they were mixed, the colourgrading and production design was a joke and I simply cannot understand how to take this seriously. One thing is clear: I never ever want to see this movie again!
Please stop casting James Corden in everything. And please Disney take a break from projects where it's so obvious that you put no love into it and just want generate more money. Do more movies like Zootopia or freaking leave it by that.
Review by LinusMxx ★★★ 8

The Baker's Wife: I need that shoe to have a child.
Cinderella: *confused* That makes no sense.
I've seen the film three times now and while I kinda hated it at first, it somehow started to grow on me little by little after a rewatch.
First of all, I love the concept on this Stephen Sondheim musical: a dark and cynical take on the iconic fairy tales and putting its beloved characters in the same world together. I mean, the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales have always been dark so this was kind of refreshing to see on the big screen. However, since this was produced by Disney, you can tell that they were trying to play safe on its dark…
Review by tara ★★★½

1. this movie literally enacts its own premise of 'nice is different than good'
2. my laptop died midway through agony and honestly I respect that
3. I have been thinking of emily's giggle at 'and a prince for whatever' every waking moment since 2014
Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★½ 4

“Stay a child while you can be a child.”
Based on the stage musical written and composed by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods has been adapted to the big screen by Rob Marshall without losing its stagy feel to it. Marshall has had success with musicals in the past (Annie, Chicago), but he also had his misses (Nine), so this wasn’t something new for him. Into the Woods seemed to have an interesting premise considering it mashes up several familiar children stories (Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood) and gives it a twist. I went into this film knowing nothing at all about the popular stage play so I won’t be comparing…

Recent reviews

Review by Jaran Gunslinger ★★★

It literally sounds just like sweeney todd
Review by Thomas Scully ★★★½

Still not the best movie where Frances de la Tour plays a giant
Review by taryn :) ★★★

bruhhhh billy magnussen supremacy af
Review by Adya ★★★★

i aspire to be as dramatic as meryl streep in this because wow
Review by filha da anarquia ★★

a coisa mais irrealista dai eh fugir do chris pine tres vezes
Review by CarlosFMideros ★★½

Esta es otra película que la catalogaría como una decepción para mi que disfruto por ciertos elementos que la pudieron haber hecho mejor.
Al ser basado en un musical se apega mucho a ese formato y sientes por momentos que ves una obra de teatro, pero adaptada en formato de película queda muy rara y el guion no ayuda. Sin embargo toda la temática de mezclar esas historias de cuentos un poco más apegadas a su idea original me gusto, y una que otra canción que destacan en un musical que me hubiera encantado amar pero quedó como uno olvidado.
Pd: Johnny Depp hace otro personaje más con maquillaje pero se me hizo lo mejor, su canción del Lobo fue mi favorita. También destacó a quizás mi actriz favorita Anna Kendrick, aunque no la veo tanto como Cenicienta. Sorry Beca.
Review by AJStarr ★★★★½

I cannot believe I missed this when this was shown years back, but truly this film made me love the musical more. Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick are lovely individuals. Chris Pine and Billy Magnussen gave me a good laugh and added to the overall wonder of this adaptation.
Review by fran ★★½

was in the mood for a musical and made the mistake of choosing this one
Review by kittylover18 ★★★½

This movie has some bangers in it I’m ngl. I thought I really loved this movie but watching it again was kinda underwhelming. Like the first half was fire but the end was kinda meh. I love how they incorporated some of the darker elements of the original stories and I love the blending of multiple fairy tales into one large story but the final half dragged a little. Agony is by far the best song and it’s the only reason I watched this movie again in the first place. That lived up to the hype.
PS I too was raised to be charming, not sincere
Review by Maurício ★★

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Review by LolaBeth

I thought this was really silly at first and then cried when Emily Blunt sang the part about people leaving you in the middle of the woods 😭
Review by McKay ★★★

I actually enjoyed this much more than anticipated