Review of Into the Woods (2014) by Dokalu — 14 Feb 2015

Into the Woods doesn’t stand out in any particular field. There has passed much time since I saw a nice musical-movie, and that’s something to give it credit for. I think it’s original the idea behind it of reuniting all of those famous children-story characters, and I also think that the music and lyrics are pretty well made and nice to listen; but besides that and the famous actors in it, I didn’t like the film that much. It started pretty well, with a nice all-characters-introduction song, but from there, it just went down. Though the acting is good, the scenarios, the special effects, the characters, it all really looked very unreal, and the originality needed to make that movie should have been a lot more. If the film would have ended in its first half, it would have been awesome. The nice, maybe clichéd, happily ever after ending, where everyone gets what they want; but sadly, it continued, stopped being a Grimm’s mashup and started being Disney’s, and all that was just awful, they ruined the story. I was bored almost during all the second half.

As I said, music is really fine, lyrics as well, and it was beautifully shot, but the story is ridiculous and some of the scenarios look really fake. Children are going to like this very much, but I guest most adults will be pretty disappointed.

Real score: 5.