Review of Into the Woods (2014) by Bloodyrandy — 25 Mar 2015
I thought the boy actor was excellent, you can sense that from the first bit where he starts singing vs the baker's wife. He gives the movie energy. Too bad the story is super lame after 2/3rds in. It has a twisted scene that shoots the whole story in the foot.
No wonder Disney quickly had a Cinderella followup in theaters just in case they would upset their fanbase. Anna Kendrick was a strange choice and I'm not sure she fit in as a gorgeous Cinderella, not saying she's not pretty, but not the best choice for this role.
Emily Blunt was a bit boring when she sang and she's giving me the eye every other scene she's in. She's supposed to be a baker's wife and she gives off too many looks and signals to the audience, not the best acting that I've seen her do.
The witch and the Repunzel had some strange lyrics to their songs. She is not her daughter, and that dragged out more than it should have. The misunderstood witch was frustrating rather than having her be good or evil, they kept her in the middle pretty much saying she's just really selfish.
It's a real shame, almost thought we finally got a good Newsies followup, but instead we got a misunderstood evil movie with some liberal agenda themes. A lot of the actors and actresses were really good apart from most of the well known ones.
It almost gets annoying to see so many well known actors and actresses show up, would have preferred a brand new cast. And the new actors and actresses killed it, but the well known ones didn't.
This review of Into the Woods (2014) was written by Bloodyrandy on 25 Mar 2015.
Into the Woods has generally received mixed reviews.
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