Movie Review: Into The Woods.

Director: Rob Marshall

Writers: James Lapine 

My Rating: [insert 5 stars]

Into The Woods follows the story of bakers (James Corden & Emily Blunt), Jack (Daniel Huttlestone), Little Red (Lilla Crawford), Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy) and the witch (Meryl Streep). The bakers wanted a child. They would do anything for a child! So the witch next to their bakery - who have set a curse on the husband baker's family tree because she caught his dad stealing from her garden back before the baker was born, and took the special beans - tasks them to get "a cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slippers as pure as gold" to reverse 2 curses and perform a miracle on a milk-less cow. In the woods, when the bakers first meet Jack, they trade Jack into giving them his cow for THE beans, thinking they fooled Jack with the "They're magical!" they continued on their way to get the rest of what was needed.

When Jack came home, he showed his mother and she got mad and accidentally threw the beans on the ground, not knowing a single thing that will happen. Later on, After Jack killed the first  lady giant by cutting down the vine, another lady giant goes down on Earth to hunt for Jack for first, stealing and second killing the other lady giant. The whole village was almost destroyed.

Into The Woods is a modern twist on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales in a musical version that follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel all tied together by an original story including a baker and his wife and a witch.

I only watched Into The Woods last night. It was amazing, one of the best musicals ever written. I thought the casting was great. I thought the setting, the camera effects was great. And especially, I thought the soundtrack is fantastic! I am actually listening to it now!

If you ever have time, I think you should go watch Into The Woods, it is quite an entertaining film. Or...you could watch the theater version. Either way, Into The Woods, is amazing.

My favorite quotes from it: "Nice is different than good." & ...well...it's basically the whole No One Is Alone song, listen to that & "Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods", I think the last quote is a metaphor of some people leave you through your life (woods metaphor-ing life), either if that's because they died (I'm sorry) or you separated or something like that and it's telling us that, when they leave you halfway through the woods, you have to keep going, whether that's going through the woods alone or not.

:) Elliot Perfect going offline xxx