Clevercell Very disappointing...

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Ymbryne I was actually surprised by how well they wove together different fairy tales. It was very innovative (I have not seen the play, so this was new to me). All the performances were good - Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick and the children were particularly impressive. James Corden who normally annoys the hell out of me on his talk show was actually fine here! His acting wasn't at all bad. His other role as the narrator was unnecessary, the story is not his point of view. On a side note, why is Disney picking people with annoying voices as narrators?? This film, then there was the Cinderella remake with dreadful narration by Helena Bonham carter...Back to this film, it was good in parts but not without major flaws. The dark parts were good but confusing on many occasions.-1. References to pedophilia: Children of today need to be warned about these things and in very clear terms. Just telling them about some big bad wolf is not going to cut it. That is why Johnny Depp's character comes across as a creepy man after the little girl and not an actual wolf. They did tone it down and just showed the wolf-man gobbling up the girl and her grandmother. Anyway, it was OK - they got across the message they intended to. But the really confusing bit was the little girl singing "excited but scared" or something similar when she is around the 'wolf'. I mean he did give off an incredibly creepy vibe and she very smartly senses it and is absolutely sure he is going to harm her and tries her best to be calm and get away before the situation escalates. So these lyrics made no sense to me.-2. Adultery: The baker's wife does mention some discontent with him much much before she kisses the prince. She is married to him for many years and it's been a bit of a rut BUT she JUST had a BABY that she has craved for so long! Maybe you can forgive her for a moment of lapse in judgement (considering the handsome, persuasive prince and all) BUT she carries on with it until he makes some excuse and leaves. After that, her singing about "AND" not "OR" if she can be "clever about it" was out of character. She certainly did not seem that stupid at the beginning of the film or the type to have affairs with married men while being married herself! Again, very confusing.-3. Abandonment: There are various tales of abandonment in this film, all well done. -4. No happily ever after: I particularly liked Cinderella's story in this film. She marries a prince but he is unfaithful! She is disappointed by his betrayal and selfishness but gathers the courage to leave him and asks him what he will do as a king if he is upto no good as a prince. The parts I found most unsatisfactory: 1. The whole story with the lady giant was very unconvincing and frankly, stupid. 2. Lyrics seemed forced on several occasions and confusing on others as I mentioned earlier.3. Why did the baker never try to meet his sister even though he knew that the witch had hidden her somewhere? Did they forget to tie that loose end? 4. The whole thing with Cinderella's step family was a little over the top, especially the birds picking those girls' eyes - was that necessary? 5. The ending was a total cop-out in an attempt to sort of tie everything up in a feel-good way.Overall, the film could have been better if a bit more attention was paid to the characters and their motivations.

MJB784 Visually it was very cool with terrific visuals and production design...but didn't anyone realize that all the songs sounded exactly the same in both lyrics and high pitched voices? That all the songs were basically the same tone and speech pattern where all the lyrics except the chorus were in one ear and out the other and sometimes different songs were playing at the same time sounding the same because every character and actor gave high pitched voices? Here's an example: "DAH DA DAH DA DAH DA DAH DA..INTO THE WOODS!!!..DAH DA DAH DA...INTO THE WOODS!"

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Johnny Depp movie in order, I come to Into The WoodsDespite seeing positive reviews, I skipped this in cinemas, as I just thought it was more of the same from Depp!! I have to say I was wrong, as I seriously enjoyed it. I enjoy a good musical anyway and I love Anna Kendrick, so I am slightly biased.I think Anna Kendrick is a great actress (see Up In The Air) but I tend to not love her movies, and usually only make it through them, due to me having a weird crush on her!! She is not obviously attractive, but she has a certain something about her. She does have a great voice, but she seems to be stuck making Pitch Perfect sequels and things like Mr Right and Get A Job, when she is capable of so much more. One of my main problems with this is, it just tries to incorporate too many subplots!! Like with Dark Shadows trying to get years worth of storylines from the tv show in to one movie. This is the same!! Truthfully you could have almost removed the entire Emily Blunt character sub plot from the movie and it would not be missed!! There is just too much going on.But I do enjoy it!! James Corden is fine and (one of the nicest celebs I have ever met) as is Chris Pine, sending himself up!! though I was surprised Meryl Streep got an Oscar nod here. As for Depp, he only has two scenes, and less than 5 minutes screen time. Here is his main one. Singing a seriously creepy song that more than hints at something creepier..... or maybe it's just me!! Lol All the songs are pretty catchy, and I watch this pretty often with my girlfriends daughter. Into The Woods grossed $128 million at the domestic box office to end 2014 as the 23rd highest grossing movie of the year!!

Mihai Toma In a fantastical and magical world, a couple of classic fairy tales collide in an live action attempt to create something unique. Rapunzel's mother wants her beauty back so she tasks a baker to bring her what she needs in exchange for removing his family's curse. In the meantime, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood and Jack (the one with the bean stalk) have plans of their own in relation with the main story.It's a movie which tried to create something interesting but ended up with a huge pile of rubbish. It tried to be a comedy and a musical but failed miserably in both genres, laughter and musical delight being out of the question. Although it had an interesting cast, to say the least, it tried to tell a sub-mediocre story, but everything went in any direction, except the designated one. It makes you feel that you are watching a very low budget parody, with no clear purpose, which ultimately leads to a retarded finale which simply makes no sense (as the whole movie).It's bad in every possible way, its mere existence being a huge question for me, let alone why its cast accepted to play in such a misery.