Into the Woods

2014 PG  2 hour Musical from Disney Studios

stars Emily Blunt, James Cordon, Meryl Streep as the witch, Chris Pine as Prince Charming , Anna Kendrick  and Johnny Depp & the ‘big’ bad wolf.

Instead of our usual fairytales, we have a mash-up story woven together into an annoying Musical.  OH Gods are they only going to sing.  My favorite Musical is Grease I love it,  but at least it’s not a constant headache through the whole movie; it has parts that are spoken and others  (pivotal parts?) where maybe you’d expect there to be a musical number.  Into the woods however I don’t recall one spoken part! and even if there were it still sounds like it’s a sing songy voice. It’s a never ending headache watching this movie!

Oh my gods!! Johnny Depp as the Big Bad wolf is more creepy than bad. I did love the sound of the song he did. His voice reminds me of  Tim Curry in the Worst Witch . WHOA! Little Red has got a set of lungs on her! Scream Queen worthy.

Wait is that Tracey Ullman as Jack’s mom?!  Wow I don’t think I’ve seen her in anything for years! Maybe even a decade or 2!

Why is that not the singing voice I expected out of Chris Pine?  I don’t know what sort  did expect, but that one is certainly not it. There’s a few sort of funny parts, I do love the falls during Pine’s 1st number. 1 hour and 10 minutes in, I have a headache and I’m still not impressed.  Anyone want to try that ‘fertility spell’ ? Oh Happily never after, now things should get interesting. Meryl!!!  loved the hair and dress (toward the end). We have a bit of the blame game  and I thought I was going to yell at the tv for them to grow up (this I learned from dad as a child while watching wrestling. THe odd thing though is they can seem to hear me through the tv! When it didn’t work for dad! Now Who’s the witch Meryl?!)  I so wish Johnny Depp & Meryl Streep had a number together. Meryl’s ‘Midnight’ was quite a performance!  (and gets her a nom for my Avatar Awards!)

Movie= D,

Meryl’s performance B+

 Into the woods on Imdb.com