Movie Review: Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a rare film in today’s marketplace. A large scale movie, heavy with stars, that is also a musical. Some would argue that the age of the musical is well over with and why bother with that genre anymore? Musicals haven’t been main-stream for decades but recent history suggests that there is an audience for these spectacles during the holiday season as Les Misérables (2012), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Chicago (2002) all demonstrate. Into the Woods was directed by Rob Marshall who knows a bit about movie musicals as he also directed the aforementioned Chicago. The writer of Into the Woods is James Lapine who adapted the original stage play musical that he wrote with Stephen Sondheim (who you may have heard of).
Into the Woods is a curious mélange of several children’s stories taken in a new darker direction. We...
Into the Woods is a curious mélange of several children’s stories taken in a new darker direction. We...
- 12/25/2014
- by Steven Gahm
- CinemaNerdz
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