movie review: Into the Woods

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What I Expected:

A tongue-in-cheek fairytale crossover with singing.

What I Got:

1. Wow, that was pretty depressing. And suspiciously negative towards women.

2. I’m usually all for leaving out exposition, but this movie made no sense. The plot made sense, or was internally consistent, at least, but the characters themselves were inexplicable.

3. I’m guessing the whole thing was supposed to be symbolic of something else? Or maybe it really was just a random assortment of characters connected by singing.

Anyway, whoever wrote the review that the movie is weirdly dark (both in content and in the way that I could never see what was going on in the night scenes, which were most of them) and that you should really just watch the video clip of the princes singing ‘Agony,’ you were 100% right!

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.