Into the Woods is based off the hit broadway musical and this film version stars Emily Blunt and James Corden as a Baker's couple who want a child but the house is cursed by a witch (Meryl Streep) but to lift the curse they must find a Red Cape, a Golden Slipper, Golden Hair and a White Cow.
Hmmmm.
Look this movie is far from terrible but it is also very very average but before I delve into that I will delve now into what I did like and that is primarily some of the cast, there is a big cast here but they don't all hit their marks but the ones that did I felt were Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine ("Jack Ryan" failing wasn't your fault) and Blunt, all three of them are very good here and do the best they can with the material given to them.
Which leads me to my main problem with this film: All of it feels so very average and the reason that is the case is that the songs and the story never feel part of a cohesive whole which is utterly vital for a musical to succeed, the singing feels very auto tuned for the most part and the songs themselves either come one after the other or just pop up out of nowhere and I just didn't really care about any of them.
And the other cast members who don't hit their marks didn't help things either, Corden just comes across as a very poor substitute for Martin Freeman (who should've been considered for his role), Streep just turns everything up to 15 on the OTT scale and Johnny Depp in his cameo role just made me think "Here we go again, AGAIN."
And so that was Into the Woods a very average musical that is not worth your time, rent Little Shop of Horrors instead, 1 out of 5.
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