The previous words: Audiences who are dissatisfied with the show can search for the 1991 PBS version of Into the Woods (stage video). When you have watched a three-hour stage play and feel unsatisfactory, but it is adapted into a two-hour movie but found to be boring, you can know how bad the film is. Compared with the stage play, the jokes of this film are discounted at 30%, the plot is discounted at 20%, and the scenes are moving at a 50% discount. Had it not been for the original halo, I would have scored two stars.
In view of the director's successful adaptation of "Chicago", this adaptation can only be described as being quite satisfactory.
When I watched it in the theater, I found that there were not many plots that made the audience laugh. In fact, everyone who is familiar with the original drama knows that this drama has a lot of laughter on the stage. Among the problems, in addition to cutting some of the plot and characters, the more important thing is that the timing of the dialogue was not well mastered when adapting the movie. Many lines that were originally funny on the stage seemed to be changed because of the pause and tone of the movie. How funny.
In addition, apart from Little Red Riding Hood's memories of being eaten by the big bad wolf and Cinderella on the steps, we basically didn't see the director's imagination in Chicago. It's a pity.
I believe that many viewers who have watched the original drama or the stage video find that the film has cut off the role of the narrator/mystery man and they want to scold the street, right?
But... It's not easy for Disney to adapt Into the Woods to such a dark drama. It’s a pity that it’s because children shouldn’t cut off some of the sexually suggestive and violent content of the
original drama. Rapunzel also hangs up in the end)
The biggest problem in the plot may be that the transition between the first half and the second half of the story is too hasty. In order to make up for the film’s lack of intermission, the interval between the two halves of the story was shortened. (There is at least a year or so between the first and the second half of the original drama, so Cinderella will get bored with court life.)
Fortunately, this movie miraculously did not use any actor who can't sing as the main role. In the history of musical adaptation films, it seems that only "Yoshiya Rental" has done this.
Also, most viewers who don’t know the background of the show didn’t expect them to watch a 2-hour Disney movie...
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