{"id":4880,"date":"2015-01-24T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2015-10-23T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T00:43:56","slug":"into-the-woods-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"Into the Woods (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MV5BMTY4MzQ4OTY3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjM5MDI3MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MV5BMTY4MzQ4OTY3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjM5MDI3MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BMTY4MzQ4OTY3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjM5MDI3MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MV5BMTY4MzQ4OTY3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjM5MDI3MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MV5BMTY4MzQ4OTY3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjM5MDI3MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>This is tricky. I do not want to write a review of a Stephen Sondheim musical, partly because I do not feel qualified to review musical theater in greater depth than whether I liked it, and partly because I&#8217;ve been familiar with <a title=\"Be Careful What You Wish For\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2180411\/\" target=\"_blank\">Into the Woods<\/a> since my choir friends performed it in high school. So, suffice it to say that I like the musical a great deal, even if I can never, ever remember the last 20 or 30 minutes of it.<\/p>\n<p>That said, how do you review a movie when the plot is off the table? Acting? It was all fine; I especially liked Chris Pine&#8217;s princely manpain, and Johnny Depp&#8217;s excellent cameo was well served by being <em>only<\/em> a cameo. Special effects? Well, all the staging and sets were pretty great, but the few times special effects were employed, they were&#8230;. not so much. I don&#8217;t feel like this is a thing that should be cared about, really, of a stage adaptation? Either way, though. Clearly nobody screwed up the singing, and yes, it was a very faithful adaptation. \u00a0So, if you like that kind of thing, this is a really good example of it! And if you do not, well&#8230; it&#8217;s a musical, so you will continue to not like that kind of thing, but it&#8217;s also a damn fine fairy tale mashup. If for some reason that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is tricky. I do not want to write a review of a Stephen Sondheim musical, partly because I do not feel qualified to review musical theater in greater depth than whether I liked it, and partly because I&#8217;ve been familiar with Into the Woods since my choir friends performed it in high school. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106,1249],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-fantasy","tag-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}