Storyline
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Directors
Cast
Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Lucy Punch, Johnny Depp, James Corden, Tammy Blanchard, Emily Blunt, Christine Baranski, Simon Russell Beale, Chris Pine, Frances de la Tour, Tracey Ullman, Billy Magnussen, Daniel Huttlestone, Richard Glover, Annette Crosbie, Lilla Crawford, Mackenzie Mauzy, Joanna Riding
Trailer
Reviews
88
Marshall deserves credit for knowing how to shoot and cut (alongside editor Wyatt Smith, “Thor: The Dark World”) a musical number, and his work here ranks much closer to his success with “Chicago” than to his dismal “Nine.”
80
This twisty fairy-tale mash-up shows an appreciation for the virtues of old-fashioned storytelling, along with a welcome dash of subversive wit. It benefits from respect for the source material, enticing production values and a populous gallery of sharp character portraits from a delightful cast.
80
The film is a whirl of pure pleasure that just keeps whirling: Sondheim doesn’t write show-stoppers but show-surgers, and from the moment the glorious opening number whips up, introducing the central players, the film cartwheels onwards until it lands at its unexpected but quite beautiful happy-ever-after.
75
Another example of concept over coherence, but the entertainment value is considerable.
70
Marshall hasn’t made one of the great movie musicals here, but he hasn’t bungled it either — far from it.
